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Corporate Blog

Principia Solar Car Update and Interview with Student Engineer Kali McKee

You may remember Kali from our post The Secret to Designing Solar Cars. Now I’d like to share a little bit more from and about her. This semester I got the chance to visit the Principia Solar Team in...

Simulating the Real World

Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 2: Heat Flow Budgets

Two different package styles, two very different thermal responses when a extruded plate fin heatsink is placed on each. At...

NX Manufacturing

NX helps pump manufacturer increase productivity by 50 percent

  The Aqua Group consists of Aquasub Engineering and Aquapump Industries. As a leading manufacturer with more than 50 years of experience in the pump industry, the firm has a widely distribute...

Corporate Blog

Finding Solid Edge Apps and the Solid Edge Partner Program (Femap too)

Solid Edge Apps People are always asking me for links to Solid Edge and Femap Apps, how to buy apps, info on our partner program, how it works, how you join, and many more.While I’d pers...

Electronic Systems Design

PADS Tips and Tricks: Building a PCB Decal with Polar Patterns

Many connectors and other components require decals/footprints that have their pins laid out in a polar pattern.  In many CAD...

Embedded Software

Embedded education

I am often asked – typically by young engineers and college students – how to learn about doing embedded software....

NX Manufacturing

Features or Direct Modeling- Which is Better for Mold and Tool Design?

This blog post has been licensed for hosting by Siemens PLM. The concepts, ideas and positions of this post have been developed independently by Industry Analyst Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights. ©...

Simulating the Real World

Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 1

A common enough question. Heatsinks are often perceived to be the magic answer to all electronics cooling challenges. They should...

Embedded Software

Gone flying

As I was lamenting last week, I spend a lot of time on aircraft as a result of the need...