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Corporate Blog

NX CAE Tips & Tricks - Contact

Contact is an everyday occurrence for a wide range of mechanical systems.  The human body is no exception.  Consider for example the contact between your hip bone and its socket as you saun...

Corporate Blog

Meet New Engineer Jesse Alley

What do football and engineering have in common? For Jesse Alley, it was a conversation during a football game that eventually led to his first gig as an engineer. Jesse received a bachelor’s degree ...

Embedded Software

Infected by Olympic fever

If you had asked me about the Olympics two weeks ago, I would have dismissed the discussion with “I don’t...

Corporate Blog

It’s just a fastener…or is it?

What’s so difficult about fasteners when it comes to designing an airframe? You just drill some holes, grab some hardware and bolt the parts together, right? It seems as if it should not require that...

Simulating the Real World

Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 4: Premature Simulation

One thing the Mechanical Analysis Division is not guilty of is vendor hubris. Despite the passion we have about our...

Corporate Blog

Standard Time Management in Teamcenter

You might be surprised to learn that according to estimates 90% of all manufacturing activities are non-value added. Non-value activities for which we know customers are not willing to pay us when we...

Corporate Blog

Femap Tips and Tricks: Extrude Element Edge

In Femap it’s possible to extrude element edges to create new shell elements from existing shells. This is useful when there is no underlying geometry or other edge surfaces available to help extend ...

Polarion

10 Tips for Polarion LiveDocs - #3 Moving Work Items

by Carola Hartlieb, Polarion Professional Services There are several possibilities for moving work items around. Moving work items within a document Depending on your browser it may be hard to se...

Corporate Blog

Geometric Constraint Solving on Imported Data

One of the strengths of the D-Cubed 2D DCM and 3D DCM geometric constraint solvers is their ability to work with models imported from other systems. Of course, before the data gets to the solver it h...