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Hiring Contractors

September 08, 2014

Hiring an unknown contractor to do work for your engineering organization can be nervewracking. Picking the wrong person can waste precious time and resources. If you pay too little, you might get so...

Custom Linetypes and Hatch Patterns

September 07, 2014

For those who have used AutoCAD for a long duration and tried exploring the many under-the-hood techniques, understanding the cryptic methods of creating line types and hatch patterns was a daunting ...

By Tushar Suradkar

Open Source getting more financial support from the corporate world

September 05, 2014

By now I'm sure you've seen more than enough articles about the so-called "Heartbleed" vulnerability in the OpenSSL project, so I don't want to write yet another Heartbleed article. But I would like ...

International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2014

September 05, 2014

This year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2014) invites you to “Come together. Leave Inspired.” We, at Siemens PLM Software, couldn't agree more. Come together in our exh...

Embedded Software

Pulling the cork

September 04, 2014

I like wine. There is at least one person in my life who might think I like it a bit...

NX Quick Tips: Synchronous Technology 2D

September 04, 2014

This post has moved to the NX Design Knowledge Base. The complete NX Quick Tips video seriescan be found on the NX Design Blogor Youtube . Jerry

By JerrySarfati

Simulating the Real World

Top 10 FloTHERM V10 Features – #11: Odds and Sods

September 04, 2014

A release so good it has 11 best top 10 features, very Spinal Tap. I thought I’d wrap up this...

By Robin Bornoff

Easy access to professional CAD software for inventors and start-ups

September 04, 2014

I have recently been reading “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The book examines “How constant innovation creates radically successful businesses” and focuses on what makes new businesses succeed or, ...

By DavidChadwick

Simulating the Real World

Top 10 FloTHERM V10 Features – #10: Improved Solar Calculator

September 04, 2014

Arguably the most important (and often least well characterised) parameter controlling the temperature of electronic products is their power dissipation....

By Robin Bornoff

Latest podcast episodes

The Industry Forward Podcast with Dale Tutt

Ep 30 - The Shift-Left in Supply Chain with Richard Barnett - Part 2

December 19, 2025

Welcome to the Industry Forward Podcast with Dale Tutt, the show where we examine industry and technology trends with the...

FutureCast 2026 — Part 2: Specialization, power, and intelligent verification

December 16, 2025

In Part 2 of the special FutureCast 2026 holiday series, Harry Foster continues exploring how the semiconductor landscape is rapidly changing — and why the next phase of innovation will be shaped as much by constraints as by breakthroughs.

What agentic AI means for the design process

December 12, 2025

As it continues to develop, artificial intelligence is starting to be applied across many different sectors of industry with equally...

By Spencer Acain