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Have you been to this Area lately ?

Calculating area of a 3D surface or that enclosed by a set of 2D entities is not an activity that one performs too often when designing with Solid Edge. However what is intriguing about the Area comm...

By Tushar Suradkar

Polarion ALM is a welcome addition to the Vacon toolbox

Vacon is driven by a passion to develop, manufacture and sell the best AC drives and inverters in the world. Our AC drives offer optimum process control and energy efficiency for electric motors. Vac...

Manufacturing a new Middle Class through Community Colleges

When I started school, my mom went back to school. She attended our local community college and completed an associate’s degree. She went on to complete a bachelor’s degree at that same college throu...

Gamification Extension Now Available!

What is Gamification? Gamification is a new concept, developed by the inventor of Automotive Spice, Alec Dorling. Gamification is all about increasing motivation. In principle the concept tell...

RIT Achieves More Accurate Analysis Results with Femap

The Formula SAE® competition is a student design competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers). Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has been a long-s...

SEU14 video: Dan Staples Introduces ST7

Dan Staples gave the keynote presentation at Solid Edge University 2014 where he introduced many of the new features in ST7. I know this is the part of SEU that everyone wants to be at, especially th...

NX CAE Roadmap- almost

Hi all. Ganesh found me making my way though the CAE track at PLM Connection. I used to be part of the SDRC and initial NX CAE team many years ago and like to blog so he gave me some g...

Nastran on the Cloud and other news at PLM World

It's been a busy week for me with PLM World, a number of interesting sessions and one thing that is ever present is the increasing synergies between NX CAE and LMS. In addition it was nice...

By Ganesh Sethuraman

Electronic Systems Design

How the Free Land Pattern Creator in PADS will save you time! : Part 5 – I’m Answering Your Questions!

As stated in my LPC Part 4 vBlog, Part 5 is dedicated to answering your LP Creator questions. Parts 1,...

By John McMillan

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