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Designcenter Solid Edge

Changes Around the Community

You might notice that some changes have already taken place, and in the future, there will be more. Q&A areas will be merged into the Forums. We are still going to provide an area to...

Three weeks and counting...

Riding the wave of success from the long-running, annual German Plant Simulation User meeting held in October 2013, we are proud to present the first Plant Simulation Worldwide User Conferenc...

NASA Goddard uses Femap to help develop the next-generation space telescope

NASA is using Femap to help develop a time machine. Scheduled for launch in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will operate 1.5 million kilometers above the Earth. It’s ambitious mission is ...

Simulation-Driven Design - Carmakers Rely On CFD To Drive Aerodynamic & Engine Design

Automotive manufacturers are increasingly looking to simulation-driven design using computational fluid dynamics to solve external aerodynamic and internal engine design problems. An article in ...

By Ganesh Sethuraman

Morris Medical Monday: Polarion MedPack and Regulatory Compliance

Welcome back to Morris Medical Monday: a weekly series for medical device development companies (and companies who are related to such companies), providing some useful information about Polarion sol...

Embedded Software

C++ for embedded - your input needed

A frequent topic for discussion, I have found, both here and elsewhere, is programming languages for embedded development. Every developer...

NX 9 Supports Touch to Increase Collaboration

Touch-screen technology has found use in cell phones, supermarket checkout terminals, HMI industrial systems, and engineering design offices. Modern multi-touch systems are able to recognize th...

By JerrySarfati

Designcenter Solid Edge

Nested Dimple - A Workaround

This article discusses a Solid Edge workflow to create stepped deep drawn sheetmetal parts that are typically created with a double-acting press. Normally the Dimple command is used for th...

By Tushar Suradkar

Next time someone asks - "What's Polarion?" - you have a fast easy answer

Next time you're on a plane or train, or chatting at a conference, and you mention this great application lifecycle management solution your company uses now, and the other person says "Polarion? Wha...

By marc.detmers

Latest podcast episodes

The Industry Forward Podcast

Powering humanoids: the promise and reality of solid-state batteries

August 07, 2026

The future of batteries for humanoid robots will depend on close collaboration across the entire battery ecosystem.

Empowering Engineering Educators

Episode 8: Why Engineering, Why Now?

August 05, 2026

In this thought-provoking episode, host Joe Hanson sits down with guest, science educator Leonisa Aridzzone, to explore the critical importance...

Empowering Engineering Educators

Episode 7: The Engineering Design Process

August 05, 2026

Join host Joe Hanson and MIT Associate Professor Amos Winter for an enlightening exploration of the engineering design process and...