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Femap Tips and Tricks: Using Reference Groups

The Groups capability can be used in Femapto help organize various entities in a model and aid visualization.However Femap also offers the Reference Groups capability which extends this...

Meet Future Engineers Luke Jones and Nathan Wygal

Today, Wikipedia says one of the notable past residents of Searcy, Arkansas, is current Arkansas governor Mike Beebe. In the future, the names Luke Jones and Nathan Wygal might be on that list. Th...

NX Hints and Tips - view a model from inside the model

We all know how to zoom, pan and rotate around models.But what if you want to view a model from inside the model? You can use this methodto show a correct perspective view f...

By JerrySarfati

Simulating the Real World

More Than Two Decades and Still Going Strong; FloTHERM and FloVENT V9.3 Now Released

In 1989 Flomerics was the first organisation to provide application specific CFD based simulation software where all pre and post-processing...

By Robin Bornoff

Embedded Software

In an open-source world, it’s all about integration

I have historically been somewhat skeptical about open source software [OSS]. I am always wary of anything that is “free”...

Stratasys and Objet to Merge, Siemens PLM to Sponsor Additive Manufacturing User Group Conference (AMUG)

I was all set to talk about Siemens PLM sponsoring the Additive Manufacturing User Group this week, when BAM! Stratasys and Objet decide to merge. Check out the news here. I got a chance to vi...

Inspiring STEM Careers with a Big Bang

The more I dive into my new gig, the more amazed I am at all the great academic programs happening around the world. This week is National Robotics Week in the U.S. Recently EngineeringUK led Big Ban...

Embedded Software

What are meetings for?

In 1986, I joined a start-up company called Microtec Research – an embedded software development tools company. 10 years later,...

Embedded Software

Comparing apples with apples

I often joke about having a “supercomputer” on my desk. It is actually a moderately powerful desktop PC, which is...

Latest podcast episodes

Beyond the silo: Managing data at the speed of 3D IC design

PLM manages product-level changes — things like ideation, supply chain, manufacturing, and demand. IPLM, on the other hand, is designed...

The Industry Forward Podcast

Powering the future of humanoid robotics

Humanoid robots must operate untethered and move freely in factories, making battery performance essential. To make humanoids practical for large-scale...

The Industry Forward Podcast

Thanks for the reactor. Now where is the digital twin?

What if equipment came with a digital twin tailor made – down to every weld?

By Shawn Wasserman