Konecranes, a Finnish company that makes and service cranes and lifting equipment, has implemented Siemens’ digital innovation platform to speed product development and connect product and performance data. The company is using MindSphere, an open, cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) operating system, and the Teamcenter digital lifecycle management software to leverage the digital twin and […]

In the late 1980s, Stratasys founder Scott Crump printed a frog on a FDM printer in his kitchen. Today, students at the Anthropological Institute of the University of Zurich use Stratasys 3D printers to study the skull fragments of Neanderthal infants. To cut down on handling fragile fossils, they students scan them and reproduce 3D […]

IronCAD, the 3D computer-aided design platform for metal fabrication and custom machinery manufacturers, has been updated to IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2019. This is the 20th anniversary edition of the software. The software continues its performance with the large assembly designs and workflows needed by machinery manufactures. IronCAD was originally based on the idea of […]

Theorem Solutions recently released version 21.3 of its Inventor to JT Visualize 3D translator, which supports Autodesk Inventor 2017, 2018 and 2019, and up to and including the JT file format version 10.0. Theorem’s Visualize 3D products are aimed at creating visualization data for users of digital mock-up, virtual reality or desktop applications and support […]

Two makers of engineering software announced in late November acquisitions that will help them further their technology offerings through the addition of generative design, artificial intelligence, and digital blueprints. PTC, of Needham, Mass., acquired Frustum, a maker of generative design software, this month. Frustrum’s software makes use of artificial intelligence to generate design options. It […]

Future products will be designed with their capability to be manufactured in mind, according Autodesk executives, who spoke at Autodesk University, a gathering of users of their technology. The company has updated its software accordingly and made strides to further the use of, cloud capabilities, generative design and additive manufacturing, said Greg Fallon, vice president […]

At the Autodesk University Conference, HP unveiled its Opera Glass, a headset designed for what HP and similar vendors term “VR snacking.” The headset is intended for engineers who want to design in 3D CAD design, then quickly view that model in virtual reality. In other word,s the engineer who wants to switch quickly, and […]

A collaborative effort to create the concept for an interplanetary lander was unveiled at Autodesk World held this week in Las Vegas. The collaboration would be between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and engineering software maker Autodesk. To accomplish a mission like this, an interplanetary lander needs to perform complicated operational functions in temperatures far below […]

To physically verify the safety of an autonomous vehicle (AV), Toyota estimates that a vehicle would have to undergo tests that ran along about 8.8 billion miles. Of course, testing on this many miles of test tracks is pretty much impossible. Automakers must rely on a significant increase in virtual testing and “mixed virtual-physical testing,” […]

ISmarTech Publishing expects to see that market increase to $9.5 billion by 2027, according to the research agency’s  2018 report on the 3D printed dental market. In 2017, 3D printing went mainstream in the dental industry, he report noted. Additive manufacturing within the dental industry has grown by more than 35 percent in both 2016 […]