Phil Foley, guest blogger 1.   You no longer have to travel with a laptop Engineers, designers and other users of Solidworks, Inventor, Creo and Rhino, it’s time to dump your laptops. Onshape is the first web-based 3D Computer-aided-design package. Can a web-based package handle or even compete with your custom built, rock solid Workstation? Yes. […]

Bruce Jenkins, Ora Research SmartUQ is a software tool for uncertainty quantification (UQ) and engineering analytics that heightens fidelity of engineering and systems analysis by taking account of real-world variability and probabilistic behavior. UQ is the science of quantifying, characterizing, tracing and managing uncertainty in both computational and real-world systems. UQ seeks to address the […]

While 3D printing and additive manufacturing are increasingly being used in many industries, its use by CAD designers is not as common.  Part of the issue is the additive systems themselves–there are features and capabilities that need improvement before they are seriously useful to the CAD designer. Improvements are coming, so very soon, it will […]

Software choices for simulation continue to expand. Here’s an overview of some of what’s available. By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Two decades ago, engineering software developers launched their first efforts to make simulation and analysis capabilities accessible and safe to use by engineers and designers who were not professionally trained analysts. The result was […]