By Jean Thilmany Right now, your CAD program doesn’t have much sense of style. Not like you do. Imbibing it with style won’t necessarily give it better taste, but could speed CAD design. A program outfitted with a trend-seeking algorithm would find intuitive links between geometries and shapes that differ in structure, but are […]

Guest blog by Patrick Gannon There are various methods for top down modeling in CAD design. From a high level, this is the use of a central file to define an overall design. This central file can come in the form of an assembly, part, or a design table (excel file). Top down methods allow an engineer […]

By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Simulation-based design exploration and optimization studies often produce large data sets for which it is useful to have software tools for post-processing the data—and presenting it in ways that facilitate visual discernment of patterns and trends in the data. Visual data mining and analytics tools allow plots and tables […]

Kenesto is looking to act as the Google Drive, Box, and Dropbox of the CAD world, Mike Payne, chief executive officer, told us. While cloud-storage solutions like Dropbox are seeing an explosion in popularity. But the typical cloud storage solutions aren’t ideal for CAD file management, Payne said. Those who use CAD need a solution […]

By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Design optimization is a powerful technology for automating the search for solutions to engineering problems. But before moving to optimize a chosen design, it can be useful to employ design space exploration—a family of quantitative methods that help engineers gain a better, more complete understanding of a new product’s […]

By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Topology optimization and its seductive biomorphic shapes are what many think of when they hear the term “optimization” in engineering design. But topology optimization is just one kind of structural optimization—and that, in turn, is only one of five broad classes of optimization technology available to engineers today. Equally […]

By Jean Thilmany Today’s engineers are intrigued by CAD in the cloud but they seem to be letting others jump on the technology before they act. More companies plan to adopt cloud-based CAD software within the next five year. But don’t look for this method of CAD delivery to become the industry’s next flavor of […]