This eBook may not help you navigate out space, but it may help you be part of in the design of a machine or tool for outer-space exploration. EMA Design Automation, of Rochester, N.Y., which offers electronic design automation (EDA) solutions, has just released its new, free eBook “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to PCB Design,” intended […]

Letting the computer generate designs from a designer’s directions may just be the future of design. Expect to see unorthodox, 3D-printed shapes all around in the not-to-distant future, as generative design can produce many valid designs rather than one, optimized version of an already-modeled part. The design methods will describe the way engineers can use […]

Officials at VTOL Technologies, of Wokingham, England, have said they’ve recently increased their drone design’s lift by 20 percent, reduced drag by 2 percent, and shaved four weeks off design time. These savings were enabled by SimScale, of Munich, an online post processer that has recently been updated. VTOL used the post processor as part […]

Zuken, a maker of software for electrical and electronic design and manufacturing, has released an update to its E3.series, which helps engineers track the growing complexity within today’s products and processes. “We extended the modularity and variant management functions to empower the configuration management capabilities we recently introduced with our engineering data management environment DS-E3,” […]

Prostep AG of Darmstadt, Germany has added new functions to its PDF Generator 3D software to enables 3D PDF documents to be created automatically and to be published on the web. The company makes product lifecycle management software for publishing 2D and 3D content. Version 8 now allows both the export of 3D data to […]