AltaSim Technologies is a COMSOL certified consultant, offering consulting, training, and concept development. Essentially, a bunch of smart people who know how to do CAE right. Every once in a while, AltaSim sends out a tips & tricks email. Here’s one that caught my attention: Unless you know for sure (like 100% sure) that you […]
Autodesk provides real-time DFM for plastic part design
There’s a lot of benefit to be had by doing manufacturability analysis (DFM, Design for Manufacturing) early in the design process, rather than waiting until later, when design changes are far more expensive. A couple of years ago, Autodesk Labs previewed a product, Project Krypton, which ran inside of 3D CAD programs (including Autodesk Inventor, DS SolidWorks, and PTC […]
Hot rod engineering workstations
When I was barely a teenager, in the early ’70s. I became interested in car magazines. In the back of some of those magazines, I’d often see ads for a company called Baldwin/Motion Performance. They sold brand new hot-rodded Camaros that were guaranteed to run 11.50 second or faster quarter miles at the drag strip. […]
Screaming workstation
The BOXX 8550 Xtreme is a dual processor workstation well suited for design visualization specialists or CAD/CAE software users who need a system to perform multiple simulations or toolpath calculations at the same time. A test machine featured two Intel Xeon X5680 processors, but instead of the 3.33GHz clock speed they usually run at, both […]
CFD Updates
Pointwise announces the latest release of its Pointwise computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software with a set of new tools. The surface meshing formulation of the T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion) hybrid meshing algorithm first developed for Pointwise’s Gridgen software now is available in Pointwise version 16.04. At the other end of the meshing spectrum, a […]
Superconducting wire and CAD tool vendors combine forces to simplify electrical machine design
Cobham’s QUENCH electromagnetic software tool for modeling the quenching process in superconducting materials now comes with a library containing comprehensive manufacturer-supplied material characterization data for Sumitomo’s DI-BSSCO bismuth-based superconducting wire. The combination will simplify the design and prototyping stages of applying high temperature superconductors (HTS). Among the application sectors currently exploring HTS-based solutions are electricity […]
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