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3D CAD World provides engineers with news, product updates, software tips, application stories, and educational articles related to computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) technologies. We cover CAD, CAE, and CAM solutions for various industries, including industrial automation, aerospace, medical, and packaging.
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1w ago
With the CAD software industry advancing significantly in the past five years and the advent of modern manufacturing processes, firms are embedding CAD even deeper into their process, exponentially increasing the need for CAD skills across their workforces. Conversely, the number of workers with job-ready CAD skills is decreasing. Autodesk estimates that 56% of CAD-based companies hire new employees who lack skills for the job, and 76% of high-performing companies are investing in technology-focused CAD training for employees at all levels. Whilst CAD modules form a component of many school, c ..read more
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1w ago
PTC recently launched a new engineering app for the Apple Vision Pro. The Onshape Vision App transforms flat computer screen models into virtual life-size products that team members can hold, pull apart, and inspect as if they were physical components. It works in sync with the Onshape cloud native CAD and PDM system on the iPad, enabling any changes in the product model to be updated in real time with the infinite canvas of Apple Vision Pro.
This provides an opportunity for industries to improve the way dispersed product development teams collaborate and conduct design reviews. The ..read more
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2M ago
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that it is bringing an innovative approach for sharing accurate thermal models of integrated circuit (IC) packages to the electronics supply chain. The main advantages are protecting intellectual property, enhancing supply chain collaboration, and accuracy of models for steady state and transient thermal analysis to enhance design studies.
Siemens’ Embeddable BCI-ROM technology enables accurate reduced order thermal models of IC packages to be shared for 3D CFD thermal analysis in the electronics supply chain.
Introduced in the latest updates ..read more
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2M ago
Simulation in the engineering space empowers designers to create, test, and revise ideas with a speed and complexity not possible with traditional means alone. Just as simulation has enabled faster and more calculated development of products across industries, its own evolution is rapid and crucial to understand. The current state of simulation in the engineering space is defined by its expanding role and evaporating limitations. The future of simulation is likely to see a similar explosion of computer-aided engineering (CAE) capabilities, scale, and scope.
CAE simulation and its constraints
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3D CAD World
2M ago
Product development has a problem.
To drive greater efficiencies and higher quality for downstream consumers, organizations have asked product development to adopt model-based definition. This is helping to tie the digital thread from engineering to manufacturing and beyond. But what about within engineering?
Faced with mounting global competition, increasing product complexity, and a mandate to accelerate delivery cycles, today’s engineers require a robust tool bench to build competitive products. But a best-of-breed portfolio can’t be based on native file formats, which creates all sorts of ..read more
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3M ago
Today’s release of SprutCAM X 17.0.11 introduces a host of enhancements, compatibility with MOKA robots, and bug fixes.
Examples of MOKA robots
Key features of the new release include:
Enhanced .dxf format support: SprutCAM X enables users to import sketches in .dxf format and seamlessly convert them into sketches within the build-in 3D CAD module. This enhancement facilitates the creation of 3D models of parts for machining projects based on imported sketches.
Expanded compatibility: The development team added MOKA industrial robots to MachineMaker, the application for creating digital twins ..read more
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3M ago
CAD Exchanger 3.24.0 was released in late December 2023 (shortly after version 3.23.0 came out with new features). The software suite allows 3D CAD software developers and end-users to view, explore, and convert 3D CAD data on desktop, web, and mobile. This latest update brings a series of minor but still notable improvements. Among them are the Manufacturing Toolkit (MTK) and Unity enhancements, improved model parts detection within the Lab and Visualization Toolkit, and fixes in the Web Toolkit (WTK).
With this update, both tools became more adept at recognizing individual parts within a pol ..read more
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3M ago
Carnot, a London startup, has signed a new deal with PTC that will help it tackle the trillion-dollar challenge of decarbonizing industry, long-haul transport, and off-grid power. The company was formed by Archie Watts-Farmer, Francis Lempp, and Nadiur Rahman in 2019 and will extend its use of the digital transformation specialist’s CAD design software Creo and its product lifecycle management software Windchill for a further three years.
Carnot aims to accelerate hydrogen power adoption with its powertrain design. Image courtesy of Carnot.
It comes at an exciting time for the company as it lo ..read more
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3M ago
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Space Machines Company (SMC), an Australian space on-orbit services and logistics startup, has used the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to design and build the Optimus Orbital Servicing Vehicle. One of the largest commercial spacecrafts being designed, manufactured, and assembled in Australia, is in development at the University of Technology Sydney’s Tech Lab.
The 270-kg Optimus will be launched by a SpaceX rocket from the United States to help taxi commercial satellites into their orbital paths around Earth and beyond — pro ..read more
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3M ago
Reading-based PTC is now offering free access to Onshape Professional for up to six months.
The new Discovery Program is an opportunity for qualified users to try out Onshape Professional at no cost for up to six months. Image courtesy of Onshape.
With this offer, the company wants to give development teams enough time to extensively test the advantages of the cloud-native product development platform, with the only requirement being to qualify as a user.
Onshape is the only product development platform developed natively for the cloud. It includes powerful CAD and PDM (product data manag ..read more