European Tour Part III

European Tour Part III

Today, I’m in at the Siemens PLM Connection for the Netherlands trying to take maximum advantage of the volcano extended stay in Europe. Derrek Cooper has suggested I come up with a @Burhop European …

Captain Eureka versus the Volcano

Captain Eureka versus the Volcano

European Tour, Part II As you have seen from my post last week, the Icelandic volcano has caused my flight home to be canceled. Fortunately, Siemens is big worldwide company and finding things to …

Feeling Concentrated Stress about FEA for Designers?

Feeling Concentrated Stress about FEA for Designers?

  I thought I’d pick up on some of the discussion happening last week around FEA Al Dean and Deelip Meneze had a couple posts about the barriers to entry for this type of analysis. Kenn…

Volcano - Stuck in Paris!

Volcano - Stuck in Paris!

Those that follow me on twitter know I’ve been traveling in Europe this week. I’ve been off visiting designers and some of their resellers asking what they think of Solid Edge Simulation, what they t…

CADVille post for April Fools day

CADVille post for April Fools day

Yesterday for April fool’s day, I released a blog post about a fictitious product called CADVille. This was a running joke within the CAD community on Twitter and I thought this might be a fun post. …

Femap Symposium Final Notes

Femap Symposium Final Notes

The Femap Symposium just wrapped up so I thought I’d include one last post with some notes from the group. If you have visited more than one Siemens web site, you have seen we have a fairly consis…

Scary Smart People at the Femap Symposium

Scary Smart People at the Femap Symposium

  As I type this, Femap is doing a Symposium in Huntsville, AL. Mark Sherman is presenting some of the history of FEMAP and George Rudy is off to the side… These guys are employee #1 and #2 fro…

Solid Edge Simulation and PLM Connection

Solid Edge Simulation and PLM Connection

I’m happy to say there has been a good deal of interest in Solid Edge Simulation by customers. To help with some information flow, I’ve uploaded last year’s PLM Connection presentation to Slideshare…

Engineers Week: Instructional Videos

Engineers Week: Instructional Videos

Did you know it is National Engineer’s week? There is even a foundation set up to promote it. If you are not an engineer, I’ve collected together some of the better youtube videos to help you unde…