Should you be blogging?

Should you be blogging?

I’ve been hearing more talk on blogging lately from business people that aren’t usually involved with it. When social media comes up in conversation with one of my coworkers, he always asks “I’m not…

CAD Blogging and CAD Journalism

CAD Blogging and CAD Journalism

The CAD part of the social media world is buzzing with a debate between CAD blogging and CAD journalism. Its not a new topic on the internet – we all know about the difficulties newspapers are havin…

Virtual Product Testing, CFD and Cool Pictures

Virtual Product Testing, CFD and Cool Pictures

Last week I got access to the CFDesign’s upcoming release of CFDesign 2010. It hits a spot our new Solid Edge Simulation product does not touch, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). If you work with a…

Synchronous Technology used for Analysis and Optimization

Synchronous Technology used for Analysis and Optimization

In my last blog post I talked about how the new CAD technologies (like Synchronous Technology) will be very useful for FEA analysis and optimization. This time I’ll follow up with a practical example…

New Modeling Techniques Benefit Product Analysis and Optimization

New Modeling Techniques Benefit Product Analysis and Optimization

One of the cool byproducts of the new CAD modeling technologies (Synchronous Technology, SpaceClaim, Inventor Fusion) is the fit with analysis and product optimization. If you are just validating the…

Enter The Scorpion

Enter The Scorpion

  A lot of companies use code words for projects or upcoming products. Even if it’s not a secret you have to have something to call it and picking a name that is related to product may …

Solid Edge, PLM World and Ken Grundey

Solid Edge, PLM World and Ken Grundey

Ken Grundey is one of the CAD experts in the Solid Edge community. You might know him from the Solid Edge discussion groups where he may help out with some technical questions or engage in some debat…

Velocity Presentation at PLM Connection

Velocity Presentation at PLM Connection

  It is Tuesday morning and my first stop is the “Velocity Series Overview” being hosted by Bill McClure, the VP of Velocity series. Velocity includes the following products: 1. Solid Ed…

Solid Edge ST2 Keynote

Solid Edge ST2 Keynote

  The Keynote for Solid Edge was given by Dan Staples with Mark Thompson on drums (doing the demos). Dan hit a lot of points which I can’t do justice to with a quick blog post. I did ca…