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We Have Made Contact!

We Have Made Contact!

I think most of you know my real job is working with FEA and Solid Edge Simulation. One of the questions I sometimes get is about modeling contact between assemblies. For Linear static problems, Sol…

Planes & Butterflies Flying at the Singapore Airshow

Planes & Butterflies Flying at the Singapore Airshow

Some of my colleagues were at the Singapore Airshow over the past week. It was only the second year the event has been held in Singapore. The show’s success can be attributed to Asia’s fast growing c…

What is Cloud Computing?

What is Cloud Computing?

Created by Sam Johnston from Wikipedia There are quite a few CAD people talking about cloud computing in 2010. It’s a term that has been extremely overused (kind of like “social media” ) so I thou…

The Finish Line: a look at Siemens PLM 2010 Racing Teams

The Finish Line: a look at Siemens PLM 2010 Racing Teams

I have an upcoming work trip to Europe at the end of February that will take me to four countries in 12 days. I will be writing more about this including interviews with our channel partners and some…

3D Model of the Month

3D Model of the Month

For those of you who received one of our print 2010 calendars, you saw this bar dispenser, aka a “bar gun”, from Schroeder America gracing the month of January. All of the images can be seen in our G…

What do I want from an Apple “tablet”

What do I want from an Apple “tablet”

Most of us lug around on our travels multiple gadgets, Blackberry Phone, Laptop, mp3 music player, e-reader and probably a note book for taking notes. Wouldn’t it be cool if a new device could c…

New release of Femap 10.1.1

New release of Femap 10.1.1

Last week, Siemens announced a new release of Femap – version 10.1.1. It is the latest in a series of more than 30 successful product releases for the product. Thanks to my colleagues from Germany @S…

Tecnomatix 9.1: Automotive Body-in-White (BIW) Planning on Teamcenter

Tecnomatix 9.1: Automotive Body-in-White (BIW) Planning on Teamcenter

What’s the big deal with Teamcenter here? The manufacturing engineers now can use the same environment as the product engineers. This enables the manufacturing engineers to get product updates immedi…

Regional Users Meeting – San Jose California

Regional Users Meeting – San Jose California

Have you attended a Siemens PLM Users group meeting in the past? Are you aware of the annual conference and that there are users group meetings held regionally throughout the year? If not, you should…