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3D Printer Unboxing Ceremony

3D Printer Unboxing Ceremony

When someone gets a cool bit of technology, many folks celebrate with an “unboxing ceremony”. I’m not really sure why they do this or how it got started.  Is it the cool product or that packagin…

New 2012 Version of Fibersim, Syncrofit and Quality Planning Enivornment

New 2012 Version of Fibersim, Syncrofit and Quality Planning Enivornment

Following is a post from Leigh Hudson, director of product and market strategy for Fibersim from our Specialized Engineering Software business segment. ————— Today we’re pleased to in…

NX8 Help Videos – Create a path thru complex curves

NX8 Help Videos – Create a path thru complex curves

This is my second post on the new NX8 help video tutorials.  As I mentioned last time, these videos are available to all NX users when they install NX8. This week, let’s look at a more comple…

Future Engineer Series: Meet Zach Penland

Future Engineer Series: Meet Zach Penland

Zach Penland is a sophomore at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He modeled a pair of headphones in Solid Edge. The design and rendering won him the best student image of the year and ear…

The Topic of Lean Manufacturing

The Topic of Lean Manufacturing

Late last year, November to be exact, I did a webinar with my colleagues Jeff Miller and Zvika Weissman on developing lean manufacturing processes.  It’s currently available for replay (regist…

Guess what I have!

Guess what I have!

I’ve been hinting around about a #Sekret on twitter and it is time to come clean (especially since Chris Dayton posted this picture on Facebook and it went a semi-viral 🙂 ) Everyone is excited a…

Future Engineer Series: Meet Caroline Tomlinson

Future Engineer Series: Meet Caroline Tomlinson

Caroline Tomlinson just graduated from Auburn University and is working as a retail industrial designer. It’s a bit of a jump from where she began her career aspirations. She started off at Auburn as…

Solid Edge Technology Partner Roundup – Yeeha!

Solid Edge Technology Partner Roundup – Yeeha!

*See translation at the end of this post if you don’t speak country and western. OK Pardners, time to mount up!  We are again inviting you straight shooters to a big shindig over in Nashville…

New NX 8 Help and Videos

New NX 8 Help and Videos

With NX8, the NX Help system has a new interface that makes it easier for you to find information and browse content. Some of the key enhancements are: Search performance is improved. Se…