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Solid Edge, Dell Workstations, and a Comfy Chair – See them at the ST4 Launch Event

Solid Edge, Dell Workstations, and a Comfy Chair – See them at the ST4 Launch Event

Nothing goes better with your CAD software than a comfy chair and some good hardware. When we started talking about the Solid Edge ST4 Launch Event (there is still time to sign up), Dell went out of …

How FEA Software can Help to Design for Safety

How FEA Software can Help to Design for Safety

In Rotterdam on July 10 th 2008 a tower crane collapsed for no apparent reason tragically causing the death of the crane operator. The construction site suffered extensive damage as a result of the …

What The ST4 Event is REALLY About

What The ST4 Event is REALLY About

I saw one of our users mention the  other day about not wanting to pay money to attend a “marketing event”.Some other designers set things straight but I thought I’d bring it up in a…

Technical Focus on Linear Pattern Constraints

Technical Focus on Linear Pattern Constraints

This is the first in a sequence of posts that will dip into particular aspects of D-Cubed components. As you might expect from products that are quite mathematical, some of the concepts can be rather…

Ch…ch…ch…changes

Ch…ch…ch…changes

A few weeks ago, I sat in on a special session at PLM Connection that was focused on the impact of ‘Social’ on PLM and Engineering / Manufacturing in general.  This should be the last post from …

Happy Birthday Blog

Happy Birthday Blog

Does a blog have a birthday or an anniversary? This month, our blog turned 3. What do you get a blog for its birthday? I’m sure our blogsquad would suggest something that begins with i and ends…

Don’t Miss the SAE Webcast on Product and Production Integration on May 26th.

Don’t Miss the SAE Webcast on Product and Production Integration on May 26th.

Increasing demand for fuel-efficient, environmentally-friendly products and changing demographics are driving significant shifts in automotive technologies and present unique challenges to manufactur…

Hello World!

Hello World!

Traditionally, the first thing a developer writes in a new computer language is a program that prints “Hello World”, so this seems like a good title for my first post. However, although my role …

Welcoming Mike Atkins to the Blogsquad

Welcoming Mike Atkins to the Blogsquad

Meet Mike Atkins. He manages our D-Cubed Components development and support team. Mike has a engineering degree from the University of Cambridge and a PhD. He got his doctorate by computing the flow …