What’s New in NX 11 for Design Engineering

NX 11 for Design Productivity

Convergent Modeling
Convergent modeling can be used in the medical industry, in this case for a cranial implant.
Many industries use scanned 3D…

Redesigning the NX 11 Expressions Dialog – a Success Story for Customer Involvement

One of my favorite things about being an NX product manager is the opportunity to work with our customers to define and refine the NX engineering tools that make us all more productive.There’s…

Siemens is Looking for Early-Stage Businesses in Industrial Augmented and Virtual Reality

 
Full house @Galvanize in San Francisco on June 22d to talk about the industrial applications of AR/VR solutions…Our guests – from AR/VR entrepreneurs to experts from large manufacturers as R…

Photorealistic Rendering with a CAD System: That’s how we see it.

I have to admit, I’m a nut for classic films: black & white, made before 1950, even silent films. I stumbled on to Buster Keaton’s silent classic, “The General”, at the Los Angeles Conservancy’s …

Pushing the Performance Envelope with NX and Teamcenter

When I was in charge of IT systems and operations at a high tech company, there were many lessons I learned about the production environment that I take with me today.  Here are just a few them …

Rendering, VR and AI… Oh my! The Inside Scoop on NVIDIA GTC 2016

You step outside onto a barren, rocky landscape the color of rust that stretches before you as far as the eye can see. Valleys, boulders, mountains… all are visible from your vantage point on a hill….

Introducing Unigraphics III V11.0 with New, Improved PFK

 
The future is here! And for those of you who have been in CAD long enough, it looks a whole lot like the past—only better.

Today we are proud to announce the latest version of our…

How to Explain CAD to Anyone – A Lesson from the Cambridge Science Festival

Few people understand or appreciate the fact that everything you see, touch, and hold (and even most things you don’t) originally began in a CAD system. A real living, breathing human designed them a…

If It Wasn’t for CAD, I’d Be an Accountant

Note:  This post is intended for a mature audience. No, not that kind of mature… Mature meaning you can remember when companies had two different design departments:  people on “the board” …