Holding It All Together: Welds and Fasteners in NX

In today’s world of product development there are software tools that enable design, analysis, manufacturing tool path generation, simulation and predictability. We have databases, data management an…

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…

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 …

Industrial adoption of AR/VR technologies: how to overcome challenges

Many Siemens PLM Software customers have already started adopting Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) to improve product and process design, maintenance and repair, and remote collaboration. Siemen…

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 …

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” …