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Electronic Systems Design

How Constraint Management Optimizes PCB Design

As a follow-up to my recent article in Printed Circuit Design & Fab; pcdandf.com, entitled; Effectively Managing PCB Design Constraints,...

NX Design

NX Case Study: Ducati

“NX is the tool we use from the moment we start thinking about a new project up to its completion,” explains Piero Giusti, information technology manager for R&D at Ducati Motor Holding. “NX is u...

Solid Edge

The Reach of Your CAD Tools

Solid Edge has always had a great reputation for drawings and sheet metal. Even in my days stumping for competitive products, we always respected the advantages users said that they found in Solid Ed...

Embedded Software

Another programming language survey - what are you using?

As I have talked about before, I am particularly interested in programming languages, with a strong focus on embedded, of...

Solid Edge

Automation: Part Configurator

This article takes technique learnt in the previous post a step ahead and shows how to configure a Solid Edge model so its variants can be generated programmatically. The earlier arti...

Embedded Software

What to do with all those pictures

I recall reading somewhere [please do not ask me where!] that, every day, more photographs are taken than were shot...

Solid Edge

ST7: Duplicate Components

There's a lot of assembly functionality in ST7 that has been kind of skipped over, or hasn't had the attention it might deserve. There's a new tool called Duplicate Components that is super powerful,...

Solid Edge

Solid Edge Automation via IIS

  Automating Solid Edge from a web application can be challenging. Many have tried, many have failed (including me). In the following video, I dive head first into the common issues a...

Simcenter

Femap 11.1.2 is now available

Femap 11.1.2 introduces some error fixes, minor new features, the latest version of NX Nastran – version 9.1, and (with your Siemens PLM webkey) is available for download from the Siemens PLM GTAC si...