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PCB Routing Solutions: Simplifying the Tuning Process – Part 1

August 04, 2014

What comes to mind when you are ready to tune the routing on a design? Among many thoughts, I seriously...

Electronic Systems Design

PADS Logic vs. xDX Designer? - When YOUR Use Case Changes

August 04, 2014

Since the release of PADS VX there have been some great questions regarding the integrated project use of xDX Designer...

By John McMillan

Automation: Parametric Assemblies

August 03, 2014

This article builds on the knowledge gained in the previous post Parametric Parts which discussed how to parametric parts by changing the values of part variables. It is also possible to a...

By Tushar Suradkar

Community: Who Needs It?

August 01, 2014

I've been involved in on-line communities for engineers since 1997. The old usenet news groups put the Wild Wild West in the www//:. It was raw, it was unruly, but more than any of that, it was engin...

Rapid Prototyping Using 3D Printing On the Rise

As 3D printing becomes more accessible and affordable, more companies are turning to 3D printing for prototypes early in the concept design stage as a cost-effective way to identify i...

NX Case Study: Graham Packaging Company

Using NX CAE, Graham Packaging Company realized a number of bottom line-boosting benefits: The software decreased the time it takes to make mold changes from three minutes per cavity t...

ASME Simulation Analysis for Pressure Vessels

Predictive Engineering uses Femap and Femap’s API (application programming interface) to create an optimized pressure vessel and obtain ASME certification. Read Shawn Wasserman’s Engineering...

Simulate the Real World Using Multiphysics

Product behavior in the real world is influenced simultaneously by multiple domains of physics, making multiphysics analysis a growing necessity for computer-aided engineering (CAE). ...

Is it time to revisit CAD in the Cloud?

CAD in the Cloud. It’s a topic I thought I’d never return to. It’s a topic that won’t go away, although the context in which you hear about it these days is changing. I want to look at CAD in the clo...