This Week on DE
CFD
Simulating the Way to COVID Safety
MSC Cradle CFD simulation explores the impact of ventilation and social distancing on in-door dining scenarios to promote safe practices aimed at reducing the spread.
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Autonomous Vehicles
Siemens Partnership Fuels Autonomous Vehicle Development
Software giant provides MaRS innovation hub access to Xcelerator portfolio, accelerating development through widespread use of simulation and data management.
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Generative Design
AM and GD Co-Pilot Hyundai’s new Ultimate Mobility Vehicle Concept
Autodesk and Hyundai partner to push the boundaries of increasing strength while reducing weight for TIGER’s modular platform architecture.
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3D Printing
Frontline 3D Printing
Additive manufacturing comes to the rescue in earthquake, tsunami and even war.
Latest in 3D Printing
Digital Twin
Closed-Loop Digital Twin on the Factory Floor
A manufacturing closed-loop digital twin can use analytics and data to cut costs and avoid unplanned downtime.
Latest in Digital Twin
Democratizing Simulation Insights
A focus on post-processing capabilities and creative use of emerging technologies takes the democratization of simulation to the next level, boosting accessibility of analysis-driven insights.
HPC
FREE WEBINAR: Speeding up CFD with Intelligent Computing for Digital R&D
Learn how Daikin Applied is using CFD analysis via Rescale to accelerate product development and improve manufacturing.
Latest in HPC
Healthcare
Cloud-Based Medical Simulation
InSilico Trials is participating in a new EU effort to digitize medical device, pharma development.
Latest in Healthcare
Simulation
Greener Futures
Cummins’ PLANET 2050 initiative aims for net-zero emissions by 2050.
Latest in Simulation
Computer–aided Design Software CAD
Thick Client, Thin Client and Clientless CAD
Different shades of cloud solutions emerge as vendors offer more than desktop CAD.
Latest in Computer-aided Design Software CAD
Latest News
Siemens, IBM, Red Hat Launch Hybrid Cloud Initiative
Editor’s Pick: Customer input drives updates
Markforged Goes Public via Merger With One
Simulating the Way to COVID Safety
Inkbit Launches Inkbit Vista Additive Manufacturing System
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The January/February issue includes stories on new cloud and subscription-based CAD software, 3D printing on the frontline, sustainable additive manufacturing, the democratization of simulation, and a review of the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G3.
Podcasts
Podcast: Optimal Engineering Workstation Architectures
Supermicro talks to DE about the company's approach to workstation architectures.
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Products
Inkbit Launches Inkbit Vista Additive Manufacturing System
The automated 3D printing ecosystem features a closed-loop feedback control, multimaterial printing capabilities and low...
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Webcasts
Speeding up CFD with Intelligent Computing for Digital R&D
Learn how Daikin Applied is using CFD analysis via Rescale to accelerate product development and...
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Downloads
Improve Structural Performance of Products
Product developers are under pressure to develop and deliver innovative new products in shorter amounts of...
How to Convince Management to Adopt 3D Printing
Regardless of your role within the business, you need to take a pragmatic approach when investing...
Making the Case for a High-Powered Engineering Workstation
The new Lenovo ThinkStation P620, combined with the powerful NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU, can take engineering...
The Power of Virtual Experiments
COMSOL users from around the world shared their stories with us, and now we are looking...
Editors’ Picks
Editor’s Pick: Customer input drives updates
IronCAD Mechanical 2021 is an add-on productivity module in the IronCAD Productivity Suite.
Editor’s Pick: Explore vendor-neutral, PLM file management software
Razorleaf CLOVER CollectIT opens up opportunity to securely extract, package and distribute...
Editor’s Pick: Production ready 3D printing with recycling
Formlabs Fuse 1 SLS 3D printer is a production-ready system that can fit...
Editor’s Pick: Task-specific access to the systems model
e-Xstream Engineering's Digimat update includes the use of CT scan data to...
Product Reviews
A Perfect Portable: MSI WS66 10TMT-207 Mobile Workstation
MSI continues to prove it is serious about CAD.
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Superlaptop Falls Short: Breaking Down Eurocom Nightsky ARX15 Mobile Workstation
The company’s new Nightsky is fast, loud and expensive.
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Special Focus Issues
Special Focus Topics
The Future of Medical Design
Simulation and Design Software Innovations
Product Focus: Engineering Workstation Review
Augmented/Virtual Reality
Designing for Automotive
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Featured Glossary Term: Finite Element Method (FEM)
A means to approximate partial differential equation (PDE) discretizations (discrete counterparts transferred – with some amount of error – from continuous functions, models, variables and equations) with numerical model equations in order to break down large problems into simpler finite elements that can be solved via numerical methods. Studying a phenomenon with FEM is known as finite element analysis (FEA).
Learn more about Finite Element Method (FEM)
Companies
PNY Technologies
PNY Technologies® is NVIDIA's Quadro® and GeForce® channel partner throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. From Building Information Management to CAE simulation, realtime rendering, or AI enhanced products or workflows, PNY will work with you to...
Join us for a live webinar to see how the real-time ray tracing technology of Chaos Vantage, running on professional NVIDIA® RTX™ GPUs, revolutionizes design visualization.
AGI
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) delivers mission-proven software for timely and cost-effective development and deployment of advanced space, defense and intelligence applications.
Digital engineering is necessary, but not enough. A persistent mission model is essential to recognizing the full value of the digital engineering enterprise.
OnScale
OnScale is the first Cloud Engineering Simulation platform. OnScale combines powerful multiphysics solver technology with the limitless compute power of cloud supercomputers. With OnScale, engineers can run massive numbers of full 3D multiphysics simulations in parallel to create true Digital Prototypes – digital...
In this webinar, we'll cover what's necessary to run a structural simulation in OnScale Solve, and how simulation on HPC in the cloud can accelerate this process for large design studies.
Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing
Autodesk is a world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. They produce software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries.
Ultimaker
From the very beginning, our mission has been to accelerate the world’s transition to local manufacturing and digital distribution. Our passion is to deliver a 3D printing system that drives business success across the world. That’s why we’re dedicated...
Regardless of your role within the business, you need to take a pragmatic approach when investing in 3D printing technology – one that is based on clear time- and cost-saving opportunities.
COMSOL
COMSOL is a global provider of simulation software for product design and research to technical enterprises, research labs, and universities. Its COMSOL Multiphysics® product is an integrated software environment for creating physics-based models and simulation applications. A particular strength is its ability...
COMSOL users from around the world shared their stories with us, and now we are looking forward to sharing their expertise, insight, and innovative ideas with you.
MSI
Dedicated to customer-driven innovation, MSI leverages its remarkable R&D strengths to craft top-notch, well-acclaimed motherboards, graphics cards, notebook PCs and All-in-One PCs. Also adding to the lineup are cloud servers, tailor-made IPCs, intelligent panoramic camera (Panocam), robotic appliances and human-centric vehicle...