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 June 2026 

Digital Engineering June 2026

Inside this issue...

In the latest issue of Digital Engineering, we focus on automotive design innovations, including light and sound simulation, additive manufacturing applications. Our editors head to NVIDIA GTC and RAPID+TCT, and we investigate whether you can really launch a data center into space.

2019

 September 2019 

Digital Engineering, September 2019

The September 2019 issue examines subscription software, purpose-built application bundles, the democratization of simulation, consumer vs. professional hardware, and budget workstation options. Plus Dell's Precision 3540 and 3541 mobile workstations, ParaMatters CogniCAD, Autodesk Fusion 360, and progeCAD Professional 202 are reviewed.

 August 2019 

Digital Engineering, August 2019

The August 2019 issue examines the use of extended reality in design, as well as augmented reality and mixed reality for design review, new social and connected PLM platforms, and the challenges of 5G wireless standards compliance. Plus, Lenovo's ThinkPad P72, the Velocity Micro ProMagix HD60 workstation, BricsCAD V19, and the latest release of Onshape are reviewed.

 July 2019 

Digital Engineering, July 2019

The July 2019 issue questions the rise in product recalls, explores the obstacles to digital transformation, and explains the benefits of digital twins. Plus, AutoCAD 2020, CorelCAD 2019, Rhino 6 and the Origin PC NT-15 Quadro mobile workstation are reviewed.

 June 2019 

Digital Engineering, June 2019

The June 2019 issue focuses on how design engineering computing is evolving to support more graphics-intensive workloads, such as designing with mixed reality, simulation and design using graphics processing units, and more. We also have reviews of Simsolid, PTC Creo, NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs and more.

 May 2019 

Digital Engineering, May 2019

The May 2019 issue focuses on how design engineering technologies are enabling autonomous vehicles by land, air and sea. We also look at digital twins, bringing data from the edge back to design provide a walk-through of crack analysis in ANSYS and more.

 April 2019 

Digital Engineering, April 2019

The April issue of Digital Engineering features in-depth coverage of additive manufacturing, including 3D printed electronics, integrating additive manufacturing into the larger workflow, design and simulation for additive manufacturing, a look at rapid prototyping & manufacturing service providers and advances in metal and plastic additive technologies.

 March 2019 

Digital Engineering, March 2019

The March issue of Digital Engineering features a deep dive into the use of artificial intelligence in design engineering, plus a walkthrough of CORTIME, a Lenovo workstation review, generative design for manufacturing and more.

 February 2019 

Digital Engineering, February 2019

Access the February issue for a focus on the digital thread, ruggedizing electronics, a walkthrough of ANSYS Workbench 19.2, a review of ZW3D and more.

 January 2019 

Digital Engineering, January 2019

Access the January digital edition for a focus on lightweighting, including coverage of biomimicry, advanced materials and 3D printing, plus hardware and software reviews, meshless FEA and more.

2018

 December 2018 

Special Issue

Technology Focus: Designing for Optimization & Simulation

Simulation is pervasive, with people from different departments and backgrounds discovering new ways to put it to use, in all of its varied forms.

 December 2018 

Digital Engineering, December 2018

Our special Technology Outlook issue includes readers survey results and a look at designing the future of transportation, including the Hyperloop, supersonic jets and autonomous vehicles.

 November 2018 

Digital Engineering, November 2018

Focus on Engineering Computing with edge computing and AI, HPC hyperconvergence, reviews of the HP Z2 SFF G4 and Dell Precision 7820 workstations, as well as the Dell 7920 rack-mounted workstation, and more.

 October 2018 

Special Issue

HPC Leading Edge, November 2018

Focus on the use of high performance computing in healthcare and life sciences.

 October 2018 

Special Issue

Industry Focus: Designing for Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment

The articles compiled in this special digital issue focus on how vendors are reacting to the need to digitize the factory floor and connect it all the way back through the enterprise to front-end product design and development.

 October 2018 

Digital Engineering, October 2018

Focus on Materials, Metal 3D Printing, Solid Edge 2019 Review, Industrial IoT Platforms, @Xi Workstation review, CFD in Clycling and more.

 September 2018 

Digital Engineering, September 2018

Focus on Transportation Dispution: Connecting Cars, Engineering Electric Vehicles, Find Fatigue Failures, Lenovo Mobile Workstation Review, PTC Creo Review, When to Engineer with Excel, Autodesk Nastran Overview and more.

 August 2018 

Digital Engineering, August 2018

Focus on Visualization, Autodesk Fusion 360 Review, COMSOL Multiphysics Walkthrough, Origin Workstation Review, GPUs for Simulation, Material Management, Large-Format Printers and Scanners

 July 2018 

Special Issue

Industry Focus: Designing for Aerospace & Defense

The use of simulation in A&D has evolved from early experimentation to become a critical part of the product design and development cycle, so much so that the sheer amount of simulation data has become a management challenge. Companies are now looking to capitalize on all of that digital design and simulation data by connecting it to physical products, thereby creating a digital twin that can help improve predictive maintenance and inform future product designs. Other industries are now…

 July 2018 

Digital Engineering, July 2018

Aerodynamics Testing; SOLIDWORKS Simulation Overview, Part 2; IoT Interoperability; A look at design partnerships between manufacturers and technology vendors.

 June 2018 

Digital Engineering, June 2018

Cloud-based solutions allow engineers to access a wider variety of hardware; Internet of Things; CAD system that runs entirely in a browser.