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Author: Mike Hudspeth

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Mike Hudspeth is a Digital Engineering contributor.

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Engineers Are Working the Remote

There are advantages and disadvantages to working outside the office for everyone involved: the employee, the company and the community.

A Not-So-Booming Future

Engineers use computational fluid dynamics to minimize sonic booms.

Making PCB as easy as 1-2-3

Altium Designer provides guidance for users called to perform printed circuit board design and field programmable gate array tasks.

Rhino 5 Drives Modeling Passion

A solid modeler if you want it to be, but it does a lot more than that and now works on the Mac.

Keeping MIME at Forefront of Design

Designing for minimum impact and maximum effect is as practical and cost-efficient as it is the environmentally responsible way to go.

Anark Core 3.0 Now Does More than Ever

3D PDFs, product data integration, and new annotation capabilities are just some of the new capabilities offered by the latest version of this collaboration program.

Siemens PLM’s NX 7: The Best of Both Worlds

Enhancements to synchronous technology enable users to alternate between parametric and explicit modeling for easier and faster design.

Virtual Clay Using Sculptor & Back2CAD

Optimal Solutions Software has a modeler you can bend, twist, and pinch to save significant time in model optimization.

Form and Function: The Value of Industrial Design

Industrial design takes all aspects of manufacturing and combines them to add value to the bottom line.

Reasons for Making the 2D to 3D Transition

The right tools will help create exact 3D representations for greater efficiency and profits.

Using Surfaces to Expand Modeling Capabilities

When it comes to surface modeling, a little know-how is a powerful thing.

Explicit and Parametric: A Match Made In Heaven?

Both types of modeling have their advantages and disadvantages -- with chops in both, you can be a genius.

Anark Core 2.0 Crosses the Great Divide

Manages your changes and easily communicate model information to any stakeholder you want to satisfy a host of different needs.

Are You Scratching the Surface? Part 2

Going beyond geometry to use MCAD applications to develop Class A surfaces.

Are You Scratching the 3D Solid Modeling Surface?

Part 1: Going beyond finite forms with mechanical computer aided design to model truly biomorphic shapes.

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