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Kenneth Wong · October 1, 2015 · …cannot conduct simulation to fully exploit the benefits of the new materials to produce designs of things like lightweight automotive frames and airplane wings.Finding the Material’s Breaking PointMaterial testing is usually done by exerting pressure and loads on a sample specimen called a “coupon.” The AMCT facility uses…
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Brian Albright · August 15, 2017 · …as well. No one fully understands how these processes ultimately affect the performance of the final part.“The material allowable has to be tied to the process, and you can’t use injection molding allowables,” Albers said. “We are certainly in uncharted territory. There is so much work to be…
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DE Editors · November 14, 2013 · …the new model would fully meet its performance targets in the real world.They started by creating rapid prototypes of the components CAD files using stereolithography (SL) technology. “This allowed us to touch and feel the parts, and mentally walk through the assembly process while having them in hand,”…
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Jamie Gooch · April 4, 2016 · …textures can be loaded fully intact via VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) files imported from CAD tools.At the J750 launch event, Claman said GrabCAD has become Stratasys’ software development group. “We bought GrabCAD because we realized software is going to be a key element in the adoption of…
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DE Editors · April 12, 2011 · …before moving onto a fully functional prototype. To guarantee the exact requirements and size of all functional mechanical components, including the carbon-fiber handlebar and saddle, all components were designed in 3D and simulated as a virtual assembly to highlight any potential issues prior to the assembling procedure, where…
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Mike Hudspeth · February 1, 2010 · …don’t waste your effort fully dimensioning it. Just put on what you want to change.) NX 7 functionality makes modeling easier whether you are creating your own geometry or editing someone else’s. You can create all sorts of features by cutting and pasting (see Figure 3). Once you…
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George Kokoris · November 10, 2022 · …By having a model fully parametrized, you take advantage of simulation earlier in the process as teams rapidly explore the impact of any geometry parameter on the performance of the design. Reduced physical prototyping and redesign costs. Having the ability to conduct simulation in a virtual environment and…
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Brian Albright · October 15, 2021 · …digital twin creates a fully simulated and shared world in a virtual space,” says Mike Geyer, Product Manager at NVIDIA. “It requires closed loop collaboration, and NVIDIA is really focused on being the company that closes that loop.” Jerry Chen, Director of Global Business Development, Manufacturing & Industrials…
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DE Editors · December 1, 2006 · …part or assembly is fully modeled, designers use analysis software to apply varying forces to different surfaces to simulate real-life conditions. The analysis software reports on properties such as deflection, fluid flow, and mechanical collisions. Designers use these initial results to modify the design for top performance. Then…
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Kenneth Wong · May 2, 2023 · …support material must be fully removed, sometimes manually. A 3D-printed part with support structures. Image courtesy of Materialise. “Sometimes the removal is done manually. Sometimes it’s done with a machine. After that, you might need to use machining to get better surface quality, definitely for the areas where…
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Pamela Waterman · March 1, 2010 · …steps can instead be fully automated with scripts and APIs, a capability not always found in the postprocessing functions of CFD analysis packages. “Scripting is the only way to make sense of it all.” Bridging the realms of mathematics and modeling is the VisSim software family from Visual…
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Beth Stackpole · December 3, 2013 · …written from scratch.“Doing a fully resolved 3D CFD simulation that gives you the correct physics is still quite difficult, and requires lots of computing power,” said Barba. “But we’re leading to that.” Currently, Barba has students working on parallelizing the code for snake-glide simulation. That would allow them…
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Randall Newton · April 16, 2024 · …concept to shipping is fully digital. Below are seven aspects of DfAM that highlight what we might call “digital first” thinking. These advantages are not universal to every design project. They point to multiple advantages of looking at every project as if it is headed for AM. Complexity…
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DE Guest · February 1, 2007 · …go straight for a fully automated vectorization, which is very fast. Even a difficult E-size drawing took less than two minutes on my notebook, and it created more than 163,000 vector objects. After vectorization, you can toggle between the raster image, the vector image, or both at the…
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Kenneth Wong · October 10, 2013 · …product boasts “a fast, fully-automated unstructured mesher with boundary layers. Volume meshing for an external automotive aerodynamics analysis—including the underbody, underhood compartment and boundary layers—can be completed in less than two hours.” (Altair plans to host a webinar on the product on Oct 17. To sign up, go…
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George Kokoris · August 10, 2022 · …Directory Service (Simple AD), fully integrated with the HPC cluster Linux nodes via System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). Once logged, the portal GUI enables administrators to perform all their management functions, such as defining HPC clusters blueprints, assigning them with a credit cost per hour, setting each team…
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DE Editors · August 1, 2005 · …tools through an interface fully usable by those who are power users of MCAD, LabVIEW, or other design and mechanical engineering tools. CFdesign has been enhanced in all areas. However, V8.0 offers particular enhancements in six areas: MCAD interoperability, mesh generation, simulation scope, simulation speed, design review, and…
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Mark Clarkson · February 1, 2013 · …the Art “Printing a fully assembled car in one go is still a fairy tale, admits Stijn De Rijck, marketing manager of Belgium's Materialise. “But yes, there are cars that have 3D printed components in them. Materialise has produced parts for the Pininfarina Sintesi and the Citro n…
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Jess Lulka · September 23, 2016 · …industrial marketplace. It’s not fully mature, but the technology has progressed far enough that if you’re ignoring 3D printing at IMTS 2016, you’re making a big mistake,” says David Burns, founder and principal of Global Business Advisory Services LLC. The Additive Pavilion showcased technologies from composites to metal.…
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DE Guest · September 15, 2020 · …the ultimate goal of fully autonomous driving. However, the result of all this is an increase in the complexity of products and processes used to engineer and manufacture vehicles. How does a company that is expert in internal combustion engines lead the way in battery technology or autonomous…
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