Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicle robots take flight
Danny Ellis was first introduced to CAD in high school with a course in Autodesk Inventor. As he advanced into the engineering program at the University of Michigan, he was introduced to CATIA.“In between my freshman and sophomore years, I became irritated at how cumbersome it was to rotate a model using a traditional mouse. I thought I could get a trackball mouse and program... Read More
Ice Dream: Towing an iceberg for fresh water
“With the world’s water resources projected to diminish by one third in the next two decades, providing pure water to an ever- increasing world population is vital,” Mougin explained. To Mougin and Mauviel, one solution would be to transport icebergs to areas that lack fresh water for drinking and even cooling purposes. The scientific challenges are impressive... Read More
New software slated to change the workplace
CAD software vendors have touted product usability for a long time. However, they haven’t really delivered on that promise until recently. There were a few software debuts in 2011 that changed that premise. True user usability could lead to a broader CAD audience and a bigger market share.The product development team at PTC came up with the idea of a creating single program... Read More
Sea monster of a yacht
The Volvo Ocean Race for 2011-2012 includes 70-ft Mar Mosto, the “Monster of the Sea” entry. Designed by Juan Yacht Design of Valencia, Spain and constructed at New England Boatworks in Portsmouth, RI, the mono-hull was created to sail around the world and face extreme conditions.The yacht weighs approximately 15 tons and will reach speeds up to 40.5 knots (46.6 mph) during... Read More
Mechdyne Corporation Announce the Release of Conduit™ 3.0
Mechdyne Corporation announced the release of Conduit™ 3.0, an immersive software solution that enables desktop 3D applications to operate on PC clusters, virtual environments, and tiled high resolution displays.This latest version of Conduit supports a wide variety of desktop applications, including: NX, TeamCenter, ENOVIA/CATIA/DEMIA V5, Pro/ENGINEER, Maya, Blender Game Engine,... Read More
Free Upgrade to progeCAD 2011 Windows. CAD for MAC Released.
25 May 2011 Sydney time – CADDIT has announced the upcoming release of progeCAD 2011 for June-July timeframe. As of 25 May 2011 Sydney timezone, all new licenses and upgrades purchased of progeCAD 2010 Professional for Microsoft Windows, including progeCAD USB, Network NLM and Office license options, will receive a free upgrade to the new version of progeCAD 2011 for Windows... Read More
SolidWorks Alternative in Australia
SolidWorks, Inventor and Solid Edge are just some examples of legacy 3D CAD solutions supported by Alibre Translate – a feature available with Alibre Design Expert at no additional cost. For those not familiar with Alibre, Alibre is an easy-to-use low cost parametric 3D CAD system mainly for mechanical engineering design of parts, assemblies, sheet metal and more. Alibre... Read More
Alibre 2011 Update with New MoI Surfacing Software
Alibre Design 2011 was first released in late 2010 offering a number of important new features:Alibre’s first native 64-bit version New “in-place editing” UI framework New MIRROR and SCALE modelling commands On-the-fly library creation Direct 3D Solid->SheetMetal conversionMoI:In addition to these new features, Alibre Design Expert user licenses sold after... Read More
iCADmac "CAD for Mac" Released on CADDIT
CAD on MAC OS/X (Version 10 or ‘X’ of the Apple operating System) is back. AutoCAD for Mac was (re)announced in August 2010. However, the cost of AutoCAD on Mac (several thousand dollars) makes this new option unviable for some small business looking for CAD software for Mac. As a low cost alternative to more expensive CAD on Mac systems, CADDIT will begin to offer... Read More
PTC Creo Announced for Project Lightning
Parametric Technology Corporation announced “creo, a PTC Product” at the at the Park Plaza Castle in Boston USA last week. “creo” is the name given to the overall design platform of PTC product development tools for “the next twenty years”. According to PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann, creo “is the Latin root of the word create and… means... Read More
