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SensAble’s FreeForm® 3D Modeling System Helps Create Trophy for Tiger’s Tournament

July 1, 2009
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Filed under:Company News, Design World

WOBURN, MA – As golf’s AT&T National Hosted by Tiger Woods event gets underway in Bethesda, Maryland this week, SensAble Technologies, Inc® announced that the tournament trophy was created by its customer, noted golf sculptor Malcolm DeMille, using the SensAble FreeForm® 3D modeling system. Presented to the tournament’s champion each... [Read more]

FeatureCAM is Autodesk Certified

June 19, 2009
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Filed under:Company News, Design World

Delcam’s FeatureCAM suite of CAM software products is certified by the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program for Inventor 2010. This means that FeatureCAM applications have been tested to ensure that they meet the standards for robustness, quality, and interoperability with the latest version of Inventor. The software incorporates a combination... [Read more]

Blockbuster Upgrades to CAD/CAM Package

June 16, 2009
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Filed under:Company News, Design World

IMSI is shipping TurboCAD Professional version 16 and touts it as the largest upgrade to date. It includes improvements to drafting and detailing, 3D modeling, architectural features, lighting and rendering, compatibility, and interoperability. The software enables you to create nested, associative sections and 2D views. They may be placed in paper... [Read more]

CAM Feature Recognition Tools

June 16, 2009
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Filed under:Company News, Design World

Mold and model makers can benefit from new freeform feature recognition tools from Schott Systeme. The software examines and extracts geometry to complex machines. The improved surface modeling capabilities help you prepare models more quickly. All freeform holes on a model, such as those created to house ejector pins, can automatically be addressed... [Read more]

CFdesign Motion Module Reduces Process Time from 200 Hours to Just 2

June 16, 2009
Posted by:Larry Boulden 
Filed under:Company News, Design World, Featured

Cornell Pump Co. experienced a 100x speed-up of a full transient system-level simulation and performance curve generation using the new CFdesign Motion and high performance computing (HPC) Modules from Blue Ridge Numerics.  Cornell engineers performed transient simulations to evaluate a centrifugal pump design in only 2 hr, down from 200 hr, significantly... [Read more]

Software Performance and Accuracy Improvements

June 16, 2009
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Filed under:Company News, Design World

Simulink Design Optimization from MathWorks is a modeling and control product that helps address model parameters such as mass or resistance. A suite of the company’s tools helps you create plant models, calibrate models with test data, and use them to design, simulate, and optimize control systems. The streamlined process is said to help improve... [Read more]

Splash into Surfing Miles Away from the Ocean

June 16, 2009
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Filed under:Company News, Design World

Breakthrough hydraulics technology from American Wave Machines (AWM) replicates ocean surfing. The wave surge machine, called Surfstream, offers real surfing and wave riding capabilities for water parks, resorts, hotels, and sports exhibitions. Learn to surf and ride the waves in a Surfstream designed by American Wave Machines. Since each free-standing... [Read more]

CAM Feature Recognition Tools

June 16, 2009
Posted by:3DCAD Editor 
Filed under:Company News, Design World

Mold and model makers can benefit from new freeform feature recognition tools from Schott Systeme. The software examines and extracts geometry to complex machines. The improved surface modeling capabilities help you prepare models more quickly. All freeform holes on a model, such as those created to house ejector pins, can automatically be addressed... [Read more]

Blockbuster Upgrades to CAD/CAM Package

June 16, 2009
Posted by:3DCAD Editor 
Filed under:Company News, Design World

IMSI is shipping TurboCAD Professional version 16 and touts it as the largest upgrade to date. It includes improvements to drafting and detailing, 3D modeling, architectural features, lighting and rendering, compatibility, and interoperability. The software enables you to create nested, associative sections and 2D views. They may be placed in paper... [Read more]

Dental Equipment Designer Uses 3D Software

June 16, 2009
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Filed under:Company News, Design World

A-dec, one of the world’s largest dental equipment manufacturers, uses Deep Server enterprise software to eliminate manual steps in its illustration process. The software allows A-dec designers to automatically generate interactive 3D PDFs of its furniture orders so that its customers can view orders online. Right Hemisphere software provides 3D product... [Read more]

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