I'm at the SolidWorks 2009 conference in Orlando, Florida, looking out my hotel room window, which oversees a lake lined with palm trees, the Swan Resort with giant statures of swans on its rooftop, and blue, sunny skys. I heard it is warmer in Cleveland, but I am in no rush to get back home to snow, ice, and near zero temperatures. ...

According to CEO Jeff Ray, over 4,000 people are attending the SolidWorks World 2009 event being held in Orlando, Florida over the next few days. Although times are tough, that is not evident at this show. Attendees are upbeat and the theme ''innovation'' predominates. The Great Depression spawned nylon, car radios, and everyone's favorite -- ...

Check out this neat animation created in COMSOL multiphysics software that studies the film boiling of water. The ''Leidenfrost point'' referred to is the lowest temperature at which a hot body submerged in a pool of boiling water is completely blanketed by a vapor film. There is a minimum in the heat flux from the body to the water at ...

Day Two of PTC event. Improved support for top-down methodology: Info from ProductPoint and other stuff can be stuffed into Pro/E, and then worry about the component's fitting, etc. Windchill Web 2 look for Windchill -- clean and crisp. More AJAX and DHTML widgets. Create requirements as objects in Winchill, organize into structures as a Bill of ...

Boston is sunny but cold -- a nice break from our gloomy Cleveland winter and its excessive snowfalls. PTC is holding its annual media event at the company's Needham corporate headquarters. Attending are about 100 to 150 media analysts and a few trade journalists from Japan, Italy, Germany, and the U.S., among other countries. Part of ...

Hi everyone, I just joined and would like to introduce myself.  I'm an upcoming student at Bristol-Plymouth High School in the Drafting course.  I've already completed Mechanical Drafting and have started Architectual.  I'm interested in learning all I can about Mechanical.  I would like to hook up with other Mech drafters out ...

CAD at the Venetian Resort   Autodesk is again hosting its annual Autodesk University (AU) event at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. It's still pretty early, so things haven't yet geared up. The developer must have sympathy for those of us who travel a distance to get here and thus are still reeling from jetlag -- the keynote ...

ProductDesignResources.com was recently launched.  ProductDesignResources.com is a comprehensive resource guide site for product designers, engineers, project managers, and product marketers. You'll find original articles and guides, links to articles, guides, textbooks, and resources outside of Product Design Resources, and eventually more ...

SolidWorks just held its annual Media event in Barcelona, Spain to showcase Version 9. The city is a pastel jewel full of palm trees, international travelers, and mind-blowing architecture by Gaudi. I took a stroll earlier on the boardwalk by the Mediterranean Sea. People here are quite sophisticated -- a topless ...

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