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ParaMatters 4.0 Generative Design Software Opens New Door to Automation
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VELO3D Unveils Sapphire XC, Large-Format 3D Metal Printer
The company also announced plans to roll-out Sapphire Gen 2, which will be a software and hardware upgrade to the current system.

MathWorks Updates Simulink Real-Time
Software enhancements involve rapid control prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop testing capabilities with QNX Neutrino Realtime Operating System (RTOS).

SMARTTECH3D Premieres New 3d Scanner
Azure Data Explorer Now Uses AMD EPYC Processor-Based Virtual Machines
Prodways Group Enhances 3D Printers With new Features
Pointwise Debuts Intelligent Automatic Surface Meshing
COMSOL Previews Multiphysics 5.6
MakerBot Expands Composite Materials Offering
progeCAD 2021 Touted as Complete CAD Package
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Aerodynamic Optimization of Exhaust for Car Compressors
Pollution and fuel consumption are the most important features of thermal engines that must be drastically improved in the coming years.

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Dell Precision 5550: Thin, Fast and Pricey
Dell recently announced a couple of new mobile workstations in its Precision line—the 5550 and 5570—offering the portability of a laptop and&hellips;

CorelCAD 2020: An Alternative to AutoCAD
Corel, known for its flagship, best-selling product—CorelDRAW has steadily added to it's software library. The company acquired design, illustration, photo and&hellips;

High-Performance Radeon Pros
We compare the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 and W5700 GPUs. The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 is actually quite similar to the WX 9100,&hellips;

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Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) delivers mission-proven software for timely and cost-effective development and deployment of advanced space, defense and intelligence applications.

AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides the most elastic and scalable cloud infrastructure to run your HPC applications. With virtually unlimited capacity, engineers,&hellips;

OnScale
OnScale is the first Cloud Engineering Simulation platform. OnScale combines powerful multiphysics solver technology with the limitless compute power of cloud supercomputers.&hellips;

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Finite Element Method (FEM)

A means to approximate partial differential equation (PDE) discretizations (discrete counterparts transferred – with some amount of error – from continuous functions, models, variables and equations) with numerical model equations in order to break down large problems into simpler finite elements that can be solved via numerical methods. Studying a phenomenon with FEM is known as finite element analysis (FEA).
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Glossary


A
ABS
Acoustics
Additive Manufacturing
Alumide
APDRC
APU

B
Batteries
Big Data
Biomimicry
Bionics
Blockchain
Body in White
Build Envelope

C
CAD
CAM
CFD
Cloud Computing
Cluster Computing
Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)
Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
CPU
Curing

D
Degrees of Freedom
Digital Thread
DWG

E
EDA
Edge Computing

F
FEA
Finite Element Method (FEM)
FIRST
Fluid Dynamics
Fluid Mechanics

G
G-Code
GPU
Graphene

H
Hooke’s Law

I
Instrumentation
IoT

J
JT

L
Layer Resolution
Lightweighting

M
Machine Learning
Maxwell’s Equations
Memristor
Meshing
Metal 3D Printing
Moore’s Law
Multibody System
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Multiphysics
Multithreading

N
NASTRAN
Navier-Stokes

O
OBJ
Ohm’s Law

P
PAEK
Parametric Modeling
PBT
PEEK
PEI
PETG
Photopolymers
PLM
PMMA
Polyamide
Polycarbonate
Polylactic Acid
Polypropylene
Polystyrene
Powder Bed Fusion
PPS
Print Bed
PVA

Q
Quantum Computing

R
Refractory Metals
Retraction
Reverse Engineering

S
Skirt
Slice
SOC
STEP
Stereolithography
STL
Strain
Stress
Subtractive Manufacturing
System Modeling

T
Thermoplastic
Topology Optimization
Torque
TPE
T-spline

V
von Mises Stress


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September 2020 · Our September coverage includes updates on 3D Systems, a look at simulation in the design of self-driving cars, how connected cars tie into the digital thread, large-format additive manufacturing, and a review of the Dell Precision 5550.

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