Geoff Haines
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3 reasons why 2D alone design hinders manufacturing
Two-dimensional (2D) drawings have played a major role in product design and manufacturing, and still play an important part today. Yet, 2D drawings can’t always cut it in a 3D world.
2D drawings can provide a good understanding of how a product will function and what tolerances and dimensions are required to ensure fit and functionality.
The challenge is that 2D drawings have a few drawbacks that can hinder the manufacturing process within an organisation. This is where 3D design comes into its own.
Topics: Dassault Systemes, CATIA
Training Certification - should you be taking the exam?
Value of Certification
How do you get recognition of your skills or you want to be involved in better work or been seen as making a difference? How do you show your difference?
Or if when job seeking how do you differentiate yourself from the rest of the pack?
It’s all about having something unique that gives value to your employer
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Training, CATIA
Why 2D alone design hinders manufacturing
2D drawings have played a major role in product design and manufacturing, and still play an important part today. Yet, 2D drawings can’t always cut it in a 3D world.
Two-dimensional drawings can provide a good understanding of how a product will function and what tolerances and dimensions are required to ensure fit and functionality.
The challenge is that 2D drawings have a few drawbacks that can hinder the manufacturing process within an organisation. This is where 3D design comes into its own.
Topics: Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, CATIA, Manufacturing
Benefits of 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA for Composite Design & Manufacturing
Paying attention to the careful design and material selection guidelines in the design and manufacturing of composites is vital to ensuring structural integrity of parts. Without adherence to guidelines in designing composites, this can lead to the development of poor-quality parts, which isn’t going to help anyone.
This is extremely important as the benefits of strong composite designs include the production of lightweight, impact resistant and strong parts compared to standard metal products. Ultimately, this leads to the manufacturing of better quality parts for a better-quality product, especially when these parts will be used in aircraft where safety protocols are extremely stringent.
The production of better-quality parts is also important due to Governmental crackdowns on carbon emissions, particularly for aircrafts. But with composite design, the reduction in fuel costs and carbon emissions based on the production of lightweight structures helps to adhere to Governmental pressures.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, Aerospace, CATIA
Boeing 737 MAX – The case for Instructor-led Training
The current issue over the recent crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft has uncovered many issues over the design, certification and operation of this new aircraft.
What's New in 2019x?
Dassault Systemes has announced the
On Cloud Release 2019X of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
All On Cloud customers were successfully and seamlessly upgrade to their new revisions when they logged into their accounts earlier this week. This new release features powerful enhancements to all roles together with the announcement of new ones addressing different sectors of industry.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE
Design of the V&A Museum, Dundee – Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma, a Japanese architect with a body of work that surpasses national boundaries, has made a name for himself with his innovative use of shapes, unique creative voice, and focus on organic materials like wood and bamboo. From Kuma’s perspective, computerized architecture plays a vital role in making that vision a reality.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE
Adaptive Building Design
In recent years many papers, both government whitepapers, research document and industry guru’s have voiced concern on the poor productivity within the construction industry.
Comparisons have been made with manufacturing industry where overall productivity has doubled over 20-30 years. So how did that industry achieve such gains and construction didn’t?
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Architecture, Engineering & Construction, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Dassault Systemes, CATIA
2D or not 2D that is the question?
Continuing my theme of Shakespearean references, I
wonder if the bard was prescient foreseeing this question that has been asked many a time by managers when they start design projects?
“Should we do this in 2D, it will be quicker, or should we take the plunge and model it in 3D” – how many times has that been said in the last two decades or so, let alone 400 years?
Topics: Architecture, Engineering & Construction, Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, CATIA
Dropbox and BIM
Dropbox is used very frequently amongst companies within the construction industry as a mechanism to share information. Its cheap, easy to use and available to synchronise files across many hardware platforms. It is easy to see why it has been taken up by many small, medium and even large organisations to help them manage BIM (Building Information Modeling) information on building projects.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Dassault Systemes