Innovative new approach to topology optimisation
Apex Generative Design
MSC Software have just announced the addition of Apex Generative Design to their MSC One flexible token based licensing solution.
This combines the award winning geometry defeaturing capabilities of MSC Apex with an innovative new approach to topology optimisation resulting in higher fidelity shapes suitable for 3D printing but in a small fraction of the time taken for many of the solvers commonly used for this task today.Topics: Hexagon MSC Software
Ushering in a new Era with Jaguar Land Rover
Dassault Systemes announces JLR Supplier Offers
Jaguar Land Rover i-PLM 2.0 - The Engineering Toolset
Jaguar Land Rover’s heritage comprises some of the world’s most iconic vehicles, including Jaguar Mark II, E-Type, and the Land Rover Defender.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) emerged within Tata Motors as an exciting, dynamic global enterprise after having passed through the corporate hands of Ford Motors. Due to JLR's varied ownership history, a complex mixture of automotive industry software was inherited from its previous owners, and this was not scaled or supportive of JLR’s aggressive business plan.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Automotive, Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, Dassault Systemes
No borders, no restrictions – Industry Renaissance
The perception in many countries across the world about restrictions on business outside of the COVID-19 had always been a concern for me.
Why should a SME focus only on local markets?
Throughout my experience both in Northern and Southern Europe I have identified the same trend.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Dassault Systemes, #HowCanWeHelpYou?
Do not fear change, embrace it! …Really?
Change – It happens, and it must happen in order for things to (hopefully) get better.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, TechTips
Are your Issues more of an Issue than you realise?
Issues – we all know that they exist, but are we ever truly aware of how bad they are? how many of them there are? who is fixing them, and when they have been fixed?
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, TechTips
We don’t do Project Management
Or do we?
When speaking to customers about 3DEXPERIENCE, I often include a discussion about project management. Quite often customers - especially smaller ones with fewer staff – will say we are too small to justify project management: “We don’t do Project Management”.
In my experience this is rarely the case, but perhaps it would be best to first define what I mean by Project Management.
If you think I am about to start talking about Prince 2 or Six Sigma, then I am sorry (not sorry) to disappoint you.
I am referring to something much more basic.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), TechTips
Customer applauds DTE’s immediate response to home working
Remote Working Challenge
Following the COVID-19 lockdown many companies faced the challenge of how to connect all their homeworking employees to office servers, securely drawing on centralised software licencing regimes that many software company’s employ. Integrated Design Management, a design house using CATIA V5 supplied by Desktop Engineering (DTE), faced this problem of continuing their operations.
Topics: Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, CATIA, #HowCanWeHelpYou?, Remote Working
Live Online Training in 3DEXPERIENCE delivered
15 delegates all connected from home
Just 3 days after launching our Live Online training portal, DTE has successfully delivered its first course to 15 delegates.
Engineers from Vertical Aerospace, the British eVTOL company, joined with DTE consultant Neil Watford, on a day’s session on Change Management using Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE On-Cloud platform.
All delegates praised the format, commenting that it was easy to join, access the training collateral and interact with the trainer.
Topics: 3DEXPERIENCE, Dassault Systemes, Aerospace, Training, CATIA
ICAM Post Processing Advantage
Post Processing Overview
If you’re a CNC Programmer or Machinist the likelihood is you interact with machine code, often referred to as G-Code, on a daily basis. Around the world thousands of these G-Code files are produced from a CAM system with a few clicks of the mouse ready to be sent to a CNC machine or robot.
Topics: ICAM Technologies, Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, CATIA, Manufacturing
MSC Software - working from home licence options
MSC Software have just announced that they have relaxed licencing terms to assist customers having to use the software at home.
Effective immediately until 30th June users can access and use their licenced software from home using any necessary infrastructure (e.g. VPN) to facilitate this use.
There is no need for any authorisation for this temporary arrangement.
For those users who cannot access their company licence server from home there is an option to issue a temporary licence which is available on request.
Topics: Various - CAD CAM FEA PLM, #HowCanWeHelpYou?, Hexagon MSC Software, Remote Working