Engineers have relied on digital assistants for decades, starting with CAD ... of 3D printing, it’s now feasible to manufacture the sinuous shapes created with generative design.

I dissected the components involved, designed the new body in CAD, and used a 3D printer to bring my final design to life. There was plenty of trial and error, of course, but the project sharpened ...

2D CAD and 3D CAD. CAD is used to create, modify, test and analyse or optimise design in a wide range of areas, from designing skyscrapers to tiny machine parts. In the past, designs were drafted ...

Recognized at SolidWorks World 2012 as the world’s largest reseller of SolidWorks 3D Design applications, Hawk Ridge Systems has been steadily enhancing the already robust capabilities in ...

OpenSCAD is a CAD software specifically designed for those who wish to design machine parts. This is something that most other free 3D modeling software products fail at. Other free CAD products ...

Bright Machines' Design for Automated Assembly (DFAA ... and APIs to accelerate design workflows by integrating 3D data across various CAD (computer-aided design) and PLM (product lifecycle ...

That’s what [Chris Borges] decided when he put together this rock-solid, concrete-filled CNC milling machine. The concrete body of this machine is housed inside a 3D printed shell, which makes ...

A prototype manufacturing machine developed at Carnegie Mellon University is transforming traditional textile fabrication into a new form of knitting that can create solid objects. Like a 3D ...

While the explosion in the popularity of consumer 3D printers ... the machine via an SD card, they select their desired model using the machine’s control panel and the selected design will ...