Computer-aided design (CAD) and additive manufacturing (AM) will make up a good chunk of Machine Design’s content in July.

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 ...

As Machine Design’s technical editor, Sharon Spielman produces content for the brand’s focus audience—design and multidisciplinary engineers. Her beat ...

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 ...