For years, the worlds of electronic and mechanical computer aided design have evolved along very separate paths. It was never intended to happen this way. For example, the Design Automation Conference ...

RS Components has added to the capabilities of its free 3D mechanical design tool with two paid-for modules. RS said that the base-level DesignSpark Mechanical software which was developed with 3D ...

We've witnessed dramatic advances in CAD usability, speed, graphics, “intelligence,” and automation over the past few years. But even the best 3D mechanical-design packages leave plenty of room for ...

3D CAD software offers critical time, cost, and quality benefits for machine designers, says Ved Narayan*, vice president, Asia Pacific, SolidWorks Corporation. Visualising product designs developed ...

Recent design tool announcements from Altium and Zuken are attempting to tackle that grey area which is the boundary between PCB electrical and 3D mechanical design. Typically, engineers completed ...

We often wonder how many people have 3D printers and wind up just printing trinkets off Thingiverse. To get the most out of a printer, you really need to be able to use a CAD package and make your own ...

Edited By Robert Brooks Delcam’s latest FeatureCAM offers greater support for multi-spindle machining functions. The FeatureCAM family of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software products from ...

An overview of the mechanical and system design processes involved in microsatellite production. A discussion of the various challenges associated with designing small satellites, along with a look at ...