Toyota to Develop Racecar Cockpits with Dassault CATIA V5

Toyota to Develop Racecar Cockpits with Dassault CATIA V5

PARIS, France and COLOGNE, Germany, February 23, 2005 – Dassault Systèmes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) today announced that Toyota Motorsport GmbH will develop racecar cockpits that optimize driver comfort, safety, and ergonomics with its CATIA V5 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for virtual product development.

Find the load, then size the bolts

Find the load, then size the bolts

Dearth suggests this problem as an example of using FEA to determine reactions at bolts. "I recommend working through a few sample or warm-up problems with textbook solutions before tackling the real one. This problem simulates a 300-lb load on a bracket and tube. The task is to estimate reactions at the four mounting locations so bolts can be sized for them. This problem contains features of real-life engineering challenges and can be solved with pencil and paper using conventional static analysis — summing the forces of a free body diagram. A second task estimates reactions at the bolt locations using FEA. Then compare results," he says.

SAE launches automotive CAD certification

SAE launches automotive CAD certification

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has created the auto industry's first CAD Certification program. This international program provides a standard for developing and measuring automotive CAD skills. Candidates must solve realistic automotive engineering problems using the latest design technology to earn certification.

more information www.sae.org/autocad.cert.
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FEA load and constraints

FEA load and constraints

Loads for most FEA problems are just good guesses. Here's how to stop relying on guessing.

This solution combines large-scale motion and stress analysis. It uses nonlinear time-dependent FEA to account for changes in the model's inertia, shape, and material behavior as it moves or is struck. There is no need to calculate or approximate loads because the forces and moments are balanced according to Newton's laws of motion.

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Automakers trade 'mules' for computers

Kevin Power speaks about virtual design software at the Ford Product Development Center in Dearborn.

The advanced computer design brings cars to market faster and cheaper.

When we say 'zero-prototype,' it's more of a visionary statement than a reality," Martens said.

watch out design trend.... It's hot competition!!!

Flow Science Releases FLOW-3D v9.0 for CFD

Flow Science Releases FLOW-3D v9.0 for CFD

SANTA FE, New Mexico, February 4, 2005 - Flow Science, Inc. announces the availability of a major new release of its FLOW-3D® computational fluid dynamics software. Version 9.0 of FLOW-3D® offers users the ability to model rigid body dynamics with full six-degrees-of-freedom fully-coupled with fluid flows. In addition, several other new and useful physical models have been added and the graphical user interface has been completely overhauled and updated.

Scanning Checklist

In CAD work Scanner is important tool for working.
Many problems was found...
Someone might say"Don't worry that,It's just a little thing"
How's long you use for plotting....
How many times you used....
I have easy way to check and solve this problems.

checklist can help you....
!!!CHECK!!!

- Black and white vs color
- Scanning color drawings
- Scanning physical items
- Resolution
- Contrast
- Saving raster images
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RhinoCAM 1.0

Designing for manufacturing is not easy. Modeling for manufacturing is even harder. RhinoCAM provides the freedom, control, and accuracy to model just about anything and then manufacture it and its tooling directly from the same model. RhinoCAM is the beginning a solid marriage of two good products - one CAD and one CAM.

New ATI FireGL V5000 For Mid-Range Workstations

New ATI FireGL V5000 For Mid-Range Workstations

Bringing a high-end feature set to the mid-range workstation market,
ATI today introduced and began shipping the FireGL V5000 workstation
graphics accelerator