A New Jeep, a Printed Concept Car & Mixing Diesel and Water

By: Gary S. Vasilash - March 10, 2014 at 5:25 AM

At the Geneva Motor Show, Jeep introduced the Renegade—a small SUV that, unlike many other small SUVs, has a 4x4 system that is said to provide off-road capability (there is Jeep Active Drive, a full-time 4x4 system, and Jeep Active drive low, a 4x4 system that offers a 20:1 crawl ratio; there is a disconnecting real axle and power-take-off-unit to provide fuel efficiency when 4x4 isn’t required), a vehicle based off the “small-wide architecture” that’s used for the Fiat 500L, but engineered so that there is the aforementioned off-road capability (which also includes fully independent suspension and the ability to have up to 8.1 in. of wheel articulation and 8.7 in. of ground clearance); a vehicle that Jeep plans to sell in multiple global markets, so it is offering it with 16 different powertrain options, gasoline and diesel, manual and dual dry-clutch automatic, as well as the segment’s first nine-speed automatic; a Jeep that is being built in a Fiat plant in Melfi, Italy—it brought over a group of journalists, including Frank Marcus, technical director at Motor Trend.

Professional Workstations Are Still Important

By: Lawrence S. Gould - February 28, 2014 at 12:24 PM

With all the clamor about tablets and mobile phones, one could easily forget about workstations. Don’t. Nowadays, they’re even more primed for the heavy lifting in CAD.

Ford Tests App to Aid Production Efficiency

January 30, 2014 at 1:34 PM

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Dassault Systèmes Goes to the Cloud

By: Lawrence S. Gould - January 29, 2014 at 3:50 PM

Dassault Systèmes' V642014 goes beyond the design and engineering of individual objects to the entire user "experience."

Better Workflow Control

January 02, 2014 at 3:35 PM

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3D Scanner Enables Scan-to-CAD Design, Inspection

January 02, 2014 at 3:21 PM

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NX 9 Offers Broad, New Functionality

By: Lawrence S. Gould - January 02, 2014 at 10:40 AM

The latest advances in Siemens NX can help speed both programming and machining.

Vettel, Victories and. . .CFD

By: Gary S. Vasilash - December 12, 2013 at 4:48 AM

As is undoubtedly known by anyone who cares, Sebastian Vettel of Infiniti Red Bull Racing, recently won his fourth Formula One world title in a row, which puts him in the ranks of Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost and Michael Schumacher.

Factory Layouts Modified More Quickly

By: Lawrence S. Gould - November 27, 2013 at 3:34 PM

New, inexpensive software stitches laser-scanned point clouds together using scanned objects as the registration targets.

3D Printing Prototypes Faster and Cheaper

November 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM

Eight weeks.

Crowdsourcing & Rapid PD Comes to the Army

By: Gary S. Vasilash - November 25, 2013 at 5:00 AM

If you’ve ever thought that development for large, bureaucratic organizations is necessarily mired in red tape, here’s something that might change your perspective: The Army CoCreate platform.

CAD Comes to Toys

By: Gary S. Vasilash - October 11, 2013 at 5:23 AM

If you look closely at this picture, you’ll see that there are two Mercedes E-Class Cabriolets: There is that red one outside the window.