Mar 26, 2019 | Hot Topics
Free SolidWorks for displaced auto workers Just came across this blog post and thought it deserves wider visibility: “Workers displaced by plant closure can leverage their industry knowledge and secure a brighter future by gaining SOLIDWORKS CAD skills. DASI is...
Mar 14, 2019 | Hot Topics
Today is 3.14 — shorthand for the mathematical constant π (aka pi), which you may remember as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. In college, friends could recite pi out to umpteen decimal places; I’m happy with 2. I didn’t...
Feb 27, 2019 | Hot Topics
Dassault Systèmes announced results for Q4 and fiscal 2018 just as I was boarding a plane earlier this month, and I only had time to post a very quick recap of the highlights as I saw them then. This week brings us earnings from ANSYS (tonight/tomorrow morning), as...
Feb 25, 2019 | Hot Topics
I absolutely love what Matt Lombard just wrote in his latest blog, https://dezignstuff.com/its-better-to-have-multiple-tools-available/. His main thesis is this: … [T]here also comes a point where you need to diversify a little. That point has to come before you...
Feb 25, 2019 | Hot Topics
Another week, another acquisition: Hexagon says it will buy Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, a software provider of geospatial applications, mobile frameworks and cloud computing for enhanced location intelligence, primarily to the US government and other defense...
Feb 21, 2019 | Hot Topics
I tune into a lot of webinars, whether product announcements, investor updates or the occasional training session and, while things are much better since I first mused on the state of the art in 2008 and 2010 (here and here), it’s time for a refresher on how to...
Feb 20, 2019 | Hot Topics
Always trying to make things better … A while ago, web browsers started identifying unsafe websites, and put www.schnitgercorp.com in that category because we didn’t have a valid SSL certificate. We got that sorted but the site was still deemed unsafe....
