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Welcome to the product reviews section. The following reviews are sometimes included in the TechniCom eWeekly newsletter. To subscribe to the free newsletter, click here. We also recommend that you take a look at interesting and thought provoking papers here that we have come across.

Current Reviews:

Solid Edge V16

Read our review of the latest release of Solid Edge R16. (Jun 2004) .pdf file

In spite of a difficult global economy in 2003, Solid Edge had substantial growth, due, no doubt, to their continuing progress in delivering high quality software that their customers need. Solid Edge Version 16 demonstrates their continuing focus on improving many of their leading edge technologies. V16 differentiates itself by expanding its hybrid 2D - 3D environment and continuing to add function in other key areas.

View a gallery of images from the demo here.

Solid Edge V15

View a gallery of images about the new functions.

NX Systems Engineering Powers the Product Lifecycle (Dec 2003) 500 Kb pdf file

Certain CAD systems enable a substantial subset of the components necessary to provide systems engineering
tools. Leading among them is NX from UGS PLM Solutions.

Click here to see the screen images part 1. Here for the RC plane example.

think3's Product Configurator
Powers Mass Customization
(June 2003) Executive Summary / Full paper (4MB)
A whitepaper written for think3 about their software that allows development of product customization without programming.

Systems Engineering in CAD (May 2003)
A thought provoking paper presented by Ray Kurland at the May 2003 COFES meeting.

Solid Edge Insight V14 (Feb 2003)
TechniCom updates its review with the release of V14 including Rapid Blue Technology.

Unigraphics NX

A look at Unigraphics Knowledge Fusion (Dec 2002) - Applying knowledge rules.

Solid Edge Insight V12 (Nov 2002)
TechniCom provides an insight into Solid Edge Insight with this 10 page .pdf article, sponsored by Solid Edge.

ImpactXoft IX Design (June 2002)
In Issue 85 we wrote about seeing the latest version of ImpactXoft's (IX), as yet, unreleased version of IX Design. In that issue Ray Kurland, our intrepid traveling editor, wrote that "Seldom have I ever felt that I was awed by a new product -- this is one of the exceptions!"

 

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