A Model of Efficiency
Top manufacturers who regularly meet cost, revenue, launch date, and quality goals, require fewer physical prototypes than their competitors.
by Amy Bunszel

AutoCAD 2008 Works Like Magic
Annotation scaling leads the list of new features cheered by AutoCAD users.
by David Cohn

Smart Power for
High-End Machining
by Al Dean
A major concentration for the last PowerMill release was support for engine port machining. These tools provided existing machining strategies grouped to task-specific operation — that of machining theseemingly unreachable internal cavities found in cylinder blocks. PowerMill 8 offers the same concept of taking existing technology and creating task-specific functionality applied to the machining of blisks (turbine blades) and impellers ...

Toymaker Turns to 3D
by Sara Ferris
Radio Flyer uses SolidWorks to update classic designs, develop new ideas.

When the Left Knows What
the Right Hand's Doing
by Robert “Buzz” Kross, Autodesk
We all know about the nightmare where you're back in the classroom and there's a test; only it's not on the subject that you studied.

1. AutoCAD 2008 Works Like Magic
2. Onward & Upward: SolidWorks 2008
3. Out of This World
4. Even More Graphics Power
5. A New Breed of Engineer
6. Why Hasn't Someone Made One of Those Before?
7. Melting It All Together
8. What's Driving 3D Digitizing?
9. Report: Engineers Spend More Than Half of Time on Low-Value Activity
10. Wireless Design's Diamond in the Rough