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Monday, March 18th, 2024
The digital symposium at Altair’s Future.Industry 2024 served as a fertile ground for unveiling the next leaps in artificial intelligence, with Google’s Gregg Mattek at the helm. This presentation, rich in insights and foresight, marked a pivotal moment in understanding the trajectory of generative AI. As industries brace for transformative changes, Mattek’s discourse offers a beacon of what lies ahead.
 Gregg Mattek, Entrepreneur, Cloud and AI Leader, Board Member Generative AI: A Paradigm Shift
Generative AI’s evolution stands as a testament to the ingenuity of modern computational thought. It’s an area that has rapidly transcended its initial novelty, growing into a cornerstone of digital innovation. Google’s contributions, particularly through the Gemini and Gemma models, encapsulate this shift towards more integrated, intuitive, and interactive AI systems. These advancements herald a future where AI’s applicability is only limited by our creativity.
The Multimodal Frontier: Gemini Unleashed
Gemini, Google’s trailblazing model, emerges as a linchpin in this new era. Its multimodal capabilities—processing text, images, and sounds within a singular framework—illustrate a leap towards a more holistic AI understanding and generation of human-like content. The introduction of Gemini 1.5 Pro, with its one million token context window, further underscores the ambition to deepen AI’s comprehension abilities. This feature, likened to processing the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy for context, pushes the boundaries of what AI can understand and generate.
Greg’s presentation includes a demo that shines a light on the potential applications and transformative capabilities of this technology. The demonstration showcased Gemini 1.5 Pro’s remarkable ability to comprehend and manipulate a vast dataset, specifically over 800,000 tokens from the 3js example code. This is akin to analyzing an extensive library of information and extracting relevant insights or generating content based on this deep contextual understanding.
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Tags: Altair, Artificial Intelligence, Gemini, Google
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Are you ready to ‘test-drive’ the future of electrical systems design & PCB?
With SOLIDWORKS Electrical, we use a purpose-built electrical schematics tool to drive a real-deal SQL database. In turn, it automates our workflow and completely automates report creation. We know it’s not enough to read about or see it in a video – you want to see it for yourself! We have an event for you to come!
In addition, you can also join us to learn how to amp up your Printed Circuit Boards designs by driving mechanical constraints earlier in the process, providing real-time collaboration of electromechanical changes and automated engineering change orders while compiling documentation to support the project.
Come and get your hands on it, verify that it’ll do what you need it to do for your business at an Electrical and/or PCB Hands-on Test Drive near you.
 SOLIDWORKS Electrical Test Drive
Learn how to simplify your life with SOLIDWORKS Electrical real-time multi-user 2D and 3D design, collaboration, and creation of all your manufacturing documents. In addition, you can look forward to:
- Purpose-built, database-driven electrical schematic tool
- Manage complex schematic designs with ease, across multiple users
- Leverage single line schematics into multiline power and control and PLC schematics, with automatic wire numbering and component tagging
- Reuse existing designs efficiently, and intelligently
- Have SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD reference your schematic to create all your realistic wires, cables, and harnesses
- Use the automatic report creation to produce all your electrical manufacturing documents – Bills of Material, wire/cable lists (with actual lengths), from/to lists, wire tags, and more!
PCB Hands-on Test Drive
- Understand how to design printed circuit boards within a Unified environment for schematic, pcb and electromechanical integration
- Design schematics by using built-in Symbol Wizard and adding Supplier Links to allow the procurement of components to be streamlined
- Utilize the Automated Engineering Change Order to update all schematic information to the PCB
- Finalize the pcb design by placing Components, Routing traces, and creating the Fabrication and Assembly outputs for documentation
- Ensure the mechanical constraints are met by mating the printed circuit board to an enclosure and making modifications in SOLIDWORKS that are synchronized with the Electrical design.
We look forward to seeing you there. Find a location near you:
Register for an Upcoming Electrical /PCB Hands-on Test Dive
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
GoEngineer Continues Its Legacy of Supporting Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
GoEngineer is stepping up again to encourage the involvement of girls and women in STEM careers by supporting the Female Researchers Chapter (FRC) of the International Association of Computational Mathematics (IACM), which aims to promote gender balance in STEM-related careers. “I have daughters in school right now that I would love to see them more involved in science and engineering activities,” says Brad Hansen, president of GoEngineer.
The chapter chair and founder is Professor H Alicia Kim, Professor of Structural and Material Optimization at the University of California San Diego. She leads the group with a number of other committee members. “In computational mechanics, women tend to be the minority,” says Kim. “Our goal is to promote gender balance and provide a supportive network for female researchers.” The FRC chapter started about two years ago as a networking group within the IACM. There are currently about 100 members who attend various international events.
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Tags: GoEngineer, SOLIDWORKS, STEM
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
It might be the most commonly asked question during my years at GoEngineer, and it was easily my least favorite question to answer. “Do you print in metal?”
It may surprise you to learn, but having to answer “no,” or more commonly “not yet,” isn’t actually why I disliked that particular question. Over time I’ve become adept at fielding the question in ways that kept their interest and channeled their excitement toward tangible options.
It wasn’t saying “no” that killed me, it was admitting that what they wanted didn’t yet exist.
Our users didn’t just want metal printing technology – they wanted metal printing that was as simple, affordable, safe, and easy to use as plastic printing. But it simply wasn’t available.
 And then along came Desktop Metal…
If you haven’t heard by now, Desktop Metal is a 3D printing startup based in Burlington, Ma. The company formed in 2015. They have spent the last two years in quiet development of their hardware and software. And, they managed to draw about $97 million in funding from Google, BMW, Lowe’s, and Stratasys to name just a few of their high-profile investors.
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Tags: 3D Printing, desktop metal, GoEngineer, metal 3d printing
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
SOLIDWORKS Electrical 2017 is here and we are super excited about some of the new features and enhancements it provides. Although SOLIDWORKS Electrical is still a relatively young product to SOLIDWORKS; it’s users have been actively putting it through its paces and making suggestions to make it even better. This year we not only see some great enhancements, we got some great new capabilities.
1. 3D Layout – Use existing assembly
You can now use an existing SOLIDWORKS Assembly to insert your electrical components to route your wires, cables, and harnesses. They have also renamed the command, it’s still under the process tab but it’s now called “SOLIDWORKS Assembly”. You can still have electrical create a new assembly or select an existing assembly from your local drive, network or Enterprise PDM.
2. Add data file shortcuts
When adding documents to your projects, such as a PDF, you can now link to the document. This is awesome because it allows you to store your reference material where you traditionally keep it instead of making copies within the project.
3. Replace attribute and renumbering documents
Both commands received huge improvements as well as new interfaces. Both make it easier to incorporate changes faster and more accurately.
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Tags: electrical, GoEngineer, SOLIDWORKS, solidworks electrical, what's new
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Friday, November 6th, 2015
GoUniversity is a different kind of classroom offering on demand training for product design teams. GoUniversity offers busy people and companies the benefit of 24×7 access to training classes as a more flexible way to reach your goals.
It’s free, convenient, and interactive with live CHAT to get your questions answered during business hours. Courses are built by trainers and engineers that use the same products you do every day.
What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2016
A Digital Launch Experience
Our featured GoUniversity course is What’s New in SolidWorks 2016. Sometimes it’s hard to travel to a seminar or to have an entire engineering team travel to a technical event. We’ve taken the newest features and enhancements built into SOLIDWORKS 2016 and gone digital for your convenience.
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Tags: eLearning, GoEngineer, GoUniversity, OnDemand, SOLIDWORKS, SW2016, Tips, Tricks, what's new
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
A couple of years ago, a few of us at GoEngineer started dreaming about what we could accomplish if we could gather all of our employees in the same location for a couple of days—call it networking, call it collaboration, call it an excuse to recharge. There was no doubt that the amount of talent and energy that could be shared had the potential to be game-changing for our company and customers.
Full disclosure: there had been flashes of this magic in past meetings with our technical team. We started bringing them together in one location a few years ago, thinking it’d be good to get everyone on the same page.
What we discovered was much bigger.
The impact of putting really bright, energetic, and innovative people in the same room for a few hours would actually create new and better “pages,” ones we hadn’t even considered.
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Tags: 3D printers, 3D Printing, CAD, design, Engineering, GoEngineer, innovation, Shape Your World, social, SOLIDWORKS, Stratasys, technology
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Thursday, July 16th, 2015
 As part of GoEngineer’s re-branding campaign from a few years back, the technical support team gained a face: Joe Engineer.
Being a company that provides SOLIDWORKS and Stratasys products, services, and support, I recently decided to use these tools to take Joe from 2D to 3D.
Imagine taking a flat 2D drawing of a cartoon character and trying to bring it to life! How? Well, the answer is one face at a time (pun intended)!
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Tags: 2D, 3D, 3D Design, anime, concept, Engineer, GoEngineer, JoeEngineer, knowledge base, Sketch, SOLIDWORKS, STL
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
What is change management? And what roll does a CAD Admin play in it?
As most of you know, change management is the method by which we track the changes and traceability of a product. There are different names for this method depending on the company, but they are all in essence meant to do the same task. It is the key to success of any sized company to have a properly documented and efficient change management system in place.
Engineering changes have a few basic steps; first, there is the change request from the field. Second, the change order comes from the engineer to make the change. Next, the design group will make the changes and send it through checking. The final step is the change notice back to the field that it is complete.
In this post I will cover some of the ways that the CAD Admin can help automate and fully digitize this process. No more are the days of printing off reams of paper to get one change all the way through your system. The time of printed drawings and drawings in general, are numbered and becoming a thing of the past. They will join board drawings in the halls of “I can’t believe we use to do it that way.” Most of the products that are named in this post are already available within your SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium packages.
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Tags: Bill of Material, CAD, change management, Engineering, Engineering Change Order, GoEngineer, SOLIDWORKS
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