As PwC observed in a May 2024 study, the manufacturing industry is noticeably shifting. Today, a growing number of customers prefer tailored and customized products. To accommodate this change in consumer preferences, manufacturers have had to transition from the mass production…
While the general population often uses 3D printing (3DP) and additive manufacturing interchangeably, this should not be the case. To most people, 3DP mostly conjures up the image of a manufacturing machine, like a desktop printer or copier, that uses digital…
The evolution of the CAD space, coupled with the development of powerful CAD software, has transformed various industries. Gone are the days when engineers and designers had to use paper-based media to represent their 2D and 3D creations. Today, professionals use…
Companies are increasingly embracing digital transformation to enhance organizational and technical performance, scheduling efficiency, and the cost-effectiveness and execution of programs. Usually, such companies can choose one approach from a few alternatives. They can adopt the concept of digital twins. Digital…
There are several ways of integrating the real world into the digital world. These include digital twins, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). However, these methods are implemented differently, albeit tied by a common thread: computer-aided design….
Prototyping is a centuries-old concept, while virtual prototyping is a relatively new development. Centuries ago, inventors and designers created miniature, physical representations of products they wished to create to assess the suitability of their designs. This process was time-consuming and often…
While artificial intelligence, or AI, has only become mainstream thanks to the exploits of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, DALL-E, and more, has always existed. For instance, it is responsible for finding answers when you ask a smart assistant such as…
If you have used any 3D CAD modeling software lately, you may have undertaken a few operations involving either parametric modeling or direct modeling. But if you are new to the modeling world and, by extension, the world of CAD and…
A new month is upon us once again! But before we get too busy with the new month’s challenges, it is time for Scan2CAD’s Coffee Break News featuring the past month’s biggest news items from the worlds of CAD, design, engineering…
Another month is upon us yet again, but before we face the challenges of this new month, we are going to look back at some of the most important happenings of the past weeks in the worlds of CAD, engineering, and…
It is time once again for our monthly news roundup on various topics interesting to Scan2CAD members. In this edition of Coffee Break News, we put the spotlight on several happenings and trends that were quite big in the worlds of…
A new month is upon us once again, but before we all get back to the usual hustle and bustle, it is time for our monthly news round-up of the latest goings-on in the CAD, engineering, design, architecture, and technology industries….
Yet another month has come and gone, and we are also at the tail end of another eventful year. Because it is also the beginning of a new month, it is time for another edition of our monthly news round-up of…
The colors of the leaves are changing, and there is a different chill in the air as September ends and we welcome autumn. It is also time for our monthly roundup of the most newsworthy notes in the worlds of CAD,…
It is that time once again when we round up the most noteworthy news notes in the worlds of CAD, architecture, engineering, design, construction, and more. August was quite a month with so many things happening in different industries, so this…
The month of July is coming to close, Scan2CAD friends. In this edition of Coffee Break News, we will update you on a lot of new and exciting things happening in the worlds of engineering, design, technology, and CAD. Stories to…
The month of June has come and gone. Can you believe we are already halfway through the year? It seems like it was only yesterday when we were ushering in 2019. Time really flies by so fast, and so do the…
It is that time once again for us to do a quick round-up of what’s happening in the worlds of engineering, design, technology, and the CAD industry. There’s a lot of exciting news for us to cover in this edition of…
Welcome to Scan2CAD’s news roundup for the month of February! In this edition we will take a look at several big stories in the areas of architecture, design, engineering, and technology, including major announcements about the soon-to-be-built London Centre for Music,…
Welcome to Scan2CAD’s first news roundup of the year! As we say goodbye to January, we’re looking back at the stories that caught our eye from the fields of architecture, engineering, design and CAD. This month’s roundup features the 100-year anniversary…
