No welds and FEA help lighten wheelchair
An aerospace engineering company says it has invented the world's lightest and tightest-folding, fully adjustable wheelchair. The Flight wheelchair weighs...
CAD Streamlines Custom Carts
A solid modeling program and good data management let a medical design firm customize wireless and mobile workstations for the healthcare industry in...
FEM modeling helps build possible diabetes cure
A promising approach to treat diabetes involves transplanting Langerhans islets groups of hormone-producing cells in the pancreas into tiny subcutaneous...
Gabby digital couple tells what it's like to repair your equipment
Jack and Jill, a digital man and woman, can examine your proposed CAD designs and tell what they can see and reach, how comfortable they are working on...
Simulating Stresses In Stents, Tension In Tissue
Two natural phenomena hamper the use of FEA (finite-element analysis) and CFD (computational fluid dynamics) when it comes to physiological tasks: biologic...
Simulated surgery feels more like the OR
The last thing a patient facing surgery wants is a novice learning the ins and out of a particular procedure on them. Immersion Medical, Gaithersburg, Md., says it feels their pain and developed a range of surgery simulators that could eliminate such situations....
Data Management Cuts Design Time From Days To Hours
A medical-equipment manufacturer says efficiently managing its design data lets it complete tasks in hours that take days at other firms. To help the...
CAD adds more ways to reuse designs
A sneak peek at the latest release of SolidWorks 2008 from SolidWorks Corp., Concord, Mass, (solidworks.com) shows several ways engineering teams can...
Software says focus the X-rays this way
A 3D version of electromagnetic-modeling software capable of simulating charged-particle beams is helping develop an X-ray machine with active optics....
Software simulates electric fields and more
FEA software QuickField V5 simulates electromagnetic, stress, and thermal characteristics, and users need no specialized training, according to developer...
