Exploiting Marginal Gains in Design and Manufacturing

Exploiting Marginal Gains in Design and Manufacturing

How did the British Cycling team go from only a single gold medal from in 84 years (1920 to 1996), to dominating Olympic cycling from 2008 to 2016, with a total of a total of 24 gold medals in three Olympics (8 in 2008, 8 in 2012, and 6 in 2016)? And how can exploiting marginal gains in cycling have anything to do with exploiting marginal gains in design and manufacturing? Under the leadership of Sir Dave Brailsford, a former professional cyclist armed with an MBA and an interest in Kaizen (the Japanese concept of ‘continuous improvement’ in business practices), they looked for, found and exploited numerous opportunities to improve performance by 1%. Areas as...
Prototech Solutions – TransMagic Partnership

Prototech Solutions – TransMagic Partnership

TransMagic, Inc., an industry leader in 3D CAD productivity tools, and ProtoTech Solutions, a custom software development company, have joined forces to bring the AEC and MCAD industries a series of translators that can effectively connect AEC and MCAD applications such as AutoCAD, Revit, Fusion 360, Max, and Solidworks.  Brief information about our translators on various CAD platforms: STEP, JT, and Catia V5  Exporter for AutoCAD STEP, JT, and Catia V5, IGES, Parasolid  Exporter for Revit STEP, Parasolid, Inventor Importer for RevitAnd many more in the pipeline How would the translators be helpful to the CAD community?Most translation efforts are focused on...
Are Your CAD Tools Enough?

Are Your CAD Tools Enough?

Are your CAD tools empowering you to… Work faster and more efficiently? We have customers who have saved hours every week by batch translating, or simply converting massive assemblies to multibody parts for easier insertion into CAD PDM systems. What could speed your processes up? Below is a list of 22 ways TransMagic can help you get the job done fast. Take a moment to scan through these capability high spots of TransMagic products to see if you’re leaving any time on the table! 1. View All Major CAD formats?  All core TransMagic products can view CATIA, NX, Creo, Pro/E, Solid Edge, SOLIDWORKS, Solid Edge, Inventor, DWG, Microstation, Parasolid,...
IGES vs STEP

IGES vs STEP

Life before IGES and STEP In the mid 1970s there were a handful of CAD vendors, often competing for the same business from large companies such as General Electric and Boeing. Some of the big vendors in those days were Applicon, CADAM, CATI (early CATIA), SDRC, Anvil, ComputerVision and Intergraph. In those days, if Boeing for example was using CATI, and they needed to incorporate some subsystems designed by one of their suppliers (who were using another CAD system such as Applicon, for example), they had to write a translator specifically from Applicon to CATI. As you can imagine, the problem quickly became unmanagable as the number suppliers using different...
TransMagic Technical Overview

TransMagic Technical Overview

vThis article and video attempts to cover the majority of functionality you get with core TransMagic products, without going too long. In a 30-minute video, you can see a quick overview of what is possible with core TransMagic in one sitting, without having to go to multiple pages or videos. Many of our customers use TransMagic only for translation and basic repair, but you may have more in your tool box than you suspected. This video gives you a glimpse of what is already in your toolbox. Please note Tech Docs is covered in this video and is available only in TransMagic EXPERT.  Other differences between core versions and functionality not covered in this...