A brief history of CAD. The top players in the CAD market. Where AI and other technological innovations fit into design and engineering’s future. The computer graphics industry started with the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Spline methods constitute a cornerstone of modern geometric design, providing versatile and efficient tools to represent curves and surfaces in a piecewise-polynomial fashion. Originating from ...

As the foundation of any architectural design, sketches and drawings have long been known for their ability to allow the architect to interact with his/her design efficiently and express concepts ...

Pythagorean-Hodograph (PH) curves constitute a special class of parametric curves whose derivatives satisfy a Pythagorean relation, granting exact rational expressions for arc length and offset ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

After radically transforming the world of design and production in sectors such as automotive and aerospace, robotics is now entering the construction sector. That is why École des Ponts ParisTech, a ...