Design News articles from September 2005

Design News archives from September 2005

The sneaker police.(MY VIEW)
September 5, 2005... AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I DON'T GET CABLE TV AT HOME. Not even the basic stuff. So to avoid being completely culturally ignorant, I often go to the gym, under the pretext of exercising, to catch the latest episode of The Sopranos or Queer Eye. ...

Hands on: always the guys with the dirty nails.(WEB LOG)(Editorial)
September 5, 2005... DURING MY FIRST WEEK AT DESIGN NEWS, chief editor Karen Field asked if I did much in the way of hands-on work. She was pointing out a recent story by contributing writer Jon Titus in which he evaluated five wireless development kits...

No regrets over school work.(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... I read your editorial (DNWEBLOG 07.18.05 http://rbi.ims.ca/4396-629). I am an engineer and went through many years of engineering school. Stressed? Yes. Overloaded with work? Yes. Unhappy? No. Of course, I had absolutely no time to party and...

Engineering education=work.(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... The survey got it half right, workload is the number one downer. My years at Rochester Institute of Technology were run like hell for 10 weeks and hope you don't get flattened. How many of the other "bottom 20" engineering schools were also on...

But do liberal arts majors get better tips?(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... My stay at University of Missouri-Rolla from 1978 to 1982 was not the happiest time in my life, but I obtained an education that enabled me to be creative and provide a good standard of living for my family while contributing to the betterment...

Misery loves company.(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... Perhaps it's not untold that a type B personality (laid back, sociable, happy) could make it in the engineering realm? But they are few and far between. If you are one, there is nobody else around who shares your traits. Tim P. Cooper ...

Less socializing, better jobs.(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... I have to concur with the point that "engineering students do not have the time to take advantage of quality of life programming... " Having been a parent of an Ad/Marketing major who shared housing with three engineering students, my...

Engineering students are more serious.(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... One item you did not address in your article about engineering education and happiness was schools that had strong engineering programs, but were not exclusively engineering schools. I checked out my alma mater, Brigham Young University, and...

Engineering schools need quality control.(Readers Sound Off)
September 5, 2005... The conclusion that engineering education is a modern form of medieval torture is right on. Of course students are unhappy: They have instructors trying to teach engineering who have no idea how to implement quality in their own classrooms. The...

U.S. colleges are overrated.(Readers Sound Off)
September 5, 2005... I found your article interesting in several aspects, but one of them more than others: "Is student unhappiness an acceptable by-product of engineering's intense educational experience?" Your hypothesis seems to be that students go into the...

McMaster Carr site vs. Thomas.(Readers Sound Off)
September 5, 2005... Your recent column extolling the virtues of the McMaster Carr website (DN WEBLOG 08.15.05 http://rbi.ims.ca/4396-630) really hit the mark. What made it more interesting was a few pages further on, where Thomas announced the demise of the Thomas...

mcmaster.com is terrific.(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... I just read the editorial "The Perfect Site," and I couldn't agree more. I am a machine designer that gets his hands dirty and I almost exclusively go to McMaster Carr first for components and product information. I get extremly frustrated at...

McMaster Carr saves time.(Readers Sound Off)(Letter to the Editor)
September 5, 2005... I read your article. My colleagues and I have been instructed by the bean counters to diversify our product acquisition by utilizing McMaster Carr's competitors... the ensuing storm was inevitable. When bean counters end up with more beans in...

Amazed by mcmaster.com.(Readers Sound Off)
September 5, 2005... Joseph Ogando's piece on the perfect site is dead on. I have been using that site for 5 years and am constantly amazed at the depth of information provided. Need a CAD drawing of an odd size screw? It's there. Not only is there a lot of...

Reduce design complexity: embed common goals at the first stage of product development.(Insight from Insiders)
September 5, 2005... Four years ago, Lucent Technologies was bleeding red ink, due in part to huge inventories of unsold parts that were hard to move because of complex product design. Lucent went through a dramatic transformation that included a new approach to...

Avoid molding pitfalls: up-front attention to draft angle, wall thickness and gate location can improve tool and machine performance as well as create stronger parts.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: DESIGNING WITH PLASTICS: A Practical Guide for Engineers)(Advertisement)
September 5, 2005... The road to a plastic part that functions as designed is paved with good intentions. Best-laid plans can be disrupted by failure to understand unique problems presented by the injection molding process. Factors to consider include draft angle,...

Destroying Ben movies and other unwanted digital data: Piranha makes CDs, DVDs unreadable in a hurry.(HEARD ON THE STREET)
September 5, 2005... Condre Technology Inc. has spent four years helping people duplicate CDs and DVDs. But now the Minneapolis company aims to let its customers destroy disks in seconds. Its Piranha automated CD/DVD media disc destruction device isn't designed for...

Human-powered subs set speed record: student competitors learn engineering principles.(HEARD ON THE STREET)
September 5, 2005... Submarine races might get snickers from some groups, but for many engineering students, sub races are serious business. More than a dozen teams competed in a race earlier this year, setting a speed record. The International Submarine Races,...

Golden measurement: auction for meter goes to charity.(HEARD ON THE STREET)
September 5, 2005... Bird Electronic Corp. chose a unique way to celebrate the production of its 300,000th Model 43 Wattmeter. The Solon, OH firm gold plated that meter when it came off the line and put it up for auction. Funds from the month-long auction, which...

New and notable product design.(FLASH)
September 5, 2005... Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are making their way out of the factory and into a variety of applications. 1 WALK THIS WAY GE Entry Scan (http://rbi.ims.ca/4396-541). People processing for security takes advantage of PLC...

Tin whiskers: companies taking cover under iNEMI guidelines.(Environmental news engineers can use)
September 5, 2005... Will lead-free components be endlessly plagued with tin whisker problems? In some sectors yes, in other sectors no. "The concern over tin whiskers depends on what industry you're in," says Eric Karofsky, senior research analyst at AMR Research....

Give it the slip: tighten your cap and save your head.(TECHNOLOGY YOU CAN USE)
September 5, 2005... Engineers know the way to torque down screw caps is to run the bottle top past multiple pairs of rotating elastomer wheels. Each pair imparts a twist on the cap until it finally bottoms out. Then, the tight cap slips past as the elastomer...

Digital signals arrive on time.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: THE DATA DETECTIVE)(Advertisement)
September 5, 2005... Clock signals comprise rising edges (logic-low to logic-high transitions), and falling edges (logic-high to logic-low transitions). A clock signal can exist as square waves with a regular period and duty cycle or as a continuous series of...

Age discrimination hits younger workers: many fifty-something engineers turn to consulting.(CAREERS)
September 5, 2005... Layoff after layoff, John Draut held on to his hardware engineering job at Nortel Networks until 2003. Then the 52-year-old joined the ranks of unemployed EEs in Silicon Valley. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "It really comes down to...

Drive-by-wire making commercial in-roads, at last: SKF demonstrates steer-, brake-, and throttle-by-wire.(ELECTRONICS)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The quest for drive-by-wire vehicles, which slowed over the last four years as automakers awaited 42-volt architectures, may again be gaining momentum. SKF Automotive Division has rolled out a new drive-by-wire prototype called Novanta, which...

Valve delivers a turbine's perfect pitch: servo valve with built in control eliminates a PLC.(Programmable logic controllers)
September 5, 2005... Engineers at Moog Inc. and wind turbine maker Made Tecnologias Renovables SA have produced a pitch control servo valve that governs blade pitch while eliminating external controls. The valve provides precise blade feathering in response to...

Software predicts composite cracking: Abaqus FEA software now gives engineers a better understanding of crack propagation.(MATERIALS)
September 5, 2005... How do laminated composites crack and lose their strength? It's an important question as commercial aerospace and other industries increasingly consider composites for critical load-bearing structures. Abaqus Inc. recently introduced software...

Renowned school revamps lab: students set to embrace latest motor technologies.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... A generous University of Wisconsin alum funded the first Wempec training lab in Madison in the mid-1980s. Now, the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, begun on campus in 1981, is updating it. The new laboratory should...

'Deep Impact' spacecraft uses embedded control.(SOFTWARE)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... More embedded control products are finding their way into harsh-environment space exploration projects. One remarkable example was NASA's recent Deep Impact spacecraft mission, in which ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS) from Express...

Quicker development: IC Makers' reference designs accelerate design-in process.(REFERENCE DESIGNS)(integrated circuits)
September 5, 2005... Many of the newest and highly integrated circuits are extremely complex. To stimulate market acceptance of these chips and reduce payback time for the design effort, semiconductor manufacturers frequently develop a reference design to confirm...

More than sticky: the latest crop of adhesives do more than improve bond strength, though they do that, too.(ADHESIVES)
September 5, 2005... The importance of having adequate strength for the task at hand remains a constant concern for adhesives users. And plenty of adhesive developments still center around creating a stronger bond, particularly when it comes to troublesome metal...

Starter kits: manufacturers ease the pain of learning.(DEVELOPMENT)
September 5, 2005... A variety of aids to help design engineers incorporate the latest motion control techniques into their designs are coming out. What better way to understand and master new technologies than to jump right in and begin building systems from them?...

The truth about compressed air! If you think compressed air is too expensive and noisy--read this. The facts will surprise you!
September 5, 2005... Compare these Blowoffs There are a variety of ways to blow the water from the bottles shown in the photo below, but which method is best? To decide, we ran a comparison test on the same application using four different blowoff methods:...

Coping with huge 3D CAD data files: here's a way to bring down the size of massive files--without losing any of the detail.(EXTREMELY HELPFUL STUFF YOU WON'T FIND IN THE USER'S MANUAL)
September 5, 2005... AS THE WORLD HAS EVOLVED INTO 3D CAD PARTS AND assemblies, design engineers have had to cope with CAD files that are megabytes, sometimes gigabytes in size. Internally, engineers have learned to deal with the file sizes, but what do you do when...

Transparent material ... water vapor measurement ... digital recording ...(Ask THE SEARCH ENGINEER)
September 5, 2005... Dear Search Engineer: I am looking for a window screen material that is highly transparent, and nearly invisible. It will be used in a luxury recreational vehicle for the screen door on the entry door. Our current door screen limits the...

Slim Devices, Inc. Squeezebox2: digital music access.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: REFERENCE THIS!)
September 5, 2005... Streaming high fidelity digital music files to your stereo over wireless or Internet access is easy with the Squeezebox2 digital media player. Thanks to a high-performance 24-bit DAC, the audio output on Squeezebox2 has a signal-to-noise ratio...

Driverless vehicles take on the desert: DARPA's $2 million, winner-take-all race across the desert has attracted some of the country's best engineering teams.(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)(Cover Story)
September 5, 2005... IN THE PRE-DAWN HOURS OF OCTOBER 8TH, THE ENGINEERS WILL BE OUT IN THE DESERT darkness, lining up their all-terrain vehicles, SUVs, Hummers, and pick-ups, to have a go at the impossible. And after all the sensors and servers, lasers and LIDARs,...

Safety minus the downtime: a European cartoner makes safe, not waste.
September 5, 2005... BELGIAN FOLDING CARTON MAKER VAN GENECHTEN PACKAGING HAS DEVELOPED A NEW MULTIPACK machine through OEM builder Cambopak that wraps single and double rows of beverage bottles in cardboard. What's new is the machine's use of so-called integrated...

Molding multiphysics: a tighter coupling of mold-filling and structural analyses provides insight into part performance and molding economics.
September 5, 2005... STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS CODES ALREADY DO A GOOD JOB PREDICTING THE PERFORMANCE of molded plastic parts. Yet, their results never tell the full story because the mechanical properties of those parts depend so heavily on the molding process. That's...

VLDO: low ESR.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The LT3021 is hailed by the company as the industry's first 500 mA very low dropout regulator (VLDO). It features input voltage capability as low as 1.4V. It maintains its 160 mV dropout voltage up to 500 mA of operating current. It is stable...

Measurement gauge: offers continuous position data.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The Nano-Gauge measurement gauge can resolve dimensions down to 5 nm over a full scale range of 25 mm. It is engineered to offer continuous position data to the user's PC via a standard plug-and-play USB interface for the display of real-time...

Splicing connector: reliable.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The 222-415 splicing connector is engineered for the electrical industry as a cost-effective, more flexible alternative to traditional twist- or crimp-style connectors. They use the company's patented Cage Clamp spring pressure connection...

Communication controller: small, powerful.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The ADAM-6501 communication controller is reportedly the smallest application-ready Intel XScale communication controller currently available to the industrial market. It features a 400 MHz processor, a CompactFlash slot, embedded Web server,...

Configuration tool: saves time.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The Platform Builder was designed for OEMs looking to build long-life products that require minimal customization. The configuration tool allows the company's engineers to provide OEM customers with a plan for building pre-qualified unbranded...

Single board computer: eight USB ports.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... Ideal for industrial applications, the ATX-807 Mini ITX Form Factor single-board computer features an 800 MHz FSB Pentium 4 Prescott CPU, eight USB ports, and dual Ethernet ports. Two DIMM sockets support up to 2 Gbytes DDR memory. An external...

I/O System: integrated coding.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The company's I/O System (Series 753) offers pluggable connectors for I/O module wiring, enabling users to pre-manufacture wiring harnesses and plug them into the product. It measures 12 X 64 X 100mm, and features built-in test points at every...

Sheet metal enclosures: fit seismic racks.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The 1U, 2U, and 4U horizontal Type 39c chassis have been designed to fit seismic racks. According to the company, they will now have options to fit both 19-inch racks with an opening of 17.75-inches and NEBS seismic racks with an opening of...

Air conditioner: solid state.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The 2,500 btu thermoelectric air conditioner has no compressor, refrigerants, or filters. It is designed to provide reliable, maintenance-free cooling in indoor and outdoor applications. The product is suitable for use in operating environments...

USB modules: pin-connector versions.(ELECTRONICS)
September 5, 2005... The company has released the pin connector versions of two of its USB digital I/O modules: USB-DIO24/37 and USB-DIO24H/37. The USB-DIO24/37 offers 24 bits of logic level digital I/O, and the USB-DIO24H/37 offers 24 bits of DIO with high current...

Air guns: high force, reduced noise.(FLUID POWER)
September 5, 2005... The Super Blast Air Guns are engineered to deliver up to 9.8 lbs of blowing force. They are available with 4, 7, or 12 Super Air Nozzles, which are designed to maximize entrained airflow and force while reducing compressed air use and noise. At...

Flow switch: plastic or stainless steel.(FLUID POWER)
September 5, 2005... The Model 501 Flo-Switch provides a solid-state relay output indicating flow above or below a selected set point. It is ideal for applications with alarms for low- or no-flow conditions, excessive flow, or intermittent flow rates. They are...

Sight flow indicator: durable, magnet-less.(FLUID POWER)
September 5, 2005... A durable paddlewheel-style flow indicator with output sensor, the Series SFI-100T sight flow indicator uses no magnets in the paddle-wheel to attract ferrous materials. It is constructed of a solid brass body with a tempered glass window for...

Diaphragm valve: three configurations.(FLUID POWER)
September 5, 2005... Engineered for trouble-free use in applications requiring minimal maintenance and maximum lifetime, the DV22 microvolume diaphragm valve is offered in three configurations: four port internal loop sample injector, six port external loop...

Diaphragm pump: larger surface area.(FLUID POWER)
September 5, 2005... The company's 4002 miniature diaphragm pump is engineered with an elongated oval-shaped diaphragm with a larger surface area than a conventional round diaphragm. As a result, it can produce higher flows than a similarly sized pump with a...

Pneumatic valve actuator: small space applications.(FLUID POWER)
September 5, 2005... The company's Seriece PCD and PCS pneumatic valve actuators feature a four-piston rack-and-pinion design for high torque output. The design is also engineered to permit the actuator to be physically smaller than other design types, making it...

Micro needle valve: stainless steel.(FLUID POWER)
September 5, 2005... Designed for applications where space, durability, and light weight are required, the M3 threaded needle valve weighs 2.26 gm and has an installed height of about 10.4 mm. It is ideal for mini cylinders, nozzles, timing circuits, filling heads,...

Static mixer: short laying length.(FLUID POWER)
September 5, 2005... The company's variable head loss static mixer features a short laying length and accommodates a wide variety of flow rates, with reasonable head loss. It consists of two inline static mixers in the series: one with a fixed plate and the other...

Robot: duct-less design.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The TH1050 Scara Robot is engineered to perform high-speed operations. It features a low-profile, duct-less design, and a heavy-duty housing. It is able to reach composite speeds of 8.73 m/sec and three-axis speeds of 2,000 m/sec. With a 2 kg...

Couplings: stainless steel.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The company's 17-4PH stainless steel couplings are designed for applications requiring high strength, excellent fatigue resistance, and high torsional stiffness. Available in three series, they are machined from a solid piece of material. A...

Shock absorber: miniature.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The MA 50M miniature adjustable industrial shock absorber features a weight range of 10 to 45 lbs, and an energy per cycle rating of 50 inches/lb. It is designed for easy adjustability, with integral mechanical stop and stainless steel piston...

Couplings: precision-honed bores.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... One- and two-piece rigid couplings are now offered by the company with bores as small as 1/8 inch. They feature precision-honed bores for tight tolerance and precise alignment of the shafts to be connected. Two-piece rigid couplings also...

Motor pre-driver: reduces power supply.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The ZXBM 1015 single-phase motor pre-driver is designed for variable or fixed speed control of single-phase brushless dc fans, blowers, and pumps. It includes a current monitor that enables supply current on start-ups and stall to be kept...

Ball screw: simplifies design.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The Ball Screw ComDRIVE system is engineered as a self-contained actuator package that combines a ball screw jack, motor, and gear reducer into a single compact package. It can power an entire jacking system, reducing the number of components...

Rotary stages: ultralow profile.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The ACS LP Series ultralow profile rotary stage with integrated ER collet chuck provides automated material handling capability for a variety of materials and applications. ER collets are designed to provide excellent runout characteristics for...

Energy Chain: lightweight.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The System E3 Energy Chain features the short pitch design of the company's System E6 product line for smooth, quiet operation and low vibration. It also features the traits of the company's Zipper series of cable carriers. It is comprised of a...

Vibration isolation mounts: in four heights.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... Engineered for designing or retrofitting sensitive OEM equipment where external isolation is not desired or is not suited to the application, Series 1206 provides vertical and horizontal isolations. It is available in variety of shapes and...

Servo control system: with 16,000 count/revolution encoders.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The 34 Frame I-Grade SilverNugget N3 controller/driver is designed for servo control of the company's NEMA 34-frame step motors. Also included in the system is one of six 34-frame step motors with attached encoder. The 34 frame I-Grade...

Vision sensor: delivers high-speed inspections.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... Able to accurately sense and evaluate more than 10,000 objects per minute, the P4 Edge is fit for validating the height and width of parts, finding the location of labels, or detecting the edge of materials such as plastic or paper on a Web...

Linear actuator: range of uses.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The RO-Bug remotely operated linear actuator system integrates a 12 or 24V dc servo motor with a 12 or 24V dc amplifier for remotely operated applications. Each product is tuned and configured for a standard 1 to 2 msec pulse RC interface....

Motor controller: lightweight.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The company's microcontroller-based motor controller supplies up to 180A per channel at 12 to 40V. It features multiple command input modes for use with either radio control receivers or analog devices, such as industrial or gaming joysticks....

Equipment platforms: vibration isolation.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The company's 9300 Series of equipment platforms are engineered to isolate large sensitive equipment from surrounding floor vibrations. It is configurable for a range of applications, including vibration isolation for SEMS, TEMS, CMMs,...

FRF Analyzer: powerful servo analysis GUI.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The SPiiPlus FRF (frequency response function) Analyzer is a powerful servo analysis GUI for all ACS-Tech80 SPiiPlus motion controllers. It allows mechanical characterization of the user's machine and takes machine tuning and optimization a...

Industrial automation catalog: data, photos, prices, and more.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... AutomationDirect's 2005 free catalog offers 5,500 industrial automation products for a wide range of applications. The expanded 1,700-page volume features product descriptions, technical data, photos, and price lists for PLCs, ac drives/motors,...

Corner Leg System: enables height adjustment.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The Movotec Corner Leg System is designed to enable height adjustment of a range of light industrial machines, such as workbenches, conveyors, and assembly equipment. The product's lift cylinders are integrated directly into aluminum structural...

Stepper motor: high-torque applications.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The company's hollow pancake stepper motor features a 2.5-inch hole in the center for a microwave tube. It is engineered for applications where accurate positioning and high torque are needed. It has a 1.8-degree step angle and provides up to...

Ring index drives: three different sizes.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... The company's family of ring index drives--models 1100RNG, 1550RNG, and 2050RNG--feature larger through-holes to accommodate a range of automated machinery and equipment, including electrical wiring and air or hydraulic lines. They are ideally...

Plug-in board: direct attachment.(MOTION CONTROL)
September 5, 2005... Designed for the company's DMC-21 X 3 series of Ethernet motion controllers, the AMP-20542 Low Inductance Servo Motor option attaches directly to the 96-pin connector, eliminating the need for any cabling. The option contains four...

Software package: with symbol library.(SOFTWARE)
September 5, 2005... A new software package that allows engineers to design professional-looking front panels for homemade or small production run devices, FrontDesigner features a range of drawing functions for rectangles, polygons, ellipses, labels, drillings,...

Fea software: for virtual testing.(SOFTWARE)
September 5, 2005... The company's next finite element analysis (FEA) software release, V17.1, is designed to help companies virtually test and predict real-world behavior of new and existing product designs; speed up time to market; and make better, safer products...

Industrial motherboard: offers scalable solutions.(SOFTWARE)
September 5, 2005... The industrial motherboard EMB-900M is reportedly the first board that supports the Intel 915GV Express chipset, and the first time that the company uses the MicroATX format with an ISA bus slot. It is designed to offer a scalable solution...

CAD package: drag-and-drop symbols.(SOFTWARE)
September 5, 2005... SPlan is a CAD package that is engineered for quickly and neatly drawing electronic and electric circuit diagrams. Equipped with drawing and editing functions for efficient circuit design, the package also includes features such as automatic...

Software: supports synchronization.(SOFTWARE)
September 5, 2005... The FeatureCAM software release features a new 4-axis functionality that is seamlessly integrated into the product's existing turning programs. Combined with its new full machine simulation, synchronized turning provides users with full program...

Software: frequency adjusted independently.(SOFTWARE)
September 5, 2005... AudioWave2.0 software is designed to turn a user's sound card into an easy-to-use digitally controlled LF signal generator, producing signals from 1 Hz to 20 kHz with a resolution of 1 Hz. Phase shift between left and right channel is...

Service pack: support for AutoCAD.(SOFTWARE)
September 5, 2005... The latest service pack from the company is designed to add support for AutoCAD version 2006 and Autodesk Inventor version 10. It provides native viewing, printing, markup, digital mock-up, and real-time collaboration support for engineering...