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Siemens and ModuleWorks are strengthening their long-standing partnership by bringing advanced physics-based toolpaths directly into the NX CAM environment. The suite of ModuleWorks technologies is now available as plugins for NX CAM, via the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, including: VoluMill – Science-based roughing plugin designed to deliver faster cycle times, longer tool life and higher material removal rates across a wide range of materials.

Space travel is changing, layer by layer, as additive manufacturing becomes more central to aerospace engineering.

Voxshell has closed a £800,000 seed funding round from DSW Ventures, with support from Innovate UK, to accelerate ChopMesh, its proprietary meshing platform for engineering simulation. Voxshell was created to support additive manufacturing, where converting complex 3D geometry into mesh models can consume huge amounts of time and resources, forcing engineers to degrade fidelity and discard precise structural designs.

At Siggraph this week Nvidia set out a vision for the future of computer graphics: hybrid AI for when neither traditional rendering nor generative AI alone is enough. Part of this included Nvidia extending its modular, agent-friendly philosophy to Omniverse, its long-running environment for physics-based, USD-centric simulation of the physical world.

The vehicle wrap industry, where a vehicle’s original paintwork is covered with a thin, durable vinyl film to change your car’s colour or finish, while also protecting the underlying paint, is booming, yet the perfect tools to complete the job are still being developed.

The HP Z Captis 3D scanner for converting complex physical material properties into digital assets, has been given further capabilities in a new update integrating it with Adobe Substance 3D Sampler. The update to Adobe Substance 3D Sampler allows it to convert complex physical material properties captured by the Z Captis into structured datasets for AI-assisted enterprise pipelines, giving teams more accurate and controllable inputs for product visualisation.

The huge amount of data flowing through each Formula 1 team presents engineers with the challenge of winning a race within a race. Stephen Holmes visited Aston Martin F1 to find out how technology from NetApp enables a silo-free infrastructure The Northamptonshire headquarters of the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team are located just a stone’s throw away from the Silverstone Circuit, home of the British Grand Prix.

“Most XR vendors are still trying to convince enterprises the technology works. We are past that conversation; this release is for the organisations that already know it works and need it to behave like the rest of their enterprise stack: stable, scalable, and under their control,” said Hololight co-founder and managing director Florian Haspinger. The update to Hololight Stream is a fundamental redesign of hologram stability, with end-to-end latency that stays under 50ms.

In its latest release, Ency 3.0, CAM automation has been added, with a new macros engine to let users record and reuse actions inside the software, automate typical operations, define editable parameters, and build more advanced automation workflows for CNC machining manually, through scripts, or with the help of AI coding tools.

The tagline Reusable, Affordable, Integrated reads like that of a small consumer product, but for The Exploration Company, this is its goal for the next generation of space travel. The European aerospace industry startup develops reusable, launcher-agnostic space systems, including the Nyx spacecraft family and high-performance rocket propulsion systems, designed to transport cargo – and eventually crew – to destinations in Earth orbit and beyond.