• Lorena Barba has done it again. You can learn aerodynamics from her with a little help from Python: AeroPython.
• The SolidWorks blog shares 5 rules for ensuring peaceful coexistence of Engineering and Marketing. #3 Assume every request is difficult. [This rule jives nicely with my saying about software development: “There’s no such thing as a small feature.”]
• ECR Engines is going to be using CONVERGE CFD to help analyze and design racing engines for NASCAR.
• Dresser Rand designed a new valve for reciprocating compressors with the aid of CFD.
• CFD and surface ship hull design.
• Amazing: stop-motion animation where each frame was 3D printed. [I wonder if Wallace and Gromit are worried.]
• 56% of surveyed software engineers think they’ll be millionaires one day.
• Walmart’s truck of the future was designed using CFD to be fuel efficient.
• SpaceClaim demonstrates a 2-5x savings in geometry preprocessing time for CFD in this video. (Registration required.)
• blueCAPE released blueCFD-AIR 1.03.
• On the PTC Creo blog, read about pushing simulation through the value pyramid.
• CAD Digest summarized the STAR Global Conference 2014.
• intrinSIM and Smart2Market will be collaborating on providing market development services.

Who wouldn’t want an unstructured mesh of a unicorn as a lamp? From iLLuminite. Click image for website.

Please pardon the “just the facts” format. I’m currently out of the office and enjoying the company of some amazing, engaging, and friendly people at the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software where the theme this year is “Correcting 2020 Vision.”