Category: Skill

Next Generation: Apartment of the Future Concept Design

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The design of the apartments have evolved in the last few years, and will continue developing with technology advancements. The apartment of the future is a complete new concept, it pervades and enhances as the architects and designers adopt new styles and feats.

Below listed are a few technologies that are comprises to define apartment of the future:

Delivery Drones

These drones can drop off packets and other utilities into another apartment safely and securely. This technology will lower down the use of elevator system as it will help people in delivering things to another resident’s apartment with the help of drone.

Robotic Parking

It will become an essential feature within the apartments as the site size will decrease, and automatic parking will make systematic sequencing of cars while saving valuable space and time. As a part of robotic parking, drone landing pads will be also used so that cars can be transported vertically outside the building to the right parking location. The car drivers will then be able to instruct parking with the touch of a smartphone app.

Self-Driving Cars

Within the few years, the roads are going to experience autonomous cars dominating the urban areas. There will be special parking for those vehicles that can automatically park themselves while for human-driven cars, the apartments will accommodate robotic parking system as listed above.

Smart Exteriors

In the process of creating apartments for the future, designers will propose only the lightweight and incredible strong carbon fibre. Such kinetic façade exterior will out bring energy and movement combined with energy efficient LED lighting that will assist in growth of vegetation. Therefore, the apartment of the future will produce solar as well as wind energy as a feature of smart exteriors.

Luxury Amenities

Residents in the apartments of the future are going to enjoy the on-the-go lifestyle which includes one feature as smart phone enabled entry. The residents can provide limited access time to enter and also reset the time as per the requirement. There will be bigger and functional closet spaces into rooms and also huge balconies. The residents will also experience gas cook tops and recycled glass counter tops in the kitchens.

Creo 5.0 Offers AR, Topology Optimization and More

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Yes! PTC has successfully launched a new version of parametric CAD software, Creo 5.0. This version of Creo is enticed with new extensions that will bring new functionalities among manufacturing, simulation, augmented reality, topology optimization, and also general productivity improvements.

Here, we have listed new features of the Creo 5.0:

  1. Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing:

The Creo 5.0 is extending support service of 3D printing with Creo Additive Manufacturing for Materialise allowing users to connect directly to printers for metal printing. Also, the Creo Mold Machining extension is giving high-speed 3-axis and 3+2 positioning machining which is optimized for molds, electrodes, and prototypes.

 

      2. Computational Fluid Dynamics:

The new feature of fluid flow extension allows product users or engineers to stimulate the fluid flow directly within Creo. The production company of Creo, PTC also claims that the fluid flow extension is easy to handle, accurate, and brings quick results.

 

      3. BI-Directional CAD:

There is a new collaboration extension which enables the bi-directional exchange of Creo parts and assemblies with the Autodesk Inventor.

  1. Augmented Reality:

With the development of the new version, PTC integrates Creo with AR platform, by allowing Creo users to manufacture and present AR experience from within the designs.

  1. Topology Optimization:

The feature of topology optimization will enable users to insert objectives and constraints. It will also allow the software to automatically create an optimized design.

  1. Productivity Improvements:

Creo 5.0 brings some improvements to the productivity of the user, which includes enhanced user interface, geometry creation, volume helical sweeps, design improvements, surface improvements and a lot more. The advancements in this CAD software will result in better functionality and effective product manufacturing.

PTC’s Brian Thompson also said that “Product designs these days requires advancements, and Creo continues evolving to meet the needs of customers.” The changes brought in the product Creo 5.0 reveals that it can help companies right from the earliest phase of design to smart, and useful product.

The significant features of Creo suggests that new functionalities and capabilities, sets the software apart and gives companies a true competitive edge from ideation till manufacturing.

5 Machine Learning Trends Will Train the IoT MarketAeroAstro Engineering

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The ever-growing world of Information and Technology will soon experience new changes as IoT and machine learning is evolving rapidly. Here we have five of the most dominant machine learning trends that is set to change the IoT Market.

Mobile Machine Learning

The highly compressed machine learning chips will be probably the biggest trend that will affect the presence of IoT. These chips with neural network capabilities will not be as powerful as their cloud-based counterparts, still they will be capable of machine learning tasks.

Automated Data Science

The technology will automate tasks such as scribbling data, removing trivial errors, and deleting junk data which are carried out regularly and are also prone to errors. Such as advent, hence will make this process smooth.

Synthetic Data

Researchers who works on IoT and machine learning algorithms might need a certain amount of data to carry out experiments. In such cases, instead of creating their own data, these professionals can use already existing relevant data. Probably knows as the synthetic data, this collection can be immediately linked to a machine learning algorithm to carry out experimentation.

Machine Learning Hardware

Engineers have now developed some new machine learning hardware that can efficiently and quickly crunch numbers located on the cloud. These tools made the process more quick and affordable.

The Machine Learning’s Black Box Limitation

Machine learning algorithms are generally not programmed, but get evolved as experiment takes place to collect and process data to generate useful information. This can be a hurdle for those who try to deploy machine learning in medical devices. Researcher says they are still making efforts in this direction.

What Are The Civil Engineering Interview Questions?

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Interviews are something which makes everyone fearful because of the uncertain events. And when we talk about civil engineering this fear increases exponentially. However, in reality, interviews are the most comfortable part of the recruitment process. You just need to focus on some preliminary questions and you are done. So, to help civil engineers with their interviews we have listed below some of the most common interview questions, have a look.

  • Most Common Civil Engineering Interview Questions
  • What is OSHA compliance?
  • What is the composition of a landfill?
  • What is reinforced concrete?
  • What are the different types of foundation?
  • What is flashing?
  • What is Critical Path Method (C.P.M)?
  • Explain what zoning permit is?
  • Mention different types of roof systems?
  • What are demising walls?
  • Explain what does 1/8 on the architect ruler denotes?
  • What are wooden shingles?
  • Explain what are the problems one might face while having a Cantilever balcony?
  • What is the ideal size of the living room ranges from small to a large scale?

These classic questions mentioned above will surely help you to nail your civil engineering interview. So, gear up your skillset and get ready for the interview. Good Luck!

CAD Predictions for 2018

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The rapid technological advancements are changing the shape of the world. Innovations are going up, and software is continuously upgrading. So why CAD tools remain obsolete? Thus, to maintain pace with the advancing technology, CAD tools are continually evolving. So, to understand this change in a better way, listed below are the 2018 predictions of CAD.

Three-tier Automation

Currently, automation is the most trending technology in the engineering world. From agriculture to automobile everything is automated. So CAD follows the trend and implements three levels of automation in product design which are illustrated below:

Assistive Automation tends to reduce the friction created by trivial tasks, such as assemblies, which are repetitive and consumes a lot of time.

Augmentative Automation implements Multiphysics simulations to assist engineers in decision making. Under this automation, engineers only need to focus on problem formulation and remaining all the functions will be performed automatically by the system.

Autonomous Automation is an automation technique which works automatically without any human interference.

Double Benefit of IoT and Mechatronics The convergence of mechanical and electrical design in mechatronics and the power of IoT has the potential to revolutionize CAD in 2018. Gradually, the difference between electrical and mechanical designs is fading away which is promoting the mechatronic technology, such as robots in which sensors are connected to circuit boards in a mechanical body. Furthermore, IoT innovations are enabling manufacturers to receive information from products to improve designs. Overall, this dual power of mechatronics and IoT will transform product designing in 2018.

CAD Cloud

2018 will be powered by cloud CAD where all the CAD programs will run entirely on the cloud. Recently, SOLIDWORKS announced that it plans to launch cloud-based CAD program called SOLIDWORKS X design. Similarly, Autodesk also has cloud-based CAD platform named Fusion 360. These development show cloud technologies will be a leading force in 2018.

Augmented CAD

Augmented reality will shape the future of CAD in 2018. The increasing popularity of augmented reality allows engineers to collaborate their product designs in an efficient manner making it possible for the stakeholders to interact with 3D models.

Although CAD tools will go many transitions and transformations in 2018; however, the primary focus will remain only on these four aspects: Automation, IoT and Mechatronics, Cloud CAD, and Augmented CAD. Overall, in 2018 CAD software will evolve many folds and will transform the shape of the design industry.