Check out the OC Weekly's coverage on the Youth Expo that UCI Racecar participated in by featuring our racecars, Epsilon, Delta, and Gamma.
Please check out the video, but don't blink, you might miss our 2 seconds of fame.
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Here is our all-electric race car, Gamma, showing off its speed. The best lap was 5.8 seconds with 1.0227 lateral G's.
We certainly expect more improved numbers with new motors powering the front wheels! On April 13th, 2012, the UCI Racecar Team will feature all three cars, Epsilon, Delta, and Gamma, at the OC Fairground's Youth Expo from 9am to 1pm. The exhibition will also feature some of the local high school students' work on their race cars that they hope to race in the Energy Invitational 2012 on May 20th, 2012. Please come check out the cars and let us show what we have been doing all year long. There will be rides and food for entertainment as well. It's for one day only, so don't miss out on this chance! STAR-CCM+ v7’s new overset mesh feature cuts down the analysis workflow, opening up a range of new applications. (Source: cd-Adapco) Tighter integration between CAD and CAE is an ongoing trend -- one we’ve been hearing more about as engineering organizations call out for solutions to address mounting product complexity and escalating development costs. In response to surging user demand, vendors on both sides of the aisle (CAD and CAE, that is) have been steadily stepping up to the plate to deliver new platforms that meld capabilities from these historically very separate and siloed design toolsets.
The most recent example of bridging the CAD/CAE gap comes from CD-Adapco, a provider of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computer Aided Engineering (CAD) software. The latest release of the company’s STAR-CCM+ multidisciplinary software builds on the company’s strategy to let users drive CAE from any of the popular CAD environments, allowing for less back and forth between systems, and, ultimately, more widespread use of simulation. In a presentation introducing the new STAR-CCM+ v7 platform, Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, CD-Adapco’s senior vice president, product management, reiterated the company’s commitment to support a growing number of CAD readers for importing 3D models, in addition to other improvements like faster and easier meshing and the CAD-client model checker that debuted in the previous Star-CCM+ v6.06 release. Along with the closer ties to the CAD world, the initial STAR-CCM+ v7.02 release (there will be three releases annually) includes a number of other capabilities designed to offer insight into product behavior and performance, and help companies increase product quality and reliability. One of the newer, more interesting capabilities is overset meshes, a paradigm shift in how simulation is handled in the tool. Required when simulating bodies with extreme range of motion or for parametric design studies, this new capability cuts down the analysis workflow by allowing one mesh to be placed on top of another without the need for remeshing or morphing. Company officials are touting it for marine, automotive, or aerospace applications. A new solution history capability helps engineers review and better explore the analysis results space. With this new feature, users can better facilitate design reviews by recording, storing, comparing, and visualizing results from different analysis types, while also recording results from multiple simulations into a single simulation history file so they can easily be replayed. The third major enhancement is a new interface type called indirect mapped interfaces, which is designed to ease the process around setting up CHT cases. Article by Beth Stackpole For years, the high price tag of professional CAD software licenses has been a real sticking point for engineers. With many of the leading packages priced upwards of $10,000 for a single license (and oftentimes, that's without all the extra modules), and with annual maintenance fees pushing costs up even higher, engineers in smaller companies, as well as solo practitioners, have either had to shut up and put up with the huge expense or be shut out from using professional CAD tools. SolidWorks and a coterie of other CAD tools knocked the price tag down a bit over the years, but most professional-grade programs can still run upwards of $5,000 for a single seat, and that's not including some of the more advanced functionality fast becoming mainstream like integrated simulation capabilities, sheet metal design functionality, and even some of the latest compliance and product analytics tools. Luckily, a bunch of new trends are converging to help address the high price tag around CAD, and give cost-conscious users some relief. New subscription pricing models, a spate of lower-cost programs like SpaceClaim, Kubotech, and Alibre, along with a flood of new open-source 3D CAD programs, are giving users a greater variety of choice when it comes to affordable CAD options. Even some of the big CAD players are getting in on the action. For example, Siemens PLM Software has taken steps to make its lower-end CAD tool, Solid Edge, more price competitive, particularly for small and mid-size companies, the education market, and enthusiasts. One of the more interesting programs it launched recently was an alliance with Local Motors, a new car company predicated on this notion of community co-creation (some would call it crowdsourcing). The pair is offering Solid Edge Design1, a subscription license of its base technology to the Local Motors community for $19.95 a month. The pair expanded its partnership early this year to offer the Local Motors community a choice of options, including versions with higher-end, professional-level drafting and history-based modeling, FEA capabilities, sheet metal modeling, wire harness design functions, and other capabilities for fees ranging from $99 a month per user to $299 a month, depending on the configuration. Article from Design News - Beth Stackpole Here is our very own, Smitty, showing us the basics on MIG welding. For those of you guys who have yet to try welding, please watch this video and try it out for yourself (with permission of course)! Practice makes perfect! |
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