Fusion power may be a long-term solution to the world's energy crisis, requiring the effective creation, capture and maintenance of complex engineering data today to help the scientists of tomorrow.

EDEM allows users to simulate, analyse and visualise the behaviour of particles. When used in conjunction with CFD and FEA it can provide a much more accurate picture of a product's performance.

With many looking to take their 3D data further and to accomplish more with it during the product development cycle, CAD–embedded analysis is a hot topic and one of the leaders is Flomerics with its Engineering Fluid Dynamics (EFD) products.

This week at Siggraph ATI will unveil its next generation unified graphics architecture. Greg Corke got an exclusive preview of ATI's FireGL R600 series

This month we set four workstation vendors the challenge of building a workstation for under a grand. We were more than impressed with the results. Also, the future of graphics with SolidWorks 2008.

A budget workstation used to mean a huge hit in performance, but Greg Corke discovered your money can go a long way when four vendors were challenged to deliver a machine for under a grand.

Rob Jamieson takes a closer look at the enhancements in SolidWorks 2008 that not only improve graphics realism but also real time performance.

Engineering data management (EDM) doesn't have to be hard. CSI's DesignDataManager (DDM) is designed to be easy to use, while offering relatively high-end features like document process workflow.

Al Dean takes a long overdue look at Rhino 4, the legendary software application from Robert McNeel & Associates for the creation and modification of complex forms and shapes.