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Press Release: PADT Deepens Commitment to Arizona Manufacturing as State’s First NOCTI Certified Additive Manufacturing Site

Recognizing the need for workers who have knowledge of and proficiency in additive manufacturing (AM), PADT has teamed up with Stratasys to offer NOCTI-certified training to educators who want to dev...

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Christmas Right Left Gift Exchange: The Town That Forgot Christmas

Our 2024 Holiday Party was in the middle of some pretty stressful times for many of us, and the organizing group was not feeling the holiday spirit. So we wondered what it would be like if a town f...

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PADT Pulse – High Temp 3D Printing Materials, Ansys SAM for MBSE Modeling, and XLookup() in Excel – November 2024

PADT's November 2024 Newsletter is out. You can view it online here or view and download the PDF below. Get The PADT Pulse delivered to your mailbox every month by subscribing now. Newsletter-...

All Things Ansys 131: Pushing the Boundaries of what Antenna Sub-systems can do with PlaneWave

Published on: November 18, 2024 With: Eric Miller, Keyvan Bahadori & Alex Moody Description: In this episode your host and Co-Founder of PADT, Eric Miller is joined by PlaneWave...

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If You Use Excel’s Vlookup(), You Need to Be Using the New’Ish Xlookup() Now

Do you use the Excel function Xlookup() yet? If you use Microsoft Excel as much as I do, you probably look stuff up using the tried and true Vlookup() or it's less popular sibling, Hlookup() function...

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Unlocking the Power of MBSE: SAM Bicycle Example

Introduction Recently, I've been spending more and more time within the Ansys System Architecture Modeler, or SAM for short. This Systems Modeling tool adheres to the SysML 2.0 standard and is ava...

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Your Essential Guide to High-Temperature 3D Printing Materials: FDM vs. P3 DLP

When it comes to 3D printing, material selection can make or break a project, especially in high-temperature applications. If you've read our post on flame retardent materials - you know we've talked...

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PADT Pulse – Nerdtoberfest Highlights, the Power of MBSE, Ansys Optical Design Exchange Workflows – October 2024

PADT’s October 2024 Newsletter is out. You can view it online here or view and download the PDF below. Get The PADT Pulse delivered to your mailbox every month by subscribing no...

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