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		<title>See me at the NAFEMS UK 2010 Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m thrilled to report that I’ve been selected to present at the NAFEMS UK 2010 event on June 8-9. NAFEMS is the largest (only?) not-for-profit association focused on CAE awareness, training, and education.]]></description>
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		<title>Is your CAE process bass ackwards?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little friday engineering humor. Well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.]]></description>
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		<title>A new way to kill nasty rounds for better FEA and CFD meshing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just discovered a killer (and mostly unpublicized) enhancement in the latest release of SpaceClaim. This one helps you remove problematic rounds and fillets to make your FEA and CFD meshing life easier.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the next disruptive technology in CAE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An invitation for all you smart CAE people to put on your thinking caps and predict the next big thing.]]></description>
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		<title>How to filet a nasty fillet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SpaceClaim is legendary for its ability to automatically make unwanted rounds disappear so you can create better FEA &#038; CFD meshes. These videos demonstrate 3 techniques for dealing with the tougher rounds requiring a bit more attention.]]></description>
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		<title>CFdesign 2010 first impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friends at CFdesign sent me a preview copy of their latest release, 2010. My first thought was, "Wow, the teenager has grown up." There are too many cool new features and improvements for me to do this release justice. So, I decided to focus on just the new workflow in this video review.]]></description>
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		<title>CAD for FEA today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 12:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the final installment of this series, I walk through the rise of Direct Modeling in the late 2000s. Companies who thought they already had an efficient CAE process are finding a fresh way to turn that same crank 10x faster!  ]]></description>
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		<title>CAD for FEA in the GOOD old days</title>
		<link>http://lifeupfront.com/2009/05/04/cad-for-fea-part-2/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=cad-for-fea-part-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 12:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part II of this series, I look at the rise of upfront CAE and easier-to-use CAD in the 90s. ]]></description>
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		<title>How to be successful with Upfront CFD &amp; FEA</title>
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		<comments>http://lifeupfront.com/2009/04/04/how-to-be-successful-with-upfront-cfd-fea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Implementing Upfront]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A quick, handy guide to my 30+ articles on the best ways to roll out upfront CFD &#038; FEA tools early in the design process with generalist Engineers.]]></description>
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		<title>FEA analysis round removal: quick video tip</title>
		<link>http://lifeupfront.com/2009/03/27/fea-analysis-round-removal-quick-video-tip/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=fea-analysis-round-removal-quick-video-tip</link>
		<comments>http://lifeupfront.com/2009/03/27/fea-analysis-round-removal-quick-video-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Direct Modeling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Upfront CAE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we travel around introducing people to the CAD simplification &#038; healing tools in SpaceClaim, one of the techniques our Application Engineers demonstrates always makes my jaw drop. Check out this quick video tip from Roman Walsh on removing problematic rounds in SpaceClaim. ]]></description>
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