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January 3, 2024

How to Adjust Z Offset on Markforged Industrial and Desktop 3D Printers

When leveling your Markforged printer’s print bed, you may sometimes have trouble getting enough travel from the leveling screws. This may happen when switching between print beds or after a system reset. If you ever run into this issue, run the Adjust Z Offset utility.
March 13, 2023

Mastering Nylon 3D Printing: Comprehensive Guide & Expert Insights

Although nylon has been used in manufacturing for almost a century, it is a relatively new material in 3D printing. However, the material is becoming increasingly popular because of its relatively low cost and ability to produce durable parts for a variety of applications.
August 11, 2020

Important Announcement: Fix for Windows 10 update v2004 Causing Errors in Siemens Simcenter, NX, Teamcenter, and Tecnomatix software

Fix for Windows 10 update v2004: KB4568831 (OS Build 19041.423) addresses the previously mentioned issues for Windows 10 v2004. Microsoft released KB4568831 (OS Build 19041.423) on July 31, 2020.
July 10, 2020

Revision Counter on Datasets in Teamcenter

This video shows you how to turn off an “out of the box” feature to customize a dataset’s revision counter. This will keep the item revision and dataset’s Revision ID the same. Useful for identifying what revision a dataset is, at a glance. The biggest change from this will be a display name on the dataset, it won’t affect any of the properties or attributes on it, and is a reversible process.
June 9, 2020

Important Announcement: Windows 10 Update v2004 Breaking Siemens Software

The latest Windows 10 update v2004, released May 2020, has a bug that prevents NX1884, Simcenter 3D 2019.2 (v1884), and all prior releases from launching; this includes the interactive launch in native, managed mode as well as invoking any NX session using external custom NXOpen applications.
May 9, 2020

Editing and Creating RAC/AWC Stylesheets in Teamcenter

This video goes over how to edit existing stylesheets and how to add new ones to Teamcenter. Stylesheets control the display of RAC and AWC alike, and by manipulating stylesheets you can decide what attributes appear when creating new items or datasets and what appears in the Summary or Overview. I will be using Tc 12.1 and using primarily RAC to perform these tasks, with a one example using AWC.