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| | | PADT Open House, Nerdtoberfest 2025 is on October 21st | | Arizona's Best Event for Engineering & Manufacturing | With the Return of AZ Tech Council's Manufacturing Pavilion | |
Help us celebrate Manufacturing Month and register now for everyone's favorite party, show-and-tell, and manufacturing trade show.
Visit www.padtinc.com/nerdtoberfest to learn more and register.
| | | | Explore the New Ansys Optics Site with Me! | | |
Teams at Ansys have been busy consolidating the various resources for users of the Ansys Optics toolset into the new Ansys Optics Site.
PADT, Inc's Cynthia De La Rosa dug in deep to check it out, taking users along for the tour in her latest blog post on Ansys Optics. She found things well organized, consistent across the products, full of useful information in one spot.
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Simple AI Prompt Generated Python Script to Clean Up an Excel File
| | Like most companies, we are trying to get better at using AI, and especially creating small AI prompt generated Python scripts to automate simple tasks that can take time. Also like most companies, we have different software tools that don’t really create reports in a format we find useful. This post goes into how we created a simple python script using AI. It was quick to do, it was correct the first time, and the time invested paid for itsefl quickly. | | | | Agile Space Industries Wins Nyx Thruster Contract | Agile Space Industries will provide the in-space propulsion system for The Exploration Company’s (TEC) Nyx reusable spacecraft, the companies announced today. Under the agreement, TEC will integrate an undisclosed number of Agile Space System's bipropellant rocket thrusters into the outer mold line of the Nyx spacecraft. | |  |
NRC Fast-Tracks TerraPower
Permit
| The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) says it aims to complete its review by the end of 2025 on TerraPower’s construction permit application for Kemmerer Power Station unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Terrapower’s Natrium technology features a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system. | | | Featured Products and Services | |
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Photonics simulation and analysis tools offering component- and system-level simulations to optimize performance, minimize physical prototyping, and reduce time-to-market.
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Transform your manufacturing operations with automated fixture design that eliminates engineering bottlenecks and addresses the skilled labor shortage. Your AM operators can now design professional-grade fixtures independently in under 20 minutes—no CAD expertise required. Early access customers report 80% reduction in fixture design time.
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| | Sometimes you need to go beyond simple tech support questions. PADT’s Ansys mentoring puts one of our experienced engineers at your disposal. You can use their knowledge as you see fit. It may be one-on-one training, perhaps they will help debug a model, or maybe they are creating some simple scripts to help you be more efficient. | | | | |
This release features enhanced physics-based solvers, streamlined workflows, and new AI-powered tools, all designed to accelerate simulations and simplify adoption.
With Ansys digital accelerators, teams can scale simulations, explore more innovative design possibilities, and make intelligent product decisions earlier.
| | | Keep an eye out for our upcoming webinars that will provide an in-depth look at the updates available in this release and more. Visit the Webinar Page to learn more. | | | | Ansys FreeFlow Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Simulation Software | |
Ansys FreeFlow is a smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation software for single-phase free-surface flows.
Fully released in Ansys 2025 R2, Ansys FreeFlow was designed to provide an engineering tool for tackling complex free-surface flow applications. It offers a detailed and realistic representation of physical processes that are challenging to simulate with other methods.
Ansys FreeFlow offers a comprehensive platform to simulate single-phase free-surface flows. It offers two different solver approaches: an implicit incompressible and a weakly compressible. Its powerful GPU-based solver efficiently manages large-scale simulations featuring millions of SPH elements.
| | | | | Ansys Engineering Copilot | If you’re looking to ramp up your simulation speed and efficiency, look no further than the Ansys Engineering Copilot tool. This robust virtual assistant is built into Ansys Discovery 2025 R2 and Ansys Mechanical 2025 R2 and will be included in Ansys Speos, Lumerical, Fluent, Scade One, optiSLang, Electronics Desktop (AEDT), and HFSS software in Ansys 2025 R2. This new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered capability is free to licensed users and embedded directly into the solver interface. | | | | | All Things Ansys
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| | | | PADT Hosts Kickoff Meeting for AZ Tech Council Arizona Manufacturing Catalyst Committee (AMCC) | | |
PADT’s seminar room was standing room only on Tuesday, August 12th 2025 as Arizona Technology Council (AZTC) President and CEO Steve Zylstra started the first meeting of the Council’s newest committee — the Arizona Manufacturing Catalyst Committee (AMCC). Joining 13 other established and active committees, the AMCC is focused on one of the fastest growing parts of the Arizona ecosystem, manufacturing.
Learn more about the event in this blog post, and about the committee on the AMCC web page.
| | | The Latest Definition from PADT's 3D Printing Glossary | |
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In sintering, a part that is made of powdered material that has been compressed and held together with a binding material. A green part is delicate. It is heated and/or chemically treated to remove the binding material, producing a brown part.
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