March 2026

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Featured Stories

Deleting FDM Support Material Using Stratasys Insight 3D Printing Software

For Fused Deposition Printing (FDM) printing on higher-end Stratasys 3D printers such as the Stratasys Fortus 450 and Stratasys F900 systems, Stratasys’ own Insight build set-up software offers deep levels of customization. This post describes how to delete Support material from within selected horizontal holes. Read on for step-by-step instructions.

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PADT Celebrates Pi Day 2026 with Pie, Math, and an AI Lesson Learned

Well, another year came and went, and it is Pi Day again. We have been celebrating 3/14 for a long time now, as you can see by past blog posts. Our standard formula is several different pies and a math quiz. This year we did that, and ran afoul of AI hallucinations. Take a read and take the quiz.

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What’s New in Ansys 2026 R1 for Electromagnetics

PADT application engineer Tyler Buntin takes a look at his favorite new features for electromagnetic simulation in Ansys 2026 R1 for Ansys Motor-CAD and Ansys Maxwell. Give it a read to learn about stronger integration between products, faster solves, improved workflows.

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Customer Corner

Ursa Major Unveils the HAVOC Hypersonic Missile System

The company unveiled the “Ursa Major HAVOC Missile System,” a complete hypersonic capability designed to deliver high-speed, affordable mass at scale to meet urgent warfighter requirements, with a core module that can also be used for hypersonic targets. HAVOC is engineered for rapid production and scalability, addressing the growing need for optionality in survivable, maneuverable hypersonic systems that can be fielded in operationally relevant quantities.

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Voyager Invests in Permanent Lunar Habitat Infrastructure

Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) announced a multi-million-dollar strategic investment in Max Space to advance the development of next-generation expandable space habitats supporting sustained lunar operations and future deep-space missions. The company will also support internal research and development efforts to accelerate engineering, manufacturing scale-up and mission integration activities.

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Featured Products And Services

Rapid Fusion

Zeus

Combining high-speed pellet extrusion with precision subtractive finishing in one coordinated system enables faster, more accurate production of complex parts, tools, and components.

Zeus is powered by the Rapid Fusion PE320 Pellet Extruder, Epicurus Controller Pro, an open-source, customizable control system, alongside a KUKA robotic arm, Modular Heated Bed, Air Plus Kit, Smart Loom Pro, desiccant dryer, and CNC Milling Tool.

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Services

Ansys Mentoring
One-on-One Training & Support

Enhanced Technical Support

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. 

Contact our support team to learn more about the options available.

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Other Content Of Note

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All Things Ansys Podcast

Episode 141: Accelerate Design & Usage of Industrial Robotics with Simulation

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Harnessing the Power of the Sun With Digital Engineering

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FDM PC-ESD: Why Strong ESD Safe Parts Matter for Manufacturing

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Accurate stage-by-stage axial turbine modelling with minimal geometry

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Introducing Ansys GeomAI | Ansys 2026 R1

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Upcoming Events

PADT In Pictures

PADT's Josh Stout attended the Ansys and Synopsys Converge event in the Bay Area, meeting a few customers and learning a ton about new simulation innovations.

The seminar room in PADT's Tempe offices was packed for an actual, live, in-person, face-to-face seminar for Stratasys users put on by our very own Pam Waterman.

Our sales and technical support teams were out and about this month visiting customers all over the southwest. They included, from left to righ, a trip to Honeywell Aerospace, Torrence, Axiom Space in Colorado, and a whole group of customers in Texas.

We were also at the Flinn Foundation's annual Bio Investor Conference with over 200 other attendees. This is a picture of PADT co-owner Eric Miller with our Friend Sonia Vohnout from OpsSpot.

PADT's Noah Asherbranner and others also visited for Honeywell's Tech Day in Phoenix to talk about MBSE with the Ansys toolset.

PADT was also invited to Tech Day at BD Medical in Tempe, where PADT's Jeff Wells shared all the different services we can offer this long-time customer.

PADT co-hosted the second "Solver Social," this time in El Segundo, California. Around 30 people from the local startup ecosystem attended. Discussions were had, Ansys startup packages secured, and pool games were won.

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