Design World Expands Online Editorial Team

Site-specific editors added to accommodate growth in CAD, motion control technologies, and multimedia online development projects.

Cleveland, Ohio – WTWH Media, LLC, publisher of Design World Magazine and the Design World Network, today announced that they have expanded their editorial team to include site specific editors for their 3D CAD, motion, and rich media online development projects.

Matt Lombard, author of the SolidWorks Bible, independent CAD user, and regular blogger on CAD issues at www.dezignstuff.com, joins as site editor for www.3dcadtips.com. Matt will be hosting weekly video tutorials on various cad packages as well as inviting other CAD users to contribute tips and tricks to help users improve their 3DCAD knowledge.

Miles Budimir joins as site editor for the vertical motion-control community within the Design World Network. Miles has a background in electrical engineering, is currently a professor of engineering ethics at Cleveland State University, and was previously a motion control editor for a design engineering trade magazine. Miles will be the primary editor for www.motioncontroltips.com, www.linearmotiontips.com and www.couplingtips.com.

Paul Dvorak, a mechanical engineer and former editor for a medical design publication, joins the Design World Network to lead and direct the company on a number of new vertical online communities launching later this year.

According to Mike Emich, co-founder of Design World, “We are continuing to invest in people and technology to build the most comprehensive online network available to design engineers. Matt, Miles and Paul are great additions to the strongest editorial team in the design engineering space. We’re excited to have them on board.”

Design World Widgets and Calculators

A web widget is a chunk of code (most often Flash based with some under the hood programming fun) that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML based web page or site by an end user without requiring additional compilation. Other terms covering the idea include: gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, and snippet among others. Here at the Design World Network, we see many applications that are well suited for widget development, calculators being a great fit. Many web sites offering calculators do a good job with the amount of calculators you can find, but the presentation and navigation suffers. While we know our calculators will be selective, we hope they offer some use and are effective in a sharable, compact, portable widget format.

We’ve launched a number of calculator, news, and multimedia widgets with the volume calculator being the latest in the line-up.

The volume basics calculator widget from Design World features flow, volume, common terms, and shapes calculations. With the flow calculations you can convert from Liters/sec/min/h to gallons/day/minute and cubic feet/minute. Volume includes a matrix of variables to convert to cubic inches/feet/yards, gallons and barrels. The easy to read shapes feature, provides a clean interface to calculate quickly.

Go to the Design World Widget Library and check out the volume widget calculator below.