From all of us at ESRD, we wish you and your families a joyful and gingerbread-filled holiday season!

As we look back on another year, we are more grateful than ever to have you in our ESRD community. We truly appreciate your continued support and we’re excited to carry our partnership into 2026. May the new year bring happiness, success, and exciting opportunities.

Below are some fun highlights from 2025 that we’d like to share with you.

Gingerbread CAD courtesy of Sergio CAD CAM

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StressCheck v12.1 Released

This year’s release, StressCheck version 12.1, is available for download! If you’re ready to upgrade to the latest version, please reach out to your Account Manager or ESRD Support.

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Great Expectations: Agentic AI in Mechanical Engineering

by Dr. Barna Szabó, ESRD Co-founder

This latest blog article by Dr. Barna Szabó examines the forecast for agentic AI in mechanical engineering, featuring an interview from AI insider, Grok.

For other great articles in Dr. Szabó’s series, browse the ESRD Blog.

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ASIP Conference 2025

This year’s ASIP Conference in Austin, TX was another productive and fun gathering of so many members of our user community. We had the opportunity to catch up with many of you at our exhibitor booth and around the conference hall. Thank you to all of you who stopped by to say hi!

We made many exciting new connections this year as well. As we open up the new year, we sincerely look forward to welcoming you into our community and demonstrating the value of our ESRD partnership.

Brent Lancaster conducted a Training on Computation of KI, KII, and KIII SIFs for Complex 3D Aerospace Parts Using StressCheck v12.1. If you were unable to attend, please use the link above to download the presentation slides and video demonstrations.

We are very much looking forward to seeing many of you at ASIP 2026!

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Wishing good tidings to you and your loved ones.

Cheers to 2026!!