August 27, 2010

PLM News

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Acquisitions

• ZWSOFT Announces the Acquisition of VX

CIMdata News

• PDMbridge®: Bridging the Gap Between ECAD and PDM (CIMdata Commentary)
• “Visualization for Everybody” by Peter Bilello

Company News

• ANSYS Ranked on FORTUNE 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List for Second Consecutive Year
• AVEVA Announces New Centre of Excellence for Owner Operators in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Deelip Menezes Evaluated 3D Graphics Performance of KOMPAS-3D
• I-Cubed Expands Its Value Added Reseller Program to China
• Magma Design Automation Joins Si2’s Design for Manufacturability Coalition
• Nemetschek North America, Inc. Changes Name to Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.
• Siemens PLM Software Enhances Market Presence and Expands Customer Service Resources
• Siemens PLM Software Names Chuck Grindstaff as President
• Tsinghua University Team Wins Inaugural CIBE and Bentley Future Cities China Student Design Competition
• Windcad in France Joins Aras Partner Program

Events News

• AVEVA Brings Together Industry Specialists to Share Knowledge on Emerging Engineering Technologies in Australia
• Delcam Sales Partners Celebrate Success in China
• Delcam to Highlight Medical Machining Solutions at OrthoTec Europe
• How do you Greenlight a Green Initiative?
• ICAM to Release CAM-POST V19 at IMTS 2010
• Surfware Announces Okuma to Showcase Unprecedented Material Removal Rates with the Millac-44H Using TRUEMill Technology at IMTS 2010
• Synopsys to Host First Synposium Virtual Event

Financial News

• Aspen Technology Announces Date of Fourth-Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results Release, Conference Call and Webcast
• Gerber Scientific, Inc. Reports Improved Year-over-Year Fiscal 2011 First Quarter Results
• Magma Reports $32.6 Million First-Quarter Revenue, Exceeding Guidance
• Sopheon Results for the 6 Months to 30 June 2010 Business Review and Outlook

Implementation Investments

• Astronauts Stay Strong with Help from SolidWorks
• BMW Gets Faster Inspection with Delcam’s PowerINSPECT
• Chinese Mold and Machine Tool Manufacturers Choose WorkNC CAM Software
• First Acquisition by Human Solutions and assyst
• Imaginestics to Create Design Conversion Software for Defense Logistics Agency
• RICOH Achieves Full Test Coverage with Ultra-Low Pin Count Using Mentor Graphics Tessent TestKompress
• Synopsys DesignWare SATA IP Enables First-Pass Silicon Success for Global Unichip Corporation

Product News

• AVEVA Announces Release of AVEVA NET Portal 4.5 with Powerful New Decision Support Interface
• Concepts NREC Now Shipping Agile Engineering Design System® 2010
• Geometric Releases eDrawings Professional for Autodesk Inventor Version 8.0
• Magma Announces Quartz iPOP Initiative -- Delivers "Improved Productivity, Operability and Performance" for Faster, Higher Capacity Physical Verification
• Magma's Titan Qualified for TowerJazz Reference Flow
• MathWorks Launches Turnkey Solution for Rapid Control Prototyping and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Simulation
• Mentor Graphics Collaborates with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Provide Easier Debugging Capability to IC Designers
• New Study Shows 44 Percent Productivity Improvement With AutoCAD LT 2011
• PLCS Requirements in US DoD Projects
• Synopsys Announces Immediate Availability of DesignWare MIPI M-PHY IP in 40-nm Process Technology

Opinion Poll

To vote on the latest opinion poll, please click here.

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The results for the last opinion poll are:

23% of respondents continue to execute at least half of their design work in 2D. This would not be surprising if the responses were representative of global practice. We know that a great deal of design on a worldwide basis is still being done using 2D drawings (note that 2D design can be quite appropriate for certain situations such as basic turned parts). The interesting factor in this survey is that almost one-third of respondents report that they do ALL of their design in 3D. This indicates that many organizations are abandoning 2D altogether. We can only assume that these are companies that design products at the higher end of the product complexity scale.

A follow-on question is to understand how many companies continue to use drawings to communicate their design work to manufacturing and to their partners. We will pose this question in a future poll.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
If you have a suggestion for a poll you'd like to see contact us at info@cimdata.com.

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