Vero Software has appointed Hideki Hasegawa as Regional Director for the APAC region. Hideki joined Vero as Commercial and Technical Manager at the start of 2014, becoming General Manager just three months later. Prior to joining Vero, he held increasingly senior positions at a major automotive supplier, followed by technical, marketing and sales roles at two leading CADCAM suppliers. In his new role as Regional Director he is responsible for all direct and indirect sales of Edgecam, VISI, WorkNC and SMIRT. Chief Executive Officer Steve Sivitter says: “He has made excellent progress in unifying the Vero business in the region, and will now execute our plans to greatly expand our sales footprint, working closely with resellers in the growing Asia Pacific markets.” He holds a Bachelor of Applied Mathematics and Physics from the College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced an agreement with CADD Edge, Inc., a distributor of electrical and mechanical design and analysis tools, to provide Mentor Graphics® electronic systems design products to customers in the eastern USA. These Mentor products provide customers with the world's leading printed circuit board (PCB) design, high-performance analysis, PCB Design for Manufacturability (DFM) checking, and thermal analysis capabilities. Now customers have access to the capabilities that distinguish the Mentor Graphics portfolio and enable higher design productivity, product quality, and cost and cycle reduction. This agreement marks a departure from CADD Edge's three-year relationship with Altium, also a manufacturer of printed circuit board design software. CADD Edge has a proven successful history in selling printed circuit board design tools and solutions into their market. The software tools from Mentor complement CADD Edge's existing product suite of software and hardware from SolidWorks, Omnify, Stratasys and this relationship allows Mentor to broaden

Pointwise announces the latest release of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring direct integration with overset grid assembly (OGA) software. “The integration of grid generation and overset grid assembly represents a vast improvement over the hodge-podge of disparate tools typically employed by practitioners of overset CFD,” said Nick Wyman, Pointwise director of applied research. “What we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex, Air Force Materiel Command. That research was followed by a full year of fine-tuning in preparation for release to all our customers.” Overset gridding is a technique that avoids the topological complexity of generating abutting, point-to-point connected, multi-block grids by allowing the component grid blocks to overlap. The price paid for that flexibility is the need to ensure a sufficient degree of overlap so the CFD solver

GrabCAD announced that starting immediately GrabCAD Workbench will be free for all users. This announcement means that engineering teams of all sizes will be able to share and manage CAD files effortlessly, accelerating the product development process. GrabCAD Workbench is a central part of GrabCAD’s mission to help engineers unlock creative possibilities by connecting people, content and technology. Since its introduction in 2013, Workbench has seen rapid adoption amongst engineers facing collaboration obstacles like working in multiCAD environments, reconciling multiple versions of designs, and communicating with distributed teams. “Our goal with this change is to reach more people. Returning to the free model of Workbench will increase the speed of adoption and support uninhibited product design collaboration,” noted Hardi Meybaum, CEO of GrabCAD. “We are excited to supply every engineer with a free solution that enables rapid iteration on design concepts, mobile access to designs, and generally increases the speed and quality

Delcam has released the 2015 version of its PowerINSPECT inspection system.  The new version includes automatic collision avoidance, faster import of large CAD files, quicker preparation of longer inspection reports, and improved display of results from point-cloud data, plus many other customer-requested enhancements. PowerINSPECT has included collision detection for many years to warn the user when there was a possibility of any collision between the probe and the item being inspected.  Until now, the user then had to make the required changes to the probe path to avoid the collision. With PowerINSPECT 2015, the software adjusts the probe path automatically if a direct move between inspection features could produce a collision.  The software will calculate a new motion path that avoids the obstacle, typically by moving up and over the obstruction or around it.  Collision avoidance is carried out when the initial probe path is generated, when the sequence of measurements is re-ordered, and

Dassault Systèmes announced the latest enhancements to MySolidWorks, the online gateway that provides single-point access to all SOLIDWORKS communities and content. Launched last year, MySolidWorks has been updated with new features to help 2.7 million SOLIDWORKS users get the best answers to their questions about SOLIDWORKS, stay current, sharpen design skills, and share expertise, all from the convenience of their mobile device or desktop. “I need to ensure that our 140 SOLIDWORKS users are efficient in their use of SOLIDWORKS and are working at maximum productivity. MySolidWorks is a tool that helps me do just that,” said Greg Johnson, Senior Applications Specialist at Vermeer, a global industrial and agricultural equipment manufacturer. “With MySolidWorks I can search for and find the best answers to questions about SOLIDWORKS and share those answers with my team. Plus, there’s real value in the online training at MySolidWorks. When my engineers are confronted with a problem, they

The new BobCAM for SOLIDWORKS® V4 Mill Training Professor Video Series has been released. BobCAD-CAM, Inc. is a Gold Partner CAM solution for SOLIDWORKS CAD Design products. The latest Gold Partner BobCAM V4 CAM Plugin software is used to integrate CAD with CAM for SOLIDWORKS users that need 2.5, 3, 4 & 5 Axis CNC machining technology for manufacturing. The new training video series is dedicated to training users who want to learn everything about using the software to machine their CNC Mill parts right in the comfort of their office rather than in a class. BobCAM for SOLIDWORKS CAM Training Videos Accelerate The Learning Process Not everyone can make it to a training class or can spend hours online. Training videos offer a world class solution to training that can take place anywhere at any time. The BobCAM V4 Training Professor videos includes: 100 Individual Training Videos 466 Page Training Manual Individual Training Tutorials Corresponding

ThingWorx, a PTC® business and leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, announced that ICURO, a consumer-centric care outcomes research and digital health management organization, has selected the ThingWorx® IoT Platform to power its intelligent care models by delivering personalized, actionable health information to consumers in order to promote sustainable healthy habits. ICURO is using the ThingWorx IoT Platform to launch its digital hub for consumer-centric care. It enables ICURO to connect all stakeholders in the new consumer-centric ecosystem consisting of providers, payors, employers, pharmaceuticals, and medical device companies with an integrated care delivery platform. The real time data collection and intelligent analysis of data allow consumers and providers to focus on health outcomes and enable personalized care management pathways. “ICURO is a good example of how IoT technology can improve communication between health care organizations and consumers to enable better health management and more effective treatments,” said Russ Fadel, president, ThingWorx.

Holland Shipyards has selected SSI’s ShipConstructor software for its new shipbuilding activities. The company’s decision is based on the multiple advantages ShipConstructor offers in comparison with other ship construction programs. Holland Shipyard undertakes new building, repair and conversion of small and medium-sized vessels. High efficiency and high productivity are the keystones to the company’s business and these principles guide its decisions. Florian den Besten, Naval Architect with Holland Shipyards, explained his company’s thinking when purchasing new CAD/CAM software. He said: “First of all, the system is user-friendly as ShipConstructor is AutoCAD based and contains all features needed by our architects. Secondly, the architects appreciate the ease of making 2D drawings with the MarineDrafting application of the ShipConstructor Hull Structure Premium Suite. The 2D drawings are used for workshop and classification drawings. The simplification of the technical drawings, by using appropriate symbols, makes them clear and readable. Additionally, the related 3D visualization tool, Autodesk Navisworks,

Altair announced it will present its solutions for the design and optimization of composites as well as several customer successes at JEC Europe March 10-12 in Paris. From use cases such as Rolo Bike, which will be on display at the show, to the support of an automated development and manufacturing process for composites with the Fiber Patch Preforming (FPP) method (Manz AG), Altair offers vast expertise in the design and optimization of composites. With Altair's solutions, engineers are guided to an optimal material placement for laminate and honeycomb composite structures. "The JEC show, recognized as the top composites event in the world, is an extremely important show for us, so we have increased the level of our participation this year," said Mauro Guglielminotti, Managing Director of Altair Southern Europe. "The design and optimization of composites is crucial in reaching lightweight goals, since any component made of composites is only as good