BricsCAD V15 unifies advanced 2D design with the intelligence of 3D direct modeling. For Windows, Linux, and Mac. BricsCAD V15 also adds solutions for sheet metal design, Building Information Modeling, and 3D data exchange. All stored in standard .dwg files. Here is an overview of the most important BricsCAD V15 features. The new ribbon offers new ways to access tools through its tabbed interface. The BricsCAD interface looks immediately familiar to you. To navigate through drawings easily, BricsCAD adds the distinctive ribbon to its interface and new Look From widget. The ribbon offers new ways to access tools through its tabbed interface. The new LookFrom widget uses a chair to indicate the current view direction. To manipulate the viewpoint, click the arrows that surround the chair icon. Grip editing for dynamic blocks. With BricsCAD you can create 2D technical drawings, floor plans, and other layouts quickly and accurately. New to BricsCAD V15 is grip editing for

The PARTcommunity 3D CAD models app, especially popular among engineers, was upgraded once again: the app, offering access to millions of 3D CAD models from over 400 manufacturer certified catalogs of renowned companies, excels in a new, fresh design with new features. Even more indispensable than before with a better overview and extended search functions The app, which has been downloaded over 450.000 times since its introduction in 2012, has become an indispensable tool for users in the field of engineering and procurement. In the latest version, CADENAS significantly elaborated and optimized the functions: Besides the design, the sketch search was also improved. With the new version, the desired part can be automatically searched across all available catalogs. Moreover, a part that has already been opened can be used as a search template for the Geometric Similarity Search GEOsearch. This component is then compared in a search run to other parts from

Lectra announced the latest release of Optiplan, its cutting-room optimization solution for apparel manufacturing. Manufacturers today operate in an environment that makes it increasingly difficult to remain both profitable and competitive, and an optimized cutting room can make all the difference. Designed with the specific challenges of fashion and apparel manufacturing in mind, Lectra’s Optiplan applies lean manufacturing principles to cut-planning operations and transforms the cutting room into a competitive advantage – saving time, reducing costs and boosting efficiency. Fashion today has accelerated; retailers have moved from seasonal collections to offering new merchandise on an ongoing basis. “The trend towards smaller orders in a wider variety of styles and colors, combined with shorter-than-ever lead times, has become the industry norm,” explains Anastasia Charbin, fashion and apparel marketing director, Lectra. Production has to be fast and flexible enough to handle the higher volume of smaller orders while protecting profit margins. Fabric is typically the

Elsevier today announced the addition of ten content providers who will offer content via the Knovel platform, strengthening a range of disciplines including civil engineering, chemical engineering and earth sciences, among others. The publishers recently added to the Knovel platform, include De Gruyter, J. Ross Publishing and eight other trusted content providers that collectively boost Knovel's roster of content providers to more than 120 authoritative sources. Elsevier further extends Knovel's lead in offering comprehensive, diverse content to engineers, providing the data required to help solve the critical engineering problems. Knovel is a cloud-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools. "Knovel's forward-thinking approach to making content more actionable and discoverable makes the platform an ideal place for J. Ross Publishing," said Stephen Buda, VP Business Development for J. Ross Publishing. "Knovel provides engineers with trusted information that they use on a daily basis, making it an excellent fit for deep coverage in

CoSign by ARX and McKit Systems have teamed up to create the CoSign Connector for Teamcenter. The new connector is the latest addition to the long list of products that integrate CoSign digital signatures into leading enterprise management systems. Medimop, a major manufacturer of medical devices, uses Siemens Teamcenter to manage their medical device product lifecycle. A long-term CoSign customer, they are now also using the CoSign Connector to integrate CoSign digital signatures into their Teamcenter system. Yafit Heidenfeld, IT & MIS Director at Medimop, reports that “the new CoSign Connector for Teamcenter is working well for us. It has saved us multiple steps in our workflow as we design and update our medical products.” The CoSign Connector for Teamcenter enables organizations to completely eliminate paper from signature-dependent processes in their PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) system, thereby eliminating unnecessary costs and driving increased efficiency. With CoSign’s digital signature capabilities seamlessly integrated into Teamcenter, professionals can sign a

Nemetschek Allplan places great importance on promoting new talents. With its international education platform Allplan Campus, the company establishes a link to research and teaching in schools and universities, from which both sides benefit. The student grant – awarded this year for the second time – further aims to support vocational college graduates who are embarking on a diploma or bachelor in architecture or engineering at a German university. Highly motivated and willing to learn, as well as socially and socio-politically committed were other desired traits. The recipient of this year's grant is Kristina Tranakin. She has completed an apprenticeship to become a construction draftswoman and is now in her second semester of a degree in civil engineering at THM University of Applied Sciences in Gießen. The grant is worth 300 euros a month and will be awarded for one calendar year.  Karin Schmidt, head of the Education Team at Nemetschek Allplan

Elysium Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of James Martin as the Director of Business Development based out of a new office opening immediately in Denver, Colorado.  Elysium develops interoperability solutions for digital design and PLM markets, and since 1984 has translated millions of files and served thousands of clients.  Leading companies worldwide trust Elysium solutions to translate, repair and ensure their product data quality for 3D CAD/CAM and CAE models. “I am very happy to again be involved with providing robust CAD data interoperability solutions and Elysium software has long held a reputation for being the industry standard.” says Martin. “I wanted to be part of a software company that has a robust development team, and Elysium definitely does in Japan and the U.S. with close to 60 members.  With Elysium’s focus on being a software company first, we can be assured of deploying translation and validation products quickly

Bluebeam® Software ranks 212 on Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500™list. This is the third consecutive year Bluebeam joins the list of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. One notable catalyst for Bluebeam’s rapid growth has been the widespread adoption of its flagship digital markup and collaboration solution, Bluebeam Revu®, by the world’s top technical firms. Bluebeam’s efficiency-centric product development approach resonates with industries such as architecture, engineering and construction, oil and gas, and manufacturing, whose projects have been historically slowed by document handling and communication delays. Revu combines electronic document markup and management capabilities with an integrated cloud-based collaboration solution, Bluebeam Studio™, to save users time and money by enabling faster paperless workflows. “Our customers challenge us to develop intelligent digital collaboration solutions that simplify processes. Our 50% annual growth rate is built on the successes of the world’s top technical firms, who leverage our solutions

ANSYS and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced today that they have scaled ANSYS® Fluent® to 36,000 compute cores – an industry first that could lead to greater efficiencies and increased innovation throughout manufacturers' product development processes. As companies increasingly seek to minimize time, quality and cost pressures by using engineering simulation, they have been constrained by compute power. High-performance computing (HPC) has become a core strategic technology enabling enhanced insight into product performance and improving the productivity by considering more design variants. The combination of the Blue Waters supercomputer and the Cray Inc. engineering team, the NCSA Private Sector Program technical team, and recent enhancements to the Fluent code enables organizations to study the most complex and realistic simulation cases. Blue Waters uses hundreds of thousands of computational cores to achieve peak performance of more than 13 quadrillion calculations per second. That advanced compute power is helpful for applications like Fluent software, an industry-leading computational fluid dynamics

GRAITEC is excited to announce the launch of their complementary productivity tools for Autodesk Advance Steel, GRAITEC Advance PowerPack. The GRAITEC Advance PowerPack is a powerful extension to Autodesk Advance Steel designed to enhance the user's capability, productivity and efficiency. By introducing industry specific and localized content, tools, templates and connections that complement what is already available in Autodesk Advance Steel, GRAITEC clearly aims to remain a market leader in providing practical technology solutions for the steel industry. GRAITEC Advance PowerPack for Autodesk Advance Steel will provide users with a multitude of new tools and functionality specifically intended to give them a competitive advantage. The first version of GRAITEC Advance PowerPack will introduce new tools for faster modelling, such as continuous beam and folded plate extender, and new capability such as the castellated beam and cellular beam sections, all combined with more intelligent and automated templates, all seamlessly integrated into a new user-friendly ribbon, the