Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that its emerging pacesetter AECOsim Building Designer V8i is delivering significant advantages for the world’s leading architectural and design projects. This collaborative BIM advancement for the architectural design and multi-discipline engineering of facilities spans architecture, engineering, and construction in a unified environment. It supports an increased depth of information modeling that affords users the analysis and simulation needed to interactively converge towards better-performing assets through optioneering. At the same time, AECOsim Building Designer supports an increased breadth of information mobility – from design through construction – for better-performing projects, especially through Bentley’s ProjectWise collaboration services for information mobility with integrity. Thirty-nine of the 2014 Be Inspired Awards project nominations credited AECOsim Building Designer’s pacesetting capabilities on projects spanning 17 countries and ranging from office buildings, hospitals, campuses, and underground rail stations to bridges, power generation plants, wind farms, mining facilities, and wastewater treatment plants. Organizations nominated for these projects included Arabtec Construction, Arup, Bechtel India,

Infosys today announced a major recruitment drive in the US to support the growth of its business and enhance its capabilities. The company plans to hire 1,500 professionals for consulting, sales and delivery during the current financial year. In addition, it will hire close to 600 Bachelors and Masters graduates from US Universities over the next twelve months. With this program, Infosys will bolster its expertise in client relationship management, consulting and technical delivery. The addition of these employees will help Infosys provide its clients local market insights, industry-leading technology expertise, and timely responsiveness to critical issues. Infosys will recruit up to 300 management and technology graduates from leading US universities. They will work across multiple technology domains including digital, big data, analytics and cloud. Up to 180 graduates will be recruited into the Infosys consulting practice in the US. They will join existing teams advising clients on business and technology transformation

Linx/AS, LLC (www.linxas.com), a US–based consulting firm recognized for its expertise in SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM), and Espedia Consulting s.r.l. (www.espediaconsulting.com), an Italian consulting company with complementary strength in SAP PLM and manufacturing, have entered into a strategic alliance to deliver best-practice solutions for SAP customers that transform the business processes from product development through manufacturing. The initial focus of the alliance will be on assisting process manufacturing industries in Europe with packaged solutions for managing formulas, recipes, product packaging, labeling, and product compliance. "Linx/AS has over 14 years of success in process industry PLM and product stewardship," states Dave Wong, senior vice president of SAP solutions at Linx/AS. Wong continues, "What we've been able to do over the years is package our experience into detailed process best practices, key technical enhancements to SAP PLM, and project implementation accelerators. Empowering the Espedia consulting organization with these tools will give customer's in the

Delcam is pleased to announce the opening of Delcam Quebec.  By opening this new office, Delcam looks to accelerate its mission to provide products, solutions and services in CADCAM to meet and facilitate the growth of its customer base in Quebec and the whole of French-speaking Canada. To support this new office, Delcam has brought on board the skilled staff of its former reseller, Technologies C.F.A.O. Inc., and is looking forward to combining the skills that team has generated over the years with the knowledge that a direct relationship with Delcam can bring to the customers in Quebec.  The new office joins Delcam Windsor as supporting offices in Canada.   The other direct offices in North America are located in Salt Lake City, Utah; Fort Washington, Pennsylvania; Rockford, Illinois; and Pasadena, California. "We look forward to providing steady growth in Quebec through the quality of training and technical support offered through this team

ZWSOFT and Luxion today announced that ZWSOFT has chosen KeyShot as rendering and animation solution for ZW3D CAD/CAM software. This integration supports direct transfer of ZW3D models into KeyShot with a single click, providing ZW3D users access to fast, easy and accurate rendering capabilities. Partnering with Luxion, ZWSOFT has developed a plugin to provide seamless integration between modeling and rendering, allowing users to open their designs directly in KeyShot from inside the application. Thus, a streamlined workflow is provided to quickly create photorealistic 3D renderings, animations and interactive visuals for communicating concepts, delivering presentations, and creating sales or marketing visuals. Key Highlights of ZW3D’s KeyShot Integration: Fast Simple push of a button in ZW3D can bring designers into rendering environment. Easy Rendering in KeyShot doesn’t require much expertise. It can be done through dragging and dropping materials, adjusting lighting, and moving the camera. Whether creating 3D renderings or animations, users can see everything happen instantly, saving

Trimble today released SketchUp 2015, the latest version of the world's most widely used 3D modeling software for architects, engineers, design and construction professionals, as well as members of the global maker community. This release marks Trimble's second update to the SketchUp software this year and underscores the company's continued focus on enhancing the platform to make SketchUp faster, more user-friendly and reliable for the thousands of professionals who use it every day. The announcement was made at Trimble Dimensions.    With a SketchUp user community expanding by more 30 million unique activations in the past year, enhancements to SketchUp 2015 have been designed to deepen and enrich the user experience, while keeping it intuitive. New features make it easier and faster to create, access, share and collaborate on 2D drawings and 3D models. SketchUp 2015 offers 64-bit support for Windows or Mac, while IFC file import capabilities allows back-and-forth sharing of IFC

Luxion is pleased to release KeyShot 5.1, with new additions and improvements to KeyShot 5. In May 2014, Luxion launched the pivotal release of KeyShot 5, introducing KeyShot Cloud and features to further increase the speed in creating high quality visuals. Users gained a new way to find and share KeyShot assets, more possibilities with instancing and image editing, fade animation, motion blur and many Pro features from NURBS Raytracing to innovations in perspective matching and sun & sky lighting. To this, KeyShot 5.1 brings new procedural textures and options, Sørensen Leather materials and Federal Standard colors, with improvements that add the ability to edit patterns, render all Cameras and Viewsets, and new support for touch-enabled devices, Retina displays and support for PTC Creo 3.0 and Cinema 4D. Overview With focus on workflow through the rendering process, KeyShot 5.1 builds on the release of previous versions to deliver a wider array of options.

Innovyze today announced the release of the V5.5 Generation of InfoWorks ICM SE (Sewer Edition). Since its initial release in February 2014, InfoWorks ICM SE has rapidly become the solution of choice for collection systems modeling by wastewater utilities and their consultants around the world. InfoWorks ICM SE incorporates all the powerful analysis features and capabilities of InfoWorks ICM for comprehensive sewer collection systems modeling, but without 2D simulation of surface flooding. In response to the specific requests of our vast wastewater user community, the new version gives wastewater utilities an enhanced set of tools and functionalities and an enriched modeling experience for managing and operating sewer networks. The changes reflect the Innovyze commitment to providing users significant value and competitive advantages, and quickly responding to their needs. InfoWorks ICM SE is a fully-dynamic sewer network modeling solution that uses a fast, accurate and unconditionally stable implicit numerical solution scheme — delivering a high degree of confidence in

Digi-Key and Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the availability of new professional-level EDA/CAD tools, starting at under $200 for design starts providing a foundation for long-term product design. The jointly developed Designer Schematic and Designer Layout tools are available today exclusively from Digi-Key. For the first 90 days, Designer Schematic and Designer Layout will be available at a 30-percent discount, starting at $199 and $449, respectively. The product licenses are sold as an annual subscription, exclusively from Digi-Key. Also, for a limited time, the software is available for a 15-day evaluation period, free of charge. “Mentor Graphics’ leadership in design software combined with Digi-Key’s connection to hundreds of thousands of design engineers around the world makes perfect sense,” said Henry Potts, Vice President and General Manager of Mentor Graphics Systems Design Division. "Together we found a way to lower the barrier of entry for engineers seeking better ways to accelerate cycle time from concept to prototype

NGC today announced that the Antigua Group, Inc. has selected NGC Software’s Extended PLM, an integrated, best-of-breed solution for fashion PLM and Supply Chain Management (SCM). The Antigua Group, Inc. is a designer and marketer of men's, women's and children's lifestyle apparel and sportswear and serves the apparel needs of the Golf, Licensed Sports, Corporate and identity Specialty Retail markets. The Antigua Group selected NGC’s PLM and SCM solution as a strategic system to streamline workflows, enhance collaboration and overall design/production efficiency, and ensure on-time delivery of the highest-quality apparel and sportswear. The Antigua Group will deploy NGC’s software for capabilities that include PLM, costing, product testing, production tracking, quality management, packing and shipment tracking – providing an end-to-end solution for the entire product lifecycle. “The Antigua Group has built its business based on an exceptional track record of customer service and product quality, and NGC is proud to be associated with