Gibbs and Associates today announced that Rodney Babcock, president and owner of Next Intent, will deliver a presentation in the Gibbs and Associates booth at IMTS 2014. Mr. Babcock has 35 years’ experience in manufacturing, including manual and computerized CNC programming and machining. He will discuss national space exploration projects and his company’s participation in the manufacturing, assembly and testing of specific components for these projects. Specializing in the design, machining and assembly of components for aerospace, defense, and national laboratories, Next Intent is located in San Luis Obispo, California. Mr. Babcock’s presentation will be on Tuesday, September 9 – Thursday, September 11th daily at 10:00 a.m. and at 2:00 p.m., in the Gibbs and Associates Booth, E-3310. Next Intent has been a Gibbs customer since its founding by Mr. Babcock, in 1996, using GibbsCAM to program all of its milling and turning machines. The company has been a user of

Stratasys Ltd. announced record second quarter financial results. Total revenue for the second quarter of 2014 was $178.5 million, an increase of 67% compared to the same period last year; or an increase of 35% when excluding the impact of acquisitions. Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter increased by 51% over the same period last year to $28.0 million, or $0.55 per diluted share. GAAP net loss for the period was $173,000, or ($0.00) per basic share. MakerBot branded products and services contributed $33.6 million to second quarter revenue, driven by channel expansion initiatives and the successful introductions of new products within the rapidly expanding segment for desktop 3D printers. The company raised its financial guidance for fiscal 2014 to account for an improved outlook for the remainder of the year, as well as to account for the recent acquisitions of Solid Concepts and Harvest Technologies. The company raised its organic revenue growth forecast for 2014 to at least 30%,

CNC Software has rebuilt their Web site (www.mastercam.com) from the ground up for ease of use and to provide more features for their Mastercam customers. Launched on June 23, 2014, the new Web site offers billboard campaigns, a new user forum, and so much more. The enhanced site also provides a more streamlined layout for finding information and a new search feature to find what interests you quicker. Organization of the site has been improved for quicker access to information. Without having to navigate into the site, the front page displays many hot topics such as Solutions, Industries, Support, and more. Since Mastercam is such a popular choice in the Educational market, the updated Web site has many sections dedicated entirely for instructors and students. It contains information on learning tools, gives information on student competitions, details on certification, video testimonials, and more. Mastercam customers will benefit from some new additions. After registering,

Bruce Kenny joins Viewpoint Construction Software® in a newly created role as Vice President of Global Product Development. Viewpoint has been the construction industry’s technology partner of choice for more than 35 years and is an innovator in the construction-specific software market space with more than 700 employees committed to developing and supporting software for construction industry professionals. “Bruce understands the opportunities we have in a growing global industry that is rapidly adopting new technologies. We are thrilled to have someone with his extensive background in business and product development join our expanding team,” stated Jim Paulson, President at Viewpoint. “ Technology is rapidly changing and Viewpoint looks to deliver solutions on a variety of platforms – Cloud, Mobile and On Premises.  As technology continues to evolve at a record pace, we’ll look to Bruce to ensure we remain contemporary and deliver solutions that make our customer’s job easier.” Bruce lives in

The BIMobject® Product Portal was launched in February 2012 and today is proud to announce that it has reached 50,000 registered users. It means a very high value for all their manufacturers who publish their products as digital objects on-line and makes them available for building projects through the BIMobject® Product Portal.  The 50,000 registered users from all over the world are professional architects, designers, constructors and engineers using the BIMobject® Product Portal to download and integrate building and interior products into their building information models. The users have downloaded more than 900,000 BIM objects since the start in February 2012, meaning that the same amount of products have been made visible and integrated in a building design somewhere in the world.  The number is steadily increasing every day with an average of 1,000 new users every week. The BIMobject strategy is to quickly become the European Market leader in the BIM

A CIMdata PLM Enterprise Value & Integration and Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Council Workshop October 3, 2014 | The Inn at St. John's, Plymouth, MI   Who Should Attend? Members of CIMdata’s PLM Enterprise Value & Integration and Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Councils PLM Program directors Product Development directors Innovation and R&D Productivity leaders Open Innovation leaders Knowledge Management professionals Finance directors IT directors Design managers Engineering managers Engineering IT managers PLM solution and service providers Engineering technical staff Anyone involved in the planning, deployment, and operation of PLM solutions and services

Collaboration, Integration, and Sustainability: Keys to Maximizing the Value of PLM A CIMdata PLM Enterprise Value & Integration and Social Product Development & Collaboration Knowledge Council Workshop October 3, 2014 | The Inn at St. John's, Plymouth, MI   Why Should I Attend? Find out how integration and collaboration solutions can be used to improve business decisions Gain an understanding about why your company should be measuring PLM sustainability as a part of calculating ROI Learn strategies, approaches, and tools to unleash the potential of collaborative innovation and social product development in your organization Learn about CIMdata’s collaboration "maturity" model and provide input for its evolution Voice your needs and concerns and guide CIMdata’s vision and research agenda around collaborative innovation, social product development, as well as PLM enterprise value measurement and integration Build a network of industry users and solution providers around integration, assessing PLM value, collaborative innovation, and social product development Learn from the experiences of others dealing with

 ZWCAD Design unveiled new 3D features for ZWCAD+ 2015, Sweep and Loft. The two features add up to a more complete 2D-to-3D design workflow for ZWCAD+, making basic 3D design in 2DCAD easier and more productive. This new version 2015 will soon be released this August. Create 3D model easily with Sweep and Loft   Sweep and Loft create a model by sweeping an open or closed planar curve, along an open or closed path or by specifying a series of cross sections. In ZWCAD+ 2015, simply by drafting a cross section and clicking the Sweep and Loft function, users can transform their 2D model to 3D quickly. The newly added features Sweep and Loft have enhanced the whole 2D to 3D design workflow in ZWCAD+ 2015, which includes full ACIS modeling & editing, ACIS viewing, 3D orbit, rendering as well as visual style (Hide & Shade). The all-in-one 2D & 3D workflow The ZWCAD+ team decided

Materialise is thrilled to announce the launch of 3-maticSTL 9.0. 3-maticSTL is an innovative, flexible software tool that allows for design modification and simplification, 3D texturing, remeshing, forward engineering, and much more – all on the STL level. With this release, Materialise took many of the suggestions of its customers into account. The main priorities for the users were to focus on rendering, robustness, usability and new design functionalities. This updated software enables the creation of watertight designs that will ensure the quality of 3D Printed parts. New key features and improvements include: New rendering with a ruler to allow faster manipulation and visualization of models Automatic rib pattern – creates a clean rib structure that conforms to the 3D model Point-based patterning – create an overall pattern in one click. Randomized porous structures Conformal structures that follow the geometry of the 3D model 2D UV page for easy positioning of the 2D texture Slice-based texturing – export a 2D texture to

BlueCielo Meridian 2014 Suite is now available including BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2014, BlueCielo Meridian Explorer 2014, and BlueCielo Publisher 2014. The 2014 release offers easy central deployment and global roll-out, with extended audit trails, seamless dashboard integrations and support for the latest (CAD) authoring applications. BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2014 BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise is an Engineering Content Management and Collaboration software solution designed to optimise business processes related to the creation, collaboration, distribution and management of 2D and 3D CAD engineering data plus all other document formats. BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise creates the ultimate CAD-independent collaboration platform that connects people and links engineering content to the enterprise by leveraging design-related information – from different authoring systems, throughout the asset lifecycle.  BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2014 offers various enhancements for central deployment scenarios including Citrix and use of the authoring web access client, focused on handling plant modification engineering projects. To facilitate central deployment, use of 64bit server environments