In PDF3D’s new V2.10 version released today, 3D PDF developers have added many advanced styling options to enable engineers to customize 3D modelling and reporting much further than before in 3D PDF. The PDF3D ReportGen release coincides with a major update of the PDF3D development toolkit. From geospatial to engineering and manufacturing, the company has continuously pushed new boundaries in what is possible with the conversion of data from CAD, Point Cloud, ParaView, COMSOL, FBX and many more formats into the universally accessible 3D PDF files. In this latest update, PDF3D have maintained their mission to keep 3D PDF conversion as easy and flexible as possible for users and developers. Capabilities such as full progressive sequence animation with one click combined with improvements to control over font styles, watermarks, colors and transparency gives users the ability to interact & present 3D in much richer and detailed ways. For power users custom layer

Lectra is pleased to announce Kaledo® V4R1, the latest release of its design solution. “The shifting demands of the fashion and apparel industry put rising pressure on companies to cut time and cost, forcing them to renew collections more often to remain competitive. Kaledo V4R1 was developed with these specific needs in mind,” says Daniel Harari, Lectra CEO. This new release is the result of a close collaboration with Lectra customers. “We have taken input from our key textile customers. Product development teams and pre-production rely on the efficiency of designers to produce innovative and creative designs to ensure that interesting, fresh products reach stores on time. Our R&D teams have developed this new version to respond to industry needs,” he adds. Kaledo V4R1 features a host of new tools including draper, a texture mapping module that simulates fabric on images and sketches, producing realistic results for earlier decision making in the collection

Dassault Systèmes announced today that Ion Beam Applications SA (IBA), a leading medical device manufacturer and pioneer in proton beam therapy for cancer treatment, selected the 3DEXPERIENCE platform based on V6 architecture, and its “Licensed to Cure for Medical Device” industry solution experience. With “Licensed to Cure for Medical Device”, IBA will support the development processes of its medical accelerator solutions. The changing medical needs of a growing world population, along with advances in medical research, place extreme challenges on medical device manufacturers to accelerate development of innovative and safe equipment that comply with stringent national and international regulations. IBA wanted to transition from a labor-intensive engineered-to-order approach to a standardized collaborative development approach that results in an extensive series of production-ready machines that fit a variety of complex customers’ demands. Thanks to “Licensed to Cure for Medical Device,” IBA’s global teams get a centralized access to the most up to date design,

IDG's CIO magazine announced Siemens PLM Software as a recipient of the 2014 CIO 100. The 27th annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT). Siemens PLM Software, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, is being recognized for its innovative use of Panopto cloud-based recorders to capture remote enablement projects around-the-world and share them with employees worldwide. "For 27 years now, the CIO 100 awards have honored the innovative use of technology to deliver genuine business value," said Maryfran Johnson, Editor in Chief of CIO magazine & Events. "Our 2014 winners are an outstanding example of the transformative power of IT to drive everything from revenue growth to competitive advantage." Effectively capturing and recording multiple presentations from an event, and then distributing them to participants in a timely manner can be a

NGC today announced that Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine has named NGC to the prestigious Supply & Demand Chain Executive “100” for 2014, recognizing the top 100 supply chain projects in the industry. This is the fourth consecutive year NGC has been awarded this honor. NGC was recognized for its fashion PLM and Supply Chain Management software implementation at New York-based Fashion Avenue Sweater Knits. “The projects featured can serve as a roadmap for supply chain executives looking for new opportunities to drive improvement in their own operations.” This year’s Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 consists of supply chain solution and service providers that help their customers achieve true supply chain excellence. These providers demonstrate supply chain distinction by producing measurable gains in ROI through cost-cutting and increased efficiency, whether in transportation, warehouse, procurement sourcing or any other category in the end-to-end supply chain. Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s editorial staff weighed submissions based on creative application of solutions used

Electric Cloud today announced a Software and Technology Partnership with Siemens PLM Software. This partnership agreement allows for deep integrations between Electric Cloud and Siemens PLM technology – enabling solutions for closed-loop federated Continuous Delivery across all domains of complex mechatronics product development, including software, electrical, control and mechanical engineering. With the growing importance of software in traditional hardware-focused product development, R&D organizations are facing new challenges trying to unify and present an integrated view of product development lifecycle data across the mechanical, electrical, electronics and software domains. By integrating Siemens PLM Software's Teamcenter® portfolio, one of the world's most widely used digital lifecycle management software for modern mechatronics product development, with Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander, the world's most scalable and flexible Continuous Delivery platform, this partnership introduces a proven, industry-first closed-loop solution for federating data and information across the end-to-end product development lifecycle. "This agreement marks a critical step in enabling an industry-best

The latest NC Software Market Analysis Report from leading US analysts CIMdata shows that Delcam continues to be the world’s largest specialist supplier of CAM software and services.  Delcam employs over 700 staff, over 100 people more than Vero Software, and more than twice the 292 employees at third-placed Cimatron. In addition, well over 100 more people are employed in Delcam’s Joint Venture companies in Europe and Asia.  The largest of these companies, Delcam’s extremely successful Korean Joint Venture, Hankook Delcam, has over 50 staff. The CIMdata Report also confirmed that Delcam continues to employ by far the largest development team in the industry, with 224 people working on the company’s manufacturing software.  This is almost 50% more developers than the 150 staff employed in development by the second-ranked company, Vero Software. Delcam continued its impressive growth during 2013 by adding more than 50 extra staff to its international workforce.  On the sales side,

Altair acquired 100 percent of EM Software & Systems – S.A. (Pty) Ltd and its international distributor offices in the United States, Germany, and China this month. This development adds the FEKO® solver to the HyperWorks® suite and strengthens the Altair simulation offering in the aerospace, automotive, and shipbuilding industries in particular, reflecting the commitment of the company to provide comprehensive, best-of-breed solutions to its customers. In addition, in-house electromagnetic expertise crossing multiple industries will enable the company's consulting arm, Altair ProductDesign, to take on more responsibility in customer engagements where this specialized applied engineering knowledge is required. Typical applications of FEKO include antenna design, antenna placement, electromagnetic compatibility analysis, bioelectromagnetics, radio frequency components, 3-dimensional electromagnetic circuits, design and analysis of radomes, and radar cross-section analysis. Altair HyperWorks contains a number of industry-leading solvers, including OptiStruct®, RADIOSS®, MotionSolve®, and AcuSolve®. The addition of FEKO will help to address coupled electromagnetic-thermal and electromagnetic-mechanical problems,

Enabling better, faster business and product decisions by maximizing connectivity and collaboration across the enterprise through social technologies and socialization of PLM Ann Arbor, Michigan, 24 June 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the expansion of its Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development consulting practice.  While research will continue in the respective Knowledge Council, this consulting practice will concentrate on the development and adoption of strategies, processes, and technologies to enhance collaboration and connectivity across enterprises as well as their extended enterprise participants thereby allowing for increased use of collective intelligence, thus improving innovation and the return on investment from new product development. As part of this expansion, Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata, announced that Dr. Suna Polat will lead the practice. Dr. Polat’s title will be Director, Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development Consulting Practice. “We are very pleased that Dr.

 PDF This week GrabCAD invited a group of PLM analysts and media to their first ever media event at their Cambridge, MA offices. GrabCAD claims to be “leading the Open Engineering movement, helping engineers get products to market faster by connecting people, content and technology.” They are best known for their GrabCAD community, where over 1.3 million engineers are actively sharing and collaborating on content from a wide range of authoring tools, primarily mechanical CAD data (currently numbering over 460,000 files). While the benefits of community are well known, some question just how much commerce you can do with public intellectual property. Last November, GrabCAD announced Workbench, a solution focused on small group collaboration, again primarily for mechanical CAD data management. The successful beta test led to general availability in January 2014, and their planned summer release, which was the focus of this week’s event. From their start with CAD data management