4D Technologies, Autodesk Authorized Publisher and developer of the CADLearning products, launched today a 90-day subscription program to support CADLearning Partners with their instructor-led training classes. The online subscription is available to students who attend a class at participating CADLearning Partners. Online access includes comprehensive courses for popular Autodesk design applications, including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Navisworks and more. The self-paced courses contain professional video tutorials, exercises files and assessments. “The 90-day access will allow us to support our students,” said Bob Palioca, President, Ideate Inc and CADLearning Partner. “We plan to include the subscription with our course offerings to deliver a blended learning approach that includes both instructor-led training and self-paced learning online.” The new CADLearning subscription program is now available through all CADLearning Partners. “We are developing new ways to support our partners in the Autodesk ATC and VAR network,” said Dave Micciche, Director, Sales and Marketing at 4D.

SPRING Technologies, vendor of solutions that enable manufacturers to optimize the use of their NC machines, will be back this year at the Industrie 2014 show, from March 31 to April 4 at the Parc des Expositions de Paris Nord/Vlilepinte on the northern edge of Paris. “Building tomorrow’s solutions”, is the theme of the 2014 edition of France’s marquee INDUSTRIE show. Since 2013 SPRING Technologies has been anticipating and offering a whole suite of instrumented, intelligent, and interconnected — in a word, SMART — solutions, based on its NCEXPERIENCE® vision. As from March 31 the full set of modules that make up the NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS range will be showcased on booth 5-T77, Hall 5A. The show is an opportunity to discover and test tool management with NCSIMUL TOOL 2.4, DNC and real-time machine status with NCSIMUL DNC 8.21, and NCSIMUL Machine 9.1, the latest version of SPRING’s flagship software for machining simulation,

BETA CAE Systems S.A., and its business partner in Germany, LASSO Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, have the pleasure to announce the 2014 Open Meeting in Leinfelden - Echterdingen, Germany. The event will take place on March 12th, 2014 at the Auditorium of BusinessPark Echterdingen, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. During this event attendees will have the opportunity to participate in sessions on the latest developments and real case applications, on various CAE disciplines and industries, of ANSA, µETA, and our new product SPDRM (Simulation Process Data and Resources Manager). Following the event’s closing, the “Technical Discussion” session will offer you the opportunity to discuss with our engineers the software features, their application, and the future developments. A team of CAE experts from BETA CAE Systems and LASSO will be pleased to meet you in person and exchange knowledge, experience and visions. There is no participation fee for the event. Please, register by email no later than Monday, March 10th,

The EDA Consortium (EDAC) is seeking nominations for the Board of Directors for the two-year term beginning May 29, 2014. Voting member companies are entitled to nominate their CEO, president or COO to serve on the consortium's Board of Directors. Nine of the nominees will be elected to serve a two-year term on the EDA Consortium Board, beginning on May 29, 2014. A list of voting member companies is available at http://www.edac.org/membership/member-directory. The deadline for nominations is Monday, March 31, 2014 at 5 p.m. PDT. "As the complexity of electronic products increases, it is important for EDA and IP companies to focus their valuable resources on creating the products that meet the needs of designers," said Robert Gardner, executive director of the EDA Consortium. "The EDA Consortium provides the forum for addressing common issues including licensing, software piracy, interoperability, and government regulations as a group, thus benefiting EDAC member companies and their customers." The

PTC has announced Matthew Cohen will become Executive Vice President of Global Services and Partners, effective April 1. Cohen joined PTC in 2001, serving most recently as Divisional Vice President in PTC's global services organization. In this capacity, Matt led the company's worldwide consulting and training lines of business and oversaw a team of more than 1000 delivery professionals responsible for ensuring clients realize value from PTC Solutions.  "Over the past few years, PTC has aggressively expanded its technology solution portfolio to help its customers capitalize on an increasingly smart, connected world," said James Heppelmann, president and CEO of PTC. "As a result, our customers today view us as a trusted advisor on how to unleash new kinds of value by transforming how they create, service and, most recently, operate their products. Matt's demonstrated ability to transform customer relationships into true partnerships positions him, and PTC, for great success in this role."  During

BIMobject ® announced that CAD-Solutions Martin Schnitzer has joined the BIMobject® network as a new BIMobject® Business Partner. It is now responsible for the sales activities of BIMobject® solutions in Southern Germany. CAD-Solutions is represented with its own offices in Munich, Nürnberg and Regensburg. They won for several years in a row the “Worldwide Reseller of the Year” award from one of the leading architectural CAD software companies. ”There is no question whether BIM will come as profound changes in the planning processes, much more needs to be asked how fast it will happen. The worldwide success of BIMobject, shows the importance of BIM content and BIM processes, even here in Germany. With our experience and our contacts we can develop our business to the next level and become one of the players in the BIM content race - the BIM objects. Real models from real objects”, says Martin Schnitzer, founder and

Siemens PLM Software has launched its new LMS SCADAS XS, a powerful and portable noise and vibration data acquisition system, which combines the productivity and measurement quality typical of the LMS SCADAS family with the autonomy and flexibility of a pocket-sized solution. The LMS SCADAS XS is specifically designed for easy in-vehicle or in-field measurements, delivering testing productivity and securing data quality. An included tablet application allows engineers to prepare test setups and monitor and validate test data on the go. With the LMS SCADAS XS, Siemens is adding a powerful portable solution to complete its successful LMS SCADAS range of data acquisition systems. There is continuous pressure these days to test products in real-life circumstances and against ever stricter deadlines. The LMS SCADAS XS provides the ideal size, flexibility, and measurement performance for optimal mobility. It allows on-the-go diagnostics and troubleshooting, even by non-expert users who need to perform a

Engineering PLM Solutions Srl today announced that RuleDesigner Configurator, the tool for product and process configuration, enhances the broad portfolio of 2D and 3D CAD integrations with the release of the integration for NX. RuleDesigner Configurator, through processes easy-to-create and maintain, drives the user focusing on the most important product-related information rather than on CAD extensive capabilities. Processes can perform procedures for part-numbers automatic renaming and renumbering, for analyzing relationships and for automatically extracting BOMs. NX users will really benefit from this integration. Thanks to the possibility of delegating automatic modelling to unattended dedicated workstations, users will be able to maximize the features of the design software. The NX user community can make the most of RuleDesigner Configurator to run processes aimed at automating the product design stage and getting 3D models, assemblies, drawings, drafts and technical documents of any type. Finally, coupled with the wide range of ready-to-use actions, the integration for NX

BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of v1.0.1 of Simulation, Process, Data & Resources Manager (SPDRM) software. In this version, enhancements have been made to further facilitate the organization and planning of your simulation processes. Additionally, fixes have been made to reported issues. Addressing the problem of contemporary CAE community to integrate data, processes and resources, BETA CAE Systems S.A. brings forth a new solution for driving high quality and effective virtual product development procedures. This new software tool, the Simulation, Process, Data & Resources Manager (SPDRM), provides a simple and intuitive way to capture, deploy, and manage CAE process workflows by integrating the resources, the tools, and the data associated with these.  Reflecting a deep understanding of the demands of simulation and its role in the enterprise, it couples with the enterprise PDM system and integrates CAE into higher level business processes by delivering CAE tasks and associated data to analysts,

Following the release of the major v15.0.0 of our ANSA / μETA -pre and -post processing suite, BETA CAE System S.A. announces the v15.0.1. This maintenance release focuses on resolving identified issues with v15.0.0. Understanding the software release schedule The plan BETA CAE System is committed in delivering improved and enhanced software releases, the soonest possible, in order to meet the requirement of our customers for the continuous improvement of their experience and work. Therefore, they are working in releasing new software versions with code corrections, new software features and enhancements, in regular, frequent intervals. A major software version is released every year. The major version v15.0.0 is made available at the beginning of the year. First point releases, such as v15.1.0, v15.2.0 and so on, with code corrections but also with additional software features and enhancements are released every three months. Second point releases, such as v15.2.1, v15.2.2, mainly with code corrections only upon their