Autodesk, Inc. is proud to stand alongside the Obama Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, UI Labs and various organizations in partnership on the recently announced, Chicago-based Digital Lab for Manufacturing. Led by UI Labs and comprised of industry, university, government and community stakeholders, the Digital Lab will be the nation’s flagship research institute for Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation, and its partners will work collaboratively to breathe new life into America’s manufacturing sector by promoting increased access to advanced technology, research and resources. “It is a great honor to have the opportunity to collaborate with the U.S. Government and UI Labs on the new Digital Lab for Manufacturing,” said Buzz Kross, senior vice president of Design, Lifecycle and Simulation at Autodesk. “We are at a crucial stage in the rebirth of American manufacturing, and the Autodesk team is passionate about providing education, training and technological support that will serve as

When designers carefully work with all their creativeness on assigned tasks, realize their designs as 3D models through the wide range of functions available in CAD software, do their best to bring the work to perfection, and work constantly at improving themselves, why can designers not be considered creators, and CAD as art? As the developer and integrator of professional CAD/AEC/PLM solutions, ASCON Group is pleased to again announce the annual KOMPAS-3D Modeling Contest 2014. KOMPAS-3D is the high performance, cost effective, easy to learn software solution for mechanical design. Held annually, the modeling contest showcases the abilities of individuals and design firms using KOMPAS-3D to model a wide variety of 3D and 2D designs. This year is special for the company as it celebrates two significant anniversaries: ASCON Group established 25 years ago KOMPAS-3D software reaches 15 years of development From now and until of June 1, 2014 all current and future ASCON customers

Presentation will offer a vision for Model-Based Systems Engineering in support of systems engineering ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 4 March 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Dr. Martin Eigner, an authority on systems engineering, will make a presentation at CIMdata’s upcoming European workshop, Bridging the Requirements Gap with Model-Based Systems Engineering, which will take place in Bad Homburg, Germany on 9 April, 2014. Dr. Eigner’s presentation, “From Documents to Models: The Vision for Model-Based Systems Engineering,” will detail the case for using shared digital models to capture requirements and knowledge to enable collaboration and concurrent engineering, rather than relying on requirements documents that do not communicate well between organizations, and do not relate to design elements. Examples of why this is critical to establishing a systems concept in organizations’ product development processes will be presented. How model-based systems engineering supports and enables systems engineering concepts throughout

Webinar to address how organizations can benefit from implementing knowledge decision support systems within their engineering processes ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 4 March 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that John MacKrell, Vice President, will address what organizations must do to build corporate wisdom, and how they can benefit from a new breed of decision-support tools, in an upcoming webinar sponsored by Auros – An Emergent Systems Company. “Faulty decisions adversely impact the products we develop,” says MacKrell. “Bad results can be mitigated by ensuring that decisions are made based on high quality information and knowledge. This webinar will discuss how to improve the quality of your organization’s collective knowledge.” John MacKrell has over 40 years of experience in the application of computer-based solutions to engineering and manufacturing, with more than 20 years at CIMdata. He has held senior positions in product management, marketing, research and development,

Over a good part of the last decade there has been discussion about computer-aided design (CAD) tools becoming a commodity. In some respects, you could make that argument as the lines between high end tools, like CATIA, Creo, and NX and “mid-range” tools like Inventor, Solid Edge, and SolidWorks, have become blurred. (Before anyone gets excited, these tools were listed in alphabetical order, and only represent part of these large markets. In our annual PLM Market Analysis Reports we refer to these segments as MCAD-MD, for multi-discipline, to reflect the broad portfolio of configurable options in the high end tools, and MCAD-DF, for design-focused.) In looking at the PLM market, I have often applied the work of Clayton Christensen of Harvard (built on the shoulders of some researchers who heavily influenced me in past professional lives) to try to understand some of the dynamics. In any given product category, there is

Altair has announced that it has made its computer aided engineering (CAE) software suite, HyperWorks®, freely available to all early stage researchers of the Aerospace Multidisciplinary Enabling Design Optimisation Marie Curie Initial Training Network (AMEDEO ITN) project. The move grants AMEDEO ITN fellows access to industry leading simulation tools to support research into the development of the next generation of environmentally-friendly aircraft. The licenses arranged by AMEDEO ITN Principal Investigator, Tim Surry of Altair ProductDesign UK, are to be remotely accessed through Altair’s new cloud-managed licensing system, Hosted HyperWorks Units (HHWU). Use of HHWU eliminates the IT burden of maintaining server-based software licenses and is ideal for the AMEDEO ITN project, which involves geographically dispersed industry and university partners across Europe. HHWU allows members of the AMEDEO ITN early-stage research team to work remotely and access the HyperWorks applications on-demand. "Altair is excited to be a consortium partner with AMEDEO,” said Tim

Trimble released SketchUp 2014, the latest version of its 3D modeling platform for architects, engineers, design and construction professionals, as well as members of the global maker community. SketchUp 2014 features major enhancements to SketchUp's 3D Warehouse—the repository of free, high-quality, 3D content—as well as new tools that improve the classification of design objects, tighten interoperability with other products used in Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows, and make professional documentation more efficient.   With more than 30 million unique activations in the past year, SketchUp is the most widely used 3D modeling software in the world today. Spanning SketchUp Pro for professional users and SketchUp Make for hobbyists and enthusiasts, the new release marks Trimble's second major update to SketchUp software in the past 10 months and reinforces the company's commitment to continuously improve SketchUp with easier ways to create, access, share and collaborate on 2D drawings and 3D models. "SketchUp's power lies in its simplicity and flexibility, which has led

SpaceClaim announced the immediate availability of 2014 Service Pack 1 that includes two new tools for SpaceClaim Engineer 2014: LiveReview, SpaceClaim’s cloud-enabled live 3D collaboration system, formerly codenamed “Connect”; and a new STL Prep for 3D Printing module. LiveReview provides a secure session where more than one user can engage and contribute simultaneously to editing a model in real time. SpaceClaim’s LiveReview extends SpaceClaim Engineer’s intuitive interface, interoperability, and speed into a hosted session, accessible through any WebGL-capable browser on a computer or mobile device. Even engineers without any 3D modeling software can actively review, edit or model live online. Every SpaceClaim customer currently on active subscription will have early access to LiveReview for six months beginning today. STL Prep for 3D Printing module prepares models for 3D printing efficiently and easily by offering a set of tools to repair printing problems and to modify STL and CAD files, as easily as if

New video channel for all BricsCAD related topics brings a colorful mix of tutorials, stories and fun to all CAD users, produced by CAD guru’s all over the world. ”With Bricsys TV, we bring color to the CAD training world. This unique channel provides a mix of tutorials, stories and fun, produced by CAD guru’s all over the world.”- Sander Scheiris, Marketing Director, Bricsys Multiple authors The movies on Bricsys TV aren’t solely produced by Bricsys but also by, among others, Ralph Grabowski, editor at upFront. eZine and author of several hundred magazine articles and books. Learn. Inspire. Create. By offering these videos, they want to inspire all CAD users to learn BricsCAD and its third party applications, and create beautiful things with it. Visit www.bricsys.tv and get inspired.

Delcam France will demonstrate Delcam’s latest CAM developments at the Industrie exhibition to be held in Paris from 31st March to 4th April.  Highlights will include the latest version of the PowerMILL Robot system for the programming of machining with robots, the Vortex strategy for high-efficiency area clearance, the Delcam Electrode suite for the design, manufacture and inspection of electrodes, and the PowerINSPECT inspection software. PowerMILL Robot makes it as easy to program a robot for machining as it is to program a five-axis machine tool.  Furthermore, with PowerMILL Robot, users have access to the comprehensive range of multi-axis machining strategies within PowerMILL and can use all the system’s project management options to manage, store and retrieve data quickly and easily. The resulting programs make robots extremely cost-effective for machining large parts, for the production of larger items of tooling, and for the trimming and drilling of panels in metal or composites.