SPRING Technologies, vendor of solutions to enhance the productivity of NC machines, held the 5th edition of its Users Club on November 7, drawing over 100 participants: a resounding success for SPRING and its customers. The annual meeting of the NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS user community is now an eagerly awaited highlight on the calendar for machining specialists, and a special opportunity for SPRING to meet its customers and discuss their plans. CUST 2013 had the honor of welcoming its guests at the Aerospace Museum in Le Bourget on the edge of Paris, at an event supported by the Pôle ASTECH technology cluster. SPRING Technologies this year invited Dassault Aviation, Eurocopter and UF1 to give their feedback on the solutions in the SPRING portfolio and on the resulting benefits, supported by hard figures and ROI, giving insights into how these businesses are addressing the industrial issues of today and using innovation to win the

CNC Software, Inc., producer of Mastercam CAD/CAM software, announces the 2014 Mastercam Innovator of the Future (IOF) national competition. This competition entices students and young adults with a real-world manufacturing challenge, celebrity judge, and a chance to win a $1,000 scholarship and a trip to the Kennedy Space Center. The competition provides instructors with a powerful motivational tool to get students excited about learning CAD/CAM and the manufacturing process. The Challenge For the 2014 competition, students are challenged to modify and machine an optic mirror design. They have two options for making the mirror: modifying the supplied part file to reduce the weight but maintain the structural integrity, or get creative with the part file using an area of the mirror to express themselves. The Celebrity Judge The 2014 IOF competition will be judged by a team of experts at Optimax. Optimax, founded in 1991 and located in Ontario, NY, builds the optics behind the latest breakthrough technologies

Delcam has become an SME Sponsor for the Bloodhound SSC (SuperSonic Car) adventure. Bloodhound SSC aims to set a new world land speed record of 1000mph in South Africa in 2016. Delcam will support the project with its manufacturing software and expertise, and will also produce some components for the record-breaking vehicle in its Advanced Manufacturing Facility.  Several Delcam customers and technical partners are already involved in using the company’s CADCAM software to manufacture parts for the ultimate jet- and rocket-powered racing car. Bloodhound SSC represents an extreme sporting challenge that is already creating a huge stir in the world’s media.  The project will push engineering and science beyond the boundaries of known technology and so will have technical innovation at its heart. Innovation is a key component of Delcam’s business philosophy.  The company invests around one quarter of its turnover in research and development.  As well as contributing to Delcam’s rapidly growing

Cadline Ltd, today announced that it has earned the new Structural Engineering Specialization designation for value added resellers from Autodesk, Inc. As an Autodesk Specialized Partner, Cadline has shown that they have made significant investment in their people, they have a business plan specific to their specialization area, they have customer references, and that they can offer a high level of technical background and support to customers in the AEC, Process and Plant, Structural Analysis and Manufacturing industries. The new Autodesk Partner Specializations enable value added resellers to highlight and brand their expertise in delivering services in key industry areas. By completing the required curriculum and training, as well as meeting required levels of service and standards set by Autodesk, Cadline demonstrates it can be a trusted adviser to Autodesk customers throughout the world. “We are delighted to be awarded the structural engineering specialisation by Autodesk which acknowledges both our industry and

Ford Motor Company is piloting new software from Siemens that facilitates virtual navigation within its assembly plants, helping the company improve global collaboration and better share best practices. The new IntoSite™ application in the Tecnomatix® portfolio is a cloud-based web application developed using the Google Earth infrastructure. IntoSite holds a 3D version of assembly plants and allows users to navigate virtually through the plants – down to the workstations – obtaining a better understanding of global processes. IntoSite was developed by Siemens' product lifecycle management (PLM) software business unit. "Under the Ford production system, we are constantly looking for ways to improve standardization around the globe," said John Fleming, Ford executive vice president of global manufacturing. "The Siemens IntoSite software pilot is helping us explore the realm of possibility for future cross-regional workplace communication." At any virtual location, engineers or other team members can add pins – just as they would in Google Maps

Accelrys, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Ireland-based QUMAS, a global provider of Cloud-based and on-premises enterprise compliance software supporting regulatory and quality operations in life sciences and other highly regulated industries. The QUMAS acquisition further extends Accelrys’ informatics portfolio with the addition of mission-critical, end-to-end document and process management compliance solutions. Proven quality management solutions supported by robust content and business process management capabilities provided by QUMAS advance Accelrys’ ability to help customers better manage the scientific innovation lifecycle by reducing regulatory risks, lowering quality costs, improving compliance effectiveness and increasing operational efficiency in bringing new products to market. “As Accelrys continues to extend its research, laboratory and manufacturing informatics capabilities to deliver first-in-class scientific innovation lifecycle management (SILM) solutions, we’re delighted to welcome the QUMAS team and the extensive compliance, quality and regulatory expertise they bring to our company,” said Accelrys President and CEO Max Carnecchia. “Integrating QUMAS solutions into

In their continuing endeavour to keep their technology at the forefront of 3D PDF innovation, the developers at PDF3D have released a new version of PDF3D ReportGen. Just weeks after the V2.8.0 release that included specific features for the geospatial community, this new version goes even further to support scientists, educational establishments and the greater engineering arena. ReportGen is a popular product amongst professionals who need to communicate large data or complex information to others who either don’t have access to niche software or who require clearer, simpler visual representations of results. ReportGen makes this possible by converting information from a variety of different file types into the universal, user-friendly PDF format that everyone already has access to on their computers. “Our new version V2.9.0 makes interactive 3D PDF even more useful for engineers and analysts. We’ve expanded file types for Comsol engineering analysis; added multiple languages; made start-up time even faster and

IronCAD, LLC, announced a new partnership with Akamai to facilitate the distribution of IronCAD's 2014 Design Collaboration Suite (DCS). Using Akamai's network, IronCAD will be able to deliver their award winning productivity solutions reliably worldwide with drastically improved delivery times. With the rapid global growth and adoption of IronCAD's DCS, it became apparent that a better way of delivering software to IronCAD's customers was needed. IronCAD formed a strategic partnership with Akamai to utilize its global content distribution infrastructure and platforms to allow people anywhere in the world will be able to experience rapid download times for the entire IronCAD family of products. In addition, this network improves the overall reliability of each download to ensure delivery to the end user. The delivery system will also allow for rapid distribution of product updates and new products when they are released. "We are thrilled by the tremendous growth IronCAD products have seen in

Developers and programmers within the CAD PLM, Engineering, Geospatial and Oil & Gas markets can now download the highly anticipated new release of Visual Technology Service’s PDF3D-SDK. As part of a full product suite update, the PDF3D V2.9 release is filled with many new features to make 3D PDF creation even easier, faster and more intelligent both from a developer’s viewpoint as well as the end-user. Supporting even more formats, file types and languages, V2.9.0 has been enhanced to integrate easily with existing systems and processes with improved interfaces and general bug fixes. "This latest update is as a result of close collaboration with our existing customers. With input from developers throughout the world, we’ve refined the toolkit even further. We’ve added some extra methods and modes within the PDF3D Exporter module and included a new CYMK example. We’ve also upgraded license configurations which greatly improves the licence start-up time", explained Ian Curington

GEOMATE introduced DXFCALCS Suite 2014, a collection of three robust applications that enable CAD users to solve a wide range of engineering and design challenges with unprecedented ease, speed, and accuracy.   That is possible because DXFCALCS Suite 2014 is based on GEOMATE’s groundbreaking graphical calculation technology that virtually eliminates mathematical calculations and equation solving from the engineering design process. DXFCALCS Suite 2014 was developed based on inputs from thousands of users and includes following solvers that work with geometry saved in DXF file format in any popular CAD application: GrafiCalc Elements 7.0 enables users to conceptualize, analyze, and solve day-to-day `engineering design challenges while making informed decisions. $129 ToleranceCalc 6.0 is breakthrough software that makes 1D/2D tolerance stack-up analysis of parts and assemblies in any CAD application as easy as spell checking. $129 SectionCalc 4.0 is a software wizard that enables users to simultaneously calculate all vital section properties of any CAD cross-section in one easy step. $99 More