Ansys announced a significant breakthrough in aerodynamics simulations in collaboration with Volvo Cars and NVIDIA. Using the combination of eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for the solver and CPU cores for meshing, the companies reduced total simulation run time from 24 hours to 6.5 — enabling multiple design iterations per day, facilitating more optimization studies for BEVs, and accelerating time-to-market. This collaboration sets a benchmark for the automotive industry and those beyond that require precise fluid flow simulation, including aerospace, motorsports, and consumer electronics.  Volvo Cars relies on advanced computing and CFD to drive innovation and improve electric battery performance. Robust simulations are critical for reducing aerodynamic drag — a significant factor on EV range. However, high-fidelity CFD simulations can be time consuming, compute-intensive, costly, and allow little opportunity for optimization. To improve the energy efficiency and drive range of the fully electric EX90, Volvo Cars and Ansys scaled Fluent to eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, enabling

 PDF Key Takeaways Deploying CAD in a SaaS environment provides ease of initial deployment, automatic upgrades, and flexible scalability. NX X is installed on the desktop via the cloud (similar to MS Office 365), and as an option it can be streamed remotely. NX X provides built-in data management but also can be deployed in a Teamcenter Share, Teamcenter or Teamcenter X environment. Siemens delivers seamless scalability from startup to global OEM with 100% data fidelity from browser to desktop. Through Designcenter, Siemens delivers complete, transparent compatibility across its MCAD solutions—the data models are identical among NX, NX X, and Solid Edge—no data migrations, updates, or translations are needed. NX X enables the rapid adoption of new capabilities—delivered with instant updates and through flexible licensing. Value Based Licensing tokens provide the flexibility to use what you need—when you need it. NX X deployment streamlines a company’s ability to digitalize their business. Introduction Siemens has introduced a new way to access

LeapThought is proud to be aPlatinum Sponsor of the buildingSMART International Summit and a Silver Sponsor at BuildTech Asia 2025 in Singapore (March 18-20, 2025)—reinforcing our commitment to openBIM, AI-driven automation, and digital transformation in the built environment. As the AECO industry moves toward greater data intelligence, automation, and interoperability, LeapThought is at the forefront—bringing real-world AI applications to design, construction, and asset management. We are excited to showcase GenieHQ, our new command-driven AI capability within FULCRUMHQ, designed to help AECO professionals streamline compliance, optimize workflows, and unlock powerful insights from their data. At these events, we’ll be speaking on key industry topics and demonstrating how AI-powered digital workflows are transforming regulatory approvals, compliance automation, and data-driven decision-making. Where to Find Us in Singapore ???? Key Sessions & Panels✔️ March 18, 11:00am (UTC+8) – KeynoteLeapThought Chairman, CEO, and Founder Ratnakar Garikipati will explore how AI and machine learning leverage open data to reshape the built environment, making design, compliance, and asset management more

The Nemetschek Group, a leading software provider for the AEC/O and media industry, will showcase its cutting-edge digital solutions at BuildTech Asia 2025 in Singapore from 18 to 20 March. Featuring Nemetschek brands ALLPLAN, Bluebeam, dRofus, Nemetschek dTwin, GRAPHISOFT, Solibri, and Vectorworks, Nemetschek reaffirms its commitment to driving AI, sustainability and open standards in the AEC/O industry. Attendees can visit the Nemetschek booth (Hall 3, Booth J09) to experience an innovative new setup that highlights real-world workflows together with traditional product-focused approach. With a strong presence in both the exhibition and summit areas, Nemetschek is set to test the waters at BuildTech Asia while leveraging its reputation as global industry leader to shaping the discussion with our thought leaders in AI, sustainability and interoperability. Asia’s leading trade event for the construction and built environment ecosystem will take place alongside the buildingSMART International Summit, a leading global platform dedicated to advancing the digital transformation and

Together with technology partner VCollab, team members from Novus Nexus will host a booth during this year's World Congress. The company's co-founder and CEO will also present in the Simulation Democratization circuit referencing Novus Nexus' recently accepted paper, "Democratization of Engineering Simulation: Enabling Technologies and Organizational Shift", demonstrating the effects of embracing a CAE ready CAD approach together with an Abstract Modeling automation strategy to yield big efficiency gains in process and human resources, consistent use of best practice for comparable results analysis, and preservation of corporate simulation expertise. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Novus Nexus on CIMdata.com

Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management category, unveiled Experience Agents™: highly specialized AI agents that autonomously deliver exceptional customer and employee experiences at scale across every channel and interaction. Unlike transactional AI agents that promise efficiency, Experience Agents are designed to interact directly with customers and employees. They are rooted in the unique ability of Qualtrics® to understand the human experience. Experience Agents will interact directly with customers and employees in personalized, proactive and empathetic ways that increase loyalty, boost employee engagement, and drive greater business insights and opportunities. The specialized agents scale across every channel and touchpoint, respond in-the-moment to fix or improve experiences, and track market trends to pursue strategic opportunities. With Experience Agents, companies no longer have to wait to take action from feedback from surveys, call center chats, online reviews, and online interactions. Agents can step right into the customer interaction and resolve the issue in

Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, will debut its new Emulate3D® Factory Test ™ capabilities at NVIDIA GTC 2025. This first public showcase will demonstrate how the solution enables factory-scale virtual controls testing, helping manufacturers conduct Factory Acceptance Testing to validate automation systems before deployment. Attendees will get an exclusive look at how Factory Test, integrated with NVIDIA Omniverse ™ APIs and OpenUSD, is redefining digital twin technology with high-fidelity simulation and real-time collaboration. “Manufacturers need scalable, high-fidelity digital twins to optimize system performance and accelerate commissioning times,” said Matheus Bulho, senior vice president, software and control, Rockwell Automation. “With the launch of Emulate3D Factory Test, we’re providing a solution that allows engineering teams to test, iterate and validate automation systems at full factory scale – leveraging the power of NVIDIA Omniverse to deliver unprecedented visualization and collaboration capabilities.” Factories are inherently complex environments, with thousands of moving parts, high-speed

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that it will present its latest innovations for the digital planning and control of supply chains and enable crisis-resistant supply chain orchestration at transport logistic in Munich from June 2 to 5, 2025.  Siemens’ presence includes demonstrations of solutions for automated transport planning, the use of the Digital Twin as an optimization tool in supply chain management and a control tower that can be used to synchronize production and delivery processes in real time.  “At transport logistic 2025, Siemens will showcase our scalable IT solutions that enable industrial and logistics companies to manage their logistics and supply chain networks efficiently and sustainably - especially with regard to current and future challenges,” says Volker Albrecht, CEO of Siemens Digital Logistics. “Our portfolio provides customers with numerous tools that enable them to ensure reliable supply to plants and warehouses while achieving a return on investment, for example through higher

Bricsys® has announced additional new and enhanced features in their latest BricsCAD® V25.2 release, following the launch of V25 in October 2024. This release empowers BricsCAD users to deliver their designs faster in a familiar, user-friendly CAD environment. What is new in the BricsCAD V25.2 release? V25.2 focuses on enhancing the workflows that engineers, manufacturers, builders, and surveyors use daily. From 2D geometry to 3D models, the latest features give designers what they need to accelerate performance and productivity. BricsCAD® Lite and BricsCAD® Pro The V25.2 release brings users new and enhanced features to boost productivity and reduce time to deliverables, including large model and section visualizations, better 3D sectioning performance, sheet set model view access, single-sheet publishing, and PDF viewing. BricsCAD® BIM BricsCAD has received the IFC4 Architectural Reference Exchange Export Certification, allowing companies to participate in public tenders where IFC4-certified BIM software is required. The V25.2 release also includes user-requested productivity enhancements for parametric 3D modeling of

Golden Software has added the ability to download georeferenced Google aerial and satellite images to map projects in the latest version of its Surfer mapping and 3D visualization package. Other new features focus on faster and simpler creation of 3D visualizations that are easier to interpret and understand. “The ability to easily download reliably high-quality basemap images from Google Maps adds a rich layer of information that puts a mapping project in its proper geographic context,” said Surfer Project Manager, Kari Dickenson. “Surfer users will find they can communicate their work more accurately and vividly with the latest software version.” Surfer is used by more than 100,000 people worldwide, many involved in environmental consulting, water resources, engineering, mining, oil & gas exploration, and geospatial projects. The software has been relied upon for more than 40 years by users in numerous disciplines to quickly transform complex data into superior 2D and 3D visuals