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Delcam will highlight developments in three programs from its range of manufacturing software on stand H57 in Hall 8 at the Euromold exhibition to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, from 25th to 28th November.  The new CADCAM software on show will include the 2015 releases of the PowerSHAPE Pro CAD package, the PowerMILL CAM system and the Delcam Electrode suite for the design, machining and inspection of electrodes. By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering functionality, PowerSHAPE Pro provides the most comprehensive range of design techniques available in a single CAD program.  Having all the different technologies in the same package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines the whole product development process. The main enhancement in the 2015 release is the Smart Feature Selector.  This option allows multiple similar features to be found and selected using either a specific

EMC Corporation announced that Zane Rowe has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer reporting to Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO. Rowe now assumes all internal and external financial responsibilities for EMC’s consolidated business. Prior to joining EMC, Rowe had a successful 19-year financial and corporate strategy career first at Continental Airlines where he rose to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Following that, he was CFO at United Continental Holdings, Inc. Analysts surveyed by Institutional Investor magazine named Rowe one of the top two CFOs in the airline industry. Following United Continental Holdings, Rowe joined Apple where he served as head of North America Sales reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Tucci commented, “Zane brings to EMC a unique blend of extremely valuable skills and experience both as a world-class CFO in complex, multi-business environments and as a highly- accomplished corporate strategist. We

TraceParts is due to break another record number of registered users by the end of 2014. With an average of 30,000 new subscriptions per month from Engineers and Design professionals worldwide willing to get a free and instant access to Millions of CAD models on TracePartsOnline.com, the TraceParts Engineering community is set to reach the astonishing number of 2 Million registered users during October or November 2014. To celebrate this impressive milestone, Thalmic Labs is offering a free revolutionary gesture control armband called Myo™ to the 2 Millionth registered user. The name and country of the lucky winner will be revealed upon reaching this milestone. “Designers and Engineers can really speed up their design projects with TracePartsOnline.net as they have free access to Millions of technical data ready to download in 2D and 3D. After all, they all know that the fastest way to model a part is to download it” commented Bertrand Cressent,

HP today announced plans to separate into two new publicly traded Fortune 50 companies: one comprising HP’s market-leading enterprise technology infrastructure, software and services businesses, which will do business as Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and one that will comprise HP’s market-leading personal systems and printing businesses, which will do business as HP Inc. and retain the current logo. Immediately following the transaction, which is expected to be completed by the end of fiscal 2015, HP shareholders will own shares of both Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. The transaction is intended to be tax-free to HP’s shareholders for federal income tax purposes.  Today’s announcement comes as HP approaches the fourth year of its five-year turnaround plan. Over this time, the company has executed successfully against its turnaround objectives, keeping customers and partners at the forefront. HP has reignited its innovation pipeline, strengthened its go-to-market capabilities, rebuilt its balance sheet, and inspired its workforce and

The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) today announced that the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry revenue increased 6.3 percent for Q2 2014 to $1757.9 million, compared to $1653.4 million in Q2 2013. Sequential EDA revenue for Q2 2014 increased 0.7 percent compared to Q1 2014, while the four-quarters moving average, which compares the most recent four quarters to the prior four quarters, increased by 5.8 percent. "Double-digit increases in PCB/MCM and Semiconductor IP led the way to an overall increase in industry revenue for Q2," said Walden C. Rhines, board sponsor for the EDAC MSS and chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics. "Geographically, all regions except Japanhad solid revenue increases." Companies that were tracked employed 31,259 professionals in Q2 2014, an increase of 6.7 percent compared to the 29,304 people employed in Q2 2013, and up 2.7 percent compared to Q1, 2014. The complete quarterly MSS report, containing detailed revenue information broken out by both categories and

German software provider Nemetschek® AG announced it is acquiring Bluebeam® Software, Inc., the developer of PDF-based collaboration solutions for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, for a $100 million purchase price. “Today is an exciting day for Bluebeam Software and Bluebeam users alike,” said Richard Lee, Bluebeam Software CEO. “With its Open BIM philosophy, Nemetschek is committed to making project information available to everyone, a belief strongly held by Bluebeam as well. I look forward to working together to make digital project collaboration easier than ever.” Nemetschek, Munich, is a globally leading software provider for the AEC industry. With its 11 brands including Vectorworks® and Graphisoft®, the Nemetschek Group now serves more than 1.2 million users in 142 countries from more than 40 locations worldwide. Founded in 1963 by Professor Georg Nemetschek, the company has been publicly listed since 1999 and quoted on the TecDAX. The company achieved revenues of EUR 185.9

Lattice Technology, Inc., announced Lattice3D Studio version 13. This latest release of the company’s authoring tool contains features that improve productivity and increase functionality for companies that create 2D and interactive 3D technical documentation for internal use, external stakeholders and customers. Lattice Technology delivers technical communication solutions that may be used across the product lifecycle. These solutions build on top of an organization’s 3D design data, allowing companies to leverage 3D CAD model data (including PMI/GD&T) and business data (such as price, material, and supplier information from ERP, MES or other systems). Ideal for assembly process planning, work instructions, technical illustrations, electronic spare part catalogs and service portals, the innovative technology is used by manufacturing and engineering companies as the backbone for sharing and using 3D model data across the extended enterprise. Lattice3D models are ultra-lightweight (usually one half of one percent of the native CAD model) and accurate. Because of their small size,

Software training firm Infinite Skills Inc. this week released its "Mastering Autodesk Inventor - Administration and Data Exchange," an advanced course designed for experienced Inventor users, particularly those working in a company environment, teaching the program's features for producing model libraries and templates in order to track data and allow for importing and exporting of models and drawings. Autodesk Inventor is a 3D CAD software used to create, visualize, and simulate mechanical products. Infinite Skills "Mastering Autodesk Inventor - Administration and Data Exchange Tutorial" focuses on the program's tools for data management that allows users to create libraries and templates for standardized models and drawings that can be imported and exported for modification and use within individual projects. An Inventor user since 1999, course author Adam Cooper is a career mechanical engineer designing primarily plastic installations in the automotive industry. He is also an accomplished trainer and a regular speaker at Autodesk University.

IMSI/Design announced New DesignCAD® 3D Max v24. DesignCAD 3D Max, named for the second year in a row by TopTenReviews.com as one of the top 2 consumer-based CAD products, offers budget-minded professionals and hobbyist a versatile 2D/3D precision design solution.  "DesignCAD continues to be a price/performance leader in CAD," stated Bob Mayer, COO of IMSI/Design. "We've put in additional GPU-accelerated functionality for version 24, this time with a focus on 3D viewing, shading and rendering." New DesignCAD 3D Max v24 now includes: New GPU-Accelerated Drawing Performance - New RedSDK mode allows users to zoom, pan, and rotate designs in wireframe, shaded, and hidden-line up to 30 times faster! New Match Properties Tool - Lets you select some entities, than pick another object whose properties you want to apply to the selected ones. New "Solid Surface" Entity Type - More versatile than grids and memory-efficient than a bunch of planes, the Solid Surface also tends to triangulate complex planar faces. New DWG/DXF Export

Rand Worldwide announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division released an updated version of its Scan to BIM software, Scan to BIM 2015.1. This latest release features automated piping tools specifically designed to save mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineers and scanning professionals time when identifying, placing and connecting pipes from a point cloud to a model created with Autodesk Revit software. “The new Auto-Pipe Finder functionality in this point release dramatically reduces the amount of time it takes MEP engineers and scanning professionals to identify and connect pipes,” says Tim Johnson, senior vice president, IMAGINiT Technologies. “Traditionally this process saw Revit users having to identify and connect pipes individually, often repeating these tasks hundreds or thousands of times during a project. Scan to BIM 2015.1 has automated this entire process, dramatically shortening the amount of time it takes to create a model from point cloud data.” Auto-Pipe Finder Productivity Enhancements Auto-Pipe Finder offers wizard-like functionality that