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Following the acquisition of CSC by Trimble in November 2013, CSC is merging with Tekla in early October. As part of the Trimble family, both CSC and Tekla deliver innovative engineering software covering analysis, design and Building Information Modelling. This combined offering of CSC and Tekla products enables them to provide a fuller and more rounded portfolio of products and services. CSC will benefit from Tekla's investment capacity, technologies, industry expertise and support to bring you even more innovative products. CSC customers will still deal with the same CSC colleagues as before but they will soon be introducing themselves as representing Tekla. Merging CSC with Tekla will make Tekla a much stronger company for customers in the engineering market, and both CSC and Tekla customers will now benefit from a fuller and more rounded portfolio of products and services. As with any merger of two international companies there are many changes to

The CD-adapco Global Academic Program congratulates Alex Haldane for winning the CD-adapco Academic STAR Simulation Contest! Alex’s submission, STAR-CCM+ LES Simulation of Poppet Valve Using Morphing Mesh and Dynamic Remeshing, was chosen from a number of videos submitted by academics from all around the world.  Alex recently finished his third year of the four year Mechanical Engineering MEng course at the University of Warwick in the UK. As top prize winner, Alex’s video will be featured on the main page of the CD-adapco website along with winning an iPad Mini and a CD-adapco Global Academic Program T-shirt.  Alex’s project compared the performance of a recently patented helical valve to a conventional valve with CFD using the LES turbulence Model. The two cases used STAR-CCM+ as the CFD package and had a combined run time of 240 hours on a Linux cluster. The Large Eddy Simulation model was chosen due to LES having a

ZWCAD Design, today unveiled ZWCAD+ 2015 Beta. This latest version brings many new features, including Super Hatch, Reference Manager, Google Earth Support and many more. Google Earth ZWCAD+ 2015, with Google Earth integrated, now can directly import graphic snapshots from Google Earth. This enables designer to review final results in real map, guarantees precision and accuracy of design and allows users to experience and improve their projects even before they are built. Time-saving Tools With two newly added time-saving features- Reference Manager and Super Hatch, CAD design can be less difficult and more efficient. Reference Manager helps you efficiently manage all external references with ease. Meanwhile, Super Hatch extends traditional Hatch function by enabling hatching with block, reference and image etc. Sweep and Loft The newly added 3D features Sweep and Loft add up to a more complete 2D-to-3D design workflow for ZWCAD+. Simply by drafting a cross section, and clicking the Sweep and Loft

Aras® today announced that Dow has selected the Aras PLM solution suite for project management in one of its Core Research and Development groups. Dow will use Aras to streamline its processes for assessing and tracking new projects in its R&D and Engineering team. Working with Aras partner FISHER/UNITECH, Dow will implement Aras program management and project management to allocate and track valuable design and engineering resources. “With Aras, we have a single, scalable software solution for managing and coordinating a diverse set of projects,” said Dan Woodman, Associate Director of R&D at Dow. Dow combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The company is driving innovations that extract value from the intersection of chemical, physical and biological sciences to help address many of the world's most challenging problems across energy, agriculture, conservation and more. In 2013, Dow had annual sales of more

Synopsys, Inc., reported results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2014. For the third quarter of fiscal year 2014, Synopsys reported revenue of $521.8 million, compared to $482.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2013, an increase of 8.0 percent.   "Synopsys delivered an excellent fiscal third quarter, solidifying the year's financial outlook," said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys.  "We shipped game-changing new products that are generating intense customer interest and high-impact results, and have already started a multi-year upgrade cycle. We also achieved encouraging results through Coverity, the recent acquisition that expands our total addressable market into the software quality, test and security space." GAAP Results On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 was $65.7 million, or$0.42 per share, compared to $52.3 million, or $0.33 per share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2013. Non-GAAP Results On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2014

HP today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 third quarter ended July 31, 2014. Third quarter net revenue of $27.6 billion was up 1% from the prior-year period and up 1% on a constant currency basis. Third quarter GAAP diluted net earnings per share (EPS) was $0.52, down from $0.71 in the prior-year period and below its previously provided outlook of $0.59 to $0.63. Third quarter non-GAAP diluted net EPS was $0.89, up from $0.86 in the prior-year period and within its previously provided outlook of $0.86 to $0.90. Third quarter non-GAAP net earnings and non-GAAP diluted net EPS exclude after-tax costs of $713 million and $0.37 per diluted share, respectively, related to restructuring charges, the amortization of intangible assets and acquisition-related charges. The complete news release is available at: http://h30261.www3.hp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71087&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1959911&highlight=

Delcam CRISPIN is running its first international Footwear Technology Forum for designers and manufacturers of all types of footwear that are looking for new technology to improve their businesses.  The Forum will be hosted at the Hotel Hermitage in Milan on 14th and 15th October.  Full details are on www.ft-forum.com The Forum will focus on current and emerging technology that will help companies to develop more innovative designs, reduce costs and get new products to market more quickly.  Topics to be covered by top industry experts from organisations such as Ars Sutoria, Autodesk, Energy Group, Lectra and SATRA will include the latest developments in 3D printing, digital prototyping, sustainability, new materials and novel manufacturing methods. Delcam CRISPIN, the world’s largest supplier of CADCAM software to the footwear industry, will deliver a keynote on Augmented Reality, demonstrating the development of its ShoeMirror system for footwear simulation and discussing the future uses of this technology. 

Advanced Solutions, an Autodesk Platinum Partner and Authorized Training Center (ATC), will host an innovative event series for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industries in Georgia and Florida. The AEC industry faces severe challenges, with productivity issues topping the list. A study by the National Research Council (NRC) cites, "improved efficiency through more effective interfacing of people, processes, materials, equipment and information," as a key area ripe for change and improvement. Workflow Simulation service is a revolutionary approach to demonstrate, predict, and measure workflow, empowering businesses to make informed decisions, which improves efficiency, eliminates waste, and increases profit. Through the Workflow Simulation: Removing Pain from the Process event series, Industrial Engineering experts from Advanced Solutions will showcase how leading firms are eliminating inefficiencies in their design workflows by: Giving you a glimpse of the structured process implemented to collect data, build workflow models, design alternative processes, validate assumptions and simulate "what if" scenarios. Exploring

Students at the University of Connecticut will be better prepared to develop new cutting-edge products by using the same engineering simulation technology leveraged by thousands of professional engineers around the world, thanks to an agreement with ANSYS. The ANSYS® suite of multiphysics software will also be used extensively to support research activities across UConn. ANSYS recently donated a campus-wide license to UConn, giving students and researchers access to leading structures, fluids, electronics and systems simulation solutions used by tens of thousands of organizations in virtually every industry. The ANSYS campus-wide solutions program helps to consolidate curriculum tools, reduce software procurement and IT costs, expand simulation scope and increase research innovation. "This is a win-win arrangement between UConn engineering and ANSYS," said Baki Cetegen, head of UConn's mechanical engineering department. "This allows our students to learn to use the state-of-the-art computational software for fluid dynamics, structural and thermal analyses to analyze complex engineering problems. Their experience in learning the engineering

A recipe for Collaborative Innovation and Product Development?   I have been following Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir journey since 2009. Whitacre is one of the most popular choral conductor-composers working today. He says that the idea of a virtual choir came to him when a 17-year-old recorded a video of herself singing Whitacre’s Sleep and posted it on YouTube. Whitacre wondered if he could get a group of people to sing one of his pieces and blend it into a single online choral performance. So, he recorded a video of himself conducting and supplied the sheet music on-line. The first virtual choir production, Lux Aurumque, was posted five years ago on YouTube. It featured 185 singers from 12 countries. The video has received more than 3 million views. The second virtual choir project, Sleep, was released in 2011, featuring more than 2,000 voices from 58 countries. The third virtual choir production, Water Night,