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Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the Chinese-language version of the Vectorworks® 2014 line of design software, including: Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals and Renderworks®. Mad Macs, the Vectorworks distributor in China, will host launch events in Shanghai on April 9, Beijing on April 16 and Guangzhou on April 23 to demonstrate the software’s new features and capabilities and how the program supports BIM workflows. Attendees will have the opportunity to win a free license of Vectorworks software and other prizes. In addition to these live events, Mad Macs will offer an online webinar on April 29, 2014. “It’s important for us to meet with our customers at in-person events like these, and as Vectorworks 2014 has been rolled out around the world, we’ve been pleased to receive strong, positive feedback from our users,” said Stewart Rom, chief marketing officer at Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. “Some of the most

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC™), an EMC Technology Partner and a leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, announces Brava!® Enterprise 7.2 for EMC Documentum D2 4.2. In addition to compatibility with the latest version of D2, this upgrade offers new features and usability enhancements: The cross-platform Brava HTML5 client now offers vector viewing for crisp views at any zoom level plus the ability to set CAD layer visibility and view object attributes. The new Brava 3D ActiveX client displays 3D models. Users can measure, locate and identify parts, access part and subassembly info, view multi-plane cutaways and cross sections, and explode assemblies. Brava users can now sign documents electronically. Add an electronic signature, initials or a professional seal to a document with Brava, then create a PDF of the signed document. Checkview, new in version 7.2, streamlines repetitive form reviews, helps to improve accuracy and ensures no areas are missed. Use Checkview to flag form

Burintekh, a developer and manufacturer of tools for the drilling and maintenance of oil, gas and mining wells, has added Delcam’s FeatureCAM feature-based CAM system to help the company cope with the ever-increasing complexity of its customers’ designs and the constant pressure for faster delivery. Burintekh, which was founded in 1999, has a modern production base equipped with the latest equipment, including a range of multi-axis machining centres, and effective quality control at all stages of production.  This allows the company to manufacture a wide range of competitive products, meeting all the requirements and wishes of its most demanding customers.  For its achievements, Burintekh was awarded the honorary title of “Best Industrial Company of the Republic of Bashkortostan” in 2009. As part of its development programme, the company acquired several new turning, milling and five-axis machines during 2011 and 2012.  The next stage was to add a powerful and versatile CAM system

Infosys Limited, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services, will announce results for its fourth quarter and year ending March 31, 2014 on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, Indian Standard Time (IST) (on the night of Monday, April 14, 2014, US Eastern Time (ET)). The results will also be available on http://www.infosys.com. Following the release, Infosys Founder and Chairman, Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, CEO and Managing Director; Mr. S.D. Shibulal, CFO; Mr. Rajiv Bansal, and other members of the senior management will comment on the company's performance. There will be a common television address by Mr. S.D. Shibulal and Mr. Rajiv Bansal at 10:00 a.m. IST on business television channels addressing analyst questions. The common TV address will be streamed live on the Investor Relations section of the Infosys website. This will be followed by a detailed discussion on NDTV Profit from Bangalore at 10:15 a.m. IST on April 15, 2014 (this will not be telecast in the US). An archive of this event will be uploaded on http://www.infosys.com after 2:00 p.m. ISTon April

Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (3DCIC), announced that Donald Tolle, Director of CIMdata’s Systems Engineering & Simulation Consulting Practice, will be a featured speaker at the 2014 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress, to be held May 28-30 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 3DCIC ( www.3DCIC.com) is dedicated to fostering and improving collaboration and interoperability throughout the product lifecycle. Conference organizers are pleased to announce that NAFEMS (the International Association of the Engineering Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Community – www.nafems.org) is holding their biennial American conference at 3DCIC 2014. In addition, the PDES Board of Directors will again hold their annual meeting at 3DCIC and the 3D PDF consortium will be joining again for its third annual meeting. “The 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Conference has become an annual ‘must attend’ event on the PLM industry agenda for senior engineering and IT professionals,” says Tolle. “This year, combining 3DCIC with the

Continuing with its mission to provide opportunities for business and engineering students to develop real world engineering and product/process development skills, PTC today announced it is working with the Florida Institute of Technology to offer its students the same industry technology used by 27,000 PTC global manufacturing customers to design and develop sophisticated products. PTC will donate PTC Windchill® software for PLM process requirements and PTC Creo® software for CAD design to provide an environment for students to design, test and simulate the entire lifecycle associated with bringing new products to market. The PTC donation will form the core of the Florida Institute of Technology’s Center for Lifecycle and Innovation Management and will be integrated into its management information systems curriculum. The university will provide projects for students to complete, giving them an opportunity to understand and implement best-practices in an actual design, production and management environment. “Florida Tech’s goal is to be one of the

Missler Software has recently hired 2 new Marketing Executives to boost its Marketing and Communications actions both in France and internationally. Anne Laurier has joined Missler Software at its Lyon office and Emile Soullard is based in company Head Quarters just outside Paris. “We have historically been a very technically oriented company. This has not changed and thanks to our innovative product development thousands of companies throughout the world use TopSolid today. We need, however, to increasingly communicate on our innovative product range to boost the efforts of our sales teams in France and across the globe,” explains Marc Choquin, Sales Director for Missler Software. “We have a revolutionary product range, we are one of the only software developers to have completely rewritten our software in terms of software technology and methodology. We need to continually communicate and sell this to industrials in need of a high-performance software solution.” Graduated in Business

Aspen Technology, Inc. announced it has acquired Sulsim® sulfur simulation software from Sulphur Experts.  The Sulsim sulfur recovery product has been used by the world’s leading energy companies for over 25 years. Sulfur recovery is performed in almost every refinery and gas plant processing high sulfur feeds.  Regulatory policies require the removal of sulfur from gas produced by these plants.  With Sulsim, process engineers can model the reaction furnace, reactors, incinerator, and other related operations of sulfur recovery plants accurately.  Because this is the last step in acid gas cleaning, accurate modeling is essential since any disturbance will bottleneck the process flow causing reduced throughput and heavy losses. AspenTech’s Aspen HYSYS® software, a leading simulation solution for the energy industry, already provides modeling capabilities for process equipment and for acid gas cleaning systems.  Sulsim technology will allow AspenTech customers for the first time to optimize acid gas cleaning and sulfur recovery design

Andéor, SAS announces the immediate availability of CaniVIZ 3D Pro 1.1.10, a CAD file viewer with many new CAD file formats, in the Mac Apple Store and the CaniVIZ Store. CaniVIZ is a powerful 3D viewer that is able to display million of polygons in simple devices. It includes smart tools such as the interactive cut plan and offers additional functionalities. In addition, a free online workshop is available for free, allowing everybody to put and display 3D files online. The read CAD file formats are: Acis, Cadds, Catia (v4, v5, v6), Cercon, Cerec, CGR, DCM, DXF, DWG, Colored IGES, Inventor, JT, Lava3M, Parasolid, ProCera, ProE / Creo, Solidedge, Solidworks, Colored Step, Unigraphics, VDA. They are available with optional purchases. The free CAD reader included in CaniVIZ Pro, Light and free are: 3D Studio, Monochromic IGES, Monochromic Step, STL and WaveFront.

CAD developers at AViCAD.com announced a new way to distribute 3D designs using a new PDF Export utility within their CAD program. The new 3D PDF export utility allows CAD users to rotate, zoom and render a 3D model directly within a PDF file. Drawing layers and views can also be toggled on and off as needed. Users can also share project with anyone using the Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program available from the Adobe web site. CAD Director, Victor Abela says "This is a really big feature in AViCAD 2014 because we have made the 3D PDF Export completely interactive." The new utility allows user to add markups to 3D views and track them in a Markups list accessible within the PDF. Victor adds "Now you can communicate and share your 3D model with anyone. 3D PDF Export offers a innovative way to communicate your ideas without using a CAD engine" The PDF plugin integrates directly