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PTC and GE Intelligent Platforms today announced the availability of the Proficy + PTC Windchill Solution, an integrated offering that includes both PTC Windchill® and GE Proficy® for Manufacturing Discrete software. Beginning immediately, customers can purchase the solution that can help manufacturers close the loop between product design and production execution on the factory…

The latest release of Delcam’s ArtCAM Pro CADCAM software for artistic applications in signmaking makes now much easier to create complex designs, with a new approach called interactive distortion modelling.  This allows users to distort either vectors or reliefs within ArtCAM models by bending or stretching the design.  See the…

IHC Merwede has committed to standardize its entire global product development and product data management processes on Siemens’ integrated suite of product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions. The multi-million dollar contract is part of the company’s ambitious “One IHC” initiative launched in 2012 to harmonize all its major business processes and…

3D Systems  today announced it will feature its newly available 2014 product line of 3D printing technologies at The Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) 2014 from April 6–10, 2014, in Tucson, Ariz. AMUG attendees will have the opportunity to experience 3DPRINTING 2.0—defined by exponential 3D printing speed, size and capacity along with…

Viewpoint Construction Software® announced the availability of the latest version of its Viewpoint V6 Software®, which includes updates to the Accounting, Business Intelligence, Project Management and Service Management modules. In addition, Construction Imaging and Mobile Field Manager, Viewpoint’s point solutions that integrate with V6 as well as other construction specific…

ESI Group announces the new version of its immersive Virtual Reality solution, IC.IDO 10, featuring the new module IDO.Illuminate to deliver ultra-realistic lighting conditions. Today, Virtual Reality is used by industrial manufacturers from various sectors for collaborative exploration and resolution of design challenges throughout product engineering, manufacturing and aftersales. The new IC.IDO 10 elevates the…

The 2014 R2 release of Delcam’s PowerSHAPE Pro CAD software includes a range of new functionality for the design of products and tooling.  In particular, the new version introduces powerful new tools to make re-engineering complex parts from scanned data faster and easier, plus an option to merge disjointed faces…

CONTACT Software launches the Unicode release of its Workspaces technology. Workspaces integrate heterogeneous CAx tools and help developers to work together more quickly, in a synchronized manner and organized in the way that they choose. The Workspaces realease 3.3 offers product developers further improvements for CAD data management and collaborative…

Lightwork Design Ltd. has some major news to share; Artisan 2014 is here. After months of careful planning and development at Artisan HQ, it’s brilliant to share this great news with you. From today users of BricsCAD, ZWCAD+ and ZW3D will all have access to all the fantastic new features…

Delcam will include a free PC with all orders for more than £10,000 of the company’s software placed on stand 4011 during the MACH exhibition to be held in Birmingham from 7th to 11th April.  The offer applies across Delcam’s complete range of CAM programs; PowerMILL for high-speed and five-axis…