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Zuken announces CADSTAR 15. With high-speed interfaces now almost universal, easing their implementation is vital. CADSTAR’s P.R.Editor now supports impedance balanced routing that simplifies the implementation of high-speed interfaces. Engineers can easily route to JEDEC standards and meet DDR3 performance specifications. This reduces design iterations by helping designers optimize circuits for the…

Trimble today announced the availability of the SketchUp Mobile Viewer for iPad, a new app providing design and construction professionals with convenient, on-the-go access to SketchUp models.  Available in the iTunes App Store, the app allows iPad users to store and access their own 3D models, as well as explore and download…

Trimble announced the release of Trimble® Scan Explorer Extension for SketchUp Pro; a powerful, easy-to-use tool enabling architects, engineers and geospatial professionals to create models from 3D scanning data. The new solution connects the high-resolution field data from Trimble scanners with intuitive and powerful professional modeling software; simplifying the process…

Pointwise announces the latest release of its Pointwise computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring an extension of the company's advanced T-Rex hybrid meshing technique to generate near-wall layers of hexahedral cells. “As our T-Rex technique for generating hybrid prism-tet meshes with boundary layer resolution continued to evolve, our customers…

BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of v14.2.5 of ANSA / µETA pre- and post- processing suite. This maintenance release focuses on the correction of identified issues for the ANSA / µETA 14.2x branch and is addressed to those who wish to continue to use the v14.2x branch -and…

Initec Plantas Industriales, the principal subsidiary for Oil & Gas projects of Tecnicas Reunidas, has successfully deployed the AVEVA Electrical software on all of its projects. Initec chose AVEVA Electrical for its advanced capabilities, as well as for the long and trusted relationship the company has had with AVEVA. AVEVA’s…

Underscoring the value of an integrated system for manufacturing operations, SAP AG today announced the success of customer Greenheck Fan, a leading supplier of air movement and control equipment. Due to the complex needs of customers that require complex products of varying sizes, Greenheck manages an extremely configurative order environment using the…

SofTech, Inc. today announced its third quarter fiscal year 2014 operating results. Revenue for the three months ended February 28, 2014 was approximately $1.34 million as compared to approximately $1.46 million for the same period in the prior fiscal year. The net loss for the current quarter was about ($275,000)…

ZW3D successfully hosted this year’s European Partner Conference (EPC) in Prague, Czech Republic, between March 21 and March 22. ZW3D brings together dozens of old, new, and potential European partners to share insights on CAD/CAM development and especially to explore the product value that ZW3D can bring for customer needs. ZW3D CAD/CAM…

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. and Synchro Software Ltd. have joined forces to provide truly open and flexible collaboration between architectural modeling and construction planning BIM tools. Both companies are committed leaders to the proliferation of open BIM workflows in design and construction and work to improve the efficiency of the industry…