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Centric Software, Inc. has earned a coveted spot on the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Global list after competing in a comprehensive, global selection process. To earn its place on the 2013 Top 100 Global list, Centric—maker of PLM software for retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods companies—first won a prized position on…

Applied Software, a leading service provider of design technology optimization and a Construction Specialized, Platinum Partner Reseller for Autodesk® design software for architects, engineers, construction owners and manufacturing facilities, will be a premier exhibitor (Booth #2422) at this year’s Autodesk University (AU), at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, December 3-5, 2013. Applied Software’s Construction Technology…

DST announced the release of Dynamic Designer Motion (DDM) for Solid Edge V10.0 which brings increased integration between DDM and Solid Edge Simulation. Dynamic Designer Motion for Solid Edge performs Kinematic and Dynamic motion simulation on mechanical assemblies designed in Siemens’ Solid Edge CAD system. DDM is integrated into Solid…

UK-based reinforced concrete and civil engineering contractor Cidon Construction have selected Tekla software for concrete modelling and project planning as they adopt Building Information Modelling (BIM) in an effort to improve their business productivity. Since the company formed in 2000, Cidon have evolved to provide a wide range of construction…

AVEVA today announced the AVEVA World Plant User Meetings, India, which are being held in Mumbai on 28 November 2013 and in Delhi on 29 November 2013. The AVEVA World India Plant User Days are organised for engineers and designers who operate AVEVA software, both in Engineering, Procurement and Construction…

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today announced a collaboration with Synergis Engineering Design Solutions, a Platinum provider of Autodesk products, to bring Building Information Modeling (BIM) training to ABC contractor members to make them more productive, efficient and profitable. The training is part of a larger effort known as Project…

GRAPHISOFT and Nikken Sekkei, one of the world's largest architectural design firms, announced today their strategic partnership agreement to establish a jointly-funded BIM Competence & Research Center for advancing BIM in Japan and South-East Asia. The multi-year strategic partnership agreement was signed by Keiichi Okamoto, President and CEO of Nikken Sekkei, and…

Visitors to the Advanced Engineering UK group of events at the NEC saw for themselves that Edgecam’s game-changing Workflow tools just got even faster. Workflow was already renowned for enabling CAD/CAM engineers to apply toolpaths within seconds, but several enhancements in the latest release, Edgecam 2014 R1, give additional control…

Luxion with IronCAD, LLC, announced the integration between KeyShot and IronCAD, bringing the single-click transfer of IronCAD data into KeyShot along with the ability to keep model geometry updated to streamline the 3D visual creation process. This tight integration between KeyShot and IronCAD, featuring Luxion’s LiveLinking™ technology, allows IronCAD users…

The Altair Partner Alliance today announced the expansion of its material database offering with new partner, Matereality, LLC. With Matereality's cloud-based software, Workgroup Material DatabasePro, it is possible to build an enterprise quality, fully functional and extensible material database to store all the material data for different projects and collaborate securely across the…