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Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced the availability of ProjectWise Essentials, a cloud-based, instant-on design integration environment for all projects. This “software at your service” provides immediate access to key advantages of ProjectWise, the world’s leading design collaboration and work sharing solution, while enabling user organizations to further benefit from a budget-friendly, predictable cost model. ProjectWise helps AEC project organizations avoid risk and stay competitive by enabling high performance project delivery. It provides information mobility with integrity, cross-functional work process management, and change management to increase information quality and visibility throughout the project lifecycle. Deployed in 101 countries, ProjectWise is the design integration and collaboration system of choice for all of the ENR Top 25 Design Firms, the majority of U.S. state departments of transportation, and 81 of the ENR Top 100 Design Firms, with over $120 billion in annual design billings. With ProjectWise, these firms report 14 percent higher professional utilization (than comparable firms without ProjectWise) and are assured that every hour of

Yunique Solutions® has announced that Zhejiang Semir Garment Co., Ltd.® (Semir) has selected YuniquePLM™ to enhance its process optimization flow, improve supply chain collaboration, and increase speed to market. Founded in 1996, Semir is a leading brand of casual adult and children’s clothing and has since grown to become one of China’s largest apparel brands. In 2014, Semir expanded beyond its well-known Semir casual clothing and Balabala® children’s clothing brands, adding Mongdodo® and Minibalabala® to their brand portfolio. The Chinese apparel sector is currently undergoing a structural shift moving from a primarily export-based model to a more domestic consumer facing industry. To meet this growth in domestic demand, Semir is making moves to strengthen its supply chain management by consolidating its previously diverse and disconnected systems into a single view. Previously, its scattered systems posed challenges to quality and delivery controls, hindering the company’s growth ambitions. To overcome this, Semir has worked

FISHER/UNITECH just announced SolidWorks executives will kick off the second annual Design Excellence Forum – a provocative event scheduled in 11 cities throughout the Midwest and Northeast. Ken Clayton, VP Worldwide Sales; Paul Adams, VP of Technical Sales; Paul Giaconia, VP of Corporate Accounts; Gary Krauter, Territory Sales Senior Manager; Kurtis Anliker, Director of Technical Sales; and Mark Martel, Area Technical Director will be the keynote speakers featured at some of these events. This year’s Design Excellence Forum will offer several seminars showing how to leverage today’s most innovative technologies to achieve excellence in design and manufacturing. The Forum promises to cover many stellar topics: 3D mechanical CAD enhancements; conceptual design with cloud-based collaboration; unified electronic design; improved simulation techniques; advanced 3D printing for product development; data management; and the latest for technical communication. This event also features a reveal of the new SolidWorks 2015 software. This roadshow will begin on

Delcam will show the 2015 version of its PowerMILL CAM system for high-speed and five-axis machining at the JIMTOF exhibition to be held in Tokyo from 30th October to 4th November.  The new release includes improvements to the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy, improved collision checking to also cover near misses, and more efficient raster finishing. For further details on PowerMILL 2015, including video demonstrations of the new functionality, please go to www.delcam.tv/pm2015/lz The Vortex area-clearance strategy produces safe toolpaths with a much deeper cut by using a controlled engagement angle that maintains the optimum cutting conditions for the whole toolpath.  As a result, higher feed rates and material-removal rates are possible, making the cutting time shorter by as much as 70%.  In addition, cutting is undertaken at a more consistent volume-removal rate and at a near constant feed rate, so extending tool life and protecting the machine.  Two enhancements in PowerMILL 2015 will give

Next week, attendees of the International Highway Engineering Exchange (IHEEP) Conference will have the opportunity to learn how the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Kansas Department of Transportation (KS-DOT) are capitalizing on digital communication to shorten timelines and manage projects throughout the entire project lifecycle. New government incentives like MAP-21’s Technology and Innovation Deployment Program are encouraging DOTs to strongly consider implementing digital workflows. With this in mind, Bluebeam® Software, leading developer of markup and collaboration solutions, will present a timely session illustrating how transportation project teams are going paperless to complete projects faster and under budget. Bluebeam’s VP of Strategic Alliances, Sasha Reed, and Manchester General Manager, James Chambers, will also highlight how Burns & McDonnell leveraged Bluebeam’s flagship solution, Bluebeam Revu®, and integrated cloud collaboration solution, Bluebeam Studio™, to coordinate plan utility work on the Kansas City Downtown Streetcar project. Reed has over 10 years of experience working directly in the AEC market and has insider knowledge of

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been ranked number one amongst the top 100 companies in Asia in the inaugural Channel NewsAsia Sustainability Ranking. TCS also ranked number one of the top-three most sustainable companies in India. TCS achieved the top rankings against a broad-range of stringent criteria with particular recognition for its initiatives on water conservation and power consumption. Ranking first in the Sustainability Rankings is a strong testament to TCS’ adherence to honorable behavior in business as mandated in the Tata Code of Conduct, the guiding principles of the Tata group. The Sustainability Ranking is a joint initiative between Channel NewsAsia, CSR Asia and Sustainalytics, the research partner. It is a first of its kind ranking to identify regional corporate sustainability leaders in Asia and lists the Top 100 sustainable companies who were selected on the basis of their sustainability performance across a broad range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) indicators. The Ranking

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced that it has acquired Charlotte, N.C.-based BLUERIDGE Analytics, Inc., provider of SITEOPS –site design optimization “software at your service.” SITEOPS uses cloud-based computing techniques to empower site development professionals to move beyond engineering to optioneering, which enables the exploration of engineering alternatives and their costs. This substantially improves the choices considered for any site development, including commercial, industrial, institutional, campus, and residential projects. Specifically, SITEOPS enables civil engineering professionals, real estate developers, and land planners to: perform site configuration simulations that fully assess millions of layout, parking, grading, and drainage options for a site within hours instead of spending months evaluating a handful of options, produce preliminary cost estimates and conceptual designs faster, optimize site designs through advanced optioneering, and minimize overall costs while ensuring engineering quality. Among the many users of SITEOPS are Stantec, Horrocks Engineers, Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Timmons Group, and WSP. Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “On behalf of all our colleagues, I welcome the

Bricsys released V9 of LGS component technology, a set of computational software libraries used by developers of CAD, CAM, CAE applications for implementation of geometric and dimensional constraint support. This is the third release of this mature software since the acquisition of the corresponding intellectual property rights from LEDAS in 2011. Both LGS 2D and LGS 3D libraries were integrated in BricsCAD V12 to support parametric drawing and variational direct modeling. Later the areas of application of LGS were extended to assembly design in BricsCAD V13, and sheet metal design in BricsCAD V14. Now it is a powerful constraint solving technology, which proved its ability to solve complex industrial parametric models created by thousands of BricsCAD customers. Version 9.0 makes a significant breakthrough in constraint solving techniques, which aim at finding the most natural (most expected by the end user) solution for a constraint problem. It also contains several improvements and fixes

TraceParts launches a brand new solution allowing component suppliers to showcase their products and technical data, including 3D CAD files from any mobile devices. TraceParts now offers standalone mobile applications for companies requiring to easily and professionally showcase their full range of products with live 3D models from a smartphone or a tablet. The applications are based on the long established TraceParts CAD file delivery and 3D viewing technology, ensuring each mobile device is always showing the latest technical information. Available both on Android and iOS, the applications are supported and updated by TraceParts, keeping them compatible with the latest devices and software updates. “Our customers wanted an easy solution to present their technical products to maximize their conversion rate in sales calls, exhibitions and conferences. As a result, we came up with a solution to create dedicated mobile applications with 3D models that can be viewed live and moved around at a touch

Software training firm Infinite Skills Inc. last week released its "Autodesk AutoCAD 2015 - Beyond the Basics," a collection of courses designed for architects, engineers, designers, and students, covering the essentials of AutoCAD functionality, along with a selection of advanced courses going in-depth with particular features. Released in March, AutoCAD 2015 features a refreshed user interface designed to improve the design process, along with other time-saving productivity tools, including the new tab page, ribbon galleries, and command preview. Infinite Skills' "AutoCAD 2015 - Beyond The Basics" provides expert-guided instruction on AutoCAD essentials, covering new features, along with in-depth explanations in areas such as blocks and dynamic blocks, plotting and publishing, workflow efficiency, drawings, references, and space planning. This collection of courses is taught by Infinite Skills' two leading AutoCAD trainers, Brian Benton and Shawn Bryant. Benton is an engineering technician, CAD Service Provider, technical writer, and AutoCAD instructor with more than 20 years of