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Advanced Solutions will participate in the 2014 Autodesk University conference as a Gold Sponsor. Autodesk University (AU) will take place on December 2-4, 2014 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. During AU 2014, Advanced Solutions will be showcasing the latest innovations in product design and engineering services from its subsidiaries and brands. The Advanced Solutions showcase will be on the AU 2014 Expo floor at booth #116, just inside the main entrance into the exhibit hall. Visitors to the booth can also enter a drawing for great prizes, such as a MakerBot® Replicator® Mini 3D printer and an Advanced Solutions CAD Club training membership. At the booth, conference attendees will have the opportunity to experience the next generation in 3D printing from Advanced Solutions Life Sciences: The BioAssemblyBot™ and TSIM™ Lab Quest tabletop workstation. Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, LLC is dedicated to the discovery, design, development and commercialization of integrated software and hardware solutions for

Vero Software have appointed Nexnet as Master Reseller for their VISI mould and die making CAD/CAM solutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Nexnet will be working closely with VISI s.r.o., who have established an extensive customer base for VISI in the region over 20 years. In particular, Nexnet Managing Director David Emler says they will support VISI s.r.o. with a marketing service. “We already represent Vero brands Alphacam, Cabinet Vision, Edgecam and Radan in those two countries, so it was a natural progression for us to add VISI to our portfolio. We’ll also be looking to establish new customers for the full range of VISI products.” VISI s.r.o. will continue to work with the customer base as an active reseller. One of Nexnet’s first activities with VISI was to demonstrate its capabilities on their booth at the Brno fair in the Czech Republic. “The exhibition has generated many new customers already. “We have considerable

Altair today announced that the Tongji University ZEAL EcoPower Racing Team won the 2014 championship of the Honda China Energy-Saving Sports Tournament using HyperWorks®, Altair's comprehensive computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite. The team, which hails from the Automotive Institute of Tongji University, achieved an impressive speed of 1807.653 kilometers per liter. The event was titled "Fun, Challenge and ECO", and took place in Guangdong, China on Oct. 18-19. At the beginning of the design process, ZEAL engineers sought an excellent simulation technology partner to support the team's ambitious lightweight design goals. With significant automotive engineering consulting expertise as well as a broad software solution containing pre- and post processing tools and multiple CAE solvers, Altair was a natural choice. Focus areas for the team include lightweight design, composite material design and optimization, crash and safety, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for aerodynamics, fuel efficiency, and flow analysis, all of which are included

BIMobject® is proud to announce a new BIMobject® Business Partner - KUBUS. KUBUS will now sell and support all BIMobject® solutions including Publishing, Private Clouds, BIManalytics™ Pro, BOPC™ and Mosquito™ in the Benelux market.  KUBUS offers BIM for both Design & Build within the Benelux region (Europe). As a Gold Partner of Solibri, and the exclusive distributor for Graphisoft, they promote OpenBIM and IFC workflow solutions. In addition, KUBUS develops its own BIM solutions to improve the BIM workflow. "With KUBUS, we enter into a business partnership of synergic BIM expertise. Their well founded local knowledge in a broad range of BIM topics, and our global BIM object related service offerings, will harmoniously enhance the business for both companies. We are going to provide a larger scale of possibilities for companies in the Netherlands to enter and maintain their presence in the BIM world", said Kornel Kovacs, Channel Development Manager of BIMobject. "Our experienced BIM consultants can translate our vision on BIM objects into a

Aspen Technology, Inc. announced it has opened a new global corporate headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts.  The new facility supports AspenTech’s growth plans by bringing together more than 500 existing employees from the company’s Burlington, MA and Nashua, NH offices, and can accommodate more than 200 additional staff.  The new three-building campus at 20, 22 and 28 Crosby Drive is over 140,000 square feet, almost double the size of AspenTech’s former Burlington MA headquarters.  The facility is designed to facilitate collaboration and informal discussions, with a contemporary open floor plan, casual breakout areas and many “huddle rooms” throughout the campus.  The new location is part of Crosby Corporate Center, a nine-building office park that also includes two Rebecca’s Café locations, a fitness center, a conference center and on-site daycare.  The world’s largest energy and chemical companies such as Dow Chemical, DuPont, Exxon/Mobil and Shell use AspenTech software to optimize their engineering, manufacturing, and supply

Altium Limited today announced a partnership with element14 to distribute CircuitStudio, a new easy-to-use PCB Design tool based on Altium technology. CircuitStudio will be available in early 2015 and sold through the element14 Design Center. The partnership between Altium and element14 realizes the vision of making modern PCB design tools available to a broader market. In doing so, it creates a closer connection between PCB design tools from Altium and component vendors. CircuitStudio will provide users with an interface that will make it easy for the user to get up to speed but at the same time deliver a set of functionality powerful enough for professional use. The benefits for the users will be based on straight-forward schematic capture and project management tools as well as a powerful PCB design engine that supports 3D PCB editing. While availability is planned for early 2015, both Altium and element14 will invite interested users to participate

Trimble announced it has acquired privately-held Amtech Group Limited based in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom from Primary Capital Limited and senior management. Amtech is a leader in the UK in Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) construction industry software solutions for specification, design, estimating, procurement, construction management and operation. Financial terms were not disclosed. Amtech provides on-premise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, which include: LUCKINSlive.com:  a powerful content and pricing service solution for contractors and engineers in the UK which, when integrated with Estimating and NES, creates a powerful workflow throughout the construction cycle.  Enterprise Estimating: a UK-specific estimating software that, when combined with LUCKINS pricing data, gives contractors the ability to have up-to-date pricing information for accurate and competitive bidding. ProDesign:  leading electrical design software that provides full electrical design and calculations to BS 7671. NES:  a specification compiling software containing a comprehensive library of clauses that engineers can select and edit to create complete project specifications. ArtrA:  a

 PDF Key takeaways: Conflict minerals rules in the Dodd-Frank Act require companies to assess, track and report the usage of tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) in their global supply chains, yet another in a series of important compliance mandates Providing conflict mineral traceability is required for many industries, and managing that data is challenging Along with material compliance data, PLM can provide a necessary engine for early traceability for 3TG utilization in product designs Conflict minerals regulations highlight the need for a versatile framework that can manage similar needs in the future What are Conflict Minerals Conflict minerals are specific minerals whose sale is supporting an on-going conflict. In this case, they include cassiterite (tin), wolframite (tungsten), coltan (tantalum), and gold ore, which are extracted from the Eastern Congo and passed through a variety of intermediaries before being purchased by multinational companies. These minerals are mined and sold under the sponsorship of various armed militant groups

Luxion and Sørensen Leathers are pleased to announce the exclusive partnership that brings the full line of Sørensen Leather to KeyShot Cloud. With the release of KeyShot 5, Luxion continues to simplify the product development process, from concept design to sales and marketing. Within KeyShot 5, users now have direct access to Sørensen Leather materials via KeyShot Cloud. 289 leather grains and colors in total can be applied with a simple drag-and-drop of the material onto the object from the KeyShot Cloud interface. The leathers are applied as textures, retaining the ability for other material settings, including colors to be applied to the model, making it faster than ever to communicate the desired appearance of products and visuals. ”When I was a little girl my father showed me my first hide ever,” relates Louise Vesterskov Sørensen, CEO and Partner at Sorensen Leather. “When I felt its smoothness and saw how beautiful it looked, then

Digi-Key Corporation today announced an expanded, comprehensive suite of EDA tools. The new and updated software options enable design engineers to streamline the entire (PCB) design process – from prototype to production. Ranging from Digi-Key's free Scheme-It tool to new higher-end design options co-developed with Mentor Graphics, the global distributor is the first to offer a complete ecosystem of product design tools. "We're in the business of giving design engineers everything they need to simplify and accelerate product design," said Randall Restle, Director of Applications Engineering for Digi-Key. "Digi-Key is a one-stop-shop supporting the process from concept to prototyping to production. Most importantly, these tools are linked directly to hundreds of thousands of in-stock components, further simplifying the process. We're ecstatic about having all of the tools necessary to pave new roads for the design engineer." The Digi-Key design tool ecosystem features a suite of tools created by Aspen Labs – Scheme-It,