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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 collectively expressed a strong interest in using hex cells in the boundary layer instead of prisms,” said Dr. John Steinbrenner, Pointwise's vice president of research and development. ”Hex cells are generally thought to provide the basis for a more accurate CFD solution, plus there will be fewer hexes than tets so computations would be faster. Fortunately, post-processing T-Rex's tet cells into hexes (12 tets per hex) was a natural extension of the existing tet-to-prism combination algorithm.” T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion) is a highly automated, advancing layer technique for generating a CFD mesh with boundary layer and wake resolution. The technique extrudes layers

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 not to upgrade to v15x-, with its issues resolved. Those corrections have been also propagated to the following releases of the v15x branch. This release of v14.2.5 implements code corrections, to the v14.2.4 release. It belongs to the v14x branch and is not compatible to v15x branch. The corrections introduced in v14.2.5 were also implemented to the following release of the v15x branch, which will be 15.0.2.. Known issues resolved in ANSA General The "Coordinate Systems" options in the F11 window would not be saved in the ANSA defaults file. Mesh Spacing [Auto CFD]: With certain settings, the perimeter nodes spacing would be applied incorrectly. Decks LS-DYNA: When

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 high-quality configuration and support services, provided during a pilot deployment of the software, proved a decisive factor in Initec’s decision to roll out AVEVA Electrical on all its major capital projects. “We wanted to eliminate inconsistencies between related engineering documents and to reduce the high number of design revisions,” said David Casado Ruiz, Electrical Manager, Initec Plantas Industriales. “We selected AVEVA Electrical because its user-friendly interface is designed specifically for engineers. You don’t have to be an IT specialist to use it. Because AVEVA Electrical is open and configurable, we were able to import data from spreadsheets and match the output

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 SAP® Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application. The announcement was made at the SAP Manufacturing Industry Forum 2014, being held April 15-16 in Itasca, Illinois.  Founded in 1947, Greenheck Fan is the manufacturer of air movement products tailored for the institutional and commercial market. Since its inception, Greenheck has grown considerably, and now has six manufacturing locations and six distribution locations across the country and around the world. With SAP PLM, Greenheck integrates the engineering and design process into manufacturing systems so users are able to design multiple product variants, make changes to them and control these changes in the same

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 ($275,000) or ($.31) per share compared to $(14,000) or $(.01) per share for the same period in the prior fiscal year. EBITDA for current quarter was about $(93,000) as compared to about $183,000 for the same period in fiscal year 2013. Gross margins declined to 57.8% in the current quarter as compared to 77.3% in the comparative quarter in fiscal 2013. In connection with the sale of the CADRA product line in Q2 of fiscal 2014, the Company retained the right to distribute CADRA throughout Europe (except Germany) and to the largest U.S. customer for that technology at margins ranging from 30%

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 in Europe Ever since the acquisition of VX CAD/CAM in 2010, ZWSOFT has marched into 3D CAD/CAM area with soaring ZW3D business and established a powerful channel network of around 50 partners in Europe alone. Along with its professional partners, ZW3D has delivered great CAD/CAM solutions to European markets and earned trust of customers like Ogle Models and Prototypes, Dr. Höhn, GoTools, Brightwake, etc., witnessing its wide application in various industries like automotive equipment, machinery, electronics, consumer products, and so on. This year at EPC 2014, ZW3D gathered its excellent Europe partners from 12 European countries like Germany, France, UK, Portuguese and Poland to further explore the

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 through the successful implementation of open standards-based data exchange. In addition, both companies support the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) file format as an interoperability solution for their customers. “We believe systems interoperability is as important as supporting 3D data in our 4D BIM for construction planning and scheduling solution,” said Tom Dengenis, CEO of Synchro Software Ltd. “Our support for IFC dates back to 2008. We decided back then for clear strategic reasons to focus on Vectorworks, the clear leader in IFC, to guide our import and synchronization capabilities. From the start, and to this day, we singularly focus on developing and

CADsoft Consulting Inc., today announced they have become a distributor of the Topcon line of robotic technologies for the construction industry, with a direct interface to BIM. Topcon Positioning Systems, a leader in precision positioning technology and solutions, has designed their innovations to allow building and civil infrastructure construction customers to form a tighter, more seamless workflow that will increase on-site worker productivity, enhance jobsite safety, and improve quality control. Additionally, Topcon and Autodesk, Inc., leaders in cloud-based design and engineering software, previously announced they will collaborate to allow products within Autodesk’s leading design and construction software portfolio for BIM to more efficiently interact with the Topcon on-site field positioning hardware. This provides greater interoperability between Autodesk’s design solutions and Topcon field positioning hardware to connect workflows between the office and the field, utilizing robotic total stations for construction positioning. As an Autodesk Authorized Gold Partner, CADsoft Consulting has the expertise to provide a complete solution

The Building Information Modeling (BIM) software provider Tekla has acquired SVS Innovations’ (SVSi) construction software business and its advanced Field3D mobile technology. The acquisition further strengthens Tekla’s position in mobile BIM applications development. Field3D is an easy-to-use 3D collaboration software solution for BIM that works on mobile devices, enabling stakeholders in a construction workflow to access complete 3D model information for an entire building on smartphones and tablets. “One of Tekla’s key objectives is to extend BIM’s reach from the design office to the field, and Field3D technology will help us achieve this goal,” said Mr. Risto Räty, Executive Vice President of Tekla Corporation and General Manager of Trimble Buildings Structures Division. “Field3D technology focuses on solutions for mobile operating systems and the acquisition further strengthens Tekla’s position as a premier provider of advanced BIM technology.” Both Tekla and SVSi offer technology that smoothly manages very large amounts of information. Tekla’s constructible, accurate models

Dan Erno, Mechanical Engineer, GE Global Research Dan Erno has been a Mechanical Engineer at GE Global Research for 14 years and is currently in the Structures organization working on structural design and optimization for Aviation, Power and Water, Oil and Gas, and Wind. Dan received his BS in mechanical engineering from Rochester Polytechnic Institute and joined the Edison Engineering and Development Program at GE where he received his MS in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech.