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Intergraph® was presented the prestigious Innovation of the Year award for its SmartPlant® Fusion solution during the Asia Oil & Gas Awards 2013 ceremony held on Nov. 18 at the Amari Watergate Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.  It was Intergraph's first nomination and win at the Asia Oil & Gas Awards. SmartPlant Fusion is one of the fastest and smartest way to make legacy information available for decision support.  It is the latest solution developed by Intergraph to rapidly capture, organize and make available large volumes of previously unstructured information through a simple web portal interface. The types of unstructured information include documents, drawings, lists and sheets, 3D models and High Definition Surveying (HDS) laser scans, which comprises integrated laser scan point clouds and high-resolution photography. Intergraph earned the Innovation of the Year award by showcasing how SmartPlant Fusion is specifically designed to tackle the challenges faced by plant operators and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies in

Sigmetrix, a leader in GD&T and tolerance analysis software and a PTC® PartnerAdvantage™ Gold Partner, announced the latest release of its GD&T Advisor software for  PTC Creo® design software.  Developed in partnership with Alex Krulikowski at Effective Training, Inc. (ETI), GD&T Advisor is an interactive tool that expertly guides designers through a standards-based application of GD&T from within the CAD environment. The latest version of this state-of-the-art solution provides users with enhanced capabilities and functionality. In addition to English, both the ISO GPS and ASME Y14.5M-1994 versions are now available in German, with all of the application’s user interface as well as the embedded help content offered in that language.  Separate annotations can now also be applied to the surface of features of size resulting in more accurate definitions.  In addition, GD&T Advisor v2.1 also provides improved pattern support, minimum or maximum tolerances, automatic creation of datum target annotations and several other usability enhancements. “The release of GD&T Advisor

Flow Science, Inc. has announced that it will hold its 14th annual FLOW-3D European Users Conference on June 17-18, 2014 in Vienna, Austria at the NH Danube. Advanced training for the use of FLOW-3D in the water & environmental industry will be held Monday, June 16. In addition, a technical tour of the hydraulic laboratory at TU Wien - Vienna will be offered prior to the conference. The conference is open to FLOW-3D users and other persons throughout Europe who are interested in learning more about the family of FLOW-3D products. The meeting will feature user presentations from a variety of industrial and research applications that focus on validations, benchmarks and case studies, as well as the latest developments for FLOW-3D presented by Michael Barkhudarov, VP of R&D and John Ditter, VP of Software Engineering at Flow Science. More information about the conference can be found on the conference webpage. Call for

CIMdata's PLM Community Members Register Here!  North America (Ann Arbor, MI) - April 3, 2014 Europe (Bad Homburg, Germany) - April 8, 2014  {form 6}

TraceParts with IronCAD today launched the portal www.tracepartsonline.net/ws/IRONCAD, a free online design resource, to the fast growing user community of IronCAD software. Directly available through IronCAD’s 2014 suite of products interface, this new online part library features over 100 million part numbers from hundreds of leading component manufacturers and distributors and thousands of ISO, ANSI, DIN, NF, GB, ASME and more standards.  “We’re extremely proud to partner with IronCAD to bring best-in-class free 3D part catalogs to their users.”says Gabriel Guigue, TraceParts Managing Director. “Time to market is critical to all manufacturing companies and IronCAD is a highly flexible tool to help them designing their products better and faster. We believe TraceParts catalogs will bring a fantastic added value to all IronCAD users while maximizing the product exposure for the part manufacturers using our services. Thanks to this this new website’s additional traffic, the cumulated audience of our TraceParts Publishing Network is now exceeding

SpaceClaim today announced the immediate availability of SpaceClaim Engineer 2014. With advances in nearly every aspect of the software, from new tools and extended interoperability to significantly faster performance, this new release maintains the popular interface and intuitive work flow of SpaceClaim Engineer while introducing several benefits. “We continue to invest every year in R&D to make SpaceClaim Engineer a better platform for design engineers, CAE analysts and manufacturing engineers to embrace the 3D modeling that was previously the sole domain of CAD experts,” said Chris Randles, SpaceClaim CEO. “This version of SpaceClaim Engineer is our fastest, easiest, most flexible and most powerful release ever. It brings the benefits of 3D to a new level, with new modeling capabilities, and exciting new collaboration tools.” SpaceClaim Engineer 2014 brings faster performance for many functions throughout the software, including a 30 percent improvement in model load times and multithreading support in several areas, including

ITC Infotech’s PLM RUNTEAM is an all-encompassing support service for PTC Windchill and PTC FlexPLM product lifecycle management (PLM) installations. It is rapidly gaining popularity with PLM teams across the globe because it takes away the burden of keeping complex PLM systems running at maximum efficiency, allowing product design teams to experience the system better and use these systems well to get their products to market quicker. By taking away the burden of support and user adoption from internal IT teams and placing it in the hands of qualified PLM professionals with deep cross-functional experience, organisation IT Management can concentrate on other priority areas with peace of mind, secure in the knowledge that their vital software tools and systems performance are being well taken care of and are in experts hands. Windchill is PTC’s flagship PLM system, complementing its Creo CAD tool, while FlexPLM addresses the specific lifecycle management challenges faced by

The latest release of the Alphacam CAD/CAM software suite incorporates a range of new and enhanced functionality, including aspects relating to solid tools, multi-processing and CAD to CAM. Amongst the updates in Alphacam 2014 R1: Solid Tools Cutting tools can now be defined from solids which are displayed during solid simulation and the lathe module now supports turrets, including revolver and platen type configurations. This gives the added benefit of enhanced graphical simulation; and improved collision detection within lathe, which is especially useful when using multiple spindles and turrets. Multi-Processing Alphacam is now making full use of multi-core hardware technology. Multi-processing allows users to calculate multiple toolpaths at the same time. This eliminates the need for the user to wait for one process to finish before starting the next, dramatically reducing part processing time.  Improved CAD to CAM Alphacam’s nested based automation tool, CAD to CAM, now supports the processing of solid models. Using style layer processing

ZWCAD Design announced that MP Ingenieros Ltda, a professional construction consulting company in Chile, has selected ZWCAD+ to enhance construction project outcomes. With the ability to handle large files flexibly, the fast running speed and easy revision functions, MP Ingenieros Ltda is able to review design projects in a more efficient and time-saving way. Founded in 2002, MP Ingenieros has taken part in several important projects for companies in the areas of industry and real estate. It provides consulting services for structural calculation, residential, commercial, industrial and institutional building projects. It also develops software for specific applications and provides project inspection and administration services. The Need Construction designs are usually larger in file size because of their greater complexity. Working with large drawings for a long time will not only burden the operating system, but cause problems such as slower response and longer lag time. Therefore, the flexibility in handling large drawings is a

PTC® today announced that Hitachi, Ltd. Rail Systems has selected the PTC Global Product Development Solution based on proven PTC Windchill® technology as its single enterprise platform for global product development throughout its railway vehicle engineering and manufacturing business. Hitachi, the only railway systems integrator in Japan, designs, manufactures, and services railway vehicles, traffic control and signal systems, and railway facilities/equipment for railway companies. Hitachi’s strategic alignment around the PTC solution will help the company drive product development innovation and success in an intensifying global competitive landscape. After being awarded a contract to deliver 600 railway cars and well over two decades of maintenance support for the Intercity Express Program in the U. K., Hitachi decided to build a production facility in the U.K. to produce the vehicles locally. Hitachi recognized that it needed a world-class PLM solution that would provide a unified, consistent view of all product data to meet its innovation and quality goals