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Continuing on from expansion in the UK, Germany and South Korea JETCAM International s.a.r.l. today announced the appointment of a new dealer covering South Africa. TDM Solutions, with offices in Johannesburg & Cape Town, already offers a range of CAD/CAM solutions covering cutting technologies such as milling, turning, CNC simulation and is a member of the Toolmaking Association of South Africa (TASA). TDM Solutions currently has a number of high profile SA companies working within the Aerospace industry. The company will be offering JETCAM’s complete range of sheet metal and composite solutions across South Africa. Jim Plester, Sales Director said; “With the development of composites within the aerospace, automotive and transport sectors, we see the addition of JETCAM to our portfolio of solutions can only benefit local companies. TDM Solutions prides itself in providing the best possible local support and training; this ensures that our clients get the best return on their investment.

Zuken has introduced the first data management solution specifically designed to manage E3.series design data in its native format. E3.EDM (Engineering Data Management) builds on Zuken’s E3.series and CONTACT Software’s CIM DATABASE EDM platform to provide data and process management integrated into E3.series for wire, harness, cable, control system and fluid design. E3.EDM is the first solution that enables native data management of E3.series data, thereby empowering electrical and fluid design processes in key areas. Faymonville, a European manufacturer of special vehicles, is implementing E3.EDM – first as part of a pilot program: “We are convinced the capabilities offered by native management of our electrical and fluid design data will bring significant improvements in our change and variant management process, and in the re-use of existing designs”, said Roland Fuhrmann, Head of IT at Faymonville. Electrical and fluid design have specific requirements for data and process management that, until today, have not been covered by existing

Sefaira, a leader in software for high performance building design, today announced that its energy analysis platform now supports Autodesk® Revit models, integrating Sefaira further into the Building Information Modeling (BIM) eco-system. Sefaira for Revit enables architects to perform energy analysis on Revit models starting with the first design iterations and throughout their design process. By expanding its support to include one of the most popular BIM platforms, Sefaira further reinforces its commitment to empower architects to incorporate energy analysis into early stage building design. Sefaira for Revit is the first performance analysis tool built for architects that delivers intuitive comparison of design options and parametric analysis to BIM. Sefaira's web app provides a wealth of performance and sustainability information in the form of integrated whole-building analysis of energy use, water use, carbon emissions, thermal comfort, and renewable energy. Its cloud-based analysis engine generates results in seconds with as few as three inputs --

Textura® Corporation, a leading provider of collaboration solutions for the construction industry, announced today that LATISTA Technologies, a Textura solution and leader in field management solutions for construction, is introducing BIM for the iPad, to be unveiled at the Autodesk University 2013 Conference.  LATISTA has taken the use of building information models (BIM) in the field to the next level by introducing its BIM solution for the iPad. LATISTA with BIM is integrated into the already award-winning LATISTA cloud and mobile solution. This new solution renders models rapidly and allows users to easily navigate, interact with, and launch workflows from a model right in the field. Watch a demonstration here or for live demonstrations, visit the LATISTA booth (# 2007) at the Autodesk University 2013 Conference in Las Vegas, NV, from December 3rd through 5th. Users can publish Autodesk BIM models to the LATISTA Cloud and then these models can be synchronized to iPads for use in the field. LATISTA

InventorCAM from SolidCAM is the leading integrated CAM for Autodesk Inventor. InventorCAM provides software modules for all types of CNC application and includes the company’s revolutionary, patented iMachining technology. As a Certified Autodesk Inventor Partner, InventorCAM is seamlessly integrated inside the CAD system and has full toolpath associativity with the Inventor model, automatically revising CAM toolpaths to keep up with any design changes. InventorCAM 2014 has more than 100 new enhancements across all its modules: iMachining 2D & 3D, 2.5D Milling, HSS, HSR/HSM, Sim 5X, Turning, Advanced Mill-Turn for multi-turret and multi-spindle machines, as well as a new module - Solid Probe. For its powerful 2.5D Milling module, additional Toolbox roughing and finishing operations have been added, while threading and engraving operations have been enhanced. In addition, the HSS complementary module for surface machining has been upgraded with new lead-in ramping options. InventorCAM 2014’s powerful 3D Milling solution comprising the High Speed Roughing (HSR) and High Speed Machining

Granta Design has announced the latest release of GRANTA MI™. Version 7 is the most capable and robust yet. It focuses on helping user organizations to deal with engineering realities, drawing on Granta’s unrivalled experience of implementing materials information management at leading engineering enterprises worldwide. Version 7 enhances core tools for managing the materials data lifecycle. It reinforces GRANTA MI as the system to deliver materials information and associated applications to a uniquely wide range of engineers, scientists, and managers. Enhancements to core features include a simplified web tool through which any authorized user can upload materials data, from anywhere. Advances in graphing and querying provide greater insight as users compare data from different sources – for example, test results and handbook data. Performance improvements further optimize what is already a robust, scalable, enterprise solution. Such capabilities help users to build and maintain a single, controlled, traceable source for corporate materials data,

After evaluating several solutions, Adorn Fashions®, one of the fastest growing brands of casual sportswear for the petite, missy and plus-size markets, has chosen Gerber Technology’s YuniquePLM™  software as a direct result of the Yunique team’s attention to the post-sales relationship. “This is huge for us,” said Ricky Zinn, vice president and COO of Adorn Fashions. “We have experienced a lot of growth in the past five years and are looking to take our business to the next level with YuniquePLM. We noticed that as we grew, complexity increased: we spent more time looking and less time doing. Our previous method of storing separate Excel® and Adobe® Illustrator® files in a repository is time consuming to organize, prone to errors and lacks accountability. In addition, searching within the repository favors one operating system over the other – furthering confusion. With Yunique Solutions’ out-of-the-box configuration, we were able to move through the

Rand Worldwide today announced that its courseware division, ASCENT- Center for Technical Knowledge, will have experts exhibiting and presenting at Autodesk University 2013. In addition, ASCENT will showcase the new Official Certification Preparation books along with ASCENT’s full selection of 2014 Autodesk Official Training Guides (AOTG), at booth #2114 from December 3-5 at the Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. “We are very excited to be arriving at Autodesk University with more than 60 titles released over the last eight months for Autodesk 2014 software,” says Paul Burden, director of product development, ASCENT. “All of these titles are available in our various formats, including our latest four titles for certification preparation. Our print, eBook, and online formats give our customers more choice in how they access content that enables them to improve their knowledge and productivity with Autodesk software.” ASCENT Presentation ASCENT author, Michelle Rasmussen, an AutoCAD Civil Infrastructure expert and Autodesk Certified Instructor, will deliver “Let’s

Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business unit and CADENAS have extended their partnership to provide students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) related fields, with free access to a popular product design productivity tool used by the global manufacturing industry. Siemens PLM Software’s academic partners – including students, researchers and educators – can now quickly and efficiently find and download standard parts from a massive digital database based on CADENAS’ widely-used PARTcommunity technology. By providing academia with the same technology used by many companies in the global manufacturing industry to instantly access millions of 3D parts from more than 400 manufacturers, Siemens and CADENAS are helping to further align STEM education with real-world job opportunities. “Our academic program is focused on developing a highly trained and heavily recruited PLM workforce,” said Bill Boswell, senior director of Partner Strategy, Siemens PLM Software. “Student engineers and computer scientists who work with

ZW3D announced on December 3 the result of the ZW3D Superhero Vehicle Design Challenge on GrabCAD. Five winners stood out from the rest in this challenge and won big prizes like cash, 3D printers and 3D mice. ZW3D CAD/CAM launched the annual design challenge on GrabCAD, a well-known 3D model sharing platform for mechanical engineers and CAD users, in a bid to promote, publicize and make creative thinking and innovation visible through 3D CAD modeling. ZW3D aims to establish a closer relationship with the design community, combining technical innovation with 3D CAD design to create vehicles for their beloved superheroes. “I am not an engineer and never designed a vehicle before, but I learnt to use ZW3D CAD/CAM in no time and submitted 3 entries,’’ said Seghier Mohamed Abdelaziz, one of the participants and an architect. “I like using ZW3D which allows me to create precision design and turn imagination into reality." Starting from