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SolidCAM’s Japanese reseller Tactx collaborated with OKK and Tungaloy at the recent MECT 2013 exhibition in Nagoya, Japan. The biennial show, which has been running since 1987 is the country’s largest for machinery, CAD/CAM, tooling and associated equipment, and this year welcomed 93,741 visitors. Sharing the OKK booth, Tactx used SolidCAM iMachining to program a demonstration part, for the exhibition, to show off the capabilities of the OKK HMC 400. This machine was set up for live cutting at the show to include a video screen, to make it easy to see the machining in progress. At the Tungaloy booth, visitors could see the latest Tunghold and Tungcap tooling systems as well as the company’s range of inserts and carbide tools and, at the same time, pick up information on SolidCAM. Both OKK and Tungaloy appreciate the power of SolidCAM, which led to the collaboration at MECT 2013. The software’s patented iMachining and

MSC Software Corporation and Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University, named after R. E. Alekseev (NNSTU n. a. R. E. Alekseev, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), one of the leading technical universities in the Volga Federal District of Russia, announce the expansion of their collaboration to train engineers in automotive, shipbuilding, energy and a number of other engineering industries. In 2011, MSC Software and NNSTU n. a. R. E. Alekseev created the Competence Center for engineering analysis to support the region's high concentration of leading Russian companies in major manufacturing industries. To equip the Competence Center with technology, MSC Software licensed the use of its MSC Nastran, Patran, Adams, Marc, Dytran, Easy5, and Sinda software products. MSC actively supports the work of the specialists at NNSTU n. a. R. E. Alekseev by regularly conducting training and information seminars on methods of working with the software, as well as consulting support for teaching academic disciplines. Experts of NNSTU n. a. R. E. Alekseev have

MAYA’s broad expertise in software development and engineering enables customization of off-the-shelf software and optimization of product design. As a solution partner and reseller for Siemens’ PLM software business, MAYA brings an intimate knowledge of products and technologies that enable delivery of a total solution, customized to meet customer needs. LMS customers will greatly benefit from the synergy between the LMS solutions and the technical expertise and support capabilities of MAYA. “This is absolutely an exciting moment in our 27 year history into the CAE market both as author of CAE products and as an industry expert in CAD, CAE and Lifecycle Management software solutions,” said Dominique Frechette, Director Business Strategy, Maya Heat Transfer Technologies. “LMS Imagine.Lab and LMS Virtual.Lab products represent a great strategic alignment extending even further our ability to help customers translate software technology into sustainable business solutions. MAYA, with its substantial knowledge and expertise in many of

Keystone Business Services announced today it is now a certified Autodesk PLM 360 Advisor, which allows Keystone to implement, integrate and support Autodesk® PLM 360, a simple-to-deploy product lifecycle management (PLM) solution in the cloud. Keystone Business Services offers a NetSuite ERP integration experience and the ability to tailor each implementation to meet the specific needs and challenges of their customers, which makes the company an ideal choice to serve as one of the first U.S. Autodesk PLM 360 Advisors. Keystone will leverage Autodesk PLM 360 to help clients develop process and procedures to bring products to market. The integration of cloud-based Autodesk PLM 360 and NetSuite ERP provides a single system for all stakeholders involved in the commercialization process to collaborate and turn the best ideas into actionable plans. “Keystone has been very successful as a channel partner and service provider for NetSuite, and their expertise in deploying cloud-based enterprise systems will

3D Systems  and Xerox today announced a transaction designed to leverage both companies’ 3D printing capabilities to accelerate growth and cement leadership positions. 3D Systems entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xerox Corporation’s Wilsonville, Oregon product design, engineering and chemistry group and related assets for $32.5 million in cash. Both companies expect the transaction to close before the end of 2013, subject to fulfillment of certain customary conditions. This agreement expands the decade and a half long collaboration between the companies, that already produced 3DS’ best selling ProJet® series 3D printers. "We are pleased to expand our relationship with an innovative partner of the caliber of Xerox and expect that acquiring some of the Xerox Wilsonville engineering team, together with their state-of the-art development labs and selected licensed IP, will catapult our 3D printers’ development and manufacturing capabilities forward,” said Avi Reichental, 3D Systems’ President and CEO.  “This bold step is consistent

TransMagic, Inc., announces the release of TransMagic R10 sp1.  The first service pack for notable TransMagic release 10, sp1 entails multiple enhancements and improvements including the release of multi-core processing, refined PMI technology, new features and new formats.  The new CAD formats, SMLib and DXF read/write, are included with R10 sp1, as highly anticipated formats for the TransMagic user community.  Various CAD version support updates as well as preview technology of new formats are also released in R10 sp1 including: New CAD Version Support: CATIA V6 R2014 Inventor 2014 NX 8.5.2 Release Parasolid 26.0 Updated CAD Add-in Support: SolidWorks 2014  Inventor 2014 New Formats: SMLib Read/Write DXF Read/Write Collada Write TransMagic R10 sp1 is the first release of the TransMagic application on top of their new multi-core processing power.  While most applications access one processing core at a time, TransMagic can now source all processing cores in a computer, spreading the application’s processing requirements and usage over all available resources.  Essentially, TransMagic’s multi-core processing

Industrial valve producer, Milwaukee Valve has recently expanded their online CAD product configurator, enabling output to Autodesk® REVIT® building information modeling (BIM) format. Designed and built by CADENAS PARTsolutions, the sales configurator now meets the needs of a much broader customer base by offering one of the most popular design formats on the market. Milwaukee Valve is best known for their selection of more than 5,000 valve configurations for commercial, industrial and residential applications. Their online CAD file generator boasts hundreds of products in more than 150 native, neutral CAD and graphic formats. They are adding Autodesk® REVIT® to their CAD product configurator to meet high customer demand. “The evolution of our configurator has paralleled evolution of the demand,” says Geoff McLaughlin, Vice President of Technical Support at Milwaukee Valve. “Our customers used to be satisfied with 2D drawings. They were ecstatic when we began offering 3D models in native formats. Now,

ESI Group announces the launch of Visual-Environment 9.0.  ESI's multi-domain simulation platform hosts most of ESI's Virtual Prototyping solutions, and is open to third party technologies. ESI's platform enables industrial users to automate all their Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) processes from Computer-Aided Design (CAD), through pre- and post-processing, modeling, simulation and visualization, to reporting in any CAE domain; all in a unified environment. Connecting ESI solutions while supporting third party applications, Visual-Environment 9.0 is the obvious choice to support the simulation of the manufacture and assembly of existing and future products, and to enable concurrent engineering and optimization across multiple domains including Crash, Safety, NVH, Energy, Heat Treatment, Flow, Electromagnetics, CFD and more. It helps industrial organizations to maximize their use of CAE in order to achieve greater productivity in their engineering processes and supports their quest for innovation. "Visual-Environment's wide range of functionalities across different solvers, implemented for pre- and post-processing applications, turn this software solution into an

Algoryx Simulation AB, a provider of interactive physics simulation solutions, and SpaceClaim, provider of flexible and affordable 3D modeling software for engineers, today announced Dynamics for SpaceClaim, a new real-time multibody simulation module for SpaceClaim Engineer that brings interactive physics to the everyday work of engineers and designers. Dynamics for SpaceClaim by Algoryx brings 3D models to life with physics-based motion dynamics powered by Algoryx’ real-time physics engine, AgX Dynamics. Dynamics for SpaceClaim adds value to the entire design process, from conceptual studies to detailed mechanical analysis. Further, when used with Luxion KeyShot, the same simulations can also be used to produce high impact photo-realistic product videos for design reviews, sales and marketing. ”The market has never seen dynamics that can be built this easily and provide this much visual information regarding the physical performance of their work,” said Frank DeSimone, VP of software development for SpaceClaim.” Algoryx’s AgX physics engine provides outstanding

AVEVA today announced that JSC NIAEP – JSC Atomstroyexport (ASE), an engineering company in the Russian nuclear industry, has signed an agreement to use AVEVA’s engineering & design software. “Specialists of JSC NIAEP-ASE have created and are now successfully using the unique Multi-D technology that supports the whole lifecycle of a nuclear plant – from engineering & design phase to decommissioning. Moreover, we are sure that the experience and knowledge that we have gained over the years will be very useful both in the oil & gas sphere and in thermal power plants, where the plants are on a similar scale with nuclear power plants. Our goal is not only to diversify our specialty, but also to make the software technology we use more versatile and acquiring the AVEVA software is another step in this direction,” said Sergey P. Olontsev, Vice-President JSC NIAEP-ASE. “JSC NIAEP-ASE appreciates the capabilities of the AVEVA solutions