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TraceParts announces the launch of the seventh major version of its website www.traceparts.com. The site has been completely redesigned to match new Web standards and thus improve the experience of its users. New design as well as new structure: information retrieval and navigation of the new site are optimized by highlighting the 3 main services offered by TraceParts. In addition, the international visibility is enhanced with its content translated into 9 different languages. CAD users now have intuitive access to the library of 3D components, the list of 3D catalog suppliers and the TraceParts Mobile application. Component manufacturers can quickly find all the necessary information to convert their CAD data into a powerful 3D Marketing tool. Marketing professionals have access to a whole range of Digital Marketing solutions, allowing them to promote their products to engineers and design professionals to generate quality leads. For its 1st month of online, this new version of the site confirms

Kubotek USA has officially released KeyCreator 2015. As the sole remaining independent Direct CAD solution available, KeyCreator 2015 continues to add functionality and customer-driven enhancements to give its users unmatched productivity and flexibility for an efficient design-to-manufacture process. KeyCreator 2015 now includes the KeyCreator Compare module as part of the standard package of KeyCreator 2015. The inclusion of this unique CAD comparison technology makes KeyCreator the first and only CAD system that can import, edit and compare dozens of native CAD files produced from other systems. This CAD comparison technology expands the use of KeyCreator’s proprietary pattern recognition technology to provide users with an easy way to graphically identify, automatically organize and communicate changes to model data via automated PDF reporting. CAD comparison can be used in numerous ways to help designers and manufacturers, including but not limited to: is/was comparisons for quoting manufacturing jobs and changes, design collaboration with customers, and revision management for design updates.

Kenesto Corp today announced the full availability of its latest innovations to enable file, workflow and data collaboration for mainstream engineering businesses. These latest enhancements to Kenesto’s cloud service, which include innovative file vaulting and a pioneering file synchronization service, not only go beyond what can be found in other cloud solutions, but do so in a manner which more accurately fits with the way users and companies prefer to work – according to Kenesto’s market research.  "Many of our customers have struggled to force solutions not designed for engineering data to work for them" said Michael Payne, Kenesto's CEO.  "Our latest release offers a much needed set of capabilities for mainstream engineering businesses, supporting a highly affordable cloud model that includes nearly instant time-to-value."  Kenesto’s services take into account the access rights granted to those with whom documents and folders have been shared.  It determines whether the documents are in a vaulted status

An expanded interface between EPLAN and Teamcenter® software, which offers more functionality, including catalogue part synchronisation and expanded support for Teamcenter releases is now available. This allows the EPLAN parts database to be matched with the data in Teamcenter. While the previously integrated functionality – announced one year ago – has been well received, users have been eagerly awaiting the electrical engineering interface between EPLAN and Teamcenter. Project data from EPLAN Platform can now be worked on directly in Teamcenter, the world’s most widely used product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio. The integration module for Teamcenter seamlessly embeds EPLAN Platform solutions into the PLM environment. Electrical engineering has now become a component of the digital product model. E-CAD data such as connection lists, bills of materials and EPLAN reports complete the product model. Create, save and revise parts lists The interface covers the essential requirements of Design Data Management. These include management of

CDS (Catalog Data Solutions) announced that Buckeye Shapeform has implemented its Catalog as a Service™ and CAD as a service™ website solutions. Buckeye Shapeform offers an extensive line of standard enclosures in both metal and plastic as well as the capability to modify or customize to fit the end users enclosure needs. Buckeye strategically targets and supports the audiovisual, aerospace, testing, telecommunication, and medical industries. “We added product CAD models to our website because the industrial buying process has changed. Industrial designers, like the rest of us, search online for what they need. Our product CAD models save designers time by enabling them to download models rather than building them from scratch and as a result our products get ‘designed in’ to new customer CAD designs ready for later purchase,” said Kenneth R. Tumblison, President, Buckeye Shapeform. “But for our models to get used they first have to be found online. We added

Join Tata Technologies at a free engineering user group lunch on Friday, October 17 from 11:30 a.m.– 2:30 p.m. at its Novi headquarters to review and discuss user experience Autodesk 2015 Product Design Suite(PRDS), and Autodesk Inventor 2015 digital prototyping design solutions. Gain insight on the latest Autodesk PRDS user experience information, mingle with manufacturing colleagues, and learn about the newest industry design and digital prototyping updates from Tata Technologies' resident PRDS, Inventor, 3D simulation and prototyping experts, Ben Curtin and Drew Tucker. Curtin and Tucker will lead this Friday's Autodesk user group event and discuss the advantages of Autodesk PRDS solutions, such as seamless interoperability, cloud capabilities that let users work from anywhere, and compatibility with software from other providers. Learn how these solutions assists engineers and designers in developing more innovative designs with integrated, purpose-built 2D and 3D tools for digital prototyping. Curtin is a uniquely experienced application engineer and business development consultant with

D3 TECHNOLOGIES announces the acquisition of the business assets of Vector Graphics, Inc. (VGI), an Autodesk solutions and services provider based in Lafayette, Louisiana. This addition to D3 creates a powerful formation of expertise and support for both the manufacturing and oil and gas industries. Also, with this strategic acquisition, D3 will now serve both the Central U.S. and Gulf Coast regions with Autodesk Manufacturing and Process Plant solutions, coupled with a strong team of engineering, design, simulation, process automation, and programming professionals. Personnel from Vector Graphics joined the D3 team and will continue to serve customers in the Louisiana and Gulf Coast areas. Among those are former VGI owners Zed LaCour & Vaughn Klos, Business Development Manager Chad Guidry, and Instructor Shawn Budden. “We are incredibly excited for our VGI customers,” said Zed LaCour, former President of Vector Graphics. “Not only will clients continue to work with our personnel, but combined

Measuring Organizations’ Readiness to Adopt PLM ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 October 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces a new white paper describing Tata Technologies’ new PLM Analytics Maturity Assessment Program. Portions of Tata Technologies PLM Analytics were developed in cooperation with CIMdata. The result is a three-tier PLM analytics analysis program designed to provide insight and guidance to customers about the maturity of PLM within their enterprise. This three-component approach (PLM Benchmark, PLM Health Check, and PLM Roadmap) enables a company to start with a quick, no-cost overview assessment that identifies issues and potential directional priorities for their PLM program. At each successive tier, they obtain more extensive knowledge about their current situation, leading to a detailed execution roadmap. Using the results of the three-tier PLM analytics program helps companies close their PLM value gap. “Tata Technologies PLM Analytics Maturity Assessment Program” is available to be

Delcam has launched the 2015 version of its PowerSHAPE Pro CAD for CAM system for modelling for manufacture and reverse engineering.  The new release includes improvements in direct modelling, surface modelling and reverse engineering, plus support for data from Creaform HandySCAN handheld scanners. Full details, including video demonstrations, are on the Learning Zone –www.delcam.tv/ps2015 By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering functionality, PowerSHAPE Pro provides the most comprehensive range of design techniques available in a single CAD program.  Having all the different technologies in the same package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines the whole product development process.  At the same time, the combination of quick and easy direct modelling options, together with powerful and flexible surface modelling, makes PowerSHAPE Pro the perfect choice for design for manufacture. The improvements in direct modelling build on the introduction of the Smart

Autodesk, Inc. today announced the 2015 releases of AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD LT for Mac software, two of the leading computer-aided design (CAD) tools for Mac users. The new software makes it easier than ever for businesses and students to create drawings and designs on the platform of their choice without sacrificing important functionality that is key to everyday design workflows. Users can also share their work with colleagues that are using Windows versions of the software for uninterrupted collaboration. “The new releases of AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD LT for Mac are among the most significant updates in the products’ five-year history,” said Amy Bunszel, vice president of AutoCAD products at Autodesk. “This release has some rich new features but at its core, it is about eliminating dead ends that prevent people from being as effective as they can be when working together on design projects.” Key new enhancements include: Dynamic Blocks. Mac