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Creaform announced the release of two teaching manuals customized for the needs of educators teaching at universities, colleges and technical schools around the world. The manuals cover theoretical and practical information on 3D measurement technologies and their uses in reverse engineering and quality control, which are crucial for the engineers and designers of tomorrow. A lab guide on how to use Creaform technologies is also included. The teaching manuals are currently available free of charge on Creaform’s web site as of today. The first manual covers the topic of Reverse Engineering, while the second focuses on applications for Quality Control. These comprehensive teaching manuals help educators to demystify the latest in 3D measurement technologies and describe their applications in a variety of industries. Moreover, Creaform has created very attractive educator-specific offers that will make 3D measurement technologies accessible to all types of institutions. These offers include adapted maintenance packages as well as cost-effective plans for

3D Systems announced it will be exhibiting at Baselworld 2014, one of the world’s most important watch and jewelry show, from March 27–April 3, 2014 in Basel, Switzerland. In partnership with resellers from around the world, 3D Systems will be showing the 150,000 attendees how digital design and 3D printing can accelerate jewelers’ production processes and business models. 3D Systems will be located in Hall 4U, Stand A01, at the Messe Basel, with six of its resellers in attendance to demonstrate a range of 3D-printed jewelry and watchmaking technologies: Almera from Turkey, Prototek/Selitek from Italy, Miradur from China, Steiner from Switzerland, Shree Rapid Technologies from India, and Westcam from Austria. Together these companies will explain and demonstrate how 3D PRINTING 2.0 allows jewelry designers and manufacturers to improve product quality, shorten product time-to-market, and reduce costs. “Our 3D printing technologies allow very fast but very accurate production of jewelry casting patterns and end-use metal parts direct from digital designs,” said Cathy Lewis, Chief Marketing Officer,

Intergraph® Process, Power & Marine, announced that its Technical User Forum (TUF) groups have surpassed the 10,000-member milestone. Intergraph’s TUF groups provide an online peer-to-peer discussion forum for year-round global networking between users of Intergraph software, allowing them to share expertise, knowledge and best practices as well as interact with Intergraph product owners. Current official groups include: Smart™ 3D (incorporates SmartPlant® 3D / SmartMarine® 3D) SmartPlant Electrical SmartPlant Enterprise for Owner Operators (SPO) SmartPlant Foundation (SPF) SmartPlant Instrumentation SmartPlant Materials SmartPlant Piping & Instrumentation Diagram (SP P&ID) SmartPlant Review SmartPlant Spoolgen SmartSketch The TUF groups have consistently achieved month-over-month growth in membership since Intergraph began tabulating group statistics in January 2012. Total TUF group membership recently surpassed 10,000 with the largest group, Smart 3D, currently exceeding 2,200 members. Patrick Holcomb, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine’s executive vice president of global business development and marketing, said, “Most of our membership has come from word of mouth, so growing from zero to over 10,000 user-group

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Autodesk, Inc. today announced the release of the new Autodesk 2015 Design Suites, which are more tightly integrated with Autodesk cloud services than ever before – offering customers the ability to collaborate, simulate, analyze and more, many with just one click from within the suite. Each Autodesk 2015 Design Suite includes AutoCAD 2015, the most advanced AutoCAD yet. A new interface and enhanced productivity tools enable customers to experience a new standard in design and documentation. Additionally, Autodesk Subscription offers customers even more convenient, flexible ways to access the tools they need, when they need them, to help grow their business. Autodesk subscription connects customers with software updates, services and support that help get the most out of their investment in Autodesk software now and in the future. “The Autodesk portfolio now has something for everyone involved in making products and projects come to life, in addition to designers and engineers,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president of platform

The engineering software provider Aucotec AG uses Siemens PLM software technology to enhance the PLM integration of its Engineering Base (EB) system. This means that Aucotec can now offer its current and future customers closer integration with the Teamcenter® portfolio, the same technology that companies around the world depend on every day to enhance product development decision making and produce better products. Siemens PLM Software is a leading global provider of PLM software and services. The solution created by the partnership will keep all information securely managed throughout the whole lifecycle of the engineered plant, machine or mobile equipment. This enables the management and distribution of released engineering documents with access control and revision management for the fastest availability of up-to-date project data information from EB. In addition, all purchasing and manufacturing lists can be created and updated to ensure proper data in all associated departments at any time. This new solution

Altair recently released the HyperWorks 12.0 Student Edition, making it the most comprehensive computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite available to aspiring structural and mechanical engineers.  The software is free, and extensive learning resources designed especially for students may be found on the Altair Academic Training Center.  In addition, Altair provides students on-demand interactive support through the moderated Academic Support Forum. The addition of solidThinking Inspire for intuitive concept generation is an enabler for simulation-based design that incorporates topology optimization, while solidThinking Evolve offers classic industrial design sketching and modeling functionality for the exploration of design alternatives. "We are thrilled to include solidThinking Inspire and solidThinking Evolve in the Altair HyperWorks 12.0 Student Edition. The concept generation included in the easy-to-use solidThinking Inspire software is perfectly suited for young engineers and will help them create and investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily.  Using Inspire, students can design products and parts lighter, stronger, and

Xceed Sports is a leading Mexico based sports and athletics wear company offering custom designed, high performance sportswear for triathlon athletes and professional cyclists. The brand is well known in Mexico for its high level quality products which are essential in competitive sports.  Xceed Sports has successfully implemented WFX Cloud PLM to move all their product development and design to a web-based centralized system. Being a primarily Spanish speaking company, Xceed Sports uses WFX PLM in Spanish which enables the non-English speaking users to work on WFX easily. "We were looking for a solution to simplify the techpack creation process and efficiently manage our Purchase orders. WFX’s Cloud PLM has enabled us to move all our product development process online efficiently and effectively and allows for one click sharing of Techpack and Purchase Orders with our factory. This has resulted in quick and effective communication within different departments and has improved productivity” says

Penglai Zhongbai Jinglu Shipbuilding Co., Ltd (Jinglu Shipbuilding), one of the key shipbuilding enterprises in Shandong Province, Greater China, has signed a new contract for AVEVA Marine™ software to address the current, challenging market situation and to future-proof its operations. The AVEVA technical team in China supported Jinglu Shipbuilding with a detailed evaluation exploring how AVEVA Marine would improve project efficiency and quality across the shipyard. As a result, the company selected AVEVA Marine, providing it with the most complete software solution for its current and future shipbuilding requirements. 'AVEVA Marine was an obvious choice, due to its great reputation,' said, Shiwen Jiang, Technical Director, Jinglu Shipbuilding. 'Naturally, we evaluated other software vendors on the market, but AVEVA is the only one that can provide such a solid reference base. Using AVEVA Marine we will benefit from shorter design cycles, improved design accuracy and reduced wastage in production. AVEVA Marine’s large user base

Zuken announces a string of inspiring speakers for its annual Zuken Innovation World conferences, which continue next month. Panasonic will illustrate how they used Zuken’s CR-8000 Design Force to develop the world's thinnest and lightest 20-inch, large-screen 4K tablet at the USA event in Dearborn, Michigan (April 28-30), and will be represented at the European events. They will be joined in the USA by speakers from Synopsys and Cummins, among others. At the European events, other customer and industry expert presentation highlights include: MIRA, Alexander Dennis and Printed Electronics speaking in Coventry, UK (May 21-22); Siemens Rail Automation, Liebherr and Arburg in Ulm, Germany (May 14-15), Elster, OSB Engineering and Weidmüller in Hannover, Germany (May 26-27); Jumatech and CadCabel AG Verdrahtungssysteme in Zürich, Switzerland (June 3). Registration for all events is open and agendas for the first five events are available, with those for Le Bourget, France (June 5) and Bologna, Italy (June 11) following soon. Many conference attendees are regulars. Jerry Murray of Cummins Power Generation explains: "The