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Rand Worldwide today announced that its courseware division, ASCENT- Center for Technical Knowledge, and 4D Technologies, developers of the CADLearning video library, plan to collaborate on the creation of products that bring together training guide and video content from both parties. The first such product type planned will see ASCENT add video from the CADLearning video library into its Autodesk Official Training Guide eBooks. Already the sole provider of Autodesk Official Training Guides (AOTG), ASCENT’s new multi-format eBook will combine their industry leading content with rich video to create an unrivalled learning experience. “ASCENT is the leading provider of training guides for Autodesk software training while CADLearning is the leading video-based learning resource,” says Paul Burden, director of product development, ASCENT. “This planned collaboration will provide the best of both types of content to instructors, students, and self-learners. The association of hundreds of CADLearning videos with each Autodesk Official Training Guide from ASCENT will

Fifth Module of the 2014 PLM MAR Report Series ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 26 November 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2014 PLM Industry report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2013. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth. The CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series is packaged as five modules: The CIMdata 2014 Executive PLM Market Report provides an overview of CIMdata’s complete global analysis. It includes key charts on PLM market investment statistics through 2013, forecasts of investments for 2014 through 2018, and a summary of PLM solution providers’ performance in 2013. The CIMdata 2014 PLM Industry Review and

 PDF Key takeaways: Existing Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA SmarTeam users have multiple options either to remain with their V5 environments, co-exist with the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, or migrate to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Existing ENOVIA V5 products including ENOVIA SmarTeam will be enhanced and supported for years to come Dassault Systèmes, developers of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for product development, has reiterated their commitment to the ENOVIA SmarTeam collaboration platform. SmarTeam gained popularity within many companies for managing their CATIA V5, SOLIDWORKS and multi-CAD design files. Dassault Systèmes states that the full suite of ENOVIA products, including SmarTeam, will be enhanced and supported for years to come. CIMdata welcomes this pronouncement from Dassault Systèmes that provides SmarTeam customers the stability of a sustained solution for their CAD data management needs. As user companies face an increasingly difficult task of designing sophisticated products for their competitive industries, they cannot afford to have the tools upon which they rely shifting

With the introduction of the SolidWorks® Translator plug-in, Merry Mechanization Inc. (Merry Mech), further increases the versatility of the company's suite of sheet metal fabrication software. The plug-in streamlines the import of SolidWorks® part files into Merry Mech's industry-leading SMP/IS, Sheet Metal Program/Industry Standard software. With additional icons in the user interface, operators can convert and import files for processing within SMP/IS. The company emphasizes time savings and ease of use, saying, "SolidWorks® Translator will flatten your sheet metal parts and import them into SMP/IS with a single click of the mouse!" Further processing using the automation and nesting features of Merry Mech's software can improve sheet metal utilization rates and increase operator productivity. After installing the SolidWorks® Translator plug-in into SolidWorks®, the operator sees two additional icons at the top left of the user interface. One button sends a flat pattern with bend lines to SMP/IS while the other sends the pattern without

SigmaTEK Systems, LLC, announces the latest release of its industry-leading SigmaNEST software program.  Powered by the industry’s most advanced CAD/CAM nesting engine, SigmaNEST Version 10.2 contains a number of new features and enhancements making cutting machine programming even more effective and easy. Version 10.2 offers a Split Window allowing different areas of the work-space to be viewed simultaneously. Users may also manually nest parts across the split windows and onto other sheets.  This provides quick nesting of parts onto multiple sheets without having to select the layout from the list. Additional enhancements to SigmaNEST Version 10.2 include: Laser Destruct Center of Gravity Tabbing Conditional Tabbing for Drop Doors Special Lead-ins with manual tabs Quick Search in Parts, Sheets, and Work Order List Horizontal line cropping Punching enhancements …More

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the latest release of its award-winning FloEFD™ upfront and concurrent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) product. This new release provides advanced capabilities and functionality which enables designers and analysts to create more realistic operating environments and models for improved simulation accuracy.  New features include a sliding mesh model for rotating equipment such as pumps, fans, and blowers; water film simulation to calculate surface condensation and icing film thickness; together with radiation and lighting enhancements. These new capabilities support automotive industry initiatives for developing state of the art lighting products as well as enabling manufacturers to design better pumps, fans and blowers. “I am pleased to let you know that Tamturbo Oy Ltd. has been successfully using FloEFD for high speed compressor CFD simulations.  Our test models show that the new sliding mesh rotor-stator interface model is very accurate and can be used for high speed compressor simulations”

Granta Design announced the release of six upgraded materials reference data modules, each providing property data and related information from leading data sources for metals (MI-21, StahlDat SX, and NIMS) or plastics (Prospector® Plastics, CAMPUS®, and M-Base). Engineers need reliable, reference data to perform key materials-related tasks including selecting materials, substitution and equivalency studies, simulation, certification, and specifying specific grades in design. Granta software products provide access to a regularly-updated, comprehensive library of this and other materials reference information all in one place, supporting these applications, saving time, and ensuring use of the best, up-to-date data. Granta also links materials information together into a truly integrated resource, using its unique MaterialUniverse™ data module as a ‘hub’. MaterialUniverse is a catalogue of nearly 4,000 generic materials types, covering the full range of engineering materials and their properties. It can act as an ‘index’, with users finding a material type of interest, then following

Sefaira today announced that it will preview a new product for heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) design engineers and showcase two new tools for architects at this week's Autodesk University. With these innovations, Sefaira now enables unprecedented collaboration between architects and HVAC design engineers from the earliest stages of design -- for the first time bringing together performance analysis and BIM workflows across multiple members of the project team. This empowers each member of the design team to make informed decisions and improve building performance using robust real-time performance analysis. Sefaira, which is known in the market for continuous, rapid innovation in the area of performance-based design, has launched numerous exciting tools for architects since Autodesk University 2013, including daylighting analysis and visualization, real-time analysis within Autodesk Revit, customizable performance baselines, and the ability to simulate automated daylighting controls -- in addition to numerous improvements to existing features. Sefaira's newest product for HVAC engineers will

Delcam has undertaken a series of six free hands-on training sessions for users of its PowerSHAPE Pro design and reverse engineering software and its PowerMILL and FeatureCAM CAM systems.  More than 160 users attended the sessions, which were all held in the Centrelink House conference venue at the company’s Birmingham headquarters. "Delcam has by far the largest development team in the CAM industry so we always have many new features to show at these events,” claimed Delcam Marketing Manager, Peter Dickin.  "We need to ensure that our customers are kept up to date with all the latest enhancements in their software so that they can maximise their productivity and profitability.” The training sessions followed the recent release of the 2015 versions of all three programs.  Each session focused on the latest enhancements that will help users to increase their productivity and shorten lead times. The main enhancement in the 2015 release of PowerSHAPE

Cadac Group Houston announced today that Edwin Elmendorp, President of Cadac Group Americas, is set to lecture at the upcoming Autodesk University 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, which takes place December 2-4th, 2014. The lecture was chosen out of the thousands of topics that were submitted, because it focuses on the important issue of document control and engineering data management – a growing and potentially costly pain point for the oil and gas industry. Autodesk University offers Autodesk software training and networking opportunities year round. Their upcoming conference in Las Vegas is the world’s largest annual gathering for Autodesk software users. Cadac Group is an industry leader in Engineering Document Management & Control. The company’s software, Cadac Organice, is a comprehensive document management & control solution that decreases workflow inefficiencies for a variety of project-driven engineering industries. Elmendorp has created a class for project managers and document control managers in the oil and