Position Papers

Paroc has again chosen the infrastructure provided by BIMobject® to reach out with their BIM solutions. Paroc Panel System, a European market leader in the manufacturing of mineral wool sandwich panels, now meets the request from many BIM users by publishing a Revit-based design tool on the BIMobject® Portal. Paroc Panel System provides a unique service package based on its 25 years of experience and expertise. The company’s operations are reliable and flexible, and facilitate the management of PAROC panel building projects from project planning to installation. PAROC panels are high-class steel-faced sandwich panels with a core of stone wool. The main application areas of the panels are facades, partitions and ceilings in commercial, industrial and public buildings. Download the App for free from the BIMobject® Portal: http://bimobject.com/product/?manufacturer=paroc Architects and Designers will find it easy to use the tool to generate different wall and ceiling panel types and then visualise the designs with realistic profiles and colours. By

LEDAS Ltd., today announced new capabilities in its LEDAS Geometry Comparison (LGC) component. LGC now supports most formats from today’s MCAD systems, including all flagship and mid-range products of the top four CAD vendors. Because LGC makes it possible to compare models from any source, the new release allows users to work with CAD models without worrying about native formats. And so LGC allows users to open and then compare native parts and assemblies from CATIA, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, Inventor, and Solid Edge. As well, it fills out its coverage of 3D interoperability formats by adding JT and ACIS to those already supported, STEP, IGES, and Parasolid. To handle the new formats, LEDAS decided on licensing the translation component from Datakit, software that has a proven track record. “Expanding the list of supported CAD formats was the most requested feature that we received from users, following the first release of LGC,” said Alexey

AVEVA announced today that ENERGOINVEST d.d. Sarajevo, a multi-disciplinary engineering company, has used AVEVA Bocad Tower to complete the construction of a K-Face transmission tower, saving a time for the design of towers significantly.  AVEVA Bocad Tower is the only software designed specifically for the construction of transmission and communication towers, increasing productivity and enabling superior quality modelling. The AVEVA Bocad products are helping companies achieve right-first-time fabrication, ensuring assets are delivered on time and on budget. ‘AVEVA Bocad Tower is an open, interoperable solution that facilitates collaboration across multi-discipline teams,' commented Nedim Karahasanovic, Marketing Manager, ENERGOINVEST Transmission Lines, ‘It has increased our efficiency and productivity.  With only a few week’s training on the AVEVA Bocad software we made great progress with the design of the tower and reduced the scheduled time of the project.’ Richard Brotherton, VP Sales, Fabrication sector, AVEVA, explained how AVEVA’s technology is achieving such impressive time savings: ‘AVEVA

Simpleware has joined 3T RPD Ltd in the GOSSAM (Generation of Optimal Support Structure in Additive Manufacturing) project. Funded by Innovate UK, the project aims to develop innovative and advanced intelligent metal additive manufacturing (AM) support structures. Launched in October 2013 and running to December 2015, GOSSAM targets breakthroughs in the often-overlooked area of support structures used in the manufacturing of components. Support structures are typically required to build unsupported geometric features on metal DMLS parts. The use of supports however removes the complete design freedom offered by additive manufacturing; additionally supports may need to be created which cannot be removed post production. Supports may comprise up to 50% of the build mass, and can considerably increase the set-up, build and post-processing times. New software solutions are being developed through GOSSAM to automatically orientate parts and then generate intelligent scaffolds for them. The long-term goal of the software developed for GOSSAM is

Vero Software has appointed Hideki Hasegawa as Regional Director for the APAC region. Hideki joined Vero as Commercial and Technical Manager at the start of 2014, becoming General Manager just three months later. Prior to joining Vero, he held increasingly senior positions at a major automotive supplier, followed by technical, marketing and sales roles at two leading CADCAM suppliers. In his new role as Regional Director he is responsible for all direct and indirect sales of Edgecam, VISI, WorkNC and SMIRT. Chief Executive Officer Steve Sivitter says: “He has made excellent progress in unifying the Vero business in the region, and will now execute our plans to greatly expand our sales footprint, working closely with resellers in the growing Asia Pacific markets.” He holds a Bachelor of Applied Mathematics and Physics from the College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced an agreement with CADD Edge, Inc., a distributor of electrical and mechanical design and analysis tools, to provide Mentor Graphics® electronic systems design products to customers in the eastern USA. These Mentor products provide customers with the world's leading printed circuit board (PCB) design, high-performance analysis, PCB Design for Manufacturability (DFM) checking, and thermal analysis capabilities. Now customers have access to the capabilities that distinguish the Mentor Graphics portfolio and enable higher design productivity, product quality, and cost and cycle reduction. This agreement marks a departure from CADD Edge's three-year relationship with Altium, also a manufacturer of printed circuit board design software. CADD Edge has a proven successful history in selling printed circuit board design tools and solutions into their market. The software tools from Mentor complement CADD Edge's existing product suite of software and hardware from SolidWorks, Omnify, Stratasys and this relationship allows Mentor to broaden

Pointwise announces the latest release of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring direct integration with overset grid assembly (OGA) software. “The integration of grid generation and overset grid assembly represents a vast improvement over the hodge-podge of disparate tools typically employed by practitioners of overset CFD,” said Nick Wyman, Pointwise director of applied research. “What we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex, Air Force Materiel Command. That research was followed by a full year of fine-tuning in preparation for release to all our customers.” Overset gridding is a technique that avoids the topological complexity of generating abutting, point-to-point connected, multi-block grids by allowing the component grid blocks to overlap. The price paid for that flexibility is the need to ensure a sufficient degree of overlap so the CFD solver

GrabCAD announced that starting immediately GrabCAD Workbench will be free for all users. This announcement means that engineering teams of all sizes will be able to share and manage CAD files effortlessly, accelerating the product development process. GrabCAD Workbench is a central part of GrabCAD’s mission to help engineers unlock creative possibilities by connecting people, content and technology. Since its introduction in 2013, Workbench has seen rapid adoption amongst engineers facing collaboration obstacles like working in multiCAD environments, reconciling multiple versions of designs, and communicating with distributed teams. “Our goal with this change is to reach more people. Returning to the free model of Workbench will increase the speed of adoption and support uninhibited product design collaboration,” noted Hardi Meybaum, CEO of GrabCAD. “We are excited to supply every engineer with a free solution that enables rapid iteration on design concepts, mobile access to designs, and generally increases the speed and quality

Delcam has released the 2015 version of its PowerINSPECT inspection system.  The new version includes automatic collision avoidance, faster import of large CAD files, quicker preparation of longer inspection reports, and improved display of results from point-cloud data, plus many other customer-requested enhancements. PowerINSPECT has included collision detection for many years to warn the user when there was a possibility of any collision between the probe and the item being inspected.  Until now, the user then had to make the required changes to the probe path to avoid the collision. With PowerINSPECT 2015, the software adjusts the probe path automatically if a direct move between inspection features could produce a collision.  The software will calculate a new motion path that avoids the obstacle, typically by moving up and over the obstruction or around it.  Collision avoidance is carried out when the initial probe path is generated, when the sequence of measurements is re-ordered, and

Dassault Systèmes announced the latest enhancements to MySolidWorks, the online gateway that provides single-point access to all SOLIDWORKS communities and content. Launched last year, MySolidWorks has been updated with new features to help 2.7 million SOLIDWORKS users get the best answers to their questions about SOLIDWORKS, stay current, sharpen design skills, and share expertise, all from the convenience of their mobile device or desktop. “I need to ensure that our 140 SOLIDWORKS users are efficient in their use of SOLIDWORKS and are working at maximum productivity. MySolidWorks is a tool that helps me do just that,” said Greg Johnson, Senior Applications Specialist at Vermeer, a global industrial and agricultural equipment manufacturer. “With MySolidWorks I can search for and find the best answers to questions about SOLIDWORKS and share those answers with my team. Plus, there’s real value in the online training at MySolidWorks. When my engineers are confronted with a problem, they