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CAM industry innovator DP Technology Corp. is pleased to announce the release of a new version of its pioneering flagship product ESPRIT® 2015. ESPRIT helps increase productivity for a full range of machine tool applications by generating more efficient toolpaths while also saving time by providing substantial improvements in computer numerical control (CNC) programming productivity. Besides increasing productivity, the release also provides many new and improved features specifically in the areas of intelligent machining, strategic machining, CAD-CAM data exchange and Cloud-Enabled CAM. Intelligent Machining Intelligent machining features in ESPRIT 2015 accelerates the machining process by providing new and unique 5-Axis cycles that reduce cycle time. This makes it possible to completely machine blades in a single setup. ESPRIT’s 5-Axis Blade Roughing tool motion is morphed across the blade from any size stock shape to uniformly offset stock allowance so it can be immediately followed by a finishing cycle. “ESPRIT 2015 offers unique features in 5-axis

TraceParts will be exhibiting at the 2015 Hannover Messe from 13 to 17 April 2015, in the Digital Factory area, Hall 7, Stand C40. The 2015 Hannover Messe is world’s largest event for industrial technologies and TraceParts will once again be exhibiting at this leading trade fair to present its range of solutions for CAD data publishing, supplier content management and 3D marketing. By providing design professionals with free access to extremely complete technical data on over 100 million products from hundreds of component-supplier catalogs, TraceParts has established a publishing network comprising nearly 10 million CAD users. Thanks to this success, TraceParts is able to provide suppliers of industrial components with a range of solutions, including the publication of CAD models via their own website or making their 3D files available online to the whole TraceParts’ engineering community. The trade fair will give CAD users the opportunity to discover the new version of the TracePartsOnline.net library

Delcam will demonstrate the latest version of its PartMaker software for programming CNC mills, lathes, wire EDMs, turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes at EASTEC 2015 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, from 12th to 14th May. The company will also demonstrate its new, free productivity application, the PartMaker Multi-Channel Viewer. Highlighting the new version is a completely revolutionary approach to CAM post processing for multi-axis turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes. PartMaker 2015 includes the ability to generate a post-processor reference guide, an on-command manual explaining how to program a given multi-axis lathe and take advantage of all the machine’s capabilities. Other highlights of PartMaker 2015 include improved support for today’s latest breed of multi-tasking machine tools, more powerful milling and turning functionality and improvements in the software’s knowledge-based technology for storing optimal feeds and speeds for additional tools. "As the pioneer of CAM software for multi-tasking turn-mill centres and Swiss-type lathes, PartMaker continues to innovate to bring

At EASTEC 2015 the latest version of VERICUT, V7.3, will be featured in CGTech’s booth: 5344. VERICUT CNC machine simulation, verification and optimization software simulates all types of CNC machining. It operates independently, but can also be integrated with leading CAM systems. A common feature of all recent releases of the software has been the focus on full integration with the CAD/CAM and machine tool industry. As a result VERICUT is now at the heart of the CNC manufacturing process. Machine simulation with VERICUT detects collisions and near-misses between all machine tool components such as axis slides, heads, turrets, rotary tables, spindles, tool changers, fixtures, workpieces, cutting tools, and other user-defined objects. Machine movements can even be simulated while stepping or playing backwards in VERlCUT‘s Review Mode. With VERICUT Reviewer, shop floor personnel, suppliers, customers, and other production engineers can view animations of the CNC machining process. It is a stand-alone viewer that

Altair announced today that engineering students from across the globe are once again invited to compete in the popular FEKO Student Competition.  The competition is open to all under-graduate and post-graduate students who work on a supervised project in the area of electromagnetic engineering and make use of FEKO, Altair's comprehensive electromagnetic (EM) analysis software suite, included in HyperWorks®. The competition is an ideal opportunity for students to showcase their work in FEKO and some attractive prizes are up for grabs – a state-of-the-art laptop computer or attendance to an Altair ATC or ATCx, conference series, which are hosted around the world each year. "Since FEKO is now part of Altair HyperWorks, the competition is being launched through the Altair academic website (www.altairuniversity.com)  which provides us with a much larger audience so we are expecting the competition to be even more popular than in the past," explains Gronum Smith, Marketing Director EM

Linx-AS, LLC, formally announces the addition of Klaus Brettschneider as director and SAP PLM practice leader. Brettschneider will be responsible for extending the scope of the company's PLM consulting practice by ensuring the effective delivery of services to clients in discrete manufacturing industries.  Brettschneider is assured that the strategic approach Linx-AS practices in process PLM will translate well on the discrete side. He expressed his enthusiasm for broadening the company's client base in a statement saying, "There are more similarities between discrete and process industries when it comes to PLM than most people think. I am excited to apply a strong engineering foundation to the proven PLM delivery methodologies at Linx-AS." Klaus has a long history of improving engineering and design processes for discrete manufacturers in Europe and the US with multiple software packages. Before joining Linx-AS, Klaus held several directorial positions at CIDEON, a German-based engineering company focusing on software services for CAD applications. He

Adlib and Informed Consulting announced a strategic partnership that will see the two companies working together to meet the enterprise-level document management requirements of organizations worldwide in Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Organizations across multiple industries around the globe will realize significant improvements within their Enterprise Content Management (ECM) environments with Adlib’s unparalleled enterprise-grade, automated document transformation technology and Informed Consulting’s well-established expertise and their recently brought to market SharePoint App for Documentum SPA4D, connecting together the best of both worlds. “We are very pleased to form a strategic partnership with Adlib. By combining Informed Consulting’s expertise in Enterprise Content Management, with Adlib’s world class document transformation technologies, we can define exciting new opportunities for enhanced user collaboration while maintaining enterprise control”, said Timm Scalf, General Director, Informed Consulting. Informed Consulting has a strong track record with respect to bringing together enterprise and end-user demands. This includes many cases with demand for secure and complete collaboration and

Alain de Rouvray, ESI Group’s Chairman and CEO states: “This new expertise of assistance to human perception, coupled with the excellent IFSTTAR partnership, provides opportunity to take into account the interactions of a vehicle, or any other industrial product, with its scalable immersive environment. Once integrated into digital 3D modeling, it will enable dramatically accelerated design and prototyping of embedded control and security systems and thereby strengthen the value of our global solutions in virtual prototyping. For ESI Group’s industrial partners, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) present a major technological challenge as efficiency must be built upon the quality of interaction between digital modeling and human perception. The growing requirements in terms of active safety make it important and urgent to integrate ADAS systems in virtual prototyping, complementing the existing constraints of passive safety during product development. Clearly strategic for ESI Group, this operation amplifies our technological and commercial synergies

Yunique Solutions has announced a test drive launch of YuniquePLM™ In The Cloud, a fashion-specific PLM solution available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In a matter of minutes, companies can now test drive YuniquePLM In The Cloud, and experience first-hand how it offers the functionality of a best-in-class PLM solution, combined with the benefits of cloud computing.  With YuniquePLM In The Cloud, businesses of all sizes can deliver their products to market faster than ever before. Leveraging cloud infrastructure, resources can be scaled on demand and large upfront investments in hardware and maintenance are no longer required.  “YuniquePLM In The Cloud provides the added benefits of flexibility and cost-effectiveness,” said Bill Brewster, vice president and general manager of Yunique Solutions. “Our cloud solution is designed to enable companies to get up and running in as little time as possible to streamline their business processes. While YuniquePLM In The Cloud is currently available,

CADENAS presents the newest version 3.3 of its 3D CAD download portal PARTcommunity. New features, like a faster search for 3D CAD models or the option to place several components in the shopping cart at the same time, significantly increasing the operating ease for the user. Besides an improvement of search engines, data security is also further increased: passwords of new PARTcommunity users now have to comply with higher minimum requirements. Get your desired CAD model even easier One of the essential improvements of the PARTcommunity Version 3.3 are the revised search features. In the first step of the search, only the 20 most relevant search results are displayed. This improves the required time for a 3D CAD model search decisively, so that the results are listed within one to two seconds. If further search results are desired, they can be displayed afterwards by clicking the button “Show more results“. Also registering for the 3D CAD