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TraceParts and Gstarsoft, have concluded a partnership agreement for publishing CAD data. With over 400,000 users in the world, Gstarsoft recently launched the new 2015 version of its GstarCAD software, with new file sharing features (cloud) and direct access to the CAD content of the TracePartsOnline.net library. This access to TraceParts’ CAD data will enable designers working in the fields of architecture, mechanics, manufacturing or electrical and HVAC systems to download 2D and 3D models directly from the GstarCAD 2015 software interface. Offering a simple user interface, Gstarsoft wanted to incorporate innovative solutions in its CAD software, giving design professionals the opportunity to integrate hundreds of millions of CAD models from certified industrial component suppliers in their projects. When choosing its partner, GstarCAD naturally turned to a leading specialist; since 2001, TraceParts has been providing innovative services for publishing and downloading 3D CAD models, specially designed for industrial component suppliers and CAD software publishers. This new

China-based high-end women’s fashion brand V•Grass® has chosen to implement YuniquePLM™ to improve communication and collaboration within its design, development and manufacturing divisions.  V•Grass will implement Yunique Solutions’ plmOn and srmOn platforms to enable efficient collaboration between their internal teams and their vendors and suppliers. Gerber’s team of international experts and its regional experience will assist with planning, design, real-time visibility and efficient communication and collaboration. V•Grass operates facilities in Italy, South Korea, Nanjing and Shanghai.  V•Grass was founded in 1997, and in December 2014 became publicly listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The company offers high quality, tasteful apparel with painstaking attention to detail on color, fabric and construction, necessitating strong development guidelines and efficient monitoring of the supply chain. By centralizing its data, V•Grass can focus on its core business goals and development of upcoming lines.  "More and more Chinese-based brands are turning to PLM to accompany their future growth prospects,"

SteepGraph Systems announced today that they have partnered with Dynamatic Technologies Ltd, One of India’s fastest growing Aerospace manufacturing company in the private sector, for implementation of Aerospace Program Management Systems for managing their aerospace manufacturing projects. DYNAMATIC-OLDLAND AEROSPACE, the aerospace unit of Dynamatic Technologies Ltd is a demonstrated leader for the development of exacting Airframe Structures and Precision Aerospace Components. The Company's modern Aerospace Manufacturing Complexes in India and UK supplies critical aero structure assemblies and parts to leading global aerospace OEM’s namely Airbus, Bell & Boeing apart from supporting the domestic aviation industry. SteepGraph Systems has implemented the program management system for Dynamatic Oldland Aerospace which helps Dynamatic to manage the complete lifecycle of the aero structures manufacturing starting from loading large BOM from customer, linking tools, defining Integrated Master Project, defining sub projects with series of manufacturing processes for each part and setting dependency on tools, Jigs and sub-assemblies.

MachineWorks Ltd, will be demonstrating the Polygonica software toolkit for 3D Printing at the AMUG Expo in the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville, Florida, from April 19 to 23.  The annual meeting of the Additive Manufacturing Users Group dates back to the early 1990s and has grown to become the leading forum for educating and advancing the uses and applications of additive manufacturing technologies. The Polygonica team will be exhibiting for the second year running. In particular, we will be demonstrating some of the new features of Polygonica aimed at the next generation of 3D printing technology. This includes Polygonica's unique full colour mesh healing and slicing capabilities. As more companies announce full colour printers, it is vital that software products keep pace with hardware development. Polygonica can fully heal meshes - closing open edges and holes and removing self-intersections and non-manifold edges - whilst maintaining and carefully interpolating colour information. This can include face

PMTS 2015 attendees will receive a sneak peek at the most powerful Mastercam machining software yet. Stop by booth # 437 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, OH, April 21-23 for a look at Mastercam Swiss, Mastercam Mill-Turn, and the recent Mastercam X8 release. Mastercam X8 introduces new Solids features, Usability/Workflow improvements, and so much more.  Mastercam Swiss  Mastercam Swiss is specialized CAD/CAM for precision programming. The software is designed to program Swiss-style NC machines, and is popular with watch-making, medical device, dental, automotive, and electronics companies—industries where extremely small but very precise parts are a requirement. Mastercam Swiss is developed in the same region of Switzerland where Swiss-style machines were invented. It is known for supporting an unlimited number of axes and channels, and for realistic simulation of the entire machine and its tools. Mastercam Swiss reduces startup time significantly, is ideal for optimizing cycle times, and supports all

Kenesto Corp today announced that its innovative solution for file management and collaboration, called Kenesto Drive, is now available to its subscribers for use.  Kenesto Drive is the latest innovation for mainstream engineering companies designed to serve as an alternative to the commonly used shared network drive.  Going well beyond what consumer-grade document collaboration solutions offer, Kenesto Drive enables innovatively simple file collaboration, automatic versioning, simple file locking (vaulting), and much more – all directly from within the user’s desktop applications and file managers. One of the most important aspects of Kenesto Drive is that it has been built from the outset to support CAD and other engineering file types.  Being that the desktop service interfaces with cloud storage, customers no longer have to worry about their shared drive’s back-up status, about files being accidentally deleted, moved, overwritten, or accessed by unapproved users.  Yet, at the same time, the very cloud-centric nature

EOS announced that Glynn Fletcher has been named president of EOS of North America, Inc. The appointment reinforces the company’s already strong position in the growing market for AM technology.  “Throughout his career Glynn Fletcher’s deep understanding of innovative production processes has proved invaluable to the manufacturers of high value parts,” says Dr. Hans Langer, founder and CEO of EOS. “Our customers will benefit from not only his long manufacturing experience but also his international perspective formed in Europe and the Americas. This will strengthen our ability to help our customers find new ways to exploit the potential of our technology. ”Fletcher was previously the president of GF Machining Solutions (GFMS) Americas LLC, Lincolnshire, Ill. (formerly known as GF AgieCharmilles). Jointly, GFMS and EOS have previously showcased the power of Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing, for example, demonstrating a nearly automatic process chain for creating injection and blow-mold tooling at the International Manufacturing

Wizeline today announced the public availability of a new offering designed for enterprise customers. With this release, Wizeline enables large organizations to make intelligent data-driven decisions in each stage of the product lifecycle, identify and reduce wasteful R&D spending, and maximize return on their product development investments. Today’s large enterprises often lack efficiency, speed, and visibility in their product development processes. Critical business decisions are informed by incomplete or dated information, leading to misinformed strategies, poorly allocated budgets, and misaligned priorities. As a result, market-leading companies across industries are spending upwards of 60% of their R&D budget on projects that never drive real value for their business. Wizeline addresses these problems with software solutions designed to manage full product portfolios across multiple business units, with the tooling required for enabling structured collaboration at scale. As a result, company leaders are able to make swift, well-informed product decisions that support their business goals

Siemens and thinkstep (formerly PE International) today announced a new integrated material management software solution to manage the material lifecycle and streamline material driven product design. The new solution, developed by thinkstep and Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business, will help manufacturers worldwide improve product performance and reliability by connecting design, engineering, analysis, compliance and manufacturing to a single source of material information. The new offering, which is part of Siemens’ Teamcenter® portfolio, will help reduce errors, rework and recalls that result from the use of inaccurate material data. It will also assist in the re-use of market tested materials for new products, which is critical in a wide variety of industries. Siemens and thinkstep expanded their existing partnership agreement to develop this new solution. “Selecting the right materials is critical in order to achieve maximum safety, performance and reliability in our business,” said John Probst, Technical Director, Chip Ganassi

NCG CAM Solutions Ltd, UK officially released NCG CAM v14. This major release includes a number of new features including UV surface machining, the ability to cover pockets, tools to align 3+2 axis, ability to quickly change the background color, enhancements to translucency, 5-axis along curve machining, tool axis alignment curves for 5-axis along curve strategy as well as many enhancements including improved automation of the drilling in macros, the ability to copy and paste all of the strategy parameters and the ability to do rest finishing using a toroidal reference cutter. A demonstration version of NCG CAM v14 is now available to download: http://www.ncgcam.com/demorequest.html. In NCG CAM v14, UV surface machining is a new feature. This new feature will allow the user to select either a single surface, or a series of appropriate adjacent surfaces, and then to generate machining passes using the selected surfaces and the underlying UV direction parameterization. This