Dassault Systèmes today announced that it has participated in a landmark smart office building project in cooperation with Rhomberg Group, Zumtobel Group, Bosch Software Innovations, and Modcam AB. With this project, Dassault Systèmes aims to introduce more sustainable management of homes, commercial buildings and factories to smart cities of the future.

The pilot project at the LifeCycle Tower (LCT) ONE building in Dornbirn, Austria was presented during the 2016 Bosch ConnectedWorld event in Berlin, Germany. The modern LCT ONE, owned by Rhomberg Group and equipped with a state-of-the-art Zumtobel lighting solution and smart controls system, is ideal to...

For years, product designers have been anchored to their offices, forced to use a desktop workstation powerful enough to handle the compute-intensive calculations and graphics for 3D solid modeling. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) users who wanted to work on their mobile devices were out of luck; their phones and tablets could only serve as glorified viewers.

Today, however, engineers and designers are free to work wherever they please. Onshape, the first full-cloud professional 3D CAD system to run on mobile devices, has developed its iOS app specifically with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil in mind.

Precision is critical in product design as every...

IronCAD, a leading provider of design productivity solutions, today announced their latest version of IronCAD COMPOSE Mobile, the iOS version of the ground breaking IronCAD COMPOSE product. IronCAD COMPOSE Mobile allows designers the ability to effectively share designs securely throughout the organization and with customers. IronCAD COMPOSE Mobile is a valuable tool for communicating 3D design concepts directly on a mobile device anywhere at any time. The download is currently free to everyone from designers wishing to share their designs to a sales person presenting their company's products at the point of sale.

Teams can read data from...

Cadence Design Systems has announced that its digital, signoff and custom/analog tools have achieved V1.0 Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE certification from TSMC for its 10nm FinFET process. Cadence and TSMC are also continuing to collaborate on the advancement of 7nm technologies and have completed tools certification and the delivery of the latest Process Design Kit (PDK) for mutual customers to initiate early design starts based on the most current version of the DRM and SPICE model.

The Cadence custom/analog, digital and signoff tools have been validated by TSMC on high-performance reference designs, providing customers with innovative...

CAD-CAM software developer, BobCAD-CAM, has announced a new webinar event to introduce easy ways to improve CNC programming production through the use of surface based toolpaths.

Senior Technical Advisor at BobCAD-CAM, Cody Sheppard, will host the webinar using the company's new BobCAD-CAM V28 Mill 3 Axis Pro CAD-CAM software. The event will underscore a variety of reason why surface based toolpaths are the preferred toolpaths for complex 3D CNC machining.

CAD-CAM Topics for Improving CNC Production: 

Surface based toolpaths vs. other toolpaths

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that Million Women Mentors (MWM) crossed a major milestone by reaching two thirds of the program’s goal of 1,000,000 pledges from STEM mentors for girls, young women and minorities – in only two years since its inception. At a March 15 luncheon in Washington, DC, corporate and nonprofit partners were joined by more than 20 U.S. Senators and Congressional leaders, who spoke regarding the importance of MWM and inspiring more women and girls in under-represented communities to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and careers.

“Million Women Mentors’ success is a...

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the Valor® internet of things (IoT) Manufacturing solution, a robust hardware device with embedded software for live data collection from all shop-floor machines and processes, leveraging the new Open Manufacturing Language (OML) communication standard. The Valor IoT Manufacturing product enables seamless implementation of advanced practices such as Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory, with plug-and-play deployment and minimal change to the manufacturing environment and work processes.

The Valor IoT Manufacturing product utilizes built-in interfaces to acquire and normalize data from the entire manufacturing flow, including surface mount technology (SMT), screen printers, reflow ovens, inspection...

The new featured-packed release of solidThinking Inspire® 2016 introduces groundbreaking PolyNURBS functionality allowing users to quickly and easily flow optimized designs into manufacturable products by wrapping topology results with NURBS geometry.

“Our new PolyNURBS toolset is a game changer, allowing users to create geometry from optimized results much faster than traditional CAD modelling,” explains Andy Bartels, Program Manager. “The result is an incredibly robust tool that has not only expanded the use cases for Inspire, but also accelerates the path to cost-effective manufacturing.” 

Doug Hedges, President of Sintavia, LLC., notes that, “Inspire does what few...

Global textile service company Lindström, which operates in 24 countries in Europe and Asia, has implemented Gerber Technology's YuniquePLM™ web-based product lifecycle management software to accelerate the production of customer solutions throughout its operations. Gerber and their Finnish distributor ACG Nyström provide product support to Lindström.

"Our volumes of product development and customer specified projects have increased greatly over the past few years. The existing administrative systems were not sufficient to satisfy our growing needs," said Taru Jokinen, product concept manager at Lindström.

"Previously, the systems were not compatible with one another, as information had to...

Materialise, a leading provider of additive manufacturing software and of sophisticated 3D printing solutions, today announced that management will participate in the Jefferies 3D Printing Summit on Tuesday, March 29, 2016.

Founder and CEO Fried Vancraen will attend the invitation-only summit, to be held at the Jefferies Conference Center in New York City. Mr. Vancraen will meet one-on-one with institutional investors throughout the day.

To obtain additional information about Materialise’s participation in the summit, please contact LHA. Attendees can also contact their Jefferies representative to arrange a meeting.

Materialise incorporates more than 25 years...