Maplesoft™ announced the release of the MapleSim CAD Toolbox, a new add-on to MapleSim that allows engineers to understand and improve their mechanical designs by bringing their CAD assemblies into MapleSim, the advanced system-level modeling and simulation platform. The new toolbox makes it easy to import CAD models into MapleSim, so engineers can learn how their designs will behave as part of a larger, multidomain system, and apply the advanced analysis tools of MapleSim to investigate and optimize their designs and final application.

The MapleSim CAD Toolbox imports CAD models directly into MapleSim, recreating the model components and preserving their kinetic and...

Cadence Design Systems has announced the delivery of the new Virtuoso advanced-node platform that is enabled for all 10nm FinFET designs. This next-generation custom design platform delivers up to 5X improvement in designer productivity and also provides initial support for emerging 7nm technologies.

To address the challenges that come with advanced-node FinFET designs, innovative capabilities in the Cadence Virtuoso advanced-node platform allow designers to better manage complexity and process effects, the company indicated. The key capabilities include multi-patterning and color-aware layout, electrically aware design (EAD), module generator (ModGen)-based device array flow, 10nm custom routing, and in-design physical verification system...

General Sportwear Co., Inc®, a leader in private-label woven bottoms, has selected Gerber Technology's YuniquePLM™ to standardize processes across its vertically integrated supply chain.

Prior to its implementation of YuniquePLM, General Sportwear relied on email and Excel® spreadsheets to share style attributes amongst its teams, as well as communicate styles throughout their development process. As information across these platforms were neither standardized nor centralized, information retrieval and efficient collaboration was, at times, difficult to achieve.

Jeff Rosenstock, vice president of...

Dassault Systemes today announced that General Mills France, a subsidiary of General Mills, one of the world's leading food companies, is deploying the "Perfect Shelf" industry solution experience to engage in new merchandising strategies for its Hagen-Dazs premium brand of ice cream. In a product category driven by impulse purchases, "Perfect Shelf" enables General Mills France to better collaborate with retailers, enhance the consumer shopping experience and accelerate brand growth.

General Mills France looked to inject innovation into the retail ice cream category by offering a differentiated and expanded Hagen-Dazs product line. In March 2015, the company launched new ice cream stick bars in five flavors, developed following...

Synopsys, Inc.reported results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2015.

For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, Synopsys reported revenue of $587.2 million, compared to $539.0 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014. Revenue for fiscal year 2015 was $2.242 billion, an increase of 9.0 percent from $2.057 billion in fiscal 2014.  

"Synopsys reported an excellent fourth quarter and fiscal 2015 against a somewhat challenging semiconductor industry backdrop, providing a solid foundation as we enter 2016," said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys. "Our game-changing design and verification products have made great strides and are yielding excellent results. Meanwhile, we continue to invest...

GRAPHISOFT has announced that ARCHICAD 19 has won the prestigious BIM Product of the Year award at the tenth annual Construction Computing Magazine Awards in the United Kingdom. This is the fifth year in a row that ARCHICAD has been honored with the top BIM product award. In addition, GRAPHISOFT took home the award for Company of the Year.

Affectionately known as ‘The Hammers,’ the Construction Computing Awards showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design, construction, maintenance, and modification of commercial buildings, residential and social housing and civil engineering projects of all sizes. Hundreds...

 Autodesk, Inc. announced Forge, an initiative to accelerate a cloud connected ecosystem in support of the future of making things. The initiative consists of three major components – a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, a robust developer program, and a $100 million investment fund – all geared toward advancing the next wave of innovative technologies that will transform how products are designed, made and used.

“The way we design, make and use products is rapidly changing. New technologies are disrupting every aspect of the product lifecycle,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president, Products...

Rand Worldwide announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has released Scan to BIM 2016.1. Two new features will redefine the way designers and architects interact with point clouds in Autodesk Revit software and provide new functionality, eliminating time consuming modeling tasks.

“Always looking for innovative ways to deliver high value to architects and design engineers means that we’re continuously pushing the envelope of software development,” says Matt Mason, director, software development, IMAGINiT Technologies. “With the new Create Mesh functionality, we’ve moved in a direction that wasn’t previously possible with Revit by offering a way to quickly model arbitrary geometry. Now, for the...

DST announced the availability of SimWise V9.7. This release continues to expand the Optimization, FEA, CAD Integration, and Interoperability capabilities of the product. It also introduces a new module for performing Fatigue Life calculations.

SimWise Durability is an add-on module to SimWise 4D that uses the stress/strain history calculated as part of a combined Motion and FEA analysis to determine the fatigue life of a part.

The FEA capabilities of SimWise have been expanded to include transient thermal and combined thermal-structural analysis.

The material management capabilities have been significantly enhanced to provide support for new properties used by SimWise Durability. Additionally materials can...

Airbus and Autodesk‘s design studio, The Living, have designed and developed the largest 3D-printed metal part for a commercial airplane in history, what they call a “bionic” partition that is 3D-printed from a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) “printer” that uses a new super-strong alloy called scalmalloy to achieve the lightness of aluminum with the strength of titanium.

Already used for small parts, often with complex shapes, the Airbus/Autodesk project brings additive manufacturing into the plane’s cabin. The assembly is...