Trimble announced today that Tekla Corporation will transition to the Trimble brand on January 1, 2016. Trimble acquired Tekla in 2011 and the rebranding reflects both the evolution of Trimble as well as its vision for the future.

Since the acquisition, Trimble and Tekla have shared a common vision—to transform the building lifecycle through advanced, accessible and intuitive technologies and to drive increased collaboration across the industry. Trimble combines strong domain knowledge with a broad portfolio of technology and capabilities to develop customer-centric solutions that are transforming the planning,...

HWTrek (Hardware Trek), the global open innovation platform for hardware creation, today announced a collaboration with Autodesk to enable the integration of HWTrek’s platform with Autodesk to be launched early 2016 as part of the Forge initiative. Forge is an initiative to accelerate a cloud connected ecosystem in support of the future of making things.

A significant challenge for hardware development has been bridging advancements in online collaboration and innovations of IoT device creators with the global manufacturing and supply chain, which has...

Ting-Yen Shih, a PhD student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was today announced the 2015 winner of the FEKO Student Competition.  The contest, now in its 11^th year, supports engineering education and academic excellence and is aimed at students interested in antennas, microwave devices, bio-electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, and other electromagnetic related fields.  The competition is an ideal opportunity for the students to showcase their work with FEKO, the electromagnetic solver of Altair HyperWorks®. Entries for the competition this year were received from many countries, including Argentina, Belgium, South Africa, the USA and Australia.

With Mr. Shih’s winning entry, entitled “Design of...

Wipro has signed an agreement with Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW) to acquire Cellent AG for 73.5 million euros. 
Cellent AG is a leading IT consulting and software services company and has been offering holistic innovative IT solutions and services to its customers in the DACH region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the past 14 years. Cellent AG serves the DACH market region with a team of more than 800 consultants, who will now become part of Wipro. 
The DACH market is a strategic growth and investment region for Wipro. This acquisition will provide Wipro...

Key takeaways:

• Smart, connected products are becoming the norm in a wide range of manufacturing industries
• Companies must blend and manage software development tools within their existing PLM environments to strive for a single source of truth

Acquiring Polarion Software provides Siemens PLM Software with cloud-based application lifecycle management solutions and software development expertise to extend their current PLM portfolio

Over the last few decades, manufactured products have become increasingly “smart” as the level of electronics and software have grown. The ubiquity of Internet access and the availability of cheap sensors and computing power make it easy to connect these...

Key takeaways:

• Increased product complexity and global competition are driving manufacturing companies to increasingly look at PLM for competitive advantage
• Inconsistent alignment of enterprise value elements is leading to a widening of the value gap between the projected value and realized benefits of PLM systems
• Automotive, aerospace, and industrial product companies are implementing PLM best practice templates and rationalizing end-to-end application platforms to add flexibility via simplification and optimization

Geometric’s PLM+ methodology contains a variety of PLM offerings including consulting and products that lead clients along the most effective path to optimize their PLM environments to deliver maximum business value

Business challenges are growing larger...

At its flagship annual user event Autodesk University, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced Autodesk BIM 360 Docs, a comprehensive, cloud-based service for the construction industry that provides a virtual workspace to create, access, maintain, markup and share 2D and 3D project documents, plans and models.

Up to 25 percent of construction is rework, and approximately 10 percent of materials are wasted, according to the 2013 industry report by Autodesk, “Making the Grade.” Much of this waste can be attributed to the error-prone process of managing hundreds to thousands of project documents. Today, the construction industry must contend with a tangled web...

Autodesk (www.autodesk.com) has launched 3DS Max 2016 Extension 2 for 3D modeling, animation and rendering. The new release builds on the Extension 1 releases, which was unveiled earlier this year and expands the software’s capabilities with new tools and workflow improvements that simplify and accelerate the creation of 3D assets.

Extension 2 features a number of improvements. Max creation graph enhancements allow users to create, manipulate and use shapes and splines with new nodes. Pros can also import bitmaps and simulation data like CSV or Open VDB files. Print Studio allows users to export 3DS Max files for...

Theorem is releasing V18.5 of its Multi-CAD products for CATIA V5 R25.

All of the products released under V18.5 will now include support for V5 R25 which provides the user with the highest levels of interoperability with JT, NX and Creo file assemblies.

Our Multi-CAD solution

•           Is based upon the Dassault Systemes XCAD infrastructure
•           Allows...

GlobalSCAPE, Inc. announced the immediate availability of its upgraded Wide Area File Services™ (WAFS™) collaborative software platform, WAFS 5, at Autodesk in Las Vegas, NV. At the event, which brings together around 10,000 design, engineering, and manufacturing professionals, the software will be available for review and demonstration at Booth #354.

WAFS 5 simplifies enterprise collaboration, eliminates errors, and decreases bandwidth usage, providing secure, near real-time data access to both on-premises and cloud-based files located anywhere in the world. The software uses intelligent byte-level differencing technology to instantly update changes to files by multiple remote users with minimal impact on network bandwidth while...