ZWSOFT today released a new product, ZWCAD Classic, to celebrate the 15th birthday of its flagship product ZWCAD and reward all the customers and users for their support in the past years. ZWCAD has been warmly embraced by the market, thus ZWSOFT can focus its full energy and resources on improving its product. Again this time, ZWCAD Classic comes out with high compatibility, ease-of-use and powerful functionality to improve both productivity and cost-effectiveness.

 "A great CAD software company should not only know what designers currently need, but also what they are going to need. A great piece...

Siemens’ NX™ Nastran® software is now available on Rescale, an on-demand, dynamically scalable cloud environment delivered through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The new joint solution, which integrates on-demand high-performance computing (HPC) hardware with the industry’s leading finite element analysis (FEA) software, will be delivered by Rescale, Inc., a leading cloud simulation platform provider. Engineers can now seamlessly customize compute capacity, based on individual simulation requirements, to perform virtual product simulations. Rescale’s web-based platform allows engineers to easily run...

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the availability of the Mentor® Automotive Safety Certifiable Digital Instrument Cluster solution enabling safety-critical driver information to be displayed simultaneously with rich 3D graphics on a single instrument cluster display.  The software architecture is implemented on a multi-core and even on single-core System-on-Chip, and features very fast boot time. This new solution addresses a key problem for the automotive OEMs: How to migrate safety-critical driver information to full-featured, graphically-rich digital instrument clusters and comply with safety standards including ISO 26262, without pushing up hardware or safety certification...

AVEVA announced the release of new enhancements to its AVEVA Bocad product range for structural steel detailing software. AVEVA Bocad features a plate and bar nesting capability for more efficient planning and use of materials. An enhanced weld numbering and traceability feature provides efficient increased fabrication efficiency, design quality assurance and improved structural integrity maintenance. In addition elements of AVEVA Bocad can now be brought into AVEVA Marine production tools to fabricate detailed ship and offshore designs.

‘The latest release of AVEVA Bocad realises the true integration between steelwork design, detailing and fabrication,’ said Richard Brotherton, Vice President of...

ActivePDF announced the release of a new PDF automation tool to batch conversions of CAD drawings, plans, and diagrams to PDF that addresses security requirements, regulations, and business mandates with 100% document fidelity.

CADConverter eliminates the complexity requirement of specialized applications to view CAD designs. Converting to PDF eliminates the requirement of the original CAD authoring application or 3rd party viewers. This delivers the ease of distribution, collaboration, and format consistency of sharing CAD designs.    

"Converting documents to PDF is often part of a workflow or records management processes to ensure document controls," said Jay...

Aras® today announced that BAE Systems Sweden, a subsidiary of BAE Systems Plc. and a leading manufacturer of weapons systems and military vehicles, has selected Aras Innovator® as the new common PLM platform to establish a single, unified PLM backbone across the enterprise for systems development.

BAE Systems Sweden has selected Aras gold certified partner Minerva, based on technical expertise and experience, to conduct the Aras implementation and data migration from the two legacy PDM systems, using a multi-phase approach. Phase one will include Aras solutions for configuration management, Bill of Materials (BOM) and document/CAD management, enterprise reporting and searching, and...

ESI Group announces the third OpenFOAM User Conference. Scheduled in Stuttgart on October 19-21, 2015, the event will bring together the global OpenFOAM community to hear about the latest OpenFOAM developments and to share best practices. ESI, who acquired OpenCFD Ltd. in 2012, continues to enhance the world's most popular open-source CFD code to enable efficient product development, at an industrial scale. In addition to providing information on software updates, elaborated by the ESI-OpenCFD team, the...