Autodesk Exchange Apps, a Web-based design and engineering app store created for the Autodesk community, celebrates its one millionth app milestone this week with a customer download of the coolOrange threadModeler for Autodesk Inventor.

In three years since launching, the site has published 1,800 apps from third-party developers, which are available for download in 14 different languages and in 191 countries. The online platform provides designers and engineers with a centralized location to access apps that advance efficiency and productivity while using Autodesk software, and makes it easy for app developers to reach Autodesk customers worldwide.

Autodesk Exchange Apps features a diverse...

CD-adapco today announced the release of STAR-CCM+® v10.04, the second release in 2015 of its flagship simulation tool. The latest release represents a major step forward in the company's vision of allowing its customers to "discover better designs, faster" using Multidisciplinary Design exploration (MDX).

The highlight of the v10.04 release is an entirely new Finite Element Based Solid Stress Solver, enabling Computational Solid Mechanics from within STAR-CCM+. This engineering breakthrough makes STAR-CCM+ the first tool on the market to offer both Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computational Solid Mechanics from a single and easy to use fully integrated environment. STAR-CCM+ offers the...

BuilderMT now offers a new estimating capability through its integration with CG Visions. Using CG Visions’ BIM Pipeline™, BuilderMT users can now move design and option data from CAD and BIM systems directly into BuilderMT Estimating, even for home plans heavily customized in the options process.

CG Visions’ BIM Pipeline™ uses model dimensions to translate a home builder’s designs into the products the builder needs to build that home. Those products can then automatically appear in BuilderMT, where their data populates BuilderMT’s purchasing system, creating accurate purchase orders in the process.

BuilderMT purchase orders are tied to real-time pricing, so BIM Pipeline...

24 June 2015

Lectra is pleased to announce that Bertrandt SAS has chosen Lectra's DesignConcept solution to optimize its design, development and prototyping processes for car seat covers designed for French automobile manufacturers.
Bertrandt SAS is the French subsidiary of the German group, Bertrandt AG, an international engineering company dedicated to the automobile, aeronautics and mobility industries. Founded in 1974 in the German town of Möglingen, Bertrandt AG currently has 11,500 employees in eight countries. The Group counts major automotive constructors and suppliers among its customers.
Bertrandt SAS is investing in the DesignConcept solution as part of its business expansion; it...

ZW3D today announced that it has been selected by Able Tech industries Ltd.(Able Tech) for improving the efficiency of precision mold making.
 Able Tech, a Hong Kong invested enterprise, specializes in mold making, plastic part injection and secondary processing. 85% of their clients are from Japan and Japanese enterprises in China, like Panasonic, DAKIN, Canon and Sony etc.
 Able Tech focuses on precision mold making and invests heavily on their overall production lines. To maximize flexible capital operation and enlarge their market share, they needed a fully functional 3D CAD platform for designing high-tech craft of molds at...

How do technical customers in South Korea learn about new engineering software available in other countries? One way is through the Startup Village Conference (see https://startupvillage.ru/en), now in its third year at Moscow’s Skolkovo Innovation Center. The annual conference matches investors with innovators in an open-air festival held over two sunny days in early June.

A delegation of 30 South Korean companies, R&D institutions, and technology centers arrived, interested primarily to learn about the capabilities of Russian technological start-ups. The delegation was accompanied by Park Ro-byug, the South Korean ambassador to Russia.

C3D Labs was invited to attend the annual startup...

ThermoAnalytics, Inc. has a trifecta of news to deliver: 

•  Software Release; Version 12.0 
•  A refreshed website 
•  A rebrand of their premier product; RadTherm® will now be TAITherm™

Version 12.0 – Bigger, Broader & Better 
ThermoAnalytics has consistently delivered a powerful CAE software suite, but version 12.0 provides users more simulation power, and results that focus on component temperature limits. The most exciting feature being released with the latest version is support for distributed memory parallel processing. By running on a parallel cluster of machines, the already-fast Partial-Direct or Multi-Grid solvers will yield a significantly faster thermal solution.

Development within the software suite has also rapidly progressed...

Comet Solutions, Inc. announces a partnership with Brian Wilson of Advanced Drivetrain Engineering & Technology (ADET).  This partnership further strengthens Comet’s expertise and commitment to providing solutions to designers and manufacturers of transmissions, axles, industrial gearboxes, and other power transmission products.

Mr. Wilson brings to Comet over 25 years of experience in the design, test and analysis of rotating machinery. His experience includes Romax Technology, Inc. where he served as Chief Technology Officer, Ford Motor Company where he held the position of NVH Technical Specialist and work as a consultant for SDRC (now Siemens PLM).  He currently serves as Vice-Chair on...

Dassault Systèmes today announced the launch of the 3DVIA Make application to enable retailers to offer customer-personalized products without requiring a huge back-end inventory or a lengthy fulfillment process. Retailers can now capture mass personalization opportunities for consumer products with flexibility that benefits the customer, retailer and brand.

Using 3DVIA Make, products can be extensively personalized to the desire of each individual customer from within the retailers’ or brands’ website. Orders are then fulfilled on-demand by a 3D printing service or local bureau, reducing the need to stock a wide variety of products. For example, a customer can visit a...

At this year’s SPE Offshore Europe exhibition, computer aided engineering (CAE) software expert EPLAN will be showcasing its latest fluid system and harness design products. Also on show will be other software packages from the company’s popular range, which cover virtually every aspect of industrial system design.
EPLAN Fluid is an efficient and intuitive engineering tool for the design and automatic documentation of fluid power systems in applications that include hydraulics, pneumatics, cooling and lubrication. A key benefit of the EPLAN CAE platform is that it connects fluid power engineering with all other engineering disciplines so that design tasks can...