The Manufacturers of The Future program by BobCAD-CAM was created as an educational resource for schools, educators and students, the new website provides a platform for the CNC manufacturing industry's academia crowd to interact, keep current on industry news, and gain access to affordable CAD-CAM resources.

BobCAD-CAM, Inc., developers of the easy to use and affordable line of CAD-CAM software, have debuted today the stand-alone website http://www.ManufacturersOfTheFuture.com to support the rapid expansion of their Manufacturers of the Future program.

The website was developed as a resource where both educators and students can turn for trending industry topics, webinars, training & educational videos, infographics,...

Approyo has signed an agreement with SAP AG that will allow its participating member firms to resell SAP products under a single framework.
The value-added reseller (VAR) deal allows Approyo to license SAP software directly to their clients and provide better business solutions involving SAP software and maintenance.
"Becoming a VAR allows Approyo to extend its long-standing strategic partnership with SAP" said Marcus Retrac, President of Approyo. “This will strengthen our relationship with our customers and partners allowing us to act as a single point of contact for SAP and continue to deliver SAP HANA products and support services."
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Synopsys signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atrenta Inc., a privately held provider of SoC realization solutions for the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries. By integrating Atrenta's complementary static verification and implementation technology with Synopsys' Verification Continuum™ and Galaxy™ Design platforms, Synopsys can offer designers a more comprehensive, robust portfolio of silicon to software solutions for today's complex electronic systems.

"Atrenta's demonstrated leadership in static and formal technologies is recognized throughout the EDA industry, and its technology is used by design and verification teams around the world," said Manoj Gandhi, executive vice president and general manager of the Verification Group at...

Infosys on Sunday said it aims to realize revenues in the range of $1.5 billion from its acquisitions and also reach the milestone of $20 billion by 2020.

The company's mission is to prepare the company to reach the aspirational goal of $20 billion in revenue by 2020 with a 30 percent operating margin, said CEO Vishal Sikka in the company's annual report.

Infosys, which acquired Skava and automation technology firm Panaya for $120 million and $200 million respectively recently, has expressed its willingness for bigger scale acquisitions and mergers.

Artificial intelligence and intellectual property business solutions and design thinking solutions are expected...

Tech Soft 3D today announced a new integration between its market-leading HOOPS Exchange technology and Siemens’ Parasolid® software to help developers enhance data re-use by providing easy access to a broad range of CAD formats. Tech Soft 3D worked closely with Siemens PLM Software to deliver an integrated product that helps developers leverage the full breadth of Parasolid functionality, even when working with imported data.

The integration accomplishes this in a few key ways:

• Models of any supported format are loaded into Parasolid through a single API.
• All CAD applications based on Parasolid, including applications such as NX™ software,...

QuadriSpace™ announced the immediate availability of Pages3D™ 2014 SP1, Publisher3D™ 2014 SP1 and Document3D™ Suite 2014 SP1. 
QuadriSpace products enable companies to rapidly author compelling technical documents, create and publish highly informative technical illustrations and distribute 3D content for collaboration in the cloud. 
The new service pack includes new features and stock content that provides users with more options when creating custom technical illustrations. 

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Geometric  releases CAMWorks Costing (http://www.camworks.com/costing), an add-on module to its existing, flagship CNC programming software, CAMWorks. It is ideal for improving the speed and efficiency while responding to RFQs (Requests for quote) in a machine shop. CAMWorks Costing speeds up the estimation process and generates accurate quotes within minutes, enabling shop owners to confidently respond to much higher number of RFQs.

For most shops, the estimating process can be highly time consuming and requires special expertise that only a shop owner or senior machinist may possess.  In addition, most estimates involve a lot of guesswork, risking profitability or losing...

Docupoint announces the release of DrawingSearcherTM 2015, the latest version of the company’s simple-to-use and innovative CAD search engine for CAD drawings across an organizations entire enterprise. DrawingSearcher 2015 extends its availability to Bentley Systems MicroStation community, making available a vast CAD population that was previously unable to index and search their CAD files through the DrawingSearcher search engine.

With the inclusion of MicroStation indexing, DrawingSearcher 2015 is now available for users of the two largest CAD formats MicroStation and AutoCAD as well as for all Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF and database files. Having market-leading formats fully supported enables even...

A momentous scientific discovery was recently uncovered in Kenya – the oldest stone tools known to man.  The tools date back to 3.3 million years ago and push back the beginning of the archaeological record by more than a half million years.  These historical findings are detailed in an article published last week in Nature Magazine (May 20, 2015).  Now, through the power of Autodesk technology, people all around the world will have the chance to share in this major scientific discovery.

Dr. Louise Leakey, in collaboration with Autodesk, used Memento technology to create high quality 3D digital replicas of the...

Trimble announced today that two new BuildingPoint™ distribution partners have been established in the U.S.—BuildingPoint Florida and BuildingPoint Mid-America. These latest additions join the growing BuildingPoint network that provides focused sales and services with a portfolio of software and hardware solutions for the Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings.

BuildingPoint distribution partners represent Trimble Buildings' solutions that allow users to create and transfer constructible models throughout the DBO lifecycle—from concept and design to the field and back to the office again. The solutions utilize sensors, 3D positioning, data, Building Information Modeling (BIM), communications and analytics. The emergence of these technologies, along with the...