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Latin American design firm BarriosEscudero sees every project as an opportunity to combine technology, materials, and fabrication techniques to create structures that prevent wastefulness during construction. To do so, they avoid cookie-cutter solutions and seek out personalized responses to every challenge they face. Interested in seeing what the office has created using this design philosophy? If you’ve visited the Vectorworks 2016 webpage and explored our Subdivision Surfaces feature, you might have already seen one of their projects: the Pabellón Ricchezze.

Commissioned as part of the International Furniture Fair of Argentina (FIMAR) Exposition, the Pabellón Ricchezze,...

There’s a new way of doing mechanical engineering, and Michigan Technological University is taking steps to make sure that their students come out of school skilled at using the new technology.  

HyperWorks® modeling and simulation software developed by Altair, a technology and services company that focuses on business and engineering innovation, is delivering a new class of design tools for tomorrow’s engineer. And Michigan Tech is one of the first engineering schools to incorporate this commercial suite of computer-aided engineering software into its entire mechanical engineering curriculum.

The software enables engineers to do simulation-driven design, which takes the place of prototyping, testing...

CGS, a global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services, today announced that Glamorise Foundations, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of bras for full-figured women, selected BlueCherry® Enterprise Resource Processing Suite (ERP) to support its sales expansion, purchasing and sourcing growth, and supply chain processes.

After reflecting on its continued global expansion, Glamorise sought a solution to support the purchasing and sourcing for its expanded selling platform. While considering BlueCherry ERP to support its sales channel growth, Glamorise also discovered the added value the solution could bring to its supply chain processes, offering a single...

EMC Corporation today reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2015 financial results.

Fourth-quarter consolidated revenue was $7 billion, flat year over year (up 3% on a constant currency basis2). GAAP net income attributable to EMC was $771 million in the fourth quarter, and GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was $0.39 in the fourth quarter. Non-GAAP1 net income attributable to EMC was $1.3 billion in the fourth quarter, and non-GAAP1 earnings per weighted average diluted share in the fourth quarter was $0.65.

Full-year 2015 GAAP and non-GAAP3 revenue was $24.7 billion and $24.8 billion, respectively, up 1% year over year...

CD-adapco, the largest privately held CFD-focused provider of Computer Aided Engineering software, is hosting an oil and gas seminar on January 28 in Houston, Texas titled, “Subsea: Improving Safety and Mitigating Risk through Simulation.” This complimentary event will unveil some of the financial benefits the use of simulation can offer subsea engineers.

As companies involved in the global Oil and Gas industry seek to remain profitable while oil prices slump to record lows, they are increasingly turning to engineering simulation as a method of reducing equipment failure, while simultaneously using simulation to improve product...

PROSTEP, Inc, a Birmingham, MI, USA, company, is pleased to announce a new partnership with 3DA Systems (www.3dasystems.com), based in Victoria, BC, Canada. Both companies aim to provide the AEC / BIM community with the most comprehensive tools to communicate rich 3D data via the universal PDF file format.

With 3D PDF Converter for Revit, designers and architects can forward three dimensional images created in Autodesk® Revit® to anyone with a current version of the freely available Adobe® Reader.  An expensive, specialized design program license is no longer necessary to share design elements and protect intellectual property.

Additionally, PROSTEP’s...

Accenture has launched a digital portal that helps product developers such as engineers accelerate delivery of products to market at lower costs through greater efficiency.

The Portal consolidates large amounts of product development data from multiple enterprise systems in a single, organized view, reducing the time needed for product developers to search for this data by up to 95 percent. Leveraging this portal, these professionals can use analytics to anticipate and solve problems, as well as develop insights and make better-informed decisions.

Accenture developed the EPIC portal for companies that design, engineer and...

3D Systems announced today that it will feature its latest 3D printers, materials and software solutions, as well as its on-demand parts manufacturing services as a platinum sponsor at SOLIDWORKS World 2016 in Dallas, TX, January 31 - February 3. Visitors to the show are invited to experience how 3D Systems’ offerings complement and enhance SOLIDWORKS^® software to transform the way users work and manufacture. 3D Systems can be found at booth 707 of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

Products and services on display at booth 707 will include:

Direct scan-to-CAD workflow integration with the industry-leading, SOLIDWORKS-certified