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Autodesk, Inc. today announced the resignation of Mark Hawkins, the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer. After more than five years at Autodesk, Hawkins is leaving the design and engineering software leader at the end of July to become chief financial officer at salesforce.com. “I want to thank…

PTC has completed its acquisition of Atego, a developer of model-based systems and software engineering applications. The acquisition enhances PTC’s portfolio of product lifecycle management (PLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions and strengthens PTC’s commitment to supporting its customers’ systems engineering initiatives with powerful modeling capabilities. Atego’s Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) solution connects requirements engineering,…

Granta Design today announced the release of the GRANTA MI:Product Intelligence Package, a new suite of software and data that helps engineering enterprises to optimize products while minimizing environmental, regulatory, and supply chain risks.  For the first time, MI:Product Intelligence provides fast, easy-to-use tools that draw on comprehensive, authoritative materials and…

Anyone with an iPad and a Fifth Generation MakerBot® Replicator® 3D Printer can now unleash their inner 3D designer with just a few taps of their finger. MakerBot PrintShop™, a fun, easy and free way to create and 3D print all kinds of cool things, makes its debut on the…

Kubotek USA has released its third eBook in a series designed to educate readers on the features and benefits of Direct CAD Modeling.  Direct CAD for the Contract Manufacturer explores the unique issues that contract manufacturers face when working with their customer’s CAD files. This new eBook follows on the heels of Direct…

Altium Limited in cooperation with Australian based In-Circuit Design Pty Ltd (ICD), announce the availability of new extensions for Altium Designer for advanced stackup planning and power distribution network analysis to bring comprehensive high-speed design capabilities to the mainstream market, at an affordable price. With the increasing challenges concerning high-speed…

SPEC Innovations will attend INCOSE Symposium 2014. International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) 24th Annual International Symposium, will be held at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, near Las Vegas, Nevada, June 30 – July 3. Demonstrations of Innoslate 3.0 will be given at Booth C3 to show how Innoslate can…

OPEN MIND Technologies AG is set to present at the Farnborough International Airshow. OPEN MIND will present version 2014.1 of the CAM solution hyperMILL® at Booth B3 in Hall 1 of the aviation trade fair from 14 to 20 July 2014. The special requirements of the aviation industry also regard…

McGraw Hill Construction's Sweets (http://sweets.construction.com/) today announced the kickoff of Sweetstakes (https://sweets.construction.com/Sweetstakes), its contest offering approximately $20,000 in cash and prizes.  The contest was launched during the American Institute of Architects 2014 National Convention & Design Exposition in Chicago. Sweets, which recently unveiled an enhanced online user interface, enables architects, designers,…

Delcam’s Brazilian reseller, Seacam, worked together with Sandvik Brasil to machine aluminium transmission covers for a car being developed by students from the University of São Paulo State.  A reduction of 73% was achieved in the machining time by using the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy in Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM system…