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SpaceClaim announced today that SpaceClaim director of product management, Justin Hendrickson, has been chosen as a keynote presenter at this year’s DEVELOP3D Live, taking place today in Warwick, U.K. Attendees will learn how SpaceClaim is accelerating product design, prototyping and development by taking 3D geometry from the domain of a…

Today, Siemens announced nearly $660 million of in-kind software grants for manufacturing programs at vocational high schools, technical community colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts. Students will now have access to the same Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software used throughout the global manufacturing industry to design, develop and manufacture some…

TraceParts Inc. announces the launch of 3DeXchange, 3DX-US.COM, a new community site for anyone who creates in 3D. This new professional website brings together tech-savvy design professionals, suppliers, product content, and ideas in a collaborative online community.  “Designers and engineers come to 3DX to share 3D designs including those suitable for…

AEC Digital Solutions LLC, a BIM services provider to AEC firms, recently announced a corporate restructuring in an effort to expand efforts to provide BIM management services to clients in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company's premium digital construction, Scan-to-BIM and content creation services continue to grow in demand in…

3D Systems announced today that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Robtec. Headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Robtec is the largest Latin-American additive manufacturing service bureau and the leading 3D printing and scanning products distributor in the region. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, 3DS will acquire…

Zuken announces CADSTAR 15. With high-speed interfaces now almost universal, easing their implementation is vital. CADSTAR’s P.R.Editor now supports impedance balanced routing that simplifies the implementation of high-speed interfaces. Engineers can easily route to JEDEC standards and meet DDR3 performance specifications. This reduces design iterations by helping designers optimize circuits for the…

Trimble today announced the availability of the SketchUp Mobile Viewer for iPad, a new app providing design and construction professionals with convenient, on-the-go access to SketchUp models.  Available in the iTunes App Store, the app allows iPad users to store and access their own 3D models, as well as explore and download…

Trimble announced the release of Trimble® Scan Explorer Extension for SketchUp Pro; a powerful, easy-to-use tool enabling architects, engineers and geospatial professionals to create models from 3D scanning data. The new solution connects the high-resolution field data from Trimble scanners with intuitive and powerful professional modeling software; simplifying the process…

Pointwise announces the latest release of its Pointwise computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring an extension of the company's advanced T-Rex hybrid meshing technique to generate near-wall layers of hexahedral cells. “As our T-Rex technique for generating hybrid prism-tet meshes with boundary layer resolution continued to evolve, our customers…

BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of v14.2.5 of ANSA / µETA pre- and post- processing suite. This maintenance release focuses on the correction of identified issues for the ANSA / µETA 14.2x branch and is addressed to those who wish to continue to use the v14.2x branch -and…