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Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today announced a collaboration with Synergis Engineering Design Solutions, a Platinum provider of Autodesk products, to bring Building Information Modeling (BIM) training to ABC contractor members to make them more productive, efficient and profitable. The training is part of a larger effort known as Project…

GRAPHISOFT and Nikken Sekkei, one of the world's largest architectural design firms, announced today their strategic partnership agreement to establish a jointly-funded BIM Competence & Research Center for advancing BIM in Japan and South-East Asia. The multi-year strategic partnership agreement was signed by Keiichi Okamoto, President and CEO of Nikken Sekkei, and…

Visitors to the Advanced Engineering UK group of events at the NEC saw for themselves that Edgecam’s game-changing Workflow tools just got even faster. Workflow was already renowned for enabling CAD/CAM engineers to apply toolpaths within seconds, but several enhancements in the latest release, Edgecam 2014 R1, give additional control…

Luxion with IronCAD, LLC, announced the integration between KeyShot and IronCAD, bringing the single-click transfer of IronCAD data into KeyShot along with the ability to keep model geometry updated to streamline the 3D visual creation process. This tight integration between KeyShot and IronCAD, featuring Luxion’s LiveLinking™ technology, allows IronCAD users…

The Altair Partner Alliance today announced the expansion of its material database offering with new partner, Matereality, LLC. With Matereality's cloud-based software, Workgroup Material DatabasePro, it is possible to build an enterprise quality, fully functional and extensible material database to store all the material data for different projects and collaborate securely across the…

Aras® today announced the availability of the Microsoft® Office Connector for Aras VPLM™. With the Office connector for Aras VPLM, enterprises that run Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD and Vault can manage documents, spreadsheets, slides and emails in PLM without leaving Microsoft Office applications. The Office connector for Aras VPLM improves personal…

Using Delcam’s PowerSHAPE CAD, PowerMILL CAM and PowerINSPECT inspection software helps precision engineering company, Amdale, to combine rapid lead times, high quality and competitive value with engineering excellence in order to be its customers’ supplier of choice. Amdale, a family-owned business formed in Portsmouth in 1988 to provide an EDM…

Over 300 sheet metal manufacturers learned how Radan is becoming much more than an isolated CAD/CAM system, when they attended a series of User Group Meetings around the UK. As well as detailing the wide range of new and enhanced functionality in its 2014 release, they also gave delegates a…

Lectra is pleased to announce the appointment of Eric Hubert as deputy sales director, responsible for sales development. Based at the company’s headquarters, in Paris, he reports to Edouard Macquin, Lectra sales director, whose team he has strengthened. In addition to the worldwide organization already in place for Lectra’s major…

The CONTACT User Meeting 2013 was held on 6 and 7 November in Brühl, near Cologne, and focused on innovation: How can companies leverage their capacity to innovate over the long term and what benefits can be derived from appropriate IT solutions? The over 40 presentations at this year's user…