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A regularly scheduled maintenance release on top of CADfeature 20.0 containing fixes across many areas of CADfeature and targeted enhancements to improve operation and productivity. Discontinue Support for CAD Versions Incompatible with Windows 11 CADfeature will discontinue support for CAD versions that are not compatible with Windows 11. CATIA V5: Support will be limited to V5-6R2023 (R33) and later NX: Support will be limited to NX 2007 Series and later Creo Parametric: Support will be limited to 8.0 and later Creo Elements/Direct: Support will be limited to 20.4 and later SOLIDWORKS: Support will be limited to 2023 and later Inventor: Support will be limited to 2023 and later Solid Edge: Support will be limited to 2023 and later Support New CAD Version This release added support for new CAD versions CAD Versions added in 20.0 M3 Supported Versions Creo Parametric 13.4 8.0 – 13.4 Creo Elements/Direct 20.9 20.4 – 20.9 To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Elysium on CIMdata.com

IronCAD, a leading provider of innovative 3D CAD software solutions, announced the availability of IronCAD 2027 Product Update 1. This release extends the quality and capabilities of IronCAD 2027 with targeted enhancements in AI-assisted design automation, sheet metal workflows, piping, drafting, feature recognition, and interoperability. Optimized for industrial equipment and machinery design, metal fabrication, and mechanical engineering teams, the update helps users move from concept to production-ready data with fewer interruptions and less rework. Key new features and enhancements highlighted in IronCAD 2027 Product Update 1 include: AI Design Assistant Improvements, including AI Script Generation for Design Automation Building on IronCAD’s integrated AI capabilities, the AI Design Assistant has been enhanced with stronger support for AI-driven script generation. Users can leverage natural-language prompts and AI assistance to generate scripts that automate repetitive modeling tasks, configure components from catalog data (including metadata, parameters, materials, and Smart Attachments), and accelerate design automation workflows—further shaping

The Nemetschek Group, a leading global provider of vertical AI and software solutions for the AEC/O and media industries, is underscoring the next stage of its AI strategy with a family of premium AI offerings across its core segments: Archicad Max for architecture, Allplan Max for engineering, and Bluebeam Max for construction. All three are powered by the Nemetschek Intelligence Platform, the Group’s common AI and data foundation, and share one principle: AI that takes on repetitive work, makes project knowledge and data accessible, increases quality and keeps professionals in control of every decision. Architecture, engineering and construction firms face growing project complexity, tight schedules and a shortage of staff. Much of their time still goes into searching for information, checking models and drawings, and repeating routine tasks. The Max offerings within the Nemetschek Ecosystem are designed to give that time back – inside the workflows teams already rely on, and

Maya HTT launches M-Bot, a secure engineering knowledge assistant that connects to internal engineering, manufacturing and industrial operations knowledge and makes it possible to find complex technical information in seconds. M-Bot’s natural-language interface allows users to query proprietary technical knowledge that is fragmented across documents, systems and people, and to retrieve information up to 60x faster. With M-Bot, a five-minute manual search is reduced to roughly five seconds. “Engineering organizations already possess enormous amounts of valuable technical knowledge, but we’ve found that it’s challenging to get the right information to the right person in time to influence key decisions,” said Remi Duquette, VP Industrial AI at Maya HTT. “We developed M-Bot so teams could access that knowledge in seconds and keep sensitive engineering data completely under their control.” Optimized for complex engineering and manufacturing content, M-Bot’s retrieval-augmented generation architecture handles technical questions involving text, images, tables, graphs, and other sophisticated engineering artifacts that

Planera, a leading provider of modern, AI-native CPM scheduling software for the construction industry, announced upcoming for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard designed to seamlessly and securely connect AI assistants and frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) with enterprise applications and databases. With this new integration, Planera becomes one of the first construction technology platforms to provide native MCP connectivity. The capability allows project teams, schedulers, and project executives to query live Planera schedules directly from leading AI environments—including Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT—eliminating manual data extraction and enabling real-time, cross-platform intelligence across the entire project lifecycle. Breaking Down Construction’s Perennial Data SilosHistorically, connecting critical path scheduling data with enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, and field management software has required custom APIs, brittle point-to-point integrations, or labor-intensive manual exports. By adopting MCP, Planera provides a standardized, secure bridge that allows AI models to dynamically retrieve and synthesize scheduling data alongside

Siemens announced a new automated software and hardware solution that helps engineers characterize noise and vibration behavior of mechanical components in hours rather than days. Siemens’ new automated component model extraction solution industrializes blocked force extraction in accordance with ISO 20270 and supports more accurate system-level NVH prediction through virtual prototyping. Component characterization is traditionally slow, manual and highly dependent on specialist expertise. Engineers often spend days performing measurements that are difficult to repeat consistently, introducing uncertainty into downstream simulation and system integration. The new solution for automated component model extraction addresses these challenges by automating both measurement and processing in a controlled, operator-independent workflow. Developed in collaboration with Bosch, the solution builds on Bosch’s patented predictiveVIA technology and is delivered by Siemens as the sole industrialized and scalable implementation. It pairs automated test benches with dedicated software to produce high-quality, simulation-ready component models that can be reused across multiple system variants. “Automated

At The Technology Sovereignty Package in Practice event in Brussels, Synopsys, Inc. announced an agreement with the European Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) to make its electronic design automation (EDA) software available to semiconductor startups and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the European Chips Design Platform (EuroCDP). Synopsys’ agreement with EuroCDP will provide a new, simplified entry point for advanced chip innovation by giving semiconductor designers streamlined access to Synopsys’ leading design tools, in addition to EuroCDP’s full program offering IP, training, funding and prototyping support.  “Europe’s next generation of semiconductor innovation will come from organizations of many different sizes, not only established chip companies. EuroCDP is designed to give startups, SMEs and research teams a clearer pathway to the resources they need to develop new technologies. Expanding the platform with Synopsys’ advanced design capabilities is an important part of making Europe’s chip innovation ecosystem more accessible and dynamic.” said Jari Kinaret, Executive

Bechtle AG is further expanding its capabilities in the fast-growing market for artificial intelligence, data analytics and automation through the acquisition of Bespoke XYZ Limited (Bespoke) and its subsidiary Savvy. Founded in 2013 and based in Manchester, Bespoke specialises in Microsoft-based AI, data analytics and Power Platform solutions, while Savvy focuses on the education sector as a managed IT services provider (MSP), offering IT support, Microsoft 365 and licensing, cloud, infrastructure and cybersecurity services. The acquisition brings 52 employees to Bechtle, including an offshore delivery team in the Philippines. In the 2025/26 financial year, Bespoke generated revenue of approximately £3.5 million. Bechtle and Bespoke have already been working together successfully on customer projects for more than two years. The business will initially continue to operate as an independent company within Bechtle UK. The Bechtle Group has operated successfully in the UK for 29 years and has maintained a presence in Manchester since

Sandvik has completed the previously announced acquisition of ThoroughTec Simulation (ThoroughTec), a South Africa–based leading provider of equipment simulators and simulator-based training for the global mining industry. ThoroughTec will be reported in Parts and Services, a division within business area Mining. The company is headquartered in Durban, South Africa, and has more than 200 employees and a broad-based sales and support network. In 2025, the company generated revenues of around SEK 170 million, with a strong EBITA margin. The impact on Sandvik’s EBITA margin will be accretive. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Sandvik on CIMdata.com Search for ThoroughTec Simulation on CIMdata.com

Contruent, a leading SaaS provider of lifecycle cost management solutions for capital projects, returned as a Platinum Sponsor of Project Controls Expo UK 2026, taking place November 2-4 at Wembley Stadium in London.  Project Controls Expo UK brought together project controls professionals and capital project leaders to share ideas, challenge established approaches and explore what it takes to deliver complex projects with greater confidence. Contruent joined that conversation with a practical focus: how trusted, integrated project data could help teams move from reporting what happened to anticipating what comes next.  Contruent’s Chief Customer Officer, Karl Vantine presented “From Data to Decisions: Putting AI to Work in Project Controls.” The session explored how AI can learn from project data to build confidence in forecasts through predictive analytics, and how role-based AI agents can guide project controls professionals through complex day-to-day workflows and required actions. Together, these capabilities showed how trusted, integrated data could