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Luxion, maker of KeyShot®, the first real-time ray-tracing and global illumination program for 3D rendering and animation, today announced Motion Study support in a new release of KeyShot for SOLIDWORKS. Designers and engineers depend on their ability to create visuals that communicate their product and how it works. KeyShot makes this process incredibly fast with drag and drop material, light and camera setup in an interface that takes minutes to learn. Now, with the KeyShot for SOLIDWORKS add-in, SOLIDWORKS users are able to turn their assembly simulations into beautiful animations with the new support for Motion Studies. Through the add-in, users are able to import their model with all assembly hierarchy, appearance data and Motion Study data maintained, then quickly apply materials and lighting, or take their motion further with KeyShot’s powerful camera and part animation capabilities. Whether a rendering or animation is needed in minutes or advanced production visuals

SIMSOLID Corporation is proud to announce the general availability of SIMSOLID Cloud. SIMSOLID continues to set the standard for rapid simulation-driven design. Its innovative core technology eliminates geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time-consuming and expertise-extensive tasks done in traditional FEA. Moreover, SIMSOLID can analyze complex parts and large assemblies not practical with traditional FEA and provides performance feedback in seconds to minutes. SIMSOLID Cloud is an all new browser-based structural analysis application. Available in the Onshape App Store, it uses Onshape’s single sign-on and runs completely within an Onshape Document tab. With SIMSOLID Cloud, you never have to leave the familiar Onshape environment. All modeling, analysis and results visualization are completely embedded. SIMSOLID Cloud offers structural static and modal vibration analyses. It comes with an integrated material properties library. Both individual parts and assemblies can be analyzed and parts can be either mesh or CAD solids based.   SIMSOLID

Siemens and PLM World® announce today that the highly successful user conference, Siemens PLM Connection – Americas, will transition to being managed directly by Siemens. PLM World, the current user organization that manages the event, and Siemens have agreed to transition the event with an effective date of June 2019. PLM World will host the 2018 June event in Phoenix, Arizona as planned. The two organizations will continue to work together to enable users to maintain a strong voice influencing Siemens’ future software development and ongoing innovation.   Siemens PLM Software has undergone a substantial business transformation, with various acquisitions extending the company’s solution coverage beyond the traditional product lifecycle management (PLM) domain. The end goal of the transition will be to provide customers with a holistic platform for digital innovation across both the lifecycle and the enterprise.  “Given the continued expansion within Siemens PLM, this transition is the logical next

Today, 3D Systems announced 3DXpert™ for SOLIDWORKS.  By combining the tools that designers need from 3D Systems' 3DXpert with SOLIDWORKS from Dassault Systèmes, 3D Systems provides a distinct and exclusive advantage to all SOLIDWORKS users.  The new 3DXpert for SOLIDWORKS product enables SOLIDWORKS users to prepare and optimize designs for both plastic and metal additive manufacturing. 3DXpert for SOLIDWORKS provides a new layer of tools, accessible in a familiar CAD environment, making it easy to prepare and optimize designs for additive manufacturing. By taking advantage of this design freedom, SOLIDWORKS users will now be able to produce complex geometries, light-weight parts without compromising strength, and apply surface texture to deliver functional or aesthetic benefits.  Within the additive manufacturing environment, complex structures can easily become a reality, while enabling rapid product development, reduced time to market, and lower total cost of operation. Capitalizing on the rapid advancement of additive manufacturing -- many analyst

NEC Corporation today announced the development of an adaptive network control technology that allows automobiles to share information about their surroundings in real-time, even in unstable communication environments featuring numerous vehicles and communication terminals. In recent years, expectations have been growing for the introduction of self-driving automobiles, automated guided vehicles (AGV) at factories and drones for deliveries. However, in order to avoid collisions and ensure the safety of self-driving vehicles, it is necessary for vehicles to share information about their surroundings in real-time through mobile networks. In terms of self-driving automobiles, guidelines established by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) require that at least 95% of communications reach their destination within 100 milliseconds. In a mobile network, however, as the number of communication terminals that are connected to a radio base station increases, the communication delay for each terminal also increases. Moreover, communication delays may differ from terminal to

DXC Technology today announced the launch of DXC Agile Process Automation (APA), a new digital platform that combines cloud and robotic process automation (RPA) with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance a company’s business processes. Whether transforming existing processes to take full advantage of automation or creating new operating models to deliver business innovation, DXC APA provides companies with a complete agile solution. In addition, through the world-class DXC Partner Network, DXC is teaming with PwC, Blue Prism and UiPath to bring this offering to enterprises. “We’ve entered a new innovation cycle, specifically in business processes, that is driven by the cloud, robotic process automation and artificial intelligence-based technologies,” said Mahesh Shah, vice president and general manager, Business Process Services (BPS), DXC Technology. “We are now able to go beyond traditional limitations, helping our clients leap into a new era of speed, productivity and efficiency.” The DXC APA platform enables business processes

OutSystems today announced a collaboration with Tech Mahindra. With this partnership, Tech Mahindra will now use the OutSystems low-code development platform for its enterprise clients across five verticals. This collaboration enables OutSystems to expand its reach into these verticals. “Low-code app development has entered the mainstream worldwide, as companies press to maximise their productivity, agility, and ultimately, profitability,” said Bob Wilson, Vice President, Global Alliances & Channels of OutSystems. “Our collaboration with Tech Mahindra allows us to help enterprise organisations across various verticals quickly realise their mobility strategy through the use of our leading low-code, rapid application development platform.” The alliance is currently focused on reaching five industry verticals: manufacturing, financial services, communications, healthcare, and retail/CPG. This collaboration will help joint customers in these industries expedite development and integrations between existing software tools. Tech Mahindra projects, now powered by low-code development, will enable clients to eliminate paperwork, streamline onboarding, and

SolidCAM UK experienced a massive boost to its business when it moved to its new Barnsley offices in 2012 and it anticipates another growth spurt when it opens its Barnsley Technology Centre. Gordon Drysdale, Managing Director says, “We ran very successful monthly seminars at our Technology Centre near Milton Keynes supported by ROMI and tooling and workholding suppliers. These seminars enabled engineers to see the whole manufacturing process from design through to the manufacture of the finished part. We outgrew that location. We are now moving the Technology Centre to Barnsley which will bring us together in one location so that customers can see our full range of services and meet all the SolidCAM UK team in a new and much bigger environment.”  Business has doubled since the move to the new Barnsley office and it is anticipated that the Technology Centre will result in a further 50% growth in

Today Converge formally announces they are open for business while attending SOLIDWORKS World 2018. Converge provides services and products that enable an ideal product development environment for increased productivity and reduced costs. Converge offers the complete line of SOLIDWORKS solutions and an extensive set of value-added products and services based on cloud computing. Cloud computing offers a new way for engineering and manufacturing companies to develop products, allowing them to focus on design instead of IT infrastructure. Converge embraces the cloud, while also understanding there is a place for on-premise computing. Converge combines SOLIDWORKS products with a host of other services and solutions providing a menu of options for optimizing a company's product development environment. The solution set empowers remote workers, enables seamless collaboration, provides on-demand scaling, removes IT admin burdens, and eliminates the need for technology refreshes. The complete solution creates a powerful product development environment that will save

CGTech is proud to celebrate three decades of innovation and consistent growth. Headquartered in Irvine, California, with 10 wholly-owned subsidiaries to support customers worldwide, the company is releasing new CNC simulation and optimization technologies faster than ever before.  “CGTech may have started 30 years ago, but we continue coming out with new products while enhancing our core capabilities,” said CGTech’s President Jon Prun. “VERICUT development is driven by our customers’ needs, and we always encourage input from users and partners. We host nearly 50 free VERICUT user group meetings worldwide each year to gather valuable customer feedback.”   CGTech began when Prun recognized a need to verify NC tool path programs without wasting valuable CNC machining time on a prove-out part. VERICUT software was the world’s first widely available, productive method to test NC machine tool paths in an offline virtual reality environment. VERICUT revolutionized NC program verification by simulating material