Commentaries & Highlights

Rand Worldwide today announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division released the 2015 versions of the IMAGINiT Clarity suite of products. The intuitive user interface, new task automation options, and integration with Autodesk products such as Autodesk BIM 360 Glue make the latest release of IMAGINiT Clarity a must for firms with project collaboration needs. “We’re committed to ensuring that the IMAGINiT Clarity product line meets the evolving design needs of architects, engineers and designers, whether they’re using Revit Server or just Revit,” says Tim Johnson, senior vice president at IMAGINiT Technologies. “The new productivity and time saving enhancements in our 2015 releases allow BIM teams to reduce the amount of time spent on manual tasks, such as model exchange and clean-up, and focus on higher level tasks that add tangible value to projects. As the new IMAGINiT Clarity line-up supports Autodesk Revit and Revit Server 2015, 2014 and 2013 versions, many firms can now reap significant

Lectra is pleased to announce that Matalan is implementing Modaris®, Lectra’s product development solution with integrated 3D technology, to enhance their in-house development to achieve superior fit, style and quality of their garments. Founded in 1985 by John Hargreaves, with 225 stores across the UK, Matalan stands for true family value and continually strives to offer excellent products at an affordable price in men’s, women’s and children’s clothing as well as homeware. Matalan constantly looks to better understand their customers’ fit requirements, and they worked closely with Lectra to determine the best approach to ensure that Matalan could lead the way in achieving consistency of fit across their styles and brands. Matalan selected Lectra’s 3D product development solution, Modaris, because of its unique ability to apply sophisticated pattern making techniques to a virtual fitting room environment, allowing Matalan to streamline and standardize their fit process. Matalan is now better equipped to consistently

Dassault Systèmes announced the opening of the 27thAnnual SIMULIA Community Conference (SCC) at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island (USA). This is the largest gathering in the history of the conference, which continues through Thursday, May 22, 2014. Beginning today, SCC will highlight customers who have used Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s realistic simulation applications to open new horizons for business. Partners, industry leaders and hundreds of the world’s most talented and innovative engineers will share their stories, explore new ideas and become inspired to take their projects to the next level. Attendees of the event will learn how the world of design has changed: it has become more social – and global collaboration is critical. At the 2014 SCC, keynote speakers, presenters and SIMULIA experts will highlight how simulation now plays a central role in the world of design – from concept to detailed engineering, including testing, validation and usage in

Cimatron Limited announced today that Ilan Erez, its CFO and Vice President of Operations will present at the East Coast IDEAS Investor Conference on Thursday June 5, 2014at the Metro Meeting Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Cimatron's presentation is scheduled to begin at10:55am EDT. At the conference, there will be an opportunity for investors to meet Mr. Erez one-on-one. Interested investors should contact the conference organizers, or the Cimatron Investor Relations team at \n This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Advanced Solutions, an Autodesk Platinum Partner and Authorized Training Center (ATC), announces open registration for a two-day virtual event called, The Sky's the Limit with Autodesk 2015 Software. The event will explore the latest enhancements to the Autodesk 2015 portfolio of products for the Manufacturing, Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Infrastructure industries.  The Sky's the Limit with Autodesk 2015 Software virtual event series will begin on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 and run through Thursday, June 26, 2014. Through the registration link, participants will be directed to a dynamic landing page with detailed descriptions of each session, event highlights, presenter headshots and biographies, a full agenda and frequently asked questions. Registered participants will also receive The Sky's the Limit Gift Box, chock full of things to make everyone "whistle while they work." Once the registration is closed and the event opens, event attendees will enter the virtual conference hall and gain access to: 20 live presentations with Autodesk Certified presenters across

Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that it has acquired Nimbic, Inc., a provider of Maxwell-accurate, 3D full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation solutions. Nimbic's high-performance high-end simulation capability and ability to accurately calculate complex electromagnetic fields will expand and strengthen Mentor's chip-package-board simulation portfolio. "Nimbic's world-class 3D electromagnetic simulation solutions for signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI (electromagnetic interference) analysis are used by numerous leaders in the electronics industry to address their enterprise-wide challenges for chip-package-board design," said Raul Camposano, CEO, Nimbic, Inc. "Nimbic's recognized solutions enable the industry to cope with increasingly higher-end complexity. We see joining Mentor Graphics as a natural fit with its own leadership in PCB and package systems design, global footprint, and extensive network of enterprise customers. We view this transaction as very positive for our customers, our employees, and the industry as a whole." "Mentor Graphics is already the recognized leader in PCB systems design with our flagship Xpedition flow

 PDF Key takeaways:  The new Solid Edge ST7 revision delivers over 1300 user-requested enhancements Luxion’s KeyShot for advanced rendering and lighting technology will be bundled into Solid Edge ST7 Siemens PLM Software’s Karsten Newbury, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mainstream Engineering Software, opened Solid Edge University 2014 on May 13. The two-day event brings together Solid Edge users, called “Edgers,” industry analysts, press, resellers, third-party software vendors, and the Siemens Solid Edge team to share product and business news, introduce the latest version of the software, Solid Edge ST7, and conduct informational and training classes. This year’s theme was “Re-Imagine What’s Possible.” To exemplify the theme, Mr. Newbury highlighted a list of industrial companies around the world that use Solid Edge for product design. Bringing together both art and science, the Swiss ski manufacturer STÖCKLI develops and manufactures precision custom skis that have delivered podium wins for many world-class skiers. Hutton Technologies,

Trimble today announced Trimble® Field Link 2.20, the latest version of its software for management of layout tasks associated with building construction. The new release extends field layout capabilities for contractors and field teams, providing task-based workflows, customizable views, and a touch-screen user interface designed to optimize the information presented.  To find the exact location of a point in the field, users can now visualize where they are inside the 3D model relative to the layout point in their Trimble Field Link software, giving a more intuitive, realistic 3D perspective viewpoint and making it easier to navigate to the selected point.  Trimble Field Link Version 2.20 encompasses updates to Trimble Field Link for MEP and Trimble Field Link for Structures field software, which now include augmented 3D model support, and an enhanced in-model perspective layout view for a more productive and realistic field layout experience. Trimble Field Link also provides users with better visualization, navigation and rendering of building models, as

DeSL announces that Turkish based fashion brand and retailer COLIN’s, has selected and implemented DeSL's PLM solution. Established in Istanbul in 1983, COLIN’s has grown to become a leading fashion brand and has expanded to 670 stores in 32 countries.  Following a detailed and comprehensive evaluation of the global PLM market, COLIN’s selected the DeSL PLM solution to help support the Company’s growth plan to achieve 1,200 stores and presence in 50 countries within a five year timescale. COLIN’s were impressed with the DeSL PLM solution on a number of levels. Firstly, the breadth of the solution to support not only the full design and development process, but also detailed process management across purchase order management, order placement, supplier management, sample management, manufacturing and quality control. Additionally, the ability of the system to manage supplier quotations, pricing, document management to full collaboration across the product lifecycle, gave assurance to COLIN’s that

MathWorks today announced that the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) has selected MATLAB and MATLAB Distributed Computing Server as vehicles to enable researchers at all Swedish universities to utilize resources at the national data centers for high-performance computing (HPC) and to more effectively collaborate with colleagues across the country. SNIC is a national research infrastructure created to provide a balanced and cost-efficient set of resources and user support for large-scale computation and data storage. With data centers located at six key research universities, SNIC meets the needs of researchers from all scientific disciplines through an open-application procedure to ensure that the best research is supported. Starting in April, MATLAB Distributed Computing Server will be available in SNIC’s six data centers, allowing researchers to run their computationally intensive MATLAB® programs on SNIC’s high-performance computing clusters. Researchers will be able to develop parallel MATLAB applications on their own computers and then scale them to SNIC’s infrastructure from within the MATLAB