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Altair recently released the latest HyperWorks 14.0 Student Edition, making it the most comprehensive computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite available to aspiring structural and mechanical engineers. Altair® HyperWorks® is the most comprehensive, open architecture CAE simulation platform in the industry, offering the best technologies to design and optimize high performance, weight…

TraceParts is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of its online CAD platform. A subsidiary of the Trace Group created in 1989, TraceParts started its activity by distributing DVDs containing the 3D content of a few manufacturers. At that time, the DVDs were sent by post to design offices.…

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that customers and ecosystem partners are expanding their use of Calibre Pattern Matching solution to overcome previously intractable IC verification and manufacturing problems. The solution is integrated into the Mentor® Calibre nmPlatform solution, creating a synergy that drives these new applications at IC design companies…

International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) today introduces a white paper outlining seven recommendations to help manufacturers develop a strategy to improve profitability by managing engineering errors, changes and escapes. Engineering escapes happen as a result of routine product data exchange throughout the lifecycle and across the supply chain. Escapes are typically…

"This past April, CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, announced the launch of their AEC & Manufacturing Convergence consulting practice with Ed Martin at the helm. CIMdata provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle…

Recognizing that the design challenges for each industry and every company are different, Onshape is introducing FeatureScript, a new open programming language that lets CAD users create their own built-in parametric features or modify existing ones. Ever wish you could change the way your CAD system's features work? FeatureScript lets…

Developing an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled product is a complicated task, whether it be an autonomous vehicle, a vehicle user interface or a connected factory. IoT-enabled products contain hundreds, if not millions, of lines of embedded software code. And many of these products, and the systems and software that…

RIB Software AG, a technology leader in Integrated enterprise 5D BIM and Construction management solutions using BIG Data and Cloud Computing, today announced a global alliance with Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. Wipro will leverage RIB's iTWO software suite to provide…

Trimble announced today that architect Greg Lynn used its mixed-reality technology and Microsoft HoloLens to re-imagine and design the Packard Plant—the historic, abandoned automobile factory in Detroit. The architectural project was commissioned as part of the U.S. Pavilion and will be featured at the 2016 Venice Biennale exhibition in Italy from May 28 through November 27.…

The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Autodesk today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to help advance Thailand’s manufacturing competitiveness through industry-wide adoption of leading edge 3D technologies and digital manufacturing capabilities. “Thailand will need to adapt in this 21st century world from a Thailand 3.0…