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Rand Worldwide announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has released Scan to BIM 2016.1. Two new features will redefine the way designers and architects interact with point clouds in Autodesk Revit software and provide new functionality, eliminating time consuming modeling tasks. “Always looking for innovative ways to deliver high value to architects and design…

DST announced the availability of SimWise V9.7. This release continues to expand the Optimization, FEA, CAD Integration, and Interoperability capabilities of the product. It also introduces a new module for performing Fatigue Life calculations. SimWise Durability is an add-on module to SimWise 4D that uses the stress/strain history calculated as part…

Airbus and Autodesk‘s design studio, The Living, have designed and developed the largest 3D-printed metal part for a commercial airplane in history, what they call a “bionic” partition that is 3D-printed from a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) “printer” that uses a new super-strong alloy called scalmalloy to achieve the lightness of aluminum…

Trimble announced today that Tekla Corporation will transition to the Trimble brand on January 1, 2016. Trimble acquired Tekla in 2011 and the rebranding reflects both the evolution of Trimble as well as its vision for the future. Since the acquisition, Trimble and Tekla have shared a common vision—to transform the…

HWTrek (Hardware Trek), the global open innovation platform for hardware creation, today announced a collaboration with Autodesk to enable the integration of HWTrek’s platform with Autodesk to be launched early 2016 as part of the Forge initiative. Forge is an initiative to accelerate a cloud connected ecosystem in support of the future…

Ting-Yen Shih, a PhD student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was today announced the 2015 winner of the FEKO Student Competition.  The contest, now in its 11th year, supports engineering education and academic excellence and is aimed at students interested in antennas, microwave devices, bio-electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, and other electromagnetic…

Wipro has signed an agreement with Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW) to acquire Cellent AG for 73.5 million euros.  Cellent AG is a leading IT consulting and software services company and has been offering holistic innovative IT solutions and services to its customers in the DACH region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the past…

Key takeaways: Smart, connected products are becoming the norm in a wide range of manufacturing industries Companies must blend and manage software development tools within their existing PLM environments to strive for a single source of truth Acquiring Polarion Software provides Siemens PLM Software with cloud-based application lifecycle management solutions…

Key takeaways: Increased product complexity and global competition are driving manufacturing companies to increasingly look at PLM for competitive advantage Inconsistent alignment of enterprise value elements is leading to a widening of the value gap between the projected value and realized benefits of PLM systems Automotive, aerospace, and industrial product…

At its flagship annual user event Autodesk University, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced Autodesk BIM 360 Docs, a comprehensive, cloud-based service for the construction industry that provides a virtual workspace to create, access, maintain, markup and share 2D and 3D project documents, plans and models. Up to 25 percent of construction is rework,…