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U.S. CAD announces today its designation as an Autodesk Platinum Valued Added Reseller (VAR). The Autodesk Platinum tier is the highest level of certification that an Autodesk VAR can achieve and recognizes those partners who have provided best-in-class solutions that include pre- and post-sales support, consulting, training, implementation, and customization. “Platinum Partners…

Swedish IT startup BIMobject AB announce that they are starting up operations in the United States. BIMobject inc. will be a 100% owned subsidiary to the publicly listed BIMobject AB at Nasdaq OMX First North. BIMobject inc. will be a Californian Corporation and based in Silicon Valley. The US construction industry…

Altair has announced it is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Altair Enlighten Award, the automotive industry's only award program solely dedicated to innovation in vehicle lightweighting. Now in its third year, the annual award will be presented in collaboration with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) at the 50th…

ANSYS announced today that it has acquired the assets of Newmerical Technologies International (NTI), a premier developer of in-flight icing simulation software and associated design, testing and certification services. Terms of the deal, which closed earlier this week, were not disclosed. Montreal-based NTI develops and markets advanced computational fluid dynamics…

SSI released ShipConstructor 2015 R2.1 software in response to emerging ship design, engineering and building trends identified by a “Client Council” of industry leaders. The expert advisors on this software launch were representatives from US and Canadian companies: Genoa Design, Glosten & Associates, Gunderson Marine, and Trinity Marine Products. This group has similar production…

Ideate, Inc., today announced the availability of a new Autodesk Revit add-in Ideate Software  solution, Ideate Sticky for Revit, designed to work with Autodesk Revit 2015 and Autodesk Revit 2014. Ideate Software is a set of far-reaching Building Information Modeling (BIM) data management tools that help the Revit community clean…

C3D Labs is pleased to introduce C3D V16, the latest update of its professional toolset for developing engineering software. V16 extends the capabilities of C3D for creating sophisticated geometric shapes, matures its 2D/3D design functions, and adds powerful features for constructing solids composed of sheet metal. Most of the improvements…

Anark Corporation announced today its plans to create certified Autodesk Inventor software products as an Autodesk Applications Development Partner. Leveraging the Anark Core software platform currently deployed within the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as many of the world's most innovative manufacturing enterprises, Anark plans to provide MBE authoring…

CGS announces that Secret Charm has selected its BlueCherry® PLM as the fashion company’s Product Lifecycle Management system both for its user-friendly functionality and its ability to streamline existing business processes such as line planning, product specification development, sample management, costing, quality and compliance and workflow. To keep pace with the…

NXP Semiconductors has significantly reduced its product footprint and improved overall performance of its new car infotainment system by using power noise and reliability sign-off solutions for integrated circuits from ANSYS. With digital radios becoming a standard feature in automobiles, scalable multi-standard support, improved reception performance and cost savings are driving NXP's…