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Delcam’s stand at the Fornitore Offresi exhibition to be held in Erba, north of Milan, from 5th to 7th February, will highlight the company’s recent developments in feature-based CAM programming and in machining with robots.  The latest versions of the PowerSHAPE Pro CAD program for design and reverse engineering, and…

Stratasys Ltd. announced the addition of Senior Vice President of Global Operations, Jerome Hamilton. Hamilton comes to Stratasys from 3M, a global company with $30 billion in revenue. Since 2012, Hamilton served as Vice President of Lean Six Sigma Operations, Corporate Quality and Acquisition Integration. He had a significant role in devising strategy and operation plans…

Creaform announced that it will be bolstering its presence in South Korea thanks to the facilities of its parent company, AMETEK Inc. These new offices, strategically located in the Suwon area, will enable customers and distributors in the region, particularly Nawoo Tech Ltd., to have a broader access to Creaform…

3D Systems announced its role as a key partner in the 2015 Science in 3D Festival organized by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The event will be held on January 20-21, 2015, at the NIAID Fishers Lane Conference Center in Rockville,…

Fidesys LLC, announced that its SimulationForDesign (www.sim4design.com) website has been launched. It will operate in Beta mode until 31 March, 2015 and during this period customers will benefit from reduced rates.  The website focuses on the needs of non-simulation specialists to enable designers without simulation background to reliably evaluate structural…

Delcam has released the 2015 R2 version of its PowerMILL programming software for five-axis and high-speed machining.  The new release includes improvements in toolpath simulation and verification, area clearance and drilling, plus more options for customisation by users. For further details on PowerMILL 2015 R2, including video demonstrations of the…

SofTech, Inc. today announced its second quarter fiscal year 2015 operating results. Revenue for the three months ended November 30, 2014 was approximately $1.03 million as compared to approximately $1.41 million for the same period in the prior fiscal year. The net loss for the current quarter was approximately ($379,000)…

TraceParts has announced a sharp increase in the amount of traffic generated in 2014 by its free library TracePartsOnline.net, which boasts over two million registered design professionals. TraceParts launched the TracePartsOnline.net website in 2001, giving millions of designers a gateway to a wealth of technical data on industrial parts and the possibility to freely…

PTC today announced that the Internet of Things (IoT) enabling technology businesses it acquired in 2014 – ThingWorx and Axeda –received several prestigious awards from Compass Intelligence at last week’s International CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics show. ThingWorx was awarded both Enabling Technology of the Year and App Development…

MSC Software Corporation announced that e-Xstream engineering's Digimat modeling platform has been named a top innovation in composite manufacturing by the world's largest composite industry group. The JEC Group awarded Digimat with its 2014 JEC Americas Innovation Award at its recent event in Boston. JEC awards have showcased excellence in composite manufacturing for 14…