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GRAPHISOFT® will sponsor renowned international design firm, BIG's (Bjarke Ingels Group) returning exhibition to the National Building Museum. Entitled HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptation, the display opens on January 24, 2015 and remains on view through August 30, 2015. The exhibition demonstrates how BIG's design solutions exist in and are…

Dassault Systèmes announced that Gian Paolo Bassi has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of its 3D design software brand SOLIDWORKS. Gian Paolo Bassi will spearhead the development of SOLIDWORKS’ future product and technology strategies designed for the desktop and the cloud and the continued collaboration with the brand’s user community.…

Comet Solutions, Inc., announced today an international distribution agreement with China-based Shanghai EON Info Technology Co., Ltd. The partnership enables EON Tech to sell the Comet suite of SimApps as well as develop new SimApps for customers in the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong. Partnership Increases Automotive Industry…

Researchers from academic institutions across Europe will soon be able to perform some of the most sophisticated simulations imaginable thanks to a new partnership between ANSYS and the High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) of the University of Stuttgart/Germany. The partnership offers researchers access to ANSYS' engineering simulation solutions on HLRS' supercomputing assets to perform demanding computational fluid…

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced that it has acquired U.K.-based C3global, provider of web-based Amulet software for operational analytics. Bentley’s AssetWise platform, which serves configuration management, asset health monitoring, inspection, maintenance, and compliance for infrastructure assets, can now deliver additional actionable insights as asset performance management is extended, through AssetWise Amulet, for asset performance modeling. AssetWiseAmulet offers unique…

Datakit has released Cross Manager 2015.1. Besides many improvements to existing interfaces, this version offers a brand new3DXML export interface. It is therefore possible to convert twenty CAD formats to 3DXML with CrossManager. Do not hesitate to request a demo license for this new 3DXML output, in order to test its effectiveness with your own files.

Engineers currently planning tomorrow’s factories will be very well served with this newly released version 6.0 of M4 P&ID FX. This new major release of the P&ID software is a modern design with genuine, new functionality, perfectly fulfilling today’s businesses most diverse requirements. A Modern and Flexible, Intuitive Tool “This…

csimsoft announced today the release of the Trelis™ SpaceClaim™ Add-in, a mesh generation add-in for the popular SpaceClaim 3D modeling software that allows designers to quickly create new designs and automatically mesh their design iterations for FEA and CFD analysis. The Trelis SpaceClaim add-in includes Trelis Lite™ 15.1, a lite…

Today, the Altair Partner Alliance (APA) announced that CAEfatigue VIBRATION is available to HyperWorks users for download. CAEfatigue VIBRATION is a frequency-based fatigue solver and random response post processor developed by CAEfatigue Limited. "Frequency-based methods for response and fatigue life estimation offer the promise of very efficient, elegant and sophisticated design procedures," said Dr. Neil…

ÏD Group, the French-based designer and maker of children’s wear, has selected Centric Software to provide its product lifecycle management (PLM) software. ÏD Group will use the Centric 8 PLM solution for retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods companies to enhance visibility and increase efficiency through the product development process,…