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Version 4.1 of PROSTEP's PDF Generator 3D is now available and offers a number of small but nonetheless excellent and very useful enhancements and new features. For example, in version 4.1, the Model Script plug-in for the converter engine – available since version 4.0 – provides a function that allows…

Agility Group, a leader in engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning solutions for the offshore oil and gas industry, has renewed its Global Alliance Agreement (GAA) for three years to use Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise as a key design and information management solution. The company seeks to position itself as the…

SAP AG announced that its Annual Report is now available and that SAP’s Annual Report on Form 20-F has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the year ended December 31, 2013. The report can be accessed via SAP’s Web site at www.sap.com/investor and www.sap.de/investor. Hardcopies of both of the…

Nemetschek Scia will introduce Scia Design Forms, a new Open Design technology that allows Structural and Civil Engineers to centralize their engineering design tasks into one integrated workflow, at Structures Congress 2014 in Boston, Mass., which will take place April 2-4. Scia Design Forms allows civil and structural engineers to…

Infor announced that registration is officially open for its annual user conference, Inforum 2014, which will take place at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La., September 15-18. More than 7,000 Infor customers, partners, employees, and industry experts will come together to demonstrate how Infor's purpose-built applications and…

Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has been named as the Top Employer in Europe by the Top Employers Institute for the second consecutive year. TCS was ranked first among the 20 companies that were eligible for the award. The company was recognized as an exceptional performer across six core Human Resources…

LEDAS Ltd. and ASCON today jointly announced the successful integration of ASCON’s C3D kernel into LEDAS Geometry Comparison technology. This is the first third-party component to benefit from the C3D kernel; previously, third parties had only developed CAD/CAM software as applications on top of C3D. LEDAS develops computational components and…

Altium Limited announces a third party developer partnership with Octopart, a well known provider of an electronic parts search engine used by hundreds of thousands of engineers to find and compare parts across different manufacturers and distributors. Around 70-80% of the life cycle cost for a new product is a direct…

The Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of SAP AG recommend that shareholders approve a dividend of €1.00 per share for the fiscal year 2013 at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. This represents a year-over-year increase of €0.15, or 18% compared to last year’s dividend of €0.85. If the…

The new release of WorkNC from Vero Software is being premiered at the Paris Industrie 2014 Exhibition. WorkNC V23 continues the development of finishing toolpaths, which was completely revised in the previous version. Nicolas Lepetit, CAD/CAM Development Manager says: “This development has continued by focusing on the precision and fluidity…