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Knovel announced today the addition of six publishers, including Taylor & Francis and ICE Publishing, to its roster of more than 100 authoritative publishers and societies. Knovel has signed more than 20 new publishing partners since January, making 2013 a record year for content expansion. As a result, engineers worldwide have…

3D Systems announced today the acquisition of Village Plastics Co., a manufacturer of filament-based ABS, PLA and HIPS 3D printing materials. Through its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Norton, Ohio, Village Plastics delivers the highest quality, precision 3D printing filaments. 3DS plans to immediately integrate Village Plastics materials and manufacturing technologies to…

SmartCAMcnc has announced the release of SmartCAM® v2014. SmartCAM v2014 delivers a redesigned and improved user interface that assists in usability, ease of learning and user efficiency, plus a variety of milling process modeling, toolpath verification and geometry modeling improvements. The SmartCAM product family consists of Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) applications…

Maplesoft™ announced a new release of MapleSim™, the advanced system-level modeling and simulation platform. This release includes substantial improvements to the MapleSim simulation engine, resulting in faster model pre-processing times, more flexible code generation, and expanded support for Modelica-based custom components. In MapleSim 6.3, the symbolic pre-processing time has been…

MecSoft Corporation, the developer of industry leading CAD/CAM software solutions, has announced the availability of VisualCAM 2014 for SolidWorks, a major version release for MecSoft’s integrated CAM solution for SolidWorks. VisualCAM 2014 for SolidWorks includes 2 CAM modules known as VisualCAM-MILL for SolidWorks, and VisualCAM-TURN for SolidWorks, each of which run integrated…

Sales up +2.7% over the first 9 months at constant currency (-4.2% in actual terms) Strong negative currency and base effects Dynamic activity in Europe and in BRIC countries Adoption of our disruptive solutions by innovative industrial leaders Strategic acquisition of CyDesign Labs. Alain de Rouvray, ESI Group’s Chairman and…

The latest recruits to Edgecam’s expanding Indian reseller, Kriatec, prompted an intensive training session for ten application engineers, providing them with a sound knowledge of the leading CAM solution from Vero Software. Kriatec Managing Director Ajitha Prabhu says: “The continuous investment in our technical teams ensures we’re able to deliver…

MathWorks today announced that Aalto University has expanded its school-wide use of MATLAB and Simulink to include home usage access for students. The new agreement builds on the existing school-wide license that gives all students, faculty and lab staff with MATLAB, Simulink and over 50 additional MathWorks products for analysis,…

Accelrys, Inc. today announced the release of the Accelrys Materials Studio® 7.0 modeling and simulation environment for chemists, polymer scientists and other materials scientists. The latest release contains enhancements in quantum mechanics, classical simulation, usability, visualization and collaboration, enabling scientists to engineer better performing and more cost-effective materials across a wide range of…

OPEN MIND presents hyperMILL® 2013.2. The new advanced CAM software has been vastly improved, primarily in its CAD component, hyperCAD®-S, which facilitates and speeds up the user’s work – also with respect to tool and mould making. In hyperCAD®-S, OPEN MIND has developed its own CAD system that is ideally…