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Dassault Systemes today announced that General Mills France, a subsidiary of General Mills, one of the world's leading food companies, is deploying the "Perfect Shelf" industry solution experience to engage in new merchandising strategies for its Hagen-Dazs premium brand of ice cream. In a product category driven by impulse purchases, "Perfect Shelf" enables General Mills France to better collaborate with retailers, enhance the consumer shopping experience and accelerate brand growth. General Mills France looked to inject innovation into the retail ice cream category by offering a differentiated and expanded Hagen-Dazs product line. In March 2015, the company launched new ice cream stick bars in five flavors, developed following two years of consumer feedback, and wanted a powerful category management solution to support the project. Few shoppers plan to buy ice cream before reaching the store. Out of 120 product categories, ice cream is the 27th most impulsive purchase , and around 75 percent of category sales occur during the

Synopsys, Inc.reported results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2015. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, Synopsys reported revenue of $587.2 million, compared to $539.0 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014. Revenue for fiscal year 2015 was $2.242 billion, an increase of 9.0 percent from $2.057 billion in fiscal 2014.   "Synopsys reported an excellent fourth quarter and fiscal 2015 against a somewhat challenging semiconductor industry backdrop, providing a solid foundation as we enter 2016," said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys. "Our game-changing design and verification products have made great strides and are yielding excellent results. Meanwhile, we continue to invest and grow in our new TAM of software quality and security, both organically and with several important acquisitions during the year." On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 was $49.8 million, or$0.31 per share, compared to $62.5 million, or $0.39 per share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014.

GRAPHISOFT has announced that ARCHICAD 19 has won the prestigious BIM Product of the Year award at the tenth annual Construction Computing Magazine Awards in the United Kingdom. This is the fifth year in a row that ARCHICAD has been honored with the top BIM product award. In addition, GRAPHISOFT took home the award for Company of the Year. Affectionately known as ‘The Hammers,’ the Construction Computing Awards showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design, construction, maintenance, and modification of commercial buildings, residential and social housing and civil engineering projects of all sizes. Hundreds of industry movers and shakers gathered recently in London to see the outcome of the readers' online voting and judging panel's deliberations. "We are pleased and proud to be recognized by users and readers alike for our work on behalf of architects and designers worldwide. It’s especially rewarding to see our partners and

 Autodesk, Inc. announced Forge, an initiative to accelerate a cloud connected ecosystem in support of the future of making things. The initiative consists of three major components – a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, a robust developer program, and a $100 million investment fund – all geared toward advancing the next wave of innovative technologies that will transform how products are designed, made and used. “The way we design, make and use products is rapidly changing. New technologies are disrupting every aspect of the product lifecycle,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president, Products at Autodesk. “Autodesk is launching Forge to help developers build new businesses in the changing manufacturing landscape. We are inviting innovators to take advantage of Autodesk’s cloud platform to build services that turn today’s disconnected technologies into highly connected, personalized experiences.” The Forge Initiative will help Autodesk realize the future of making things by partnering with developers and innovators to expand

Rand Worldwide announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has released Scan to BIM 2016.1. Two new features will redefine the way designers and architects interact with point clouds in Autodesk Revit software and provide new functionality, eliminating time consuming modeling tasks. “Always looking for innovative ways to deliver high value to architects and design engineers means that we’re continuously pushing the envelope of software development,” says Matt Mason, director, software development, IMAGINiT Technologies. “With the new Create Mesh functionality, we’ve moved in a direction that wasn’t previously possible with Revit by offering a way to quickly model arbitrary geometry. Now, for the first time, designers can build more complete and complex models without prohibitive constraints.” IMAGINiT Scan to BIM customer, Eric Boehlke, Revit consultant at LandTech Inc., comments, “Scan to BIM software is essential when I am working with clients on projects that include tracing existing building conditions from point clouds in Revit. I use Scan to

DST announced the availability of SimWise V9.7. This release continues to expand the Optimization, FEA, CAD Integration, and Interoperability capabilities of the product. It also introduces a new module for performing Fatigue Life calculations. SimWise Durability is an add-on module to SimWise 4D that uses the stress/strain history calculated as part of a combined Motion and FEA analysis to determine the fatigue life of a part. The FEA capabilities of SimWise have been expanded to include transient thermal and combined thermal-structural analysis. The material management capabilities have been significantly enhanced to provide support for new properties used by SimWise Durability. Additionally materials can be imported from SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Simulation, SpaceClaim and many other systems who store material data in MATML format. SimWise can also import materials downloaded from MatWeb. Support for CAD parts and assemblies opened with FILE OPEN have been enhanced to provide better attribute support and a more complete representation of the product

Airbus and Autodesk‘s design studio, The Living, have designed and developed the largest 3D-printed metal part for a commercial airplane in history, what they call a “bionic” partition that is 3D-printed from a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) “printer” that uses a new super-strong alloy called scalmalloy to achieve the lightness of aluminum with the strength of titanium. Already used for small parts, often with complex shapes, the Airbus/Autodesk project brings additive manufacturing into the plane’s cabin. The assembly is for a partition that separates the passenger cabin of an A320 from the rear galley. The resulting “bionic” replacement is a stronger partition compared to the current model that also saves 55 pounds in weight. If one final test is passed next month, the new partition will be in every new A320 next year. The companies estimate that using it will remove 96,000 tons of CO2 a year thanks to less jet fuel being burned

Trimble announced today that Tekla Corporation will transition to the Trimble brand on January 1, 2016. Trimble acquired Tekla in 2011 and the rebranding reflects both the evolution of Trimble as well as its vision for the future. Since the acquisition, Trimble and Tekla have shared a common vision—to transform the building lifecycle through advanced, accessible and intuitive technologies and to drive increased collaboration across the industry. Trimble combines strong domain knowledge with a broad portfolio of technology and capabilities to develop customer-centric solutions that are transforming the planning, design, construction and maintenance and operation of buildings and civil infrastructure. With an open approach to Building Information Modeling (BIM), the name change reflects the combined companies' strong commitment to customers—providing the opportunity to more tightly connect Tekla software to Trimble's broad portfolio of Design-Build-Operate (DBO) solutions. With the transition, Trimble's Tekla software customers can expect the same continued innovation and the best-in-class

HWTrek (Hardware Trek), the global open innovation platform for hardware creation, today announced a collaboration with Autodesk to enable the integration of HWTrek’s platform with Autodesk to be launched early 2016 as part of the Forge initiative. Forge is an initiative to accelerate a cloud connected ecosystem in support of the future of making things. A significant challenge for hardware development has been bridging advancements in online collaboration and innovations of IoT device creators with the global manufacturing and supply chain, which has been slower to embrace these changes. The success of Fusion 360 and the new hardware revolution has pushed the demand for solutions to these challenges further. “Integration with industry leading development tools like Fusion 360 aligns with the long-term strategic vision for HWTrek’s hardware development ecosystem platform,” said Lucas Wang, HWTrek CEO. “As a platform for hardware innovation, HWTrek bridges the gap with connections to consumer electronics manufacturing resources. We are

Ting-Yen Shih, a PhD student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was today announced the 2015 winner of the FEKO Student Competition.  The contest, now in its 11th year, supports engineering education and academic excellence and is aimed at students interested in antennas, microwave devices, bio-electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, and other electromagnetic related fields.  The competition is an ideal opportunity for the students to showcase their work with FEKO, the electromagnetic solver of Altair HyperWorks®. Entries for the competition this year were received from many countries, including Argentina, Belgium, South Africa, the USA and Australia. With Mr. Shih’s winning entry, entitled “Design of Platform-Mounted HF Antennas with Enhanced Bandwidth Using the Characteristic Mode Configuration in FEKO”, he successfully developed a method using the characteristic mode configuration in FEKO to systematically and efficiently approach the bandwidth limitation of a platform mode.  This resulted in Shih achieving the bandwidths that stand-alone antennas were not able