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ZWCAD Design has today launched an exciting new update to ZWCAD Touch for Android. Version 1.3.0 introduces innovative new features, such as a home-screen widget and improved one-hand operation, which bring added efficiency and simplicity to the design process. Access Your Favorite Drawings Quicker ZWCAD Touch for Android now includes the ability for designers to place their most used drawings on the home screen of their mobile device. This 'Widget' allows a designer to quickly access the designs that they are currently working on, thereby removing the need to search through various files having already opened ZWCAD Touch on Android. This can save vital time when opening drawings on site or in front of clients. More Efficient App Navigation The update to ZWCAD Touch for Android introduces the physical buttons of the user's mobile device to the app. The phone's physical buttons now offer a simple and quick way to access the menu, as well

Trimble announced Trimble® Document Controller Standard, a powerful and easy-to-use virtual construction management application that automates change detection between design iterations in both 2D design drawing sets and in 3D models created using Building Information Modeling (BIM) software. The new application allows project stakeholders to quickly understand design changes to better anticipate and mitigate issues that might increase cost or risk.   Document Controller Standard combines document management and constructability analysis capabilities—previously delivered only through Trimble's Vico Office Suite for 5D BIM. While Vico Office extends the basic 3D model with analysis of constructability materials, labor, scheduling and costs, Document Controller Standard is a standalone 2D/3D application designed for construction firms that simply need a better way to manage drawings and models. "With the industry's growing adoption of BIM as a standard process, designers, builders and owners alike are challenged by the reality that construction projects can hover in both the 2D and

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., is pleased to announce the release of the English version of SimTread 2, a pedestrian simulation tool developed by A&A Co. Ltd., the Vectorworks distributor in Japan, in partnership with Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan and Takenaka Corporation. As a plug-in for Vectorworks software, SimTread lets users simulate and analyze crowd movement. It can also serve as evacuation simulation software for both general and complex building and municipal designs. “SimTread lets Vectorworks users design with confidence by identifying crowded areas and factors that inhibit or change circulation flow,” said Dr. Biplab Sarkar, Chief Technology Officer at Nemetschek Vectorworks. “It therefore expedites the iterative design process and helps to determine the best designs for safe traffic flows. Plus, several new features enhance SimTread’s crowd movement simulations, such as creating events that trigger action, the addition of wheelchair objects and being able to program barriers to appear or disappear, mimicking

Luxion announced that SpaceClaim has chosen Luxion’s KeyShot as its new rendering solution for SpaceClaim Engineer mechanical design software. With the release of SpaceClaim Engineer SP2, users will have immediate access to “KeyShot for SpaceClaim” at no additional charge, providing users the ability to create rich, 3D visuals faster and more efficient than ever before. Users of SpaceClaim and KeyShot have enjoyed close integration between the products in the past with the ability to send designs created inside SpaceClaim straight to KeyShot. Now, in a partnership between Luxion and SpaceClaim, the integration between the platforms becomes even tighter. The integration introduces the ability to apply KeyShot materials directly inside SpaceClaim Engineer and includes the addition of Luxion’s LiveLinking technology to send geometry updates from SpaceClaim Engineer directly to KeyShot without losing material assignments or other settings. Like SpaceClaim, KeyShot provides the most advanced compatibility for the widest range of 3D file

ISD Software and Systeme GmbH (“ISD”), a leading provider of software for mechanical engineering, plant engineering, sheet metal processing and steel and metal engineering, has licensed Siemens PLM Software’s D-Cubed software and released it in the 2014 version of its HiCAD product line. ISD selected the D-Cubed Assembly Engineering Manager (AEM) component to provide a motion simulation capability. HiCAD provides fast, efficient product development in 2D and 3D for mechanical engineering, plant engineering, sheet metal processing and turnkey solutions for steel, glass, metal and facade engineering. The new AEM integration enables you to simulate the motion of parts in mechanisms and assemblies. Since AEM operates directly on the CAD model, you can perform motion studies interactively and model moving part interactions with a high degree of accuracy. As a HiCAD user, you can also add a range of forces and engineering devices supported by AEM, including linear/rotational motors and gravity, to

Software training firm, Infinite Skills Inc., this week introduced its “SolidWorks - Animation Tutorial,” an advanced SolidWorks course focusing on the palette of tools for creating basic animations and walkthroughs for assembly and motorized models. SolidWorks is a computer aided design program that uses a parametric, feature-based assembly system for building mechanical models. Infinite Skills’ SolidWorks - Animation Video Training provides a focused training guide, enabling experienced SolidWorks users to start creating walkthroughs and rendering animations after only a few concise lessons. Course author, Matt Perez, is a certified expert in SolidWorks who has worked in training and private training consulting, helping companies develop strategies to improve efficiency in using SolidWorks since 2011. A SolidWorks user since 2009, Perez has been recognized by SolidWorks for innovation with surfacing models. More recently, he presented at SolidWorks World on kinematics, demonstrating how to work with motion in SolidWorks modeling. Following a brief overview, Perez demonstrates how

After more than 15 years of collaboration with Sandvik Coromant, Missler Software is pleased to announce the upcoming conclusion of a strategic agreement with this company for the integration of the tool library system, Adveon™. Sandvik Coromant is one of the world's leading supplier of tools, tooling solutions and know-how for the metalworking industry. Smart software with all the necessary functions for the management of cutting parts, collisions and driven points, Adveon provides access, via the Internet, to any supplier's tool library, . CAD/CAM productivity is thus increased thanks to the provision of the catalog including all the relevant information (geometry and cutting conditions). The target is potentially manufacturing engineering and company workshops equipped with numerically controlled machine tools. The library allows a whole database of tools to be quickly built and provides automatic access to 3D CAD models for precise simulation and visualization. Manual entry is minimized, ensuring the consistency and quality of

CD-adapco™ today announced the release of STAR-CCM+® v9.04, the second release in 2014 of its flagship simulation tool. Customers will see reductions in overall time-to-solution and dramatic productivity gains using STAR-CCM+ v9.04 workflow improvements, parallel meshing and optimization capabilities. The addition of new physics models allows users to perform increasingly realistic CAE simulations that more closely represent the real world conditions under which their product will operate. "With STAR-CCM+ v9.04 we have continued to add new modeling capabilities, increasing accuracy realism and throughput of their applications results," said Senior VP of Product Management, Jean-Claude Ercolanelli. "The development of the STAR-CCM+ v9 releases remains completely focused on simulating large and complex models more easily, faster and in the shortest amount of time." New features such as Concurrent Per-Part Meshing allows users to distribute the wrapping and meshing of complex multi-part assemblies over many parallel processors; the Adjoint Solver Expression allows users to mathematically combine individual cost

Arena Solutions today announced the availability of Arena Quality, a new solution that enables the entire discrete engineering and manufacturing team to rapidly identify, capture, collaborate on and resolve product quality problems. Quality processes are directly connected to the product record in Arena PLM, which provides everyone with complete visibility into quality issues. Engineering, operations and the supply chain can fully participate in problem resolution and learn from experience to drive continuous improvement. And because Arena Quality captures all quality processes in an easily navigated history, customers will always be audit ready for ISO (International Organization for Standardization), FDA and other organizations. "The new quality module looks like a great tool," said Julie Stringham, document control manager at Pulsar Vascular, an endovascular medical device company. "Finally, we'll have a solution that can make all quality issues visible to the entire company, which is difficult in our current paper-based system." Capabilities of Arena Quality include: Create and customize templates

Altium Limited has announced the release of the next generation of Altium’s enterprise data management and collaboration platform - Altium Vault 2.0. By centralizing, managing and formalizing the component libraries, design data and team collaboration using the Altium Vault, design teams will be able to achieve significant productivity improvements and reduce potentially costly errors. "Designing and maintaining engineering data demands rigor and reliability, but it should not create an administrative burden", noted Jason Hingston, Chief Technology Officer, for Altium. "Our development focus for this release is around collaboration and productivity - making the next generation of the Altium Vault the natural choice for design library, data and collaboration management.” Debuting in 2010, the Altium Vault enterprise platform has been at the heart of Altium’s design data and collaboration solutions. The Altium Vault manages product versions and releases, design reuse and design library management, provides a platform for real-time collaboration, and even manages installation