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Continuing with its mission to provide best in class teaching and learning opportunities to students interested in product design, PTC today announced the University of Utah Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute is the latest group to deliver PTC software and training to help students develop smart, connected product design skills in the Internet of Things era. The number of things connected to the Internet now exceeds the total number of humans on the planet, and we’re accelerating to as many as 50 billion connected devices by the end of the decade. For manufacturers, the implications of this emerging “Internet of Things” are huge. PTC is providing software to empower students to create, model, connect and manage their smart, connected product design ideas. The gift includes PTC Creo® design software, PTC Windchill® software for product lifecycle management, and the PTC ThingWorx® application platform to build and run connected products. The company is also creating 20 PTC scholars. These are students that have

Innovyze today announced HR Wallingford, an engineering and environmental hydraulics solutions provider, as its new Channel Partner for Thailand. The relationship will allow Innovyze to broaden its reach in the country as well as to serve customers and prospects efficiently and effectively. HR Wallingford, through its regional office in Kuala Lumpur, will offer and support the complete Innovyze suite of analytics-centric asset management and smart water modeling products to water and wastewater utilities, river authorities and engineering firms throughout the country. “HR Wallingford successfully distributes Innovyze world-class software in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brunei and Italy,” said Jane Smallman, Ph.D., Managing Director of HR Wallingford. “HR Wallingford has a long established presence and track record in Thailand. We look forward to expanding our relationship with Innovyze, growing its user base, and exploring new ways we can collaborate with organisations in the region in the future.” “Our channel partners are essential to Innovyze’s

Stratasys Ltd. today announced the completion of its acquisition of GrabCAD, which was announced on September 16, 2014. GrabCAD will operate as a unit within the Stratasys Global Products and Technology Group and is expected to enable Stratasys to provide its customers with enhanced collaboration tools and improved accessibility relating to 3D CAD content. GrabCAD’s cloud-based collaboration platform and community site is CAD software agnostic, and empowers designers and engineers to manage, share, and view CAD files. Stratasys acquired GrabCAD in an all cash transaction. The acquisition is not expected to contribute to revenue in 2014. Costs associated with the acquisition are expected to impact Stratasys’ fourth quarter 2014 earnings by $0.03 to $0.05 per share. David Reis, chief executive officer of Stratasys, stated, “We are pleased to have completed this transaction and welcome GrabCAD’s industry leading team of software professionals to the Stratasys family. Together with GrabCAD, we believe that we will

 PDF Key takeaways: SOLIDWORKS 2015 delivers new Model-Based Definition and top-down design solutions My.SolidWorks.com expanding to include two priced options that will include file transfer between users and access to online training SOLIDWORKS Industrial Conceptual brings a cloud-based conceptual design solution to the SOLIDWORKS portfolio Bertrand Sicot, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS CEO, hosted a briefing with industry analysts September 5, 2014, to discuss the launch of SOLIDWORKS 2015. He noted that in 2013, SOLIDWORKS garnered revenues of US$555.1 million, accounting for approximately 20% of parent company Dassault Systèmes’ total revenue. Suchit Jain, Vice President of Strategy and User Advocacy joined him, taking justifiable pride in the user community that has built up around SOLIDWORKS with 2.49 million licenses worldwide across slightly more than 200 thousand customer companies. In addition, 1.9 million student licenses placed in 28 thousand schools foster a next generation of SOLIDWORKS users. CIMdata recognizes the SOLIDWORKS community as one of the strongest in

Chrysler's PLM Journey: Supporting People, Process & Technology Vikal Sachdeva, Manager for Teamcenter Operations, Visualization, and Enterprise Data Exchange, Chrysler The decision to migrate CAD and PDM systems poses many complex challenges in areas of data volume, data integrity, impact to active programs, and cost. This presentation will focus on how Chrysler successfully overcame these challenges by establishing cross-functional teams, selecting the right partners, and creating custom developed application tools and processes to complete the migration project below cost and on time.

Vikal Sachdeva, Manager for Teamcenter Operations, Visualization, and Enterprise Data Exchange, Chrysler Vikal Sachdeva has been working in field of Information Technology at Chrysler for over 20 years. Currently he is the manager for Teamcenter Operations, Visualization, and Enterprise Data Exchange. Working with culturally and globally diverse teams he successfully led the CAD migration project at Chrysler. At present, he is focusing on initiatives in the areas of large assembly visualization and CAD data exchange with global partners and the extended enterprise.  

ZWCAD Design today announced the official release of ZWCAD+ 2015, with new features including a brand new UI, Unicode, Reference Manager, Super Hatch and many more.   Extended capability to do more ZWCAD+ 2015 strengthens its kernel in order to allow more users of different languages to use ZWCAD+. As its basic 3D features have also been enhanced, designers can experience a more complete 2D-to-3D workflow. For users from the GIS field, they can access Google Earth in their current drawing for realistic design. This new version has extended ZWCAD+’s capability for users to do more. Unicode--More powerful ZWCAD+ kernel to fully support Unicode, enabling all design information to be easily and accurately exchanged between different languages. Sweep--More sophisticated objects can be created by sweeping an open/closed planar curve along an open/closed path. Loft--More complicated models can be made by specifying a series of cross sections.  Google Earth--ZWCAD+ 2015 can import graphic snapshots from Google Earth

Live from Collaborate 2014, Viewpoint Construction Software® debuts the latest release of Vista™ by Viewpoint and Viewpoint's point solutions at their annual User Conference this week. The new release focuses on increased product integration as well as enhancements to the Construction Operations and Service Management areas of Vista, as well as operationally focused dashboard reports with the Business Intelligence module that can improve performance and profitability across construction operations. With this release, Vista has a tighter integration with Viewpoint For Project Collaboration, an online collaborative solution for sharing drawings, documents, emails, and contracts among internal and external project stakeholders. This integration allows users to easily collaborate with project teams by leveraging information that is being entered in Vista by publishing documents directly into Viewpoint For Project Collaboration. Additionally, new mobile capabilities and extensions are included in Viewpoint For Content Management providing customers additional functionality to both retrieve and share critical data. A new

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that Service Electric Cable TV, Inc. (SECTV) – founder of cable television and a pioneer in the communications industry – has selected Bentley’s hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network engineering solution for the effective and efficient design and management of its cable broadband network. Bentley’s HFC solution, which includes Bentley Coax, Bentley Fiber, Bentley Inside Plant, and Bentley Communications PowerView, replaces disparate CAD, GIS, and spreadsheet systems at SECTV. With this new software, SECTV can accelerate new subscriber activations, network upgrades, extensions, and repairs while increasing productivity across engineering, field operations, marketing, sales, and customer support. Mike Semmel, mapping supervisor, Service Electric Cable TV, Inc., said, “The seamless database structure of Bentley’s HFC network engineering solution gives us an end-to-end perspective of our system that is simply not available from individual drawings, maps, and spreadsheets. The solution also provides a means to make the intelligent network model available to anyone in the

TXT e-solutions announces that Jean-Philippe Vorsanger has been appointed to the role of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer North America. The position is strategic to achieving the company’s aggressive growth plans in Retail in North America and globally. As an acknowledged expert in the industry with over twenty years’ experience in Retail, Technology and Supply Chain, Vorsanger will be responsible for further developing the TXT North American business, driving commercial efforts to grow market presence and to generate opportunities within the existing customer base, and continuing to secure successful relationships with clients. Vorsanger will also take responsibility for managing operations, including management of the consulting, professional services and customer support teams. Vorsanger joins TXT from Capgemini, where he served as Principal, responsible for managing and growing the Supply Chain Technology Canadian practice, selling and overseeing the delivery of projects and managing key Retail accounts. Previously, he held the position of