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Spatial Corp., announced the keynote speaker for their annual 3D Insiders’ Summit 2014, October 15-16 in Broomfield, Colorado at the Renaissance Boulder Flatiron Hotel. Spatial holds the annual educational event to provide technical discussions that enable customers to implement best practices, customize the software to better meet their needs and experience new capabilities. Bob Potock, the VP of Marketing for Zuken Americas, a global leader in electronic design automation software, will open the highly anticipated summit. Potock will speak on “The Shift to Product-Centric Design and the 3D Convergence.” Building a competitive product today demands multi-discipline collaboration and 3D capabilities have become the collaborative foundation.  From product architectural validation to printed circuit board (PCB) design, 3D is playing a significant role.  “Spatial is a valued partner, and I am excited to participate in their 3D Insider’s Summit.  3D capabilities are playing an expanding role in the Electronic Design Automation industry and in

Kanwar Anand, President and CEO of KETIV, an Autodesk Platinum Partner, announced open registration for KETIV Autodesk Manufacturing Academy (AMA) 2014, the premier one-day training event for mechanical design and engineering professionals and executives to help them build better products. “We’re pleased and honored that Carl Bass will again keynote at KETIV AMA in Cerritos,” said Mr. Anand. “He’ll share his thoughts on how new mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets are changing the way customers imagine, design, and create.” Co-sponsored by Autodesk, the Academy is held in two locations:  October 29, 2014 at Cerritos Sheraton in Cerritos, California November 12, 2014 at Autodesk in Lake Oswego, Oregon Attendees will learn about solutions that combine design and lifecycle management software workflows to engage and support the entire organization. KETIV AMA classes will cover impact modeling, simulation, collaboration, and a glimpse into the future manufacturing and important trends. For details including sessions, instructors, and how to save on

Delcam CRISPIN is running its first international Footwear Technology Forum for designers and manufacturers of all types of footwear.  It will be hosted at the Hotel Hermitage in Milan on 14th and 15th October.  Full details and the registration form are on www.ft-forum.com The Forum will focus on current and emerging technologies that will help companies to develop more innovative designs, reduce costs and get new products to market more quickly.  Top industry experts from organisations including Ars Sutoria, Autodesk, Crocs, Energy Group, Lectra and SATRA will cover topics including the latest developments in 3D printing, digital prototyping, sustainability, new materials and novel manufacturing methods. John Hubbard, Environment & Sustainability Consultant at SATRA, will deliver a presentation on the sustainability considerations throughout the supply chain.  He will highlight some of the potential contradictions that exist but also look at some of the easy wins that are achievable in many areas of footwear manufacturing. 

Aras® today announced that the annual Aras Community Event (ACE) 2014 Europe will be held in Bad Soden near Frankfurt, Germany on October 21 and 22, 2014. Over two days, experts, users and decision makers from all parts of Europe will be discussing successful PLM strategies, trends in global product development and innovation management, as well as successful PLM initiatives. Practice-oriented user presentations will show how global organizations with agile business processes integrate their worldwide supply and production chains, thus speeding up product development and go to market. The theme of the conference is “Right Now”. With continuously accelerating product development, ever-changing market requirements and trends such as Industry 4.0/Smart Industry that demand a flexible and sustainable PLM solution, now is the right time to think about a strategic PLM initiative. Aras enables companies to realize practical, easy to implement and maintain, global PLM initiatives based on a scalable, secure and open

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., announces the first recipients of the Vectorworks Design Scholarship. Fifteen students from eight countries will receive $3,000 USD to support their studies in any design major at the accredited college or university of their choice, and their schools will each get Vectorworks software licenses and training. University of Pennsylvania landscape architecture student Diego Bermudez was selected as having the top overall entry, so in addition to earning a Vectorworks Design Scholarship, Bermudez also received the Richard Diehl Award and an additional $7,000 USD. The Vectorworks Design Scholarship program salutes students across disciplines such as architecture, landscape design, lighting design and interior design who are determined to solve today’s most challenging design problems. In its first year, nearly one thousand students from 56 countries submitted entries, which were evaluated by a talented and global panel of architects, landscape architects, professors, lighting designers and media professionals. These are the students

Lucid announced that Autodesk, Inc., has made a strategic investment in Lucid as part of its recently announced $8.2 million Series B funding round. Lucid’s BuildingOS enables the coming wave of connected devices in commercial buildings by providing universal connectivity, analytics, and building management tools to make better decisions and improve building performance. “The increasing adoption of building information modeling (BIM) by the global architecture, engineering, and construction industry combined with the arrival of low-cost sensors and controls offers tremendous opportunity to optimize the design, construction, retrofit, and operations of buildings,” said Amar Hanspal, SVP of Information Modeling and Platform Products at Autodesk. “Autodesk has been piloting Lucid’s BuildingOS platform in several facilities. Our experience with this powerful hub for system and device connectivity and building management has led to a strategic investment in Lucid that we hope will accelerate development and adoption of the platform,” said Hanspal. Building owners and operators are recognizing the

Dassault Systèmes today announced that the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has expanded its implementation of SOLIDWORKS. Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the application is now introduced to all engineering majors as part of the core curriculum in the school. The expansion is an integral part of recent enhancements made to the school’s innovative engineering programs, integrating SOLIDWORKS into more courses and research programs at all levels each year. One of America’s oldest professional schools of engineering, the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has a long history of educating innovators who use their engineering talent to solve important problems. To achieve the college’s educational objectives, professors strive to integrate a sense of curiosity, technical skill development and practical learning to channel the students’ passion for engineering in ways that make it fun, productive and rewarding. An important prerequisite to this approach is design software that is easy to

Zuken has launched an entry-level schematic and PCB design bundle as part of the CADSTAR family of products. CADSTAR Essential is a complete schematic and PCB design tool suite that allows PCB designers and engineers to download software, learn the basics and start designing as quickly as possible. Priced at $999, CADSTAR Essential offers a single design environment with a common GUI for core PCB design activities such as schematics, library creation, routing and export for manufacturing. The complete schematic to PCB design flow supports up to 1,000 pins on four layers with an effective cost of $1 per pin. The CADSTAR Essential purchase price can be applied to any CADSTAR family upgrade, preserving the initial investment and providing the scalability required by many companies. “We identified a need among lean, fast-moving innovators who want to get started on their PCB designs as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. This could be entrepreneurs,

Viewpoint AEC customers across the globe will now have access to a new productivity tool focused on easily publishing critical BIM information from Autodesk's Revit into Viewpoint's 4Projects and Viewpoint for Project Collaboration project management systems. The Viewpoint Revit Plugin will streamline the ability to export Revit design information into the 4Projects and Viewpoint For Project Collaboration environments. The plugin also addresses the challenge of creating IFCs from Revit models, as well as improving the quality of the exported IFC file, refining the way entire project teams collaborate on the right data, when they need it. "Today Viewpoint expands its integration capabilities to help the AEC sector move toward improved BIM interoperability and collaboration. By integrating Viewpoint's globally scalable project management and collaboration products with Revit, one of the world's most widely used BIM authoring tools, we are further demonstrating our commitment towards BIM workflow integration and the value of scalable

American Vintage has selected Centric Software, Inc., for its product lifecycle management (PLM) software. The fast-growing French fashion company will use the Centric 8 PLM software for retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods companies to support growth, improve communication throughout the product development lifecycle, and speed elapsed time between product ideation and launch. “The Centric 8 PLM will help ensure that we maintain alignment throughout the organization without losing creativity,” says Michaël Azoulay, founder and CEO of American Vintage. The Centric 8 PLM solution will replace extensive use of spreadsheets at American Vintage. “Relying on ‘a single version of the truth’ about each product will streamline processes as we scale for growth,” says Azoulay. Moving to PLM will increase efficiency, decrease staff time spent on low-value data entry and administrative tasks, and reduce iterations for samples and prototypes. The PLM software also will help formalize the phases of product development and clarify task assignments,