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Delcam CRISPIN is running its first international Footwear Technology Forum for designers and manufacturers of all types of footwear that are looking for new technology to improve their businesses.  The Forum will be hosted at the Hotel Hermitage in Milan on 14th and 15th October.  Full details are on www.ft-forum.com The Forum will focus on current and emerging technology that will help companies to develop more innovative designs, reduce costs and get new products to market more quickly.  Topics to be covered by top industry experts from organisations such as Ars Sutoria, Autodesk, Energy Group, Lectra and SATRA will include the latest developments in 3D printing, digital prototyping, sustainability, new materials and novel manufacturing methods. Delcam CRISPIN, the world’s largest supplier of CADCAM software to the footwear industry, will deliver a keynote on Augmented Reality, demonstrating the development of its ShoeMirror system for footwear simulation and discussing the future uses of this technology. 

Advanced Solutions, an Autodesk Platinum Partner and Authorized Training Center (ATC), will host an innovative event series for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industries in Georgia and Florida. The AEC industry faces severe challenges, with productivity issues topping the list. A study by the National Research Council (NRC) cites, "improved efficiency through more effective interfacing of people, processes, materials, equipment and information," as a key area ripe for change and improvement. Workflow Simulation service is a revolutionary approach to demonstrate, predict, and measure workflow, empowering businesses to make informed decisions, which improves efficiency, eliminates waste, and increases profit. Through the Workflow Simulation: Removing Pain from the Process event series, Industrial Engineering experts from Advanced Solutions will showcase how leading firms are eliminating inefficiencies in their design workflows by: Giving you a glimpse of the structured process implemented to collect data, build workflow models, design alternative processes, validate assumptions and simulate "what if" scenarios. Exploring

Students at the University of Connecticut will be better prepared to develop new cutting-edge products by using the same engineering simulation technology leveraged by thousands of professional engineers around the world, thanks to an agreement with ANSYS. The ANSYS® suite of multiphysics software will also be used extensively to support research activities across UConn. ANSYS recently donated a campus-wide license to UConn, giving students and researchers access to leading structures, fluids, electronics and systems simulation solutions used by tens of thousands of organizations in virtually every industry. The ANSYS campus-wide solutions program helps to consolidate curriculum tools, reduce software procurement and IT costs, expand simulation scope and increase research innovation. "This is a win-win arrangement between UConn engineering and ANSYS," said Baki Cetegen, head of UConn's mechanical engineering department. "This allows our students to learn to use the state-of-the-art computational software for fluid dynamics, structural and thermal analyses to analyze complex engineering problems. Their experience in learning the engineering

A recipe for Collaborative Innovation and Product Development?   I have been following Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir journey since 2009. Whitacre is one of the most popular choral conductor-composers working today. He says that the idea of a virtual choir came to him when a 17-year-old recorded a video of herself singing Whitacre’s Sleep and posted it on YouTube. Whitacre wondered if he could get a group of people to sing one of his pieces and blend it into a single online choral performance. So, he recorded a video of himself conducting and supplied the sheet music on-line. The first virtual choir production, Lux Aurumque, was posted five years ago on YouTube. It featured 185 singers from 12 countries. The video has received more than 3 million views. The second virtual choir project, Sleep, was released in 2011, featuring more than 2,000 voices from 58 countries. The third virtual choir production, Water Night,

BIMobject® announces that the new version of the BIMobject® App 2.0 for Trimble Sketchup is ready and available for download at the Trimble Sketchup Extension Warehouse.  Download the App for free: http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/bimobject-sketchup-app The App is completely free of charge for all users of Trimble Sketchup worldwide. The App is a toolset to find, source, update and download real BIM objects from real manufacturers with full set of properties and product information inside. It adds a deeper quality of the BIM models and assists the architects, designers and engineers in creating better design and doing more accurate product selections. Trimble Sketchup users can enjoy to work with real life products and don't need to spend valuable time in creating their own objects.  The integration is completely unique and is the best-in-class web service integration inside Trimble Sketchup. The main function of the App is to quickly browse the BIMobject® cloud database online and with a simple

OPEN MIND Technologies AG has released version 2014.1 of the hyperMILL® CAM solution. More powerful basic features, improved automation options and new tools underscore the leading technological position of the CAM suite. Reamers, barrel cutters in different designs and lens cutters can be fully exploited with the new version of hyperMILL®. The new 3D point measuring cycle helps to accelerate quality assurance processes. Automatic rework machining Improved 3D rest machining allows for the automatic detection of rest material areas where additional roughing is necessary. Additional roughing passes are calculated for these areas. 5axis rework machining has also been improved. When converting from 3axis toolpaths to 5axis toolpaths, different tool types, such as barrel and woodruff cutters, can be used. There are also new strategies for adjusting the tool to the machining model. The new function can also be used for the hyperMAXX® high-performance cutting module and inherit variable technology values. CAD deformations hyperCAD®-S, the CAD

The Electrical Showcase, called Designing and Modeling Electrical Systems and Devices, a new online resource for electrical engineers, is now available on the COMSOL website. This resource features valuable content about how electrical systems, components, and devices can be effectively modeled using COMSOL Multiphysics and its add-on products. Explore the showcase at: www.comsol.com/showcase/electrical. Simulating Electrical Systems For engineers interested in learning about the capabilities of COMSOL for modeling electrical systems, the Designing and Modeling Electrical Systems and Devices showcase is the place to start. Packed full of valuable resources, the showcase explores the multiphysics approach to modeling through a variety of examples, demonstrating the ability of COMSOL Multiphysics to seamlessly combine any physics effect with any other electrical phenomena, mechanical stresses, fluid flow, and chemical reactions. Through a series of how-to videos, user case studies, white papers, example models, and more, electrical engineers from all disciplines can discover how multiphysics modeling can aid in

Major enhancements in the forthcoming new release of SURFCAM from Vero Software will be on display for the first time in the US, at North America’s largest manufacturing technology exhibition, IMTS, from September 8 to 13. Visitors to booth E-3114 at the McCormick Place complex in Chicago are being shown how SURFCAM 2015 R1 represents the first in a series of planned steps to dramatically enhance programmer efficiency and provides the foundation for future releases. SURFCAM General Manager Peter Marton says the 2015 release showcases a new user interface with numerous features designed to improve workflow. New and enhanced functionality includes: Improved in-line toolpath editing A number of time-saving features for geometry and toolpath management Higher levels of user-defined customization. “We expect our revised user interface, along with the enhanced geometry management, to be of particular interest to visitors, as they provide both visual appeal and demonstrate major process improvements. “On the roadmap charting SURFCAM’s planned development

MachineWorks Ltd will be celebrating 20 years of manufacturing software and will be showing the latest functionality at IMTS 2014 on stand E-3331, from the 8-13th of September.  What has happened with MachineWorks in the last 20 years? MachineWorks have seen CNC simulation become a must-have insideCAM software applications and would like to think that they have pushed innovation providing the best material removal available in the marketplace hand-in-hand with our customers.  MachineWorks has experienced machine tool manufacturers creating stable collision avoidance systems with look ahead functions using MachineWorks clash detection software as the machines became more and more complex.  Last but not least, CNC control manufacturers have increased their processing and memory capabilities to be able to offer better graphics including MachineWorks real-time simulation and verification on conversational programming. What's happening today at MachineWorks? Developers are busily optimising performance, stretching the code further to constantly achieve better results and coming up with creative ways of solving problems. MachineWorks family of engines can suit any customer's requirement; whether it is

Delcam will demonstrate the 2015 version of its Delcam for SolidWorks integrated CAM system at IMTS 2014 in Chicago from 8th to 13th September on booth E3222, the largest CAM software booth at the show.  The new release will include a range of enhancements in three-axis milling, drilling, turning and wire EDM to make the software even more valuable to SolidWorks users that need to manufacture their designs.  Programming of three-axis toolpaths for complex parts will be easier and more reliable in Delcam for SolidWorks 2015 with the addition of automatic collision checking of the tool shank and holder, as well as the cutter, for both roughing and finishing operations.  If a gouge is detected the toolpath will be able to be recalculated with any segments that will cause a gouge clipped away. Removing these segments of the toolpath will leave an area of unmachined stock that will need to be removed