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Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it will offer schools in the United States and Canada free access to its professional 3D design software and creativity applications. This represents the next step in the continued transformation of Autodesk’s education business model in order to fulfill its mission of helping students and educators imagine, design and create a better world. Autodesk’s pledge is valued at over $460 million, and empowers educators at more than 35,000 middle schools, high schools, and higher education institutions in the United States and Canada. “Advances in accessible 3D design and fabrication technology are disrupting design, engineering and entertainment professions as we know them. The rise in mobile and cloud technology also means that it is possible to design anywhere, at any time. Nearly anyone with an idea can turn concepts into reality overnight, and we believe that today’s students will shape tomorrow’s industries,” said Tom Joseph, senior director of education,

ANSYS and GE Aviation are deepening their long-standing strategic relationship by establishing a new joint technology collaboration agreement that will help solve future engineering challenges and drive product development processes in a world of smart products and big data. Both organizations recognize the value of cutting-edge research and are jointly aligned in their desire to spur innovation by creatively applying simulation to the manufacturing and industrial space.  ANSYS and GE Aviation will work together over a range of applications to establish forward-looking analysis techniques that leverage expertise from both parties. In the first project under this agreement, ANSYS and GE Aviation will investigate industry data to create new engineering best practices associated with the accurate analysis of some of GE's core industrial products. Projects may include simulation of system-level product performance, enhanced by live data, to predict overall system efficiency and maximize product life. GE currently leverages ANSYS engineering simulation technology across

Malcolm Panthaki, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Comet Solutions In his role as company Chief Technology Officer, Malcolm Panthaki drives product vision and technical strategy and is closely involved in corporate development, sales activities, and strategic customer projects. Malcolm has been at the cutting edge of CAE software development since 1987. He started his career as a CAE software engineer at an engineering consulting firm, after which he moved to ABAQUS Inc., where he led the effort to complete an interactive environment for ABAQUS/CAE. Malcolm left ABAQUS in 1994 when he clearly saw that customers using the variety of tools from different vendors were unable to conduct simulation easily or early enough due to the complexities of a typical CAE environment. He set off to build a technology framework that could handle the complexity of CAE data, processes, and results in one common data model. Malcolm provided software consulting services for

Siemens’ NX™ Nastran® software is now available on Rescale, an on-demand, dynamically scalable cloud environment delivered through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The new joint solution, which integrates on-demand high-performance computing (HPC) hardware with the industry’s leading finite element analysis (FEA) software, will be delivered by Rescale, Inc., a leading cloud simulation platform provider. Engineers can now seamlessly customize compute capacity, based on individual simulation requirements, to perform virtual product simulations. Rescale’s web-based platform allows engineers to easily run numerous instances of NX Nastran, resulting in cost-effective large scale simulations that more thoroughly evaluate design options. This results in improved efficiency, product quality and faster time-to-market. Using the Rescale platform, NX Nastran users can run hundreds of simulations simultaneously, leveraging a pay-per-use operating expense model. This can be a more cost effective option for new customers to quickly gain the benefits of NX Nastran, a product of Siemens’ product lifecycle management

Delcam is pleased to announce that its FeatureCAM range of feature-based CAM software products has been certified by the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program for Autodesk Inventor 2015 mechanical design and engineering software. Since Autodesk’s acquisition of Delcam in February 2014, the two companies have been working together to more closely integrate their technology, and this certification is the first step in this process.   This program certifies that FeatureCAM software applications have been tested by Autodesk engineers to ensure that they meet the highest standards set for strength, quality and interoperability with the latest version of Inventor, the industry’s leading Digital Prototyping software that enables engineers to design, visualise and simulate products before they are built.  “Increased interoperability offers huge benefits to our customers who use Autodesk Inventor as they can open Inventor parts seamlessly in FeatureCAM, with no loss of data or concerns about translation errors,” said Tom McCollough, Vice President of

Dassault Systèmes today announced a new industry solution experience, based on its 3DEXPERIENCE platform, called “Façade Design for Fabrication.” This new industry solution experience is targeted at architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) companies and provides industry-specific processes and capabilities to address the challenges of designing and delivering high performance buildings. “This new industry solution experience based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform supports an intuitive, intelligent and integrated environment that reduces manual processes, and addresses the poor collaboration created by the industry’s current siloed point solutions,” said Monica Menghini, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Industry and Marketing. “In the end, the ‘Façade Design for Fabrication’ industry solution experience is about making better decisions earlier and reducing rework so our AEC partners can reliably and profitably exceed their customer’s expectations.” The “Façade Design for Fabrication” industry solution experience includes integrated planning that allows for quickly conceiving buildings linked directly with façade detail design, leveraging the scalability

GRAPHISOFT® announced today the latest version of its BIM software solution for architects and designers.  ArchiCAD 18 delivers innovations making the BIM workflow smoother, including CineRender, a brand new render engine with high-end photorealistic rendering capabilities found only in the professional visualization application CINEMA 4D – now available right inside the BIM tool. "BIM innovation has been shifting from adding new features to introducing innovative new workflows — this is exactly what ArchiCAD 18 offers end-users," said Laszlo Vertesi, Vice President of Product Development at GRAPHISOFT.  "With ArchiCAD 18, we pinpointed the most important user requests related to workflow issues with the clear goal of providing our users with solutions that keep them in the creative design flow with as little disruption as possible."  "We are delighted that GRAPHISOFT has decided to integrate CineRender into ArchiCAD 18 - offering a bridge to CINEMA 4D for users who wish to add even more sophisticated

Altair today announced that one of the world's premier numerical weather prediction centers, Germany's national meteorological service Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), has selected Altair's PBS Professional for workload management on its two Cray XC30 supercomputing systems. Researchers and scientists at DWD will utilize the petascale systems to produce higher resolution and more accurate global and regional weather predictions to help fulfill the organization's wide array of weather responsibilities, including the meteorological safeguarding of aviation and shipping and the issuance of official warnings of weather occurrences that could become dangerous to public safety. "At DWD it is our mission to ensure the highest levels of accuracy in weather and climate information services," said Dr. Dieter Schröder, CIO at DWD. "Our researchers and scientists must be able to rely on their supercomputing systems for high availability, performance and scalability, so we needed a workload manager proven to operate in large, complex production environments. PBS Professional

Datakit will be visiting Stuttgart Control Messe, GE, May 6-9, 2014. Control is a great opportunity to meet major CMM software vendors and showcase achievements in this domain. Datakit has supplied and supported world-class major Control accounts for a decade. Datakit has been working on providing valuable assets for CMM purposes and is shipping toolkits to extract geometries and Product Manufacturing Information (PMI), directly from native CAD data: Dassault CATIA V5/V6™, including R24 (V5-6R2014) version, SolidWorks™, Siemens NX™ & JT™, PTC Creo™, STEP, without the need of any separate CAD software license. For more information click here. Datakit provides Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) through APIs designed for both semantic and rendering purpose. Valuable tolerancing, surfacing, and geometric association is supported for various PMI entities: Datums, Targets, References. Dimensions: Linear, Angular, Radial... Geometrical Tolerances: Flatness, Cylindricity, Surface Profile, Position, Angularity... Roughness and Welding. This helps CMM software vendors in their process of identifying critical points of interest and testing their 3D

At the 2014 International Machine Tool Show (IMTS) the latest version of VERICUT, version 7.3, will be featured in CGTech’s booth E-3346. VERICUT CNC machine simulation, verification and optimization software simulates all types of CNC machining, including drilling and trimming of composite parts, water jet, riveting, robots, mill/turn and parallel kinematic/hexapods. It operates independently, but can also be integrated with leading CAM systems. A common feature of all recent releases of the software has been the focus on full integration with the CAD/CAM and machine tool industry. As a result VERICUT is now at the heart of the  CNC manufacturing process for many of the world’s leading engineering businesses in all industry sectors, including aerospace and defense, oil and gas, power generation, motorsport, automotive and transport, medical device and implant, as well as general precision and heavy engineering. Machine simulation with VERICUT detects collisions and near-misses between all machine tool components such