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3D Systems announced that its Medical Modeling™ Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP®) technology – the combination of its production grade 3D printing and personalized surgery tools – has enabled surgeons to conduct complex surgical procedures on newborn and infant patients with more confidence in safety and success.   VSP allows surgeons to capture a digital model of the patient directly from an MRI or CT scan and work with 3DS’ Medical Modeling experts to create a detailed surgical plan and then 3D print physical models and custom surgical guides from 3DS’ biocompatible stereolithography (SLA) materials. By accessing 3DS’ entire personalized digital thread from perceptual devices like its TouchX™ haptic, VSP software tools and the guidance of its expert team of biomedical engineers, surgeons can virtually plan and physically practice critical steps of an operation before a patient ever sets foot in the operating room.   In a representative case, experts from 3DS’ personalized surgery team

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced that Alps Electric Co., Ltd., a leading global manufacturer of electronic components for mobile devices, home electronics, automotive vehicles, and environment/energy markets, has selected the Analog Characterization Environment product (ACE™), which was previously a Berkeley Design Automation product, for characterization of its complex mixed-signal and sensor ICs.  Characterization is a critical part of the design and verification process as it ensures that the circuit meets its performance requirement under all operational, environmental and process conditions.   “We have stringent characterization requirements to ensure the high-quality of our power management blocks, including complex nests of corner and sweeps,” said Kazuhiro Hirane, Section Manager, IC Engineering Department, Engineering Headquarters, Alps Electric Co., Ltd. “With the Analog Characterization Environment it is very easy to setup, run, and analyze results of complex characterization nests, enabling silicon-accurate and high-productivity circuit characterization with 5x-10x speedup over alternative approaches.”   The Analog FastSPICE Platform (AFS™) provides the

Rand Worldwide, a provider of technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, today announced that its Rand Secure Data division will have a substantial presence at the Enterprise Data World Conference in Austin, Texas. The company will be presenting and exhibiting its comprehensive data governance solutions at the conference, which will be held at the Renaissance Austin Hotel from April 27 – May 1, 2014.   On Tuesday, April 29, at 2:15 PM, Rand Secure Data will present, “Data Governance: Bridging the Gap between IT and the Rest of the Business.” The session will be presented by Charles Lafleur, vice president of enterprise applications at Rand Secure Data, and will highlight the key areas every organization must focus on to ensure a successful data governance program.   For more information or executive media interviews on Rand Secure Data’s approach to data governance and how to ensure that data is accessible,

ZWCAD Design today announced the release of a brand new update for ZWCAD Touch on iOS. Version 1.3.6 brings a newly compatible 3rd party cloud storage service, enhanced Community usability and the help section is now offered in 7 languages. New SugarSync Compatibility ZWCAD Touch’s new compatibility with SugarSync means that even more users can now share their drawings, not only between their PC and mobile devices, but also with clients and contributors.  Adding to the mainstream providers such as DropBox, GoogleDrive, SkyDrive and Box, as well as many others, third-party cloud synchronization allows users to automatically synchronize their work between their desktop PC and their mobile device, meaning they can take their designs with them anywhere, worry free. It also allows synchronized sharing between departments and offices, encouraging greater and easier collaboration and annotation. Enhanced Community Usability The Community function within ZWCAD Touch allows for users to share and discover tips and tricks. This has been

More Information: New features in 3D location: Now, you can select locations at end-points of edges, mid-points of edges, or circle centers more comfortably. If a 3D curve is highlighted, right-click it, and then select location from pop-up menu. If you right-click the object which is being transformed, pop-up menu offers you redefinitions of insertion points. If you drag objects, after right-click, a menu is open and you can set dragging increments. A new feature is the drag increment dependent on current zoom (the larger area is displayed, the larger step is used). Also, transformation axes contain new objects – inner small circles. If you left-click them, objects are rotated by mouse movement. Right-click them starts dynamic rotation, directed by a selected point. New features in 2D location: Similarly as in 3D location, you can right-click a highlighted line, circle or curve and then select location at end-points, mid-points or circle centers. Similarly as

Accusoft today announces the release of Prizm Content Connect v8.4, the latest version of its document viewer. Robust, customizable and scalable to environments of any size, Prizm Content Connect enables users on almost any system or device (including mobile devices) to view hundreds of different file formats through nothing but a browser. Chief among the enhancements in version 8.4 is a new API for the HTML5 document viewer, enabling developers to more tightly integrate the viewer into their web applications by responding to newly exposed events, and to customize the viewer's appearance, all with just a few lines of code. Also featured is improved processing of medical DICOM images to enhance applications for eDiscovery, medical recordkeeping (EHR, EMR) and more. The viewer's collaboration facilities can now present the user with a menu of annotations made to a document, and drawings from all AutoCAD versions through 2014 are now displayable by the viewer. Prizm Content Connect

CSI and CSC have released the 2014 updates to MasterFormat®, their flagship product used to organize construction documents for commercial, industrial, and institutional building projects in the United States and Canada. Several significant revisions are included in this update, among them the addition of “selective demolition” sections to most divisions of the format, providing guidance for companies and project managers who need to incorporate demolition into their plans. “The 2014 updates to MasterFormat take into account the valuable feedback provided by its users over the past two years,” said CSI Executive Director and CEO Walter Marlowe, P.E., CSI. “We greatly appreciate their feedback as we strive to make MasterFormat the most accessible and expansive guide for the A/E/C industries.” “These changes continue to ensure that MasterFormat reflects the current needs of its users,” said CSC President Mike Garlinski. “We are pleased that so many users take the time to supply their input, especially the

Delcam CRISPIN has released the 2014 version of its Engineer Pro software for pattern development and grading in the footwear industry.  The new version includes a number of enhancements that add “intelligence” to the software and so make it more intuitive and faster to use.  For more details, please go to http://lz.delcam-crispin.com One of the key enhancements can be seen when creating a chain from a series of intersecting lines.  Engineer Pro now anticipates the chain that the user wants and highlights it.  Any constrained items, including markers, linked to the chain will react more intelligently during grading and will adjust their positions automatically if the grading operation would make them overlap the boundary of the piece. The single-click boundary command introduced in the 2013 release of Engineer Pro has been enhanced.  Adjoining regions can now be added to the piece with a single click in the neighbouring area.  In addition, if

Aras® today announced that Yanmar Energy Systems, a division of Yanmar Co., Ltd. and leading manufacturer of air conditioning and power generation systems, has selected the Aras Innovator solution suite for enterprise product information and process management, including CAD file management, document management, engineering change management, workflow and secure file exchange across a multi-lingual extended enterprise. Yanmar selected Aras for its flexibility, phased agile implementation approach and global scalability. Yanmar Energy Systems is a long-standing leader in air conditioning and power generation systems, as well as diesel engine design and manufacturing. Yanmar Energy System’s PLM strategy will leverage Aras to support aggressive international growth by providing a product information management system that is fast, secure and easily accessible to users around the world. For more information please visit http://www.yanmar.co.jp/energy/index.html “We are pleased to support Yanmar Energy System’s new premium branding and global expansion strategies with enterprise-wide PLM,” said Masahiko Hisatsugu, President of

Altair today announced that Tower International, a leading global automotive manufacturer, has selected Altair's Compute Manager to simplify and streamline access to distributed resources. Compute Manager is a Web-based application for accessing computing resources from any location. With Compute Manager's easy to use interface, users can set up jobs on remote HPC systems, access geographically distributed applications and data, manage and monitor workloads, and visualize results remotely from virtually any Internet-enabled device. "Tower International is a respected leader in a competitive industry, so they understand the importance of choosing new technologies that will improve the return on investment for their existing HPC systems," said Sam Mahalingam, CTO for Enterprise Computing at Altair. "Compute Manager simplifies the process of managing application workload on remote resources, so Tower's engineers can easily perform simulations using various solvers on the HPC system, and visualize results, without having to deal with complicated command line interfaces or network