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Workshops will now take place in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 24 & June 25 ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 April 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces new dates for the one-day workshops offered by its Systems Engineering Knowledge Council and Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council. The workshops will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 24 and 25. These workshops will explore emerging best practices on how to address the critical issues facing participants in the simulation and analysis, and systems engineering communities. On June 24, CIMdata’s Systems Engineering Knowledge Council will hold its second workshop in North America. A series of presentations will show how a competitive advantage may be created through the deployment of systems engineering as a strategy for product development. Real-world examples will be provided by council participants and leading-edge users. The workshop will be facilitated by CIMdata’s practice manager for Systems

Zuken announces CADSTAR 15. With high-speed interfaces now almost universal, easing their implementation is vital. CADSTAR’s P.R.Editor now supports impedance balanced routing that simplifies the implementation of high-speed interfaces. Engineers can easily route to JEDEC standards and meet DDR3 performance specifications. This reduces design iterations by helping designers optimize circuits for the highest clock speeds. “Impedance controlled routing is no longer sufficient. Impedance balanced routing makes it easier for engineers to reduce impedance discontinuities in high-speed manual routing on the same layer, such as lead-in routing specified in JEDEC standard JESD21-C for DDR3 memory.” - Jeroen Leinders, CADSTAR Worldwide Sales Manager Today’s high-speed channels such as DDRx require ever more sophisticated eye pattern analysis for efficient implementation, considering both base and strobe signals. Improved eye patterns in CADSTAR 15 include automatic measurement of eye height/width and setup/hold. New features in Power Integrity Advance include adjustable gridding for common-mode voltage maps, decoupling capacitor improvements, and a common

Trimble today announced the availability of the SketchUp Mobile Viewer for iPad, a new app providing design and construction professionals with convenient, on-the-go access to SketchUp models.  Available in the iTunes App Store, the app allows iPad users to store and access their own 3D models, as well as explore and download models from the entire universe of SketchUp files available in the 3D Warehouse. Users also can orbit, pan and zoom around 3D models using multi-touch gestures, and present their own private 3D models to clients and partners.  The app was launched during the SketchUp 2014 3D Basecamp 2014 conference in Vail, Colo., where over 300 power users and enthusiasts from across the globe are gathered to collaborate and learn through various training sessions, presentations and workshops.  The announcement follows Trimble's recent release of SketchUp 2014, which featured major enhancements to 3D Warehouse, as well as new tools for classifying model components and tighter interoperability with other products

Trimble announced the release of Trimble® Scan Explorer Extension for SketchUp Pro; a powerful, easy-to-use tool enabling architects, engineers and geospatial professionals to create models from 3D scanning data. The new solution connects the high-resolution field data from Trimble scanners with intuitive and powerful professional modeling software; simplifying the process of creating, accessing and sharing precise 3D models of the real-world environment.   The Trimble Scan Explorer Extension dramatically reduces the time required to generate a SketchUp Pro 3D model from scan data. Streamlined tools and one-touch features allow users to quickly extract construction points and lines that are used as a guide to simplify and expedite the modeling process. Automated plane extraction tools further increase modeling efficiency, particularly when modeling building interiors and facades.   For improved visual references when working with point clouds, the extension includes a simple-to-use edge extraction tool, allowing users to easily decipher important cues from the scan data directly into

Pointwise announces the latest release of its Pointwise computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring an extension of the company's advanced T-Rex hybrid meshing technique to generate near-wall layers of hexahedral cells. “As our T-Rex technique for generating hybrid prism-tet meshes with boundary layer resolution continued to evolve, our customers collectively expressed a strong interest in using hex cells in the boundary layer instead of prisms,” said Dr. John Steinbrenner, Pointwise's vice president of research and development. ”Hex cells are generally thought to provide the basis for a more accurate CFD solution, plus there will be fewer hexes than tets so computations would be faster. Fortunately, post-processing T-Rex's tet cells into hexes (12 tets per hex) was a natural extension of the existing tet-to-prism combination algorithm.” T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion) is a highly automated, advancing layer technique for generating a CFD mesh with boundary layer and wake resolution. The technique extrudes layers

BETA CAE System S.A. announces the release of v14.2.5 of ANSA / µETA pre- and post- processing suite. This maintenance release focuses on the correction of identified issues for the ANSA / µETA 14.2x branch and is addressed to those who wish to continue to use the v14.2x branch -and not to upgrade to v15x-, with its issues resolved. Those corrections have been also propagated to the following releases of the v15x branch. This release of v14.2.5 implements code corrections, to the v14.2.4 release. It belongs to the v14x branch and is not compatible to v15x branch. The corrections introduced in v14.2.5 were also implemented to the following release of the v15x branch, which will be 15.0.2.. Known issues resolved in ANSA General The "Coordinate Systems" options in the F11 window would not be saved in the ANSA defaults file. Mesh Spacing [Auto CFD]: With certain settings, the perimeter nodes spacing would be applied incorrectly. Decks LS-DYNA: When

Initec Plantas Industriales, the principal subsidiary for Oil & Gas projects of Tecnicas Reunidas, has successfully deployed the AVEVA Electrical software on all of its projects. Initec chose AVEVA Electrical for its advanced capabilities, as well as for the long and trusted relationship the company has had with AVEVA. AVEVA’s high-quality configuration and support services, provided during a pilot deployment of the software, proved a decisive factor in Initec’s decision to roll out AVEVA Electrical on all its major capital projects. “We wanted to eliminate inconsistencies between related engineering documents and to reduce the high number of design revisions,” said David Casado Ruiz, Electrical Manager, Initec Plantas Industriales. “We selected AVEVA Electrical because its user-friendly interface is designed specifically for engineers. You don’t have to be an IT specialist to use it. Because AVEVA Electrical is open and configurable, we were able to import data from spreadsheets and match the output

Underscoring the value of an integrated system for manufacturing operations, SAP AG today announced the success of customer Greenheck Fan, a leading supplier of air movement and control equipment. Due to the complex needs of customers that require complex products of varying sizes, Greenheck manages an extremely configurative order environment using the SAP® Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application. The announcement was made at the SAP Manufacturing Industry Forum 2014, being held April 15-16 in Itasca, Illinois.  Founded in 1947, Greenheck Fan is the manufacturer of air movement products tailored for the institutional and commercial market. Since its inception, Greenheck has grown considerably, and now has six manufacturing locations and six distribution locations across the country and around the world. With SAP PLM, Greenheck integrates the engineering and design process into manufacturing systems so users are able to design multiple product variants, make changes to them and control these changes in the same

SofTech, Inc. today announced its third quarter fiscal year 2014 operating results. Revenue for the three months ended February 28, 2014 was approximately $1.34 million as compared to approximately $1.46 million for the same period in the prior fiscal year. The net loss for the current quarter was about ($275,000) or ($.31) per share compared to $(14,000) or $(.01) per share for the same period in the prior fiscal year. EBITDA for current quarter was about $(93,000) as compared to about $183,000 for the same period in fiscal year 2013. Gross margins declined to 57.8% in the current quarter as compared to 77.3% in the comparative quarter in fiscal 2013. In connection with the sale of the CADRA product line in Q2 of fiscal 2014, the Company retained the right to distribute CADRA throughout Europe (except Germany) and to the largest U.S. customer for that technology at margins ranging from 30%

ZW3D successfully hosted this year’s European Partner Conference (EPC) in Prague, Czech Republic, between March 21 and March 22. ZW3D brings together dozens of old, new, and potential European partners to share insights on CAD/CAM development and especially to explore the product value that ZW3D can bring for customer needs. ZW3D CAD/CAM in Europe Ever since the acquisition of VX CAD/CAM in 2010, ZWSOFT has marched into 3D CAD/CAM area with soaring ZW3D business and established a powerful channel network of around 50 partners in Europe alone. Along with its professional partners, ZW3D has delivered great CAD/CAM solutions to European markets and earned trust of customers like Ogle Models and Prototypes, Dr. Höhn, GoTools, Brightwake, etc., witnessing its wide application in various industries like automotive equipment, machinery, electronics, consumer products, and so on. This year at EPC 2014, ZW3D gathered its excellent Europe partners from 12 European countries like Germany, France, UK, Portuguese and Poland to further explore the