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solidThinking, Inc. today announced the latest version of its solidThinking Evolve® software. An enhanced user interface and refined workflow controls in solidThinking Evolve 2014 allow industrial designers to develop forms faster than ever, in either Windows or Mac OS X. This latest release empowers users with new and enhanced productivity tools, enabling faster creation of complex products. "We have been listening carefully and collecting feedback from both veteran and new customers," says Darren Chilton, Program Manager for solidThinking Evolve. "With Evolve 2014, we focused on adding new features to make the existing workflow more efficient, the geometry even more robust, and to fine tune the most commonly used tools." More details are available at solidThinking.com/Evolve. The website features a large collection of new videos including an overview of what's new in Evolve 2014, a tour of the user interface, and an overview of how Evolve fits into the product design process.  Key new features

CONTACT Software and Trubiquity have extended the existing TRUfusion interface to CIM DATABASE PDX. PDX (Product Data Exchange) is one of the central services of the PLM platform. For system suppliers in particular, it provides a highly automated, secure way of exchanging product data with OEMs. The TRUfusionTM interface in PDX, which had previously only been available for sending CAD data and accompanying documentation, now supports inbound exchange. The solution was designed jointly and fully reflects the high expectations clients have of their tier 1 suppliers with regard to data conditioning, checking rules, transmission channels and so on. "Every automotive manufacturer or plant manufacturer has specific requirements regarding standards, protocols and formats”, says Dr. Jan Kickstein, Head of Application Development at CONTACT. “We automate the various procedures for converting, checking and packaging the data, thus largely eliminating the need for manual conditioning of the incoming and outgoing data." The entire process for sending

Aras® today announced the results of independent testing conducted by Logic 20/20 for the scalability of Aras Innovator 10 running Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition on HP ProLiant servers with the HP ioDrive2 Duo IO accelerator technology from Fusion-io. Results validate optimal performance and resource utilization for 500,000 named users with 125,000 concurrent users - the largest testing conducted to date in the enterprise PLM industry. Logic 20/20 Scalability Benchmark Methodology and Performance Results report available at http://aras.com/plm/002298 “SQL Server 2012 is designed to provide the performance and scalability required by the most demanding mission-critical applications whether they are running in the data center or the Cloud,” said Simon Floyd, ‎Director of Product Lifecycle Management Solutions at Microsoft. “Together Aras, Microsoft, HP and Fusion-io deliver predictable scalability, high user concurrency and performance required by the world’s largest manufacturers to compete and innovate in a fast changing global market place.” Tests were conducted

AVEVA announced today that NGLTech Sdn Bhd. (NGLTech) has chosen AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) as its first and primary 3D design tool. NGLTech is a technology development and licensing company focusing on developing innovative solutions for the improvement and enhancement of processes in upstream oil & gas. The advanced functionalities of the new AVEVA design software will play a strategic role in the evolution of NGLTech’s business operations, helping it to improve profitability by reducing risk and minimising project costs. “We see 3D design as the future for NGLTech and AVEVA E3D offers the ability to dramatically reduce rework by minimising design inconsistencies, while creating deliverables more quickly and cutting project cost,” said Abdul Rashid Serkawi, Principal Consultant, NGLTech. “Furthermore, AVEVA E3D is incredibly easy to master, making the adoption of 3D design straightforward.” “NGLTech is a great example of how an organisation can use AVEVA E3D to increase its efficiency and

L’Oréal S.A., a global cosmetics leader, selected Siemens’ Teamcenter® software to help optimize its packaging development processes, reduce time-to-market, and improve product innovation and quality. Teamcenter will be deployed globally as L’Oreal’s corporate product data management system and will be used by everyone involved in the company’s product development processes. Teamcenter is developed by Siemens’ PLM software business unit. “Siemens’ PLM software was selected following an extensive evaluation process which included major providers in the PLM market,” said Martin Rhein, L’Oréal Group Operations CIO. “Teamcenter was selected because of the PLM portfolio’s breadth, adaptability to the L’Oréal Processes and Data Model requirements and user-friendly interface, and because of the knowledge demonstrated by Siemens PLM Software during the selection phase. Naturally, Siemens itself is a large and stable company with a reputation for innovation. This also gives us a lot of confidence in their ability to execute.” "Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter system will help optimize

ZW3D today reported its fiscal year 2013 financial performance, reflecting robust growth with highest turnover achieved. ZW3D CAD/CAM has well surpassed its expectations for 2013 amid tough economic conditions, indicating steady expansions across all market segments. For instance, revenue of high-end, mature markets, like German, Japan and France among others, has increased by over 40 percent. Meanwhile, the growth of ZW3D’s emerging mid-market, such as Poland, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand and Mexico etc., has surged 70 percent. Of particular interest has been the success in Chinese market, witnessing a compound growth rate of 100%. ZW3D's growth in 2013 accelerated as the result of following improvements: Customer-based product R&D: The developments of ZW3D CAD/CAM are mainly focused on the response and feedback of end users, delivering them friendly and reliable product design and process experience with greatly reduced budgets.  And therefore during 2013, 80% of our existing users chose to upgrade. Wide applicability: As an

U.S. CAD, an Autodesk Gold Partner, today announced that it has earned the new Civil Infrastructure Specialization designation for value added resellers from Autodesk, Inc. As an Autodesk Specialized Partner, U.S. CAD has proven their qualification to consistently deliver solutions and support, while demonstrating expert knowledge, and the ability to offer a high level of technical background and support to customers in the design and building industry. The new Autodesk Partner Specializations enable value added resellers to highlight and brand their expertise in delivering services in key industry areas. By completing the required curriculum and training, as well as meeting required levels of service and standards set by Autodesk, U.S. CAD demonstrates it can be a trusted adviser to Autodesk customers throughout the world. “The depth and breadth of our technical organization has grown rapidly yet thoughtfully over the past two years, and we are very pleased that this investment has resulted in the

Workshops will take place in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 30 & May 1 ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 February 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that CIMdata’s Systems Engineering Knowledge Council and Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council will each offer a one-day workshop in Cincinnati, Ohio. 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 April 30, 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 Engineering, John MacKrell. On May 1, CIMdata’s Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council and

Synopsys, Inc. today announced the new DesignWare® ARC® Software Development Platforms to accelerate software development and debug of ARC processor-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The ARC AXS101 and AXS102 Software Development Platforms are complete and ready-to-use hardware and software platforms that include ARC processors, peripherals, pre-built Linux and MQX operating systems, device drivers, and application examples, enabling designers to start software development prior to SoC availability. The ARC Software Development Platforms' wide range of peripheral I/Os, including licensable DesignWare Interface IP such as USB, Ethernet, UART, GPIO, SPI, I2C and Secure Digital (SD), allow designers to use the same hardware and drivers in the final SoC implementation, reducing development effort. Additionally, the built-in HapsTrak® connector on the ARC Software Development Platforms allows designers to quickly implement SoC prototypes using Synopsys' industry-leading HAPS® FPGA-based prototyping solution. "Software development is often the most critical and resource-intensive portion of the overall SoC development process," said Clint Cole,

CCE announced the immediate availability of EnSuite 2014, with significant updates and enhancements. "We're confident our customers will love the new EnSuite that includes timely support for new CAD format versions and enhancements to provide translation flexibility," said CCE's Vice President of Sales and Marketing Vinay Wagle. EnSuite 2014 provides support for latest versions of major CAD formats: SolidWorks 2014, Solid Edge ST6, and Parasolid 26. EnSuite already supports up-to-date versions of CATIA V5 (V5-6R2013), Inventor (2014), Creo (2.0), CATIA V6 (R2013x) and JT (9.5) among others. The 2014 version introduces more flexibility in translation specifically of NX and JT files and includes an option to process multi-body files as assemblies. Exporting to NX with this option creates a separate part file on the disk for each body. Exporting to JT with this option permits mapping of input file product structure to output file structure on disk, governed by file structure user preferences,