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BETA CAE Systems S.A., and its business partner in India, Xitadel CAE Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., have the pleasure to invite you to the 2014 Open Meeting and Seminar in Chennai, India. This two day comprehensive event will be followed by a one day condensed Open Meeting and Seminar in both Bangalore and Pune.  During these events you will have the opportunity to participate in sessions on the latest developments and real case applications, on various CAE disciplines and industries, of ANSA, µETA, and our new product SPDRM (Simulation Process Data and Resources Manager). Following each event’s closing, the “Technical Discussion” session will offer you the opportunity to discuss with our engineers the software features, their application, and the future developments. This year, beyond the presentations sessions, we offer to our guests the opportunity to benefit from a number of free seminar sessions, on the most popular topics, selected by our customers. BETA CAE Systems and Xitadel would like to extend

Lectra is pleased to announce the appointment of Edouard Macquin to the Executive Committee. He joins Daniel Harari, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Jérôme Viala, Chief Financial Officer, and Véronique Zoccoletto, Chief Human Capital and Information Officer. Since 2011, Edouard Macquin has served as Lectra's Worldwide Sales Director. "Lectra has set five strategic objectives for 2013-2015: accentuate technological leadership, strengthen our competitive position and long-term relationships with customers, accelerate organic growth, boost profitability by regularly increasing the operating margin, and generate free cash flow serving to finance future growth," said Daniel Harari. "Edouard brings together a rare combination of qualities and experience. As a dynamic team-builder and true entrepreneur, he exemplifies the ambition in the Lectra roadmap for our sales teams. Véronique Zoccoletto, Jérôme Viala, and I are delighted to welcome him to the Executive Committee." In late 2011, Lectra launched a transformation plan with investment totaling EUR50 million over

Auckland based software provider Cadimage Group has today unveiled its latest venture in the software market: Cadimage PLM. “Today we are excited to launch our newest business - Cadimage PLM. This business will enable us to expand our software offering to the mechanical engineering sectors within the Australasia region,” announced Campbell Yule, Managing Director of Cadimage Group. “Not only will we be selling internationally recognized Siemens software, but we will be offering support and training services to get individuals and businesses up and running with the programs,” Campbell adds. Cadimage PLM will primarily be focused on promoting two Siemens products throughout the region: Solid Edge and Femap. While both are highly specialized programs for designing and analyzing mechanical assemblies, Solid Edge’s strength lies in its ability to create and manage 3D virtual prototypes. By creating these in a virtual space, users no longer have to produce costly prototypes to test designs, and can

For the third year in a row, ANSYS has earned an award celebrating unique tools that improve and simplify the electronic design process. ANSYS won the DesignCon 2014 DesignVision Award for the Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Tools category for ANSYS PathFinder-D technology. A comprehensive layout-based electro-static discharge (ESD) integrity solution, PathFinder is critical to custom IC designers because it helps identify weak areas of the design in layout or circuit that could potentially cause ESD failures. Historically, electronic components have often experienced ESD failures, or electrical shorts. However, these failures are becoming more frequent due to the rise in use of smart devices, shrinking geometries, higher levels of digital and analog integration and advanced electronic package designs. So the advanced technology to address these phenomena is becoming increasingly valuable. "It's with great pride that ANSYS accepts recognition from DesignCon for the third consecutive year," said Norman Chang, vice president and senior product strategist at ANSYS subsidiary

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C3D Labs (ASCON Group) announced that NTP Truboprovod has entered into a licensing agreement to use the C3D geometric kernel for its portfolio of software products. NTP Truboprovod is a leading Russian developer of software for performing engineering analysis of piping and equipment. The C3D kernel will power NTP Truboprovod’s PASSAT application, which provides stress analysis of vessels and equipment. C3D optimizes geometric modeling functions and calculations of complex geometric shapes, such as volumes, surface areas, centers of gravity, and moments of inertia. In addition, the powerful kernel expands PASSAT’s export functions, allowing the geometric properties of vessel models to be exported in standard design formats. This provides PASSAT with a new level of integration with popular CAD software. NTP Truboprovod expects in the future to use C3D in its equipment wizards of other software products, such as in emergency relief system design software (“Safety Valve” program), or equipment and piping thermal insulation

Innovyze announced the release of InfoWorks WS V14.5, featuring added capabilities driven by input from Innovyze customers. The enhanced version reinforces Innovyze’s commitment to offering best-in-class smart water solutions that address current and future business drivers and help enhance the safety, efficiency, reliability and sustainability of the world’s water supply. Whether configured as a component of a corporate modeling solution or a stand-alone desktop application, InfoWorks WS combines a fast relational database, powerful hydraulic computational engine and comprehensive spatial analysis tools to create a single, flexible smart water network modeling application that excels in both steady-state and extended period dynamic simulations. InfoWorks WS uses an enhanced version of the WesNet engine, renowned for its speed with large networks and its ability to cope with ‘difficult’ networks. A full range of simulation capabilities is standard, including water quality and sediment modeling, fire flow assessment, pipe criticality analysis, demand area and leakage analysis, energy use and cost calculations, and

Datakit, a leading CAD Data Exchange Company releases CrossManager© 2014.1 update for CAD converters, along with plugins and SDK toolkits.  Latest release comes with several CAD readers updates: Dassault™ SolidWorks 2014, Siemens™ NX9. This new update supports the reading of DWG/DXF 3D and Rhino formats. Up-to-date versioning information can be found on www.datakit.com/en/cross_manager.php. Datakit is happy to welcome a new reference in CAE business. DHCAE Tools offers customized analysis solutions for CFD and finite element analysis based on open source solver technology and has licensed Datakit technology to expand the range of CAD formats supported for CFD Modeling. To get more information, please browse and register on Datakit website: www.datakit.com/en/register.php

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of a new training guide for users of Vectorworks® software: Entertainment Design: Scenery, Lighting, and Sound with Vectorworks Spotlight, Third Edition. This book, written by award-winning scenic and lighting designer Kevin Lee Allen, explores the use of the Vectorworks Spotlight with Renderworks program for the entertainment industries. While the methods and techniques described are applicable to film, television, concerts, exhibits and themed architecture or interiors, this tutorial focuses on a project that creates lighting, sound and set designs for the stage, the root of entertainment design. “I’m always excited when I receive a new version of Vectorworks,” said Allen. “There are always so many new features and tools to explore, and they make my work better and more efficient. I’m even more excited when I then get to write about what I’ve learned and share those secrets with others. Vectorworks 2014 is a

IronCAD, LLC, with Luxion announced the availability of “KeyShot for IronCAD” to the IronCAD customer community. This offering provides IronCAD customers access to KeyShot’s quick, easy, and amazing rendering capabilities that work directly with the IronCAD products at an affordable price. “KeyShot for IronCAD” enables users to create 3D models quickly and then at a push of a button, generate stunning visuals for communication and collaboration. Using Luxion's LiveLinking™ technology, IronCAD users create new product designs and then work with them directly in KeyShot while maintaining assembly structure and model appearance. During the design process, users can update and make changes from within the IronCAD interface and have these changes automatically reflected in the rendered image. The changed geometry uses previous applied KeyShot materials allowing new images to be created with ease. “KeyShot is a great application for creating amazing visual representations of 3D models quickly with very little training or expertise