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GrabCAD, developer of the CAD collaboration tool Workbench, is announcing immediate availability of rendering through a partnership with Lagoa, the cloud rendering solution. The Lagoa integration makes it easy for engineers to quickly produce product renderings from within GrabCAD Workbench. This seamless integration with Lagoa eases workflows, with no need for exporting and importing between the programs. "GrabCAD users love rendering, so it was important for us to deliver high-quality and high-performance rendering functionality as part of the GrabCAD experience," said Hardi Meybaum, CEO of GrabCAD. "We've chosen to work with Lagoa because it delivers the high-quality results GrabCAD users expect without forcing users out of the GrabCAD application. This integration makes it easier to get started, and combines ease of use with top-tier capabilities like HDR environments and advanced materials effects, without downloads or installations. We're excited to offer this to Workbench users." Lagoa's 3D platform can be used with GrabCAD

Longtime CimatronE customer, Drilling Co., based in Castelvetro (Modena), Italy, has successfully deployed CimatronE 11 across its various gun drilling operations, such as deep drilling in molds, plates, rods, shafts, and gears. New and enhanced functionality available to Drilling Co. includes full user control over all gun drilling sequences (such as the drill's spindle speed, spindle direction, feed rate and distances), and safer machining with collision prevention during connecting motions and holder collision check against the part, actual remaining stock and clamps. Says Drilling Co.'s Vice President, Fabrizio Rossi: "The new version of CimatronE provides maximum benefit at every stage of the gun drilling process. It's given us safe drilling, reduced machining time, and increased tool life, as well as easier programming with full user control. "Today, with our multi-axis machines and CimatronE, we can drill holes that are longer than two meters deep, enabling us to manufacture parts that are perfectly calibrated. "We've also seen

Altair today announced a major achievement in the electronics industry that is expected to significantly accelerate the development of new smartphones, tablets, home appliances and other consumer electronics while enabling engineers to create a wider range of durable designs. Working together, Altair and Korea's LG Electronics (LGE) have successfully created a seamlessly integrated drop-test simulation automation system which enables LGE engineers to conduct smartphone drop-test simulations within 24 hours—a crucial procedure that normally requires one to two weeks for companies across the smartphone industry. Employing Altair's HyperWorks suite of computer-aided engineering tools—including HyperMesh for pre-processing, the RADIOSS solver, the HyperView post-processor, and its embedded automation framework—the Altair-LGE team automated many of the time-consuming manual tasks associated with FEA modeling , analysis set up and post-processing to carry out the drop-test simulation. "Altair and LGE's collaboration on this drop-test simulation automation system helps LGE to be even more competitive and bring a greater variety

Intergraph® was presented the prestigious Innovation of the Year award for its SmartPlant® Fusion solution during the Asia Oil & Gas Awards 2013 ceremony held on Nov. 18 at the Amari Watergate Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.  It was Intergraph's first nomination and win at the Asia Oil & Gas Awards. SmartPlant Fusion is one of the fastest and smartest way to make legacy information available for decision support.  It is the latest solution developed by Intergraph to rapidly capture, organize and make available large volumes of previously unstructured information through a simple web portal interface. The types of unstructured information include documents, drawings, lists and sheets, 3D models and High Definition Surveying (HDS) laser scans, which comprises integrated laser scan point clouds and high-resolution photography. Intergraph earned the Innovation of the Year award by showcasing how SmartPlant Fusion is specifically designed to tackle the challenges faced by plant operators and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies in

Sigmetrix, a leader in GD&T and tolerance analysis software and a PTC® PartnerAdvantage™ Gold Partner, announced the latest release of its GD&T Advisor software for  PTC Creo® design software.  Developed in partnership with Alex Krulikowski at Effective Training, Inc. (ETI), GD&T Advisor is an interactive tool that expertly guides designers through a standards-based application of GD&T from within the CAD environment. The latest version of this state-of-the-art solution provides users with enhanced capabilities and functionality. In addition to English, both the ISO GPS and ASME Y14.5M-1994 versions are now available in German, with all of the application’s user interface as well as the embedded help content offered in that language.  Separate annotations can now also be applied to the surface of features of size resulting in more accurate definitions.  In addition, GD&T Advisor v2.1 also provides improved pattern support, minimum or maximum tolerances, automatic creation of datum target annotations and several other usability enhancements. “The release of GD&T Advisor

Flow Science, Inc. has announced that it will hold its 14th annual FLOW-3D European Users Conference on June 17-18, 2014 in Vienna, Austria at the NH Danube. Advanced training for the use of FLOW-3D in the water & environmental industry will be held Monday, June 16. In addition, a technical tour of the hydraulic laboratory at TU Wien - Vienna will be offered prior to the conference. The conference is open to FLOW-3D users and other persons throughout Europe who are interested in learning more about the family of FLOW-3D products. The meeting will feature user presentations from a variety of industrial and research applications that focus on validations, benchmarks and case studies, as well as the latest developments for FLOW-3D presented by Michael Barkhudarov, VP of R&D and John Ditter, VP of Software Engineering at Flow Science. More information about the conference can be found on the conference webpage. Call for

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TraceParts with IronCAD today launched the portal www.tracepartsonline.net/ws/IRONCAD, a free online design resource, to the fast growing user community of IronCAD software. Directly available through IronCAD’s 2014 suite of products interface, this new online part library features over 100 million part numbers from hundreds of leading component manufacturers and distributors and thousands of ISO, ANSI, DIN, NF, GB, ASME and more standards.  “We’re extremely proud to partner with IronCAD to bring best-in-class free 3D part catalogs to their users.”says Gabriel Guigue, TraceParts Managing Director. “Time to market is critical to all manufacturing companies and IronCAD is a highly flexible tool to help them designing their products better and faster. We believe TraceParts catalogs will bring a fantastic added value to all IronCAD users while maximizing the product exposure for the part manufacturers using our services. Thanks to this this new website’s additional traffic, the cumulated audience of our TraceParts Publishing Network is now exceeding

SpaceClaim today announced the immediate availability of SpaceClaim Engineer 2014. With advances in nearly every aspect of the software, from new tools and extended interoperability to significantly faster performance, this new release maintains the popular interface and intuitive work flow of SpaceClaim Engineer while introducing several benefits. “We continue to invest every year in R&D to make SpaceClaim Engineer a better platform for design engineers, CAE analysts and manufacturing engineers to embrace the 3D modeling that was previously the sole domain of CAD experts,” said Chris Randles, SpaceClaim CEO. “This version of SpaceClaim Engineer is our fastest, easiest, most flexible and most powerful release ever. It brings the benefits of 3D to a new level, with new modeling capabilities, and exciting new collaboration tools.” SpaceClaim Engineer 2014 brings faster performance for many functions throughout the software, including a 30 percent improvement in model load times and multithreading support in several areas, including

ITC Infotech’s PLM RUNTEAM is an all-encompassing support service for PTC Windchill and PTC FlexPLM product lifecycle management (PLM) installations. It is rapidly gaining popularity with PLM teams across the globe because it takes away the burden of keeping complex PLM systems running at maximum efficiency, allowing product design teams to experience the system better and use these systems well to get their products to market quicker. By taking away the burden of support and user adoption from internal IT teams and placing it in the hands of qualified PLM professionals with deep cross-functional experience, organisation IT Management can concentrate on other priority areas with peace of mind, secure in the knowledge that their vital software tools and systems performance are being well taken care of and are in experts hands. Windchill is PTC’s flagship PLM system, complementing its Creo CAD tool, while FlexPLM addresses the specific lifecycle management challenges faced by