22 May 2008

Chris Rand, Editor

Editor’s Note: Apologies for the lack of posts these past few days, I’ll try not to let it happen again. Meanwhile, here’s a huge amount of news to catch up on!

TOP BLOG POSTS

From the 3D CAD blog: Which is faster? Windows XP or Vista? - “There is an interesting benchmark published on the ZDNet blog. It compares the performance of Windows XP and Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) and their Service Packs using the PassMark benchmark. The results are quite surprising…”
From WorldCAD Access: Bentley “Innovates” Annual Subscriptions - “What is free is now supplemented by a $250 a year subscription program: Bentley Announces Innovative Discovery Subscription Program for GenerativeComponents - Annual subscriptions that provide support are as old as my youngest daughter…”
From WorldCAD Access: Auction Rate Securities: Small Effect on CAD - “In an earlier posting, I wondered if the credit crunch would affect CAD vendors. As annual reports are now being filed, search for the phrase “auction rate securities” in American vendors’ 10-K forms filed online with Edgar…”
From SolidSmack.com: Two Crazy Cool Spreadable, Flexible Display Technologies - “As if Multi-touch technology wasn’t enough to make you sing and dance through the forest of TechBlogs, two developers have been working with Plasma and OLED technology to make whatever displays will be in the future thinner…”

From the Alibre CEO blog: Dance Sucka! - “Anyone who has used a software application of most any type has dealt with licensing the application, and I am sure we would all agree that some vendors do it really well…”
From SolidSmack.com: 27 Free Ways to Get the Most Out of SolidWorks This Week - “Look, there’s a bunch of things you could do this week, but showering regularly, eating less beef jerky and discovering your unlimited potential for doing cool things with SolidWorks should be at the top of the list…”
From WorldCAD Access: # of Ways to Quit AutoCAD - “After Visa balloned the number of ways to shut down the operating system, I wondered how many ways there were to end AutoCAD - especially after seeing the new Exit AutoCAD button in the new menu browser…”
From SolidSmack.com: CAD on the Web: Toss AutoCAD, Edit DWG’s Online - “Slap me sideways and constrain me to X/Y coordinates. SolidWorks Labs has released a new web app, called BluePrint Now, that allows you to create/edit/save DWG files online…”
From WorldCAD Access: ADSK Q1: Up 18% - “Autodesk reports Q1 revenues of $599 million, up 18% from a year ago - nearly half of the increase is thanks to the weak US$…”
From SolidSmack.com: Somebody. Please Make 3D CAD Look This Cool - “There’s not enough explodin’ stuff in CAD these days. It’s all sketch this, extrude that. So, when I saw this, I just had to show it to you…”
From SolidSmack.com: ICFF 2008: Cool Design, Inspiring Ideas - “Every year about this time the International Contemporary Furniture Fair ends and a bunch of trendy people have satisfied their desire for new designs and ideas about contemporary furniture…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks Surfacing and Complex Shape Modeling - “Yesterday my copy of SolidWorks Surfacing by Matt Lombard arrived in the mail from Amazon! My boy likes all the colored images in the book… and I like the colored images…”
From the CADDmanager blog: AUGI CAD Camp - Los Angeles - “I attended the AUGI CAD Camp today. It was located near LAX airport. It was a great event. AUGI provided a wide range of educational presentations. Matt Murphy was the master of ceremonies, as he does so well at so many events…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: HP Marketing the Tablet PC!? - “Its great to see Tablet PCs getting some promotion in the Aussie Education market. There is little sign of them in retail outlets in New Zealand, even specialist computer stores…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Sony’s HD Foam - “Sony are at it again! After Balls, Paint and Play-Doh Rabbits, it’s Foam! 470 Million Litres of foam, shot in the streets of Miami! From http://www.sony.co.uk/images via Sony NZ…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGIWorld magazine - May/June 2008 issue out now! - “The latest issue of AUGIWorld magazine (May/June 2008) has just hit the shelves. This edition contains its regular number of high quality articles covering a spectrum of Autodesk products, and industry related items…”
From the Off Course - On Target blog at Autodesk: Human History is additive NOT subtractive! - “When something big, new, and innovative comes along, most of the affected domain’s ‘experts’ and pundits typically decry the loss of the “good old ways” and lament how they are going to surely be eliminated…”
From SolidSmack.com: Create Models Faster with a Library of Surfaces in SolidWorks - “Oh to have ways of creating models faster. Moving your mouse around really fast-like doesn’t help, gripping your neck and squeezing real hard doesn’t help much…”
From the CAD Insider blog: DP Technology ‘Discovered’ - “Walking into ESPRIT’s user conference, I feel like Christopher Columbus, having discovered a new land -never mind all the natives who seem to have preceded me…”
From The Dirt blog at Autodesk: Fossil Fuels and Aviation - “I was on yet another airplane this week and it occurred to me that aviation is, at present, completely and totally dependent on fossil fuels. Naturally curious I started doing some digging about oil futures etc…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: The hackers answer to high end stereo graphics: Cellophane - “In case you hadn’t noticed I’ve recently been leaning towards useful ways to hack our world. It started with making your own cintiq followed by making a touch screen out of a Wii and hacking your canon camera…”
From SolidSmack.com: MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac - “Oh, the trials of being a Mac user in the CAD world. There’s just no justice for your simple and elegant character personified in a simple and elegant computer…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Release your Canon Cameras Inner Strength - “Do you have a consumer Canon camera? If so did you know that you may have in your very hands a far more powerful piece of hardware than you ever realized. All you need is the right tools to unlock the power…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Step to the Left - “Yes’m, the sky split open like one of them biscuit cans and then my mama takes out this laser shootin’ thing, but these links were downright mean…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Silicon Valley or Solar Valley? - “Something is stirring in Silicon Valley again. I drive around and still see a lot of empty commercial lots in the industrial area where I work. Even still, larger new buildings are being built around me…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Fix for Revit 2009 products that fail to run after being installed and run once - “If you use one of the following Autodesk Revit 2009 based products: Revit Architecture 2009 Revit MEP 2009 Revit Structure 2009 An experience the below Issue: You installed Revit, and then used it once…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Who Drives Software Development? - “Over the lengthy time I have spent being involved with CAD and now BIM, I have seen a lot of software development that has improved our processes. I have also seen development that did not work so well…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Photoshop Tips and Tricks Book - Free Download - “Kudos to the folks at Sitepoint for offering up their Photoshop Anthology in full pdf format and for free to boot. The books from sitepoint are usually a very good purchase and enable the reader to…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: STL Exporter from Revit available at autodesk labs - “Are you using Revit and tired of exporting to DWG, only to open the file and export to STL for 3D Printing? Now you can download the latest tool to hit autodesk labs, the Revit STL Exporter…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: IES VE-Ware, Building Energy Analysis for Revit 2009 - “Those of you who did not visit Boston this week may have missed the release of IES VE-Ware for Revit 2009. Interested in determining the carbon footprint for your designs?”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: David’s Design ReForm - “David Fanos Design ReForm is a blog with tutorials and explorations in parametric modeling using applications like 3ds Max, Revit, Maya, and Rhino…”
From WorldCAD Access: Vernor:1; Autodesk: 0 - “Owen Wengerd’s AdskvOda Weblog has been tracking AutoCAD seller Vernor’s fight against Autodesk. Today he alerted me that consumers won this round…”
From the BIM and BEAM blog at Autodesk: Slab Edge Hidden Lines Display - “Back in February/March 2008, during our Revit Structure 2008 Beta testing period, there was a discussion among our Beta testers (from different countries) about the slab edge hidden line display…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Dual Dimensioning and ASME Y14.5M-1994 - “Dual dimensioning is the drafting practice of using multiple units of measure in a dimension in the same direction of a feature. SolidWorks and many other CAD programs support dual dimensioning…”
From the Duncan’s Corner blog at Autodesk: Grab and release nCloth - “One can animate the enable attribute on nCloth constraints to grab and release the cloth. When a constraint becomes enabled it rebuilds its links based on the relative positions at that frame…”
From the Off Course - On Target blog at Autodesk: Google Oceans: Another wish comes true! - “While I can neither take credit for nor claim any influence on Google’s recent announcement, I’m pleased to say that some of the things I wished for last year in my posting “New Perspectives…”
From the Off Course - On Target blog at Autodesk: Cool Tools I Use: Cabinet Scraper - “I truly believe that every one of us (yes, that includes YOU!) has cool tools that we use on an everyday basis and stories about how we use these tools and how we came to find and use them…”
From SolidSmack.com: 5:No Wait, 6 Tips For Fixing SolidWorks Errors - “Since the dawn of time, man has contemplated the frustrating effects of the big read error icon…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Microsoft is cloud building, with lots of servers… - “There seems to be plenty of news about clouds, even when the weather is fine! Its not about stormy weather, but rather Cloud Computing…”
From the AutoCAD Insider blog at Autodesk: Good Question: Action Macros and VBA - “Today’s good questions come from Paul. He is interested in combining the power of VBA with the ease of Action Macros in AutoCAD 2009…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks vs AutoCAD: The Twitter Spectrum - “Maybe it’s not fair, but I thought it would be a little fun to compare the conversation of SolidWorks vs AutoCAD happening on Twitter…”
From the AutoCAD Insider blog at Autodesk: AutoCAD 2009 Tips and Tricks Webcast - “If you missed the of AutoCAD 2009 Tips and Tricks Webcast premiere on May 8th, no problem! You can catch the rerun on autodesk.com…”
From WorldCAD Access: Not Understanding CPU Lineups - “Life for computer nerds used to be easy. In terms of Intel CPUs, there was the 8088, followed by the 80286, followed by the 30836…”
From the Engineering Education for the Non-Civil Minded blog at Autodesk: Aspire to Inspire - “Education is getting some press from our own Lynn Allen http://lynn.blogs.com/ this year…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Digital Design Coordinator (DDC) Wanted-London or Sussex - “Chris Blandford Associates express and present innovative and creative landscape design and environmental planning projects, using a wide range of computer aided design packages…”
From the Between the Poles blog at Autodesk: MapGuide Open Source 2.0.1 Released - “The MapGuide Open Source Project Team are pleased to announce the release of MapGuide Open Source 2.0.1. This release includes support for FDO 3.3.1 and bug fixes since 2.0.0…”
From the Through the Interface blog at Autodesk: Autodesk Design Review 2009 API documentation now available - “Those of you developing with Autodesk Design Review will be happy to find out that the ADR API documentation for the 2009 release is now available on Beyond the Paper. Enjoy…”
From SolidSmack.com: CubeScape: Your Own 3D Digital Landscape - “Out of NOWHERE, your overwhelming hunger to stack colorful blocks, creating cities and worlds unknown… has been satiated…”
From Lynn Allen’s blog at Autodesk: The Experience Tour Continues! - “Well we are on week three of The Experience Tour now…(last week we took off to work on content for Autodesk University)…”
From the Between the Walls blog at Autodesk: The Architect’s Desktop: Space Generation in AutoCAD Architecture 2009 with AutoCAD Objects - “David Koch, in his ‘The Architect’s Desktop’ blog provides insight into the new capabilities in AutoCAD Architecture 2009 to allow more AutoCAD objects to bound spaces…”
From WorldCAD Access: X3DMEDIA acquires AEC magazine - “They used to work there, now they own it. Martyn Day and Al Dean used to work at EDA, a magazine publisher in England…”
From the Between the Walls blog at Autodesk: AEC Developer Camps Coming in June - “AEC Developer Camps Coming in June What: ADN-sponsored AEC Developer Camp When: June 16-18 Where: Wakefield, Massachuetts (near Boston) Who: Any partners, customers…”
From Lynn Allen’s blog at Autodesk: Lynn is on Vacation… - “I’m afraid there shall be no blogging this week…I’m officially off the clock for a week courtesy of Autodesk…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Supporting Business Strategy - “This was a good debating session where we proved that no-ones role was the same as another’s, and that there were as many varying opinions as there were people…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidSmack Mystery Tip: Motivating SolidWorks Users to Use More Features - “I’m liking this topic, so we’re gonna keep going with it till it breaks into a million tiny pieces…”
From SolidSmack.com: Interested in Boat Design? Well, Have Some Free Boat Plans - “My brother, who is trying to shed the hooks of life on dry ground for a life at sea, shared this site with me…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Justifying Costs - “The PowerPoint in this page’s DOWNLOADS section was given by Andrew Coombes of Hampshire Council and explains his approach to justifying a software upgrade…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Mindjet acquire JCVGantt - Syncronised Mindmaps and Gantt Charts - “I depend on MindManager to aggregate and manage project information from many sources into a dashboard…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Revit User Group of New Zealand - Notice of May Meeting - “The next RUGNZ meeting is to be held on 21 st May at Jasmax’s Offices - Level 4, 65 Upper Queen Street…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: So you think you know AccuDraw #4: Co-ordinates - “AccuDraw works to the principle of co-ordinate systems. When you draw an element you specify a start point then enter a relative co-ordinate from there…”
From the Between the Poles blog at Autodesk: Where 2.0 - “The Where 2.0 Conference, which is organized by Brady Forrest, is unique, primarily because the focus is on innovation in the geospatial sector…”
From Lynn Allen’s blog at Autodesk: Lock Down those AutoCAD Toolbars! - “Week 3 of the Experience Tour is over and we get a week off before week 4 kicks off in Denver…”
From SolidSmack.com: Microsoft Reveals the TouchWall; CAD Will Never Be the Same - “While Microsoft’s Surface is kinda cool, but also like the Pac-man console at that pizza place…”
From RobiNZ CAD Blog: Why New Zealand needs a new flag! - “Im not picking on Corel but the image ( left ) is from an email upgrade offer for Corel X4…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: The Management Side of CAD - “The CAD Managers Forum 08 May 2008 The UK CAD Managers Forum met for the 4th time on Thursday May 8th at the familiar and convenient RIB…”
From the Through the Interface blog at Autodesk: An automatic numbering system for AutoCAD blocks using .NET - Part 4 - “In the original post in this series, we introduced a basic application to number AutoCAD objects, specifically blocks with attributes…”
From the Between the Poles blog at Autodesk: ADN Geospaptial Developer Camp June 25-27 - “June 25-27 the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) will be hosting a Geospatial Devcamp at the Embassy Suites in San Rafael, California…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Autodesk Inventor 2009 Hotfix - ID: DL11252357 - “A couple of weeks ago (Published date: 2008-05-07) Autodesk released a Hotfix for Autodesk Inventor (Professional or Suite) 2009…”
From the Through the Interface blog at Autodesk: Deleting unused annotation scales in AutoCAD using .NET - “Back in this previous post we looked at some code to add new annotation scales and attach them to textual entities inside AutoCAD…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Who Drives Software Development? - The Users? - “Users have always wanted a voice into the process of creating and refining new features that appear in future releases of software…”
From the BIM and BEAM blog at Autodesk: Free SI Tools for Revit Structure 2009 is available for download - “SI Tools for Revit Structure is a Revit Structure add-in that provides advanced selection capabilities for structural members…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #70: Simulating fluid flow in a tube - “If you have ever wanted to simulate fluid flowing through a tube or filling up a bottle, this week’s podcast is a must-see…”
From the Between the Poles blog at Autodesk: GeoTec 2008 - “GeoTec 2008 will be happening in Ottawa Jun 2-5. This is always an interesting event with very forward looking sessions…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGI HotNews (monthly email newsletter) - May 2008, hits the stands… - “AUGI’s official monthly email newsletter ‘AUGI HotNews - June 2008′ hits the streets and the ‘inboxes’ of its members…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Autodesk Milestones - “How many of these do you remember? 1982 Autodesk founded AutoCAD introduced and shipped 1985 Autodesk goes public…”
From the BIM and BEAM blog at Autodesk: 3D Printing Example from Walter P Moore - “Here are a few 3D printing examples from our good friend David Harrington from Walter P Moore Nicolas…”
From the Through the Interface blog at Autodesk: DevCamps 2008 - Customization and Application Development Conferences - “Last year we held our first DevCamps for AEC and Manufacturing customers and partners…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Who Drives Software Development? - The Owners? - “We have looked at how the end users might drive the development of the software…”
From the Through the Interface blog at Autodesk: Sweeping an AutoCAD surface using .NET - “AutoCAD 2007 introduced more advanced solid and surface modeling tools…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AutoCAD LTRaster image / features survey for AutoCAD LT from Autodesk (May 2008) - “If you use AutoCAD LT and work with Raster Images inside that product…”
From the AutoCAD Insider blog at Autodesk: Autodesk Developer Camps Coming in June - “Partners, customers…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CADD Manager Journal - May 2008 - “Just published….”

TOP NEWS STORIES

From Cadalyst AEC news: AIA 2008 Presents Plethora of New Products - “Many new solutions based on green design and others that are just plain cool debuted at this year’s American Institute of Architects Expo…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: Adapx Unveils New Digital Pen Technology - “Capturx for Autodesk Design Review allows users to write on paper design files then download their remarks into various Autodesk software…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: Architecture Proposals in 4D - “A firm uses CINEMA 4D Architecture Edition to validate concepts…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: Bentley Announces Subscription Program for GenerativeComponents - “Program includes a one-year subscription and online support…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: CSI Creates Young Professionals Group - “First Emerging Professionals event to take place during CSI’s annual convention…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: CSI Launches New BIM Committee - “New group to guide CSI’s initiatives for building information modeling planning and education…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: RCMS Group Extends Usability of BIM Technology - “New solution to make BIM more accessible to more firms at a lower cost…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: Reed Construction Data Launches SmartBIM - “3D design advancements reportedly foster more organized, efficient use of Autodesk Revit…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: Siemens PLM Software Awards Grant to Chinese University - “Shanghai DianJi University will receive engineering software, training, and more worth US$46 million…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: SpaceExplorer 3D Mouse Now Supported by Mac OS X - “Device now functions with Mac-based Maya, ArchiCAD, TurboSketch, VectorWorks, Rhino, SketchUp, PhotoShop, and more…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Anark Announces Sale of Entertainment Division - “Company plans to focus its efforts on accelerating enterprise CAD-PLM and visualization business…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Autodesk Takes a Shot at Plastics Market - “Acquisition of Moldflow will strengthen product offerings for plastic part and tool design…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: ColumbiaSoft Expands Options for Document
Management - “Document Locator facilitates deployment of document management systems across networks…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Right Hemisphere Transfers Development of
Deep Creator to Esperient - “Company also announces release of Deep Creator v3 authoring software…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: SPEC Releases SPECviewperf 10 for Linux/Unix - “New version of graphics performance evaluation tool allows users to compare the performance of systems running in higher-quality graphics modes using full-scene antialiasing…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Siemens Announces New Velocity Series - “Updates to midmarket PLM portfolio include new direct-modeling capabilities in Solid Edge…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Siemens PLM Software Unveils NX 6 - “New version to include synchronous technology and enhanced simulation capabilities…”
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: GIS Tech News (#58) - “Measuring the Boreal Forest’s Breadth: Remote sensing experts monitor the shrinking boreal forest with GIS…”
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: Measuring the Boreal Forest’s Breadth - “Remote sensing experts monitor the shrinking boreal forest with GIS…”
From CADCAM Insider: 3D Collaboration and Interoperability Conference Draws Record Attendance - “Loveland, CO May 15, 2008 - Longview Advisors, organizers of the 2008 3D Collaboration and Interoperability Conference and Exhibition, reported record attendance to its fourth annual event, which commenced today in Denve…”
From CADCAM Insider: Autodesk Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2009 Revenue of $599 Million - “SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) today reported revenue of $599 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, an increase of 18 percent over the first quarter of fiscal 200…”
From CADCAM Insider: BE Careers Network and The CAD Academy Team to Offer Students Bentley Civil Engineering Software - “EXTON, P…”
From CADCAM Insider: Revit Architecture and Autodesk 3ds Max Design Software Accelerate the Building Design Process - “BOSTON, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - At the VisMasters Design, Modeling and Visualization Conference, Autodesk, In…”
From Cadopolis: Archblocks Offers Multiple Discounts - “Now when you buy Archblocks Architectural Library at regular price you can add a multiple licencing for just $10 for each additional user. For individual…”
From Engineeringtalk: CAD software aids field hospital design - “Using Inventor’s digital prototyping capabilities MSV is able to create 3D models of its designs to show clients how and where their equipment will be positioned…”
From Engineeringtalk: CAE suite eases international co-operation - “HyperWorks 9.0 clients can now use unallocated HyperWorks units in their existing pool to immediately access Altair’s PBS GridWorks on-demand grid-computing technology suite…”
From Engineeringtalk: CFD update removes user meshing time - “Converge is suited to applications involving complex geometries with moving boundaries, such as those found within an internal combustion engine…”
From Engineeringtalk: Cylinder company chooses simulation software - “ElringKlinger was looking for ways to improve the efficiency of its engineering analysis and to increase the number of components that undergo analysis…”
From Engineeringtalk: FEA software cuts development times - “Abaqus 6.8 provides improved capabilities in modelling and results visualisation, structural analysis, composites failure, general contact, computing performance and multiphysics…”
From Engineeringtalk: FEA software evaluates electronics performance - “For virtual drop testing of mobile phones, Lenovo uses Abaqus to simulate the stress and strain on the mobile phone design as it is dropped from various directions…”
From Engineeringtalk: History-free software eases product development - “Solid Edge with synchronous technology combines the speed and flexibility of direct modeling with the precise control of dimension-driven design, providing a fast, flexible design experience…”
From Engineeringtalk: Integrated software allows easy upgrades - “Wonderware Operations Software 3.4 is offered in Standard and Premium versions, with each edition providing incremental levels of MES functionality…”
From Engineeringtalk: Modelling software optimises asphalt production - “Astec is one of the most advanced users of EDEM, using a combination of particle and fluid dynamics to simulate complex processes within its hot-mix asphalt plants…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software boosts CAD efficiency - “The NX 6 unified process enables collaborative product development that leads to 20% faster cycle times through process efficiency improvements such as feature-based machining…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software company donates licences to university - “Engineered Software will provide US $25,000 worth of piping design technology to the Mechanical Engineering Technology department…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software eases engineering data sharing - “Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter technology will enable Dedini to consolidate enterprise-wide engineering data on a single open platform and will provide a scalable solution…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software eases workholding design - “SMW AutoBlok has standardised on SolidWorks software for new product design in most of its plants…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software tool calculates arc flash risks - “The calculator predicts arcing fault current for a given configuration and bolted fault short circuit current…”
From Engineeringtalk: Software update smoothes design process - “CoCreate 2008 will help users increase productivity, speed design iterations and make it easier to make modifications to designs…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Affordable factory simulation speeds sales - “A rapidly expanding manufacturer of production machinery for electronics industries said that cost-effective digital factory 3D simulation software makes major financial savings and speeds sales…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Cost estimating software has powerful modelling - “MTI Systems has released Costimator OEM V9.0 software, which features an expanded feature-based estimating library for machining, sheet metal fabrication and non-machining operations…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Digitise work processes to optimise production - “GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ Proficy Workflow digitises and streamlines production processes, from work instructions and SOPs to corrective action and HACCP monitoring…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Factory and business systems integrated by ABB - “ABB has released its latest version of IndustrialIT ECS Enterprise Connectivity Solutions Enhancements for faster, simplified integration of enterprise systems…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: IO-Link integrated into PROFIBUS and PROFINET - “Profibus and Profinet International has published documents concerning the integration of IO-Link into PROFIBUS and PROFINET to enable wider use of IO-Link…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Job tracking software aids competitiveness - “Job tracking software for lean manufacturing and engineering companies manages clients throughout the life cycle and service performance is measurable and transparent…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Multi-CAD viewing supports point cloud files - “CCE said that its EnSuite Version 2 multi-CAD viewing, translation and productivity software has been upgraded to support point cloud files produced by CMMs…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: SMEs to benefit from LIMS/MRP integration - “WinLims software provides SMEs with fully integrated LIMS capabilities and MRP functionality to provide a quality control solution for laboratory and production…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Software controls ordering and invoicing - “Without PSL Datatrack software, a plastics machining subcontractor said that ordering and invoicing for large varieties in batch produced components would have been very difficult…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Videographic recorder has batch functionality - “Manufacturer of laminated windscreens has replaced a twin-trace paper recorder with a videographic recorder having batch functionality covering every production process stage…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Virtual server to cut industrial IT costs - “In its TRAC-IT MES factory floor efficiency systems and software, Marco is using virtual server technology to simplify and reduce the investment in IT infrastructure…”

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