16 March 2009
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From the Alibre CEO blog: Conspicuous Frugality - “A secular change in attitude is sweeping the country, replacing conspicuous consumption with conspicuous frugality. From big business to mom and pop, it’s smart and trendy now to save money, ask for discounts, and shop for bargains…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: Uncle Sam NEEDS You! - “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. John Fitzgerald Kennedy In February, another 168,000 manufacturing jobs were eliminated, bringing losses over the last year to 1.2 million…”
From SolidSmack.com: Will You Miss the Shape Feature in SolidWorks 2010?: The What? - “If you’ve upgraded to SolidWorks 2009 SP2.1, you might notice a message for an obscure feature that helps you make lil’ bumps on faces. The Shape feature. Turns out, this particular feature will not be available in SolidWorks 2010…”
From WorldCAD Access: What’s New in AutoCAD LT 2010 - “Autodesk marketing is making it tough for us to know what’s new in AutoCAD LT 2010. Their official bloggers dribble out partial feature lists. Indie bloggers merely repetez apres moi, as my high school French teacher used to say…”
From WorldCAD Access: Raytracing: 20x Today, 200x Next - “New 3D computer graphics company Caustic Graphics is about to CausticRT for mightily accelerating raytracing using low-cost CPUs and GPUs - and its proprietary CausticOne graphics accelerator card, and CausticGL programming API…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Beets of Terror - “As if those potatoes will peel themselves. Ok, so apparently they do, but it’s got to be the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen, besides that disco family of Sumatran rabbits and these links. Wayne Barlow - Yes, speaking of creepy…”
From SolidSmack.com: Get Your Fresh, Hot SolidWorks World Content - “Well, mostly fresh and mostly hot. It’s been a few weeks since SolidWorks World, but that won’t stop you from being able to view, in full virtual glory, all the events caught on video, photo and double-sided sticky tape…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks Sneaks the #4 Enhancement Request into 2009 SP2.0 - “If you overslept or forgot to feed your hairless cat the past couple weeks, you may have missed the newest SolidWorks Service Pack (SP) that not only fix’z a bit o’ broke stuff, but also give you a handy new feature…”
From WorldCAD Access: LT-Extender vs drcauto - “A reader worries: Do you have more information in the “copyright reasons”? Nobody wants problems with the big red A company. There is a difference between LT-Extender from Germany and the LT add-ons from Australia…”
From WorldCAD Access: Gone: Top MSC Execs Resign - “Ceo and board chairman William Weyand, and president and coo Glenn Weinkoop resigned today from MSC after four years there. Board member Ashfaq Munshi is interim ceo and president until a replacement is found…”
From WorldCAD Access: Adobe: Q1 Down 12% (We Think) - “Adobe figures its Q1 will be in the range of $783-$786 million, down from its previously lowered estimates for the quarter. The new range is down about 12% from the $890.4 million it earned in Q1 a year ago…”
From the 3D CAD blog: No more free Inventor LT - “The Inventor LT program (a limited version of Autodesk Inventor) come to its end as a free technology preview software. See the Autodesk Labs blog post…”
From SolidSmack.com: One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: SolidWorks Visual Properties - “I was showing some people on Twitter how RealView helped to cure confusion and ignorance with manufacturing. It just so happens that Twitter, also helps to cure confusion and ignorance. My ignorance…”
From SolidSmack.com: 3D From SolidWorks. IT’S A BLAST. (As in Explosive: in a Literal Sense) - “Are you ready to watch some SolidWorks marketing videos? No? How about some SolidWorks video that show stuff blowin’ up? Yeah, that’s what I’m talkin’ about. Melon and clock parts all over yer face…”
From SolidSmack.com: Sniff This. 3DVIA get’s FAST with VirTools 5 (Plus Get a Free Shirt) - “You know what you need sitting on your desk next to your copy of SolidWorks? A small animal deterrent? No, no, and definitely not an automatic, multi-flavor, ice cream maker. You’ll need a mirror…”
From SolidSmack.com: How’s This for an Adaptive 3D Modeling and Rendering Environment? MUCH Better - “BIG hat tip to Kevin Quigley for commenting on the Future Design and Engineering post yesterday and mentioning another video that takes a stab ( much better stab) and future design possibilities…”
From the Alibre CEO blog: Customer to SolidWorks - Alibre is Better! - “We received an unsolicited email from a customer today and he gave us permission to publish it. The identity of the SolidWorks VAR was removed…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Long Tooth Dance Machine - “You’ve got five days I reckon. After that, you can’t tell what the unintended results of too much lather will do to affect migration of wild yaks. I’d put down some crumbs and use these links…”
From SolidSmack.com: ShapeWays Cuts Out PhotoShaper. Ya Know, For Memories and Stuff - “Here’s your chance to give those photos a little more depth and a more monochromatic feel. Today, Shapeways launches PhotoShaper that turns your photo into a 3D printed plastic masterpiece…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Finally breaking down and trying twitter - “I’m sure I’m not alone in being overwhelmed by ways to communicate. Between email, instant messenger, text messages, blog, linkedin, facebook and my actual job, my day was just filled up. Twitter always seemed like a big time suck to me…”
From WorldCAD Access: First! (AutoCAD 2010 book) - “Yesterday afternoon FedEx delivered from Autodesk Press an author copy of my The Illustrated AutoCAD 2010 Quick Reference - the very first AutoCAD 2010 book on the market, I’m pretty sure…”
From WorldCAD Access: Killed Off: LT-Extender - “Torsten Moses of TM-CAD Engineering announces the death of LT-Extender: I ceased the production and distribution of the LT-Extender software with immediate effect due to copyright reasons…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Showing the Default Model in a Sheet Model - “V8i allows you to display multiple models at the same time. An excellent example of where this could prove extremely useful is being able to display a Sheet model and the Default model, or Paperspace and Modelspace, at the same time…”
From SolidSmack.com: Delicious Design Process: Get Your SKI ON. Charlie Pyott’s Twin Parabolic Skis - “You better have one of those fancy skin-tight ski suits with… ya know, skulls and shiny shapes on it, cause your skin is gonna peel right off your bones with this new ski concept…”
From WorldCAD Access: 4 Fingers Soon; 3D Touchscreens Later - “Rumors are abounding of Apple introducing hardware/OS that’ll sense the motions of up to four fingers on a single touchscreen. Four times the fingers, four times the finger grease…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Acqualux Drains Wasted Time out of Shower Design with SolidWorks and 3DVIA - “In these economic times, imagine what a 25 to 40% documentation process reduction could mean to the competitiveness of your company. Take a look at what Acqualux, a UK based company, has been able to achieve with 3DVIA Compose…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA Composer at TEKOM 2008! - “For three days between November 5th and 7th, 2008, Technical Communication was the center of attention at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden. 3DVIA was there, and it was a big success for us at this year’s tcworld conferenc…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Essential Reader: The Uses and Abuses of History - “The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan Canadian Margaret MacMillian writes about history; titles like “Paris 1919″ and “Nixon in China” might be familiar to you…”
From WorldCAD Access: Exceeding 5-year Lows - “Share prices of publicly-owned CAD companies have fallen lower than their prices from 5 years ago. Shares are straining to drop below even the dismal records set in 2003…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA Composer hotfix now available - “Hi everyone. This is a short announcement to let you know that a new hotfix for 3DVIA Composer is now generally available. The official name is V6R2009.HF12, and is available through your normal distribution channel…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Getting Errors when using downloaded Macros? - “Errors when running downloaded SolidWorks macros (Visual Basic 6) can be caused by many different issues, depending on the macro and which version of SolidWorks being used. Here are some general points that may help…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Cadalyst to Continue But Print Schedule Uncertain - “After being cut loose from Questex, Nancy Johnson, editor in chief of Cadalyst, was looking at an uncertain future. Today when she briefed me on Longitude Media picking up Cadalyst, her relief was quite perceptible…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #79: ‘Using 3DVIA Sync to Keep Content Up-to-Date’ - “A couple of weeks ago, Jonathan showed me an interesting way to use 3DVIA Sync to keep your .smg files up-to-date. I had never seen Sync used in exactly this way, and I am happy to pass along this great tip to yo…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: New Area on Lorono’s SolidWorks Resources - “Recently, a new file area on the Lorono’s SolidWorks Resources has been created, called Engineering and Design. The purpose of this new area is to provide some general engineering and design reference materials…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CAD for Dummies - “No - I am not calling you a dummy, but sometimes even the best need some help. I have bought and read some of the ‘Dummies’ books over the years and they are quite good. Here are a few that are CAD related…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: 20 Flavors of Wow - “I agree. It’s usually smaller mammals that shoot bolts of electricity from their eyeholes, but those stale fruit balls and these links have changed everything…”
From the Solidworks Blog: Now available: SolidWorks World 2009 presentations - “One of the things I heard over and over from SolidWorks World attendees is that there’s no possible way to attend all of the breakout sessions one would want to attend. Life is full of compromises, I guess…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: I learned something new about 3DSMax and Backburner today - “Although 3DS Max 2009 can submit backburner render jobs to both 32bit and 64bit machines, it cannot submit to both at the same time. There is a toggle in the Advanced Tab of the network render dialog…”
From the 3DMojo blog: On-demand Service Application - “Happy New Year everyone! Take a look at this article about Creation, a UK-based company that is making great use of 3DVIA Composer to bring real-time on-demand service instructions to in-service vehicle…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Mystery guest coming soon! - “We’ll have a “mystery guest” coming to this blog in the next few days. This person, probably more so than anyone, is associated with “3ds Max”. Plus, some comments on our recent customer visits in NY…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Model Based Definition (MBD) - “As we move further into the realm of 3D CAD software, something that is still catching on is the idea of driving all specifications directly from the model file, instead of having a separate drawing…”
From WorldCAD Access: Sold! Autodesk’s LBS Business - “Autodesk had announced earlier it was getting out of the location-based services business. Today, its LBS division is sold to Hale Capital Partners…”
From the Solidworks Blog: Why Amazon Will Save the World - “Wow, no caffeine-induced euphoria in that hyped message, is there? As a matter of fact, I’ve been living with an Amazon Kindle now for the past few months and the romance just continues to bloom…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Sites are Back on Line - “The AUGI sites are back online. According to our service provider, the disk controller was failing not the hard drive. The problem has been resolved. All AUGI web properties are back on the Net…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #78: ‘Linked Vector Images’ - “In Markus’ third installment, watch how he creates interactive 2D documents by using the linking ability in 3DVIA Composer. We know that not every use case can utilize interactive 3D document…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Mystery Guest Revealed: Gary Yost - “Hopefully, most of you 3ds Max fanatics know who Gary Yost is. He, with the “Yost team”, built 3ds Max 1.0 and a few more releases before Autodesk formally took over all development efforts…”
From WorldCAD Access: Britsh Scanners4CAD Unhappy With America’s “Buy America” - “Softcover International of England has written a lengthy editorial on Obama’s “Buy American” policy may limit US wide format scanner choice…”
From the Solidworks Blog: What do you see? - “A friend of mine recently sent me a video of a fascinating study that looked at the limits of perception, attention and awareness. The study was on inattentional (or perceptual) blindness…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #77: ‘Grouped BOMs’ - “Markus is back this week as our guest podcaster, with another great tip for 3DVIA Composer. This time he explains how to easily create indented or grouped BOM id’s for your sub-assemblie…”
From the Beside The Cursor blog: Key Schedules a potential fix for Jumpy Text - “Did you catch Donnia’s class at AU? If so then you know what key schedules can also be used for in Revit. If not, then Dave B has a good blog post that covers it. Go read his post…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA Composer featured in Desktop Engineering - “SolidSmack blogger and Desktop Engineering contributor, Josh Mings, took 3DVIA Composer for a test drive and has written about it in the latest issue of Desktop Engineering onlin…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Taira Promote Deploys 3DVIA Composer and 3DVIA Virtools - “Taira Promote, a customer in Japan, is making great use of 3DVIA products to liberate 3D data out of engineering and into the hands of technical publications and training manual…”
From WorldCAD Access: Canceled! Bentley User Conference - “No trips to North Carolina this year as Bentley cancels its annual user group conference, called BE. Instead, it’ll be online…”
From WorldCAD Access: “Autodesk To Design Beijing Auto’s Own-brand Car” - “Well, not really. The headline writer of The Auto Channel got carried away, leaving out a crucial word, “Software.” As in…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGI.com Server Down - Maintenance - “Sunday Feb. 1 - 9:00 to 10:00 am EST (US) We have to take the web server offline to replace an ailing hard drive. The Forum server should not be affected during this period…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA Composer V6R2009x Information - “The new release of 3DVIA Composer V6R2009x is being launched this week as part of the overall V6 portfolio update. As part of the press release, we have updated our websit…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Welcome Felder KG to the 3DVIA Composer Family! - “We would like to welcome Felder KG to the growing community of companies that have chosen 3DVIA Composer to enhance their assembly documentation and become more competitiv…”
From the Solidworks Blog: The New SolidWorks Certification Center - “There is a whole new look to the SolidWorks Certification Center thats available to anyone who takes a SolidWorks Certification exam. You can log in to the center here…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Building View Manager 101 - “How does this new concept affect the production of drawings in the Bentley Building products V8i release? The answer is ‘fairly significantly’ as we’ll discuss below…”
From WorldCAD Access: Free Add-ons for SketchUp - “RenderPlus is a company staffed by some of the people who used to make Aritek (purchased by Softdesk 12 years ago)…”
From WorldCAD Access: CAD Pioneer Welbourn Dies - “We take rendered 3D graphics for granted today, but 44 years ago CAD consisted of lines and other simple entities…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Congrats to ModernTech - “ModernTech won top honors for selling the most 3DVIA Composer in North America for our SolidWorks channel. They received this sales award at SolidWorks World 200…”
From SolidSmack.com: Developing 3D Content Online. Are You Feeling the Itch? - “So how many of you tore yourself out of a paper bag this morning ready to play with 3D online? hmm, nobody? Well…”
From the Pro/Engineer FAQ blog: Pro/E Tip (admin): Free FlexLM License Monitor - “I’ve never used this, so I have no recommendation in favor or against, but I think it’s worth recognizing this effort. If you have comments, please add them here…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: How can I extrude and twist a square section along a bspline? - “The easiest result depends quite a lot on the accuracy you need and the geometry you start with. I would normally start this presuming to extrude along a path…”
From WorldCAD Access: End of the Eastern European Gold Rush - “Last year, Autodesk and other CAD vendors were thrilled at the rush of sales in Eastern European countries…”
From the Solidworks Blog: New from SolidWorks: 3 Dudes Gone 3D - “SolidWorks is proud to present 3 Dudes Gone 3D, a new series featuring three engineers who suddenly find themselves working together in an overflow trailer…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGI Website Maintenance Completed - “Our web provider has completed the required maintenance. No further downtime is expected. Again - we are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused…”
From the 3DMojo blog: Military Embedded Systems article - “Interesting editorial in the Military Embedded Systems Technology Feature, written by Jeff Covert. There is a 3DVIA Composer video sample in the side ba…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Previz with Third floor - “A couple posts ago I talked about going in to visit Third floor studios to shoot some video about how they do previz work for games and film productions…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGIWorld magazine - January/February 2009 issue out now! - “The latest issue (January/February 200) of AUGI World magazine ‘It’s Easy Being Green - Tools for Sustainable Design Using Revit’ has just hit the web…”
From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: AUGI Member Discounts - “We have two promotions running at this time… The first is for Ascent - 25% Off Discount on Ascent Courseware exclusively for AUGI Members…”
From WorldCAD Access: The Essential Reader: Travels as a Brussels Scout - “Travels as a Brussels Scout: One Man’s View of Life in the European Union - Fast, Funny…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #81: ‘3DVIA Player ActiveX’ - “In about 10 minutes, you will see how to embed the 3DVIA Player into PowerPoint, and learn how to setup an interactive 3D presentatio…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: 3ds Max/Design 2010: More with metasl - “Here’s a video that shows you what is possible with using the new integration of mental image’s metasl and the new 3ds Max viewports…”
From the Maxed Out blog at Autodesk: Meet us at GDC? - “We’re getting set for GDC and we’re opening the doors to those attending GDC to meet up with us to learn more details of our roadmap…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DMojo Video Podcasts: now over 100,000 downloads! - “I am extremely pleased to announce that this past weekend, we have surpassed 100,000 downloads of our 3DVIA Composer video podcast…”
From SolidSmack.com: 3 Dudes Gone 3D. Pure SolidWorks Hilarity - “What exactly do you get when you stick two highly talented SolidWorks users…”
From the 3D Roadie blog at Autodesk: Students Honoured at top Hollywood Awards shows - “In the last couple weeks there have been a couple big awards events for our industry. The Academy awards and the VES awards…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Survival Guide Chapter 09: Customer Services - “‘How do I provide the best service?’ ‘What is ‘Customer Service’ anyway?’ ‘I need to do exactly what my ‘Customer’ asks…”
From the CADDmanager blog: March Poll - What do you Use? - “Which Autodesk products do you have? I am re-running a poll from this time last year so that we can compare the results…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3DVIA your iPod #80: ‘Custom PDF Templates’ - “If you have ever wanted to publish Composer content to a PDF, and wanted to change the look of the resulting PDF fil…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Saving dialogue layouts - “V8i introduces the ability to save the layout of columns in many of the main dialogue boxes…”
From the 3DMojo blog: 3D Digital Manufacturing: Treehuggers Unite! - “I was just reading Patrick Michel’s article in Manufacturing Business Technolog…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Display Styles - “WHAT ARE THEY? Display Styles are predefined ways of viewing your mode…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Red Stick International Animation Festival - “They’ve got a Pitch contest this year - looks interesting…”
From SolidSmack.com: The Fruit Bowl Future of Design and Engineering in 2019 - “Ahhh…”
From the CAD Insider blog: Now for Something Completely Different - A Reading List - “Please excuse this digression from the world of CAD…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Visiting Customers - “I saw customers last week (and Tippett is hiring)…”
From the CADDmanager blog: CADD Manager Journal - February 2009 - “I sent out the February CADD Manager Journal….”
From the 3DMojo blog: Democratizate 3D and Win - “Take a look at this article from Industry Wee…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Want to present at AU 2009? - “The registration deadline is April 30…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: Wikipedia Maya Plug-in List - “Are your favorites on the list?…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: UK CAD Managers Forum - BIM Truth or Dare - “Thursday 19th Marc…”
From the Mayalicious blog at Autodesk: What’s happening at GDC 2009? - “Read on…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Cadalyst AEC news: AEC Tech News (#245) - “BIM, With a Side of 2D: Revit and AutoCAD can work together to support today?s architectural workflows. Here?s how…”
From Cadalyst AEC news: BIM, With a Side of 2D (1-2-3 Revit Tutorial) - “Revit and AutoCAD can work together to support today’s architectural workflows. Here’s how…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: CAD Manager Survey Update, Part 2 - “Even when business is bad, take a proactive approach to make sure you’re using your staffing and resources to their maximum potential…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: Follow Up: Programming (CAD Manager’s Toolbox) - “I received a great reader response to the last issue of the CAD Manager’s Toolbox regarding my advice to AutoCAD users to learn AutoLISP…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: Scared of Programming? Well, Jump Right in! (CAD Manager’s
Toolbox) - “The good, the bad, and the ugly economic news and how to deal with it…”
From Cadalyst CAD Management news: Survey Update Reveals Downturn - “The current state of the economy calls for a closer look at how it’s affecting CAD managers’ jobs…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Adopting Synchronous Technology in Solid Edge (On
the Edge Solid Edge Tutorial) - “Transition to Synchronous Technology with little disruption in your day-to-daily operations…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news:
Data-Exchange Tools Can Save Time, Money, and Headache - “Understand why you need a multi-CAD interoperability solution and how to select the right one for your office…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: MCAD Tech News (#260) - “Why Technology Projects Fail: Knowing that obstacles will arise in the implementation of your project and being prepared to address them can mean the difference between a successful outcome and a failure…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: MCAD Tech News (#261) - “Data-Exchange Tools Can Save Time, Money, and Headache: Understand why you need a multi-CAD interoperability solution and how to select the right one for your office…”
From Cadalyst Manufacturing news: Why Technology Projects Fail - “Knowing that obstacles will arise in the implementation of your project and being prepared to address them can help ensure a successful outcome…”
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: GIS Tech News (#77) - “Integrated CAD/GIS Platform Streamlines Infrastructure Engineering: Port of Long Beach expects to save more than $3 million from CAD file management efficiencies alone…”
From Cadalyst Mapping GIS news: Integrated CAD/GIS Platform Streamlines Infrastructure Engineering - “Port of Long Beach expects to save more than $3 million from CAD file management efficiencies alone…”
From Engineeringtalk: Adept unveils Maplesim connectivity toolbox - “Adept Scientific has announced the Maplesim connectivity toolbox…”
From Engineeringtalk: Akva to integrate Enovia with Dynamics AX solution - “Dassault Systemes, a provider of 3D and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, has announced that Akva Group will integrate the Enovia solution with its existing Microsoft Dynamics AX solution…”
From Engineeringtalk: Bentley uses Aesthetica simulation software - “Bentley Motors has implemented Icona’s perceived quality simulation software, Aesthetica, at its design and manufacturing plant in Crewe, England…”
From Engineeringtalk: CDS introduces CAD libraries for PTC Pro/Engineer - “Catalog Data Solutions (CDS), a provider of online product selection tools for industrial suppliers, has launched two online computer-aided design (CAD) libraries of PTC Pro/Engineer models…”
From Engineeringtalk: DFMA 2009 features design-for-environment tools - “Boothroyd Dewhurst has added design-for-environment tools to its Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) 2009 software…”
From Engineeringtalk: Enginsoft provides structural analysis - “Enginsoft is offering a comprehensive structural analyses of buildings and civil structures…”
From Engineeringtalk: FloEFD reduces thermal prototypes needed on Terra - “Azonix used FloEFD software from the Mentor Graphics Corporation Mechanical Analysis Division to reduce the number of thermal prototypes needed from 12 to just one on its Terra embedded computer…”
From Engineeringtalk: Guides for Endnote X2 and Reference Manager - “Adept Scientific has introduced the Endnote X2 and Reference Manager 12 quick-start guides…”
From Engineeringtalk: LMS and Alva complete GVT project - “LMS and its Spanish partner, Alava Ingenieros, have completed a GVT technology project with the ground vibration testing team at EADS-CASA…”
From Engineeringtalk: LMS to exhibit at renewable energy event - “LMS has announced that it will be participating in EWEC 2009, Europe’s premier wind energy event…”
From Engineeringtalk: Piping table for PEX SDR9 tubing - “Engineered Software has made an addition to its pipe tables used in the Pipe-Flo, Pump-Flo and Flow of Fluids piping system design software…”
From Engineeringtalk: Smith and Wesson uses Enovia PLM - “Smith and Wesson, manufacturer of firearms and safety/security products, has chosen Enovia PLM to improve the efficiency of its product design and development process…”
From Engineeringtalk: Theorem updates the Multi-CAD - “Theorem’s Multi-CAD V5 product removes the cost and complexity of working with CATIA V5 data and non-CATIA data on a single project…”
From Engineeringtalk: Virtalis - latest company news - “11 March 2009 - Virtalis has recruited a senior manager to head up its technical team…”
From Engineeringtalk: Virtalis announces haptics seminar - “Virtalis has announced a half-day seminar on haptics, or virtual touch, which will take place on 26 March at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in Sheffield…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Airbus selects Virtalis Stereoworks VR suite - “Virtalis has announced that Airbus has taken delivery of a complete Stereoworks VR suite to assist in the validation of methods and process improvements of composites manufacturing…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Autodesk shows digital prototyping flexibility - “Autodesk has updated its 2D and 3D design and engineering software, which can help manufacturers build better products, ranging from mobile phones to bulldozers, in less time…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Chalco Shandong purchases Pro/Engineer software - “The Shandong Branch of Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (Chalco) has adopted PTC’s Pro/Engineer to speed up design and production of its solid-liquid separation equipment…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Encapsulated RFID tag resists harsh environments - “GAO RFID has introduced the 125kHz Encapsulated RFID Tag (GAO111002), which is designed for applications such as logistics, anti-counterfeiting and access control…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Ethernet delivers free product selection guide - “Ethernet Direct is offering the 2009 Master Selection Guide for free, containing 92 pages of product selection tables for reference on any product series and comparing product features at a glance…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Forelink adds CNC training simulation systems - “Forelink has announced the addition of CNC training simulation systems to its portfolio of programming and training services…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Format is lighter for 3D data compression - “Lattice Technology has announced the release of XVL v10 designed to deliver two times more compression of 3D data than the previous XVL formats, along with improved memory consumption…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Gao Tek active UHF tag has beacon capability - “GAO Tek has released an active UHF tag (GAO 137001) with beaconing capabilities…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Maplesim modelling and simulation tool launched - “Adept Scientific has announced the launch of Maplesim, the new high-performance multi-domain modelling and simulation tool from Maplesoft…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: PSL reveals Datatrack Quality Module - “PSL has released the Quality Module for Datatrack…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Production and business software for SMEs - “Companies can now spread payments over up to three years interest-free when investing in a Datatrack two-day installation and training package…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Rockwell updates Factorytalk Assetcentre software - “Rockwell Automation has introduced Factorytalk Assetcentre Machine Edition, which helps smaller manufacturers and machine builders to maximise their automation investment and minimise downtime…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Siemens updates Parasolid 3D-modelling software - “Siemens PLM Software has introduced Parasolid Version 21.0 (V21) software, the latest release of its PLM 3D geometric modelling component software…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Engineering channel: Software simplifies operation of Yokogawa SL1000 - “Yokogawa has added acquisition and utility software to its Yokogawa SL1000 PC-based data-acquisition system…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Toray implements Apriso Flexnet system - “Apriso has announced that Toray Industries has implemented its Flexnet as an operations execution system to reinforce its strategic vision for manufacturing operations…”
From Manufacturingtalk’s IT for Manufacturing channel: Virtual reality for process-industry training - “Invensys Process Systems has introduced its Immersive Virtual Reality Process, an HMI system that is expected to change the way engineers interact with the plants and processes they control…”
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Maxon Cinema 4D R11 and BodyPaint 3D R4 (CG Channel) from CADwire.net - All CAD industry reviews
MAXON Updates Plug-in for Vectorworks 2009, CINEMA 4D R11 from TenLinks
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MSC Top Executives Resign Without Explanation from TenLinks
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