First Xbox Live Arcade Made with 3DVIA Virtools

Dassault Systèmes announced the release of Sarbakan Game Studio’s “Lazy Raiders,” the first Xbox LIVE Arcade (XBLA) game built and published with 3DVIA Virtools. 3DVIA Virtools is Dassault Systèmes’ game engine for rapid prototyping and production. Lazy Raiders is an action/puzzle game in which players assume the... [Read more]

Aerospace Giant uses FiberSIM Software for Composite Engineering

Bombardier Aerospace uses the product in the design of its newest C Series commercial aircraft and the all-composite Lear 85 business jet. The company reported recently that it is streamlining its global supply chain and integrating distributed processes by standardizing its composites development process for both programs on FiberSIM to help meet delivery... [Read more]

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics offers White Paper on Real-Time 3D Production Workflow & Rendering

StudioGPU announced today the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Quarterly, the official publication of the ACM SIGGRAPH organization, published a white paper in the February 2010 issue focusing on StudioGPU MachStudio™ Pro software. Called “Ending the Tradeoff of Time vs. Quality when Creating 3D Computer Graphics Content – Stepping... [Read more]

PCC Structurals Selects Aras Product Lifecycle Management Software

PCC Structurals is a division of Precision Castparts Corp., a supplier of industrial castings to the aerospace and defense, power generation, industrial equipment, automotive, and medical industries, selected Arass product lifecycle management software.  The Aras implementation provides PCC Structurals better visibility into product information... [Read more]

3Dconnexion Becomes Official Sponsor of North American Eagle Land Speed Program

Project designers will be using the 3Dconnexion SpacePilot PRO 3D mouse with Lenovo ThinkStations, ThinkPads, and CATIA V5 and Geomagic software to design parts and assemblies for the 56-foot long Eagle car.“Designing an earth-bound vehicle that can travel at supersonic speeds demands an extraordinary team of designers equipped with the ultimate... [Read more]

Creaform Launches Reverse Engineering & Quality Control Software

This program can now integrate data acquired by a handyscan 3D laser scanner and the HandyProbe armless and portable CMM in the same referential and in real-time. Using the software, it is now possible to create geometrical entities such as planes, lines, points, spheres, cylinders, or circles directly from scanning or probing data and in a single referential.... [Read more]

elecworks™ achieves SolidWorks Certified Gold Product Status

St Romain, France – Trace Software International announced that elecworks™, its flagship product, has achieved Certified Gold Partner status with DS SolidWorks Corporation. With this certification, elecworks™ becomes the first Certified Gold Partner application for electrical design, integrated to SolidWorks.This certification awarded... [Read more]

PTC Extends Explicit Modeling with CoCreate 17.0

PTC announced CoCreate 17.0, the next release of its explicit modeling 3D CAD software to be available during Q2 2010. Performance benchmarks by users around the world verified productivity gains with CoCreate 17.0 as compared to CoCreate 16.0: · Accelerated design productivity by up to 2x· Reduced time spent creating 2D profiles by 40%·... [Read more]

3D Comsol Analysis of Extruder Dies

A 3D flow analysis performed using COMSOL Multiphysics chemical module has analyzed the flow properties and verified operating points of a test domain. The test was conducted on an extruder die within the Arcada laboratory where the maximum output of the extruder screw was predetermined. The analysis used material properties known for a special melt... [Read more]

Autodesk Names Dynamic Structures as Inventor of the Year for 2009

Members of the Autodesk manufacturing community chose the Canada-based provider of dynamic, complex structures as the 2009 Inventor of the Year by voting on the Autodesk Manufacturing Community website. Dynamic Structures—which designs all types of complex structures from ski jumps and bridges to astronomical observatories—was originally... [Read more]