3D CAD and Model-centric design

A landmark study from Aberdeen Group reports that 85% of the current CAD users still primarily use 2D drafting. This astonishing statistic means that most companies use CAD software as a drafting tool to create orthographic views to represent 3D objects. Study by the Aberdeen Group shows that 3D modeling and digital prototyping save time and money... [Read more]

Theorem Solutions Announces Support for CATIA V5 R19

PLM interoperability specialist Theorem Solutions continues to offer the most up to date support for CATIA users with the announcement of immediate availability of support for CATIVA V5 R19. The new versions of Theorem’s CADverter offer fast and accurate translation of CAD data between CATIA V5 R19 and NX, I-DEAS; CADDS5 and ICEMsurf and for... [Read more]

Lattice Technology Upgrades Lattice3D Reporter

Lattice Technology, developers of digital manufacturing applications using the XVL® format, announces the availability of an upgrade for Lattice3D Reporter, a digital manufacturing application that allows 3D CAD data, process information and linked parts lists to be shared in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Lattice3D Reporter is a very easy-to-use... [Read more]

A Greener Recipe for Clean Drinking Water

CONCORD, Mass.– Which would you prefer in your drinking water: bleach or light? That’s the easy choice made every day by residential, commercial, and municipal customers of Trojan Technologies, a Canadian company whose systems disinfect drinking water with ultraviolet light. More than 60 designers and engineers at Trojan use SolidWorks® 3D CAD... [Read more]

Optimal AEC Debuts NetSPEX 4.0

Stanwood, WA - Optimal AEC announces the next release of its flagship product, NetSPEX™, a CAD standards management solution for AutoCAD and MicroStation. Demonstration previews can be seen at this year’s Autodesk University. The major enhancement in NetSPEX 4.0 is the support of AutoCAD 2006-2008 and MicroStation V8 2004 Edition and V8 XM. Other... [Read more]

TraceParts’ Second Christmas Tree Design Contest

St Romain, France - TraceParts announces the launch of its second Christmas Tree Model Contest, taking place until December 19, 2008. The winners will selected among the best Christmas tree pictures received. The 2007 winning Xmas tree Contestants must build a Christmas tree using components downloaded from the www.tracepartsonline.net CAD library.... [Read more]

Parasolid 20.0 3D Geometric Modeling Released

Siemens PLM Software announces the latest release of its PLM 3D geometric modeling software.  Parasolid V20.0 includes enhancements that represent a significant step forward in modeling capability and productivity. — Face delete and change functions have been extended to support more complex topologies.— New blend capping controls allow complex... [Read more]

SmartCAM V15.5 Released

Springfield, Oregon - SmartCAMcnc has announced the release of SmartCAM® V15.5 applications. Version 15.5 delivers a variety of new enhancements and capabilities to the SmartCAM suite of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system software, from usability improvements such as verification control to new nesting options, and adds to the visualization... [Read more]

Delcam to Debut New FeatureCAM and PartMaker

Delcam will show the new versions of its FeatureCAM and PartMaker programming systems in the UK for the first time at the Southern Manufacturing exhibition to be held in Farnborough on 11th and 12th February, 2009. These recent additions to the Delcam software family are becoming increasingly popular across a variety of industries, especially the... [Read more]

Integrated 3D Parametric CAD/CAM

Alibre CAM is an integrated 3D parametric Personal CAD/CAM™ program for manufacturers and machine shops of any size, and for individuals. This program is integrated into Alibre Design, so there is only one interface to learn and changes to the design automatically update tool paths. It features 2½ to 5-axis CNC milling, including profiling, pocketing,... [Read more]

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