More freedom when designing and configuring
Item has added important design details to its engineering tool. For example, the design software now allows the distance between two parallel profiles to be measured.
read more...read more...Altair takes over Simsolid
Altair has acquired Simsolid. The company works on the basis of detailed CAD assemblies and offers fast, accurate and robust structural simulations that do not require geometry simplification, cleansing or meshing.
read more...Software for CAD-based planning time determination
At this year's AMB special show Digital Way, HSi will be presenting software for automated planning time and cost calculation as well as work plan creation.
read more...PTC expands partner network for ThingWorx
PTC is further expanding its partner network for ThingWorx, the platform for industrial innovation, in Central Europe.
read more...Simplified design process
The new engineering tool from Item is intuitive to use and simplifies the design process in machine and equipment construction. The software supports users from 3D design, CAD drafting, assembly instructions and project documentation through to online ordering of their industrial systems and equipment.
read more...Topology optimization meets AI
Calculation and simulation at the designer's fingertips - Dassault Systèmes Solidworks and DPS Software have been supporting this trend towards deeply integrated CAD-CAE process chains for years.
read more...CAD tool keeps databases lean
In design, purchasing or sales, employees search for articles or components every day. In practice, new parts are often ordered or designed faster than existing or similar parts are found.
read more...Buying instead of renting
With the new version of the CAD system ZWCAD 2018 from ZWSOFT, encee CAD/CAM-Systeme GmbH offers an alternative to AutoCAD: With similar user guidance, data compatibility and a suitable range of functions, users benefit financially from the purchase of a permanent license in the first year, according to the manufacturer.
read more...With Solidworks to the "Thing of the Year"
DPS Software customer Ulrich Müller, a young company founder, achieves 1st place in the Pro7 inventor show with a foldable trailer. Müller designed his innovative product with SOLIDWORKS and manufactured it with SolidCAM.
read more...Bionic design and 3D printing
Around a year after the start of the pioneering EU project Bionic Aircraft, CENIT reports on the first concrete results: These include software for the automatic recognition of topology-optimized structures, an associated catalog with parameterized bionic features in CAD and a tool for the direct generation of file formats for 3D printing.
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