Ashlar-Vellum, developer of 2D CAD and 3D modeling software, announced the release of the Cobalt Share Application in the Apple Mac App Store. This new collaboration tool is free for professionals to share design files and move easily between Mac and Windows platforms. It allows users to view and collaborate on designs and exports in over […]
Siemens introduces Simcenter X
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced Simcenter X software, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that delivers capabilities of Simcenter, Siemens’ industry-leading portfolio of simulation and test solutions, on the cloud. With an initial release focused on Simcenter STAR-CCM+ software and delivered as part of the Siemens Xcelerator as a Service portfolio of industry software, Simcenter X […]
Tech Soft 3D aquires Actify SpinFire
Tech Soft 3D, a provider of engineering software development toolkits, recently announced that it has acquired the Actify core business, including SpinFire, CAD Publisher, and Centro. Actify SpinFire is a CAD viewer and collaboration tool supporting more than 20 standard CAD formats for 3D and 2D viewing, measuring, and markup capabilities for companywide departments, including […]
SprutCAM X Robot adds Rokae Robotics and Kawasaki robots
SprutCAM Tech announced the launch of Update 17.0.14 and 17.0.15 for SprutCAM X and SprutCAM X Robot, featuring more than 200 changes. This update enhances various functionalities: Support for new robot models Added support for Kawasaki robots (BX300L model and others) in SprutCAM X Robot and MachineMaker. Additionally, support for 27 models of ROKAE robots […]
Elysium InfiPoints now available through Altair
Elysium announced the integration of InfiPoints into the Altair Partner Alliance. Building on the success of CADdoctor, a tool within the Altair Partner Alliance since 2015, users can now harness the advantages of the newly incorporated point cloud handling solution, InfiPoints. This expansion aims to provide users with a seamless Scan to BIM and Scan […]
COMSOL Conference 2024 kicks off in Boston
The first stop of the worldwide COMSOL Conference 2024 tour is slated to be held in Boston, MA, on October 2–4. The COMSOL Conference provides a space for engineers, scientists, and researchers to showcase their modeling and simulation work, exchange ideas, and learn new modeling techniques. Program highlights of the 2024 event: Keynote talks by […]
The Exploration Company uses Ansys for reusable space vehicle
Space logistics startup The Exploration Company is advancing sustainable space exploration by leveraging Ansys simulation solutions to develop its modular and reusable space vehicle, Nyx. With a methane-based propulsion system, Nyx will begin by flying to stations in Earth’s orbit to deliver technologies for advanced research in areas such as microgravity, which has applications in […]
Autodesk releases is 2024 Design & Make Report
Leaders from industries that design and make places, objects, and experiences are far more confident about their companies’ resilience than last year and have a surprisingly high level of trust in AI, according to the 2024 State of Design & Make report released by Autodesk. The group largely sees AI as a current tool rather […]
IMSI Design releases TurboCAD 2024
IMSI Design recently announced the release of its TurboCAD 2024 line, including Platinum, Professional, Deluxe, and Designer versions for Windows desktop PCs. The release includes over twenty new and improved features focused on visualization, 3D modeling, and architectural enhancements. New and improved features include: Usability and interface: LTE Configurations Workspace: LTE configurations are now a […]
CloudNC CAM Assist software creates toolpaths with AI
CloudNC, a manufacturing technology company backed by Autodesk and Lockheed Martin, recently announced that its CAM Assist solution can now create programming strategies and toolpaths with AI for 3+2 axis CNC machines. Previously, CAM Assist (available as a plug-in for Autodesk’s Fusion software) generated machining strategies with AI for manufacturers using 3-axis CNC machines, helping […]
Fabrio levels up CAD software education for students and professionals
With the CAD software industry advancing significantly in the past five years and the advent of modern manufacturing processes, firms are embedding CAD even deeper into their process, exponentially increasing the need for CAD skills across their workforces. Conversely, the number of workers with job-ready CAD skills is decreasing. Autodesk estimates that 56% of CAD-based […]
New Onshape Vision App helps distributed design teams
PTC recently launched a new engineering app for the Apple Vision Pro. The Onshape Vision App transforms flat computer screen models into virtual life-size products that team members can hold, pull apart, and inspect as if they were physical components. It works in sync with the Onshape cloud native CAD and PDM system on the iPad, […]
Siemens brings secure thermal digital twins to the electronics supply chain
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that it is bringing an innovative approach for sharing accurate thermal models of integrated circuit (IC) packages to the electronics supply chain. The main advantages are protecting intellectual property, enhancing supply chain collaboration, and accuracy of models for steady state and transient thermal analysis to enhance design studies. Introduced […]
The present and future state of 3D simulation in engineering
Simulation in the engineering space empowers designers to create, test, and revise ideas with a speed and complexity not possible with traditional means alone. Just as simulation has enabled faster and more calculated development of products across industries, its own evolution is rapid and crucial to understand. The current state of simulation in the engineering […]
Model-based product development takes center stage
Product development has a problem. To drive greater efficiencies and higher quality for downstream consumers, organizations have asked product development to adopt model-based definition. This is helping to tie the digital thread from engineering to manufacturing and beyond. But what about within engineering? Faced with mounting global competition, increasing product complexity, and a mandate to […]
Carnot uses Creo and Windchill to decarbonize engine technology
Carnot, a London startup, has signed a new deal with PTC that will help it tackle the trillion-dollar challenge of decarbonizing industry, long-haul transport, and off-grid power. The company was formed by Archie Watts-Farmer, Francis Lempp, and Nadiur Rahman in 2019 and will extend its use of the digital transformation specialist’s CAD design software Creo […]
Space Machines develops Optimus for in-space transport and logistics
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Space Machines Company (SMC), an Australian space on-orbit services and logistics startup, has used the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to design and build the Optimus Orbital Servicing Vehicle. One of the largest commercial spacecrafts being designed, manufactured, and assembled in Australia, is in development at the University […]
Onshape Professional is free for six months with Discovery Program
Reading-based PTC is now offering free access to Onshape Professional for up to six months. With this offer, the company wants to give development teams enough time to extensively test the advantages of the cloud-native product development platform, with the only requirement being to qualify as a user. Onshape is the only product development platform developed […]
AI takes center stage at Autodesk University 2023
Autodesk held its Autodesk University (AU) event, the company’s annual design and make conference, on November 13-15, 2023, in Las Vegas. Over the three days, 10,000 of the world’s designers, engineers, builders, and creators united to learn and gain inspiration for the next iterations of the buildings we live and work in, the cars we […]
SprutCAM Tech enhances online libraries
SprutCAM Tech announced the addition of dozens of new industrial robot models, hundreds of pre-designed kinematics and post-processors for CNC machines, and an extensive collection of ready-to-use CAM projects. The software ecosystem surrounding SprutCAM X, a CAD/CAM system for the next-generation makers, and SprutCAM X Robot, an all-in-one offline programming system, has expanded to include […]
CAD Exchanger 3.23.0 released with new features
CAD Exchanger recently released CAD Exchanger 3.23.0 — a software suite for 3D CAD software developers and end-users, allowing them to view, explore, and convert 3D CAD data on desktop, web, and mobile. The new major features include: NX 2306, Autodesk Inventor 2023 and 2024 import Reworked BIM model structure SDK documentation global revision The […]
COMSOL releases version 6.2 of COMSOL Multiphysics
COMSOL announced the release of COMSOL Multiphysics version 6.2, adding data-driven surrogate model functionality for efficient standalone simulation apps and multiphysics-based digital twins. It also features high-performance multiphysics solvers for the analysis of electric motors, up to 40% faster turbulent CFD simulations, and an order of magnitude faster impulse response calculations for room and cabin acoustics. […]
Three software companies win Design World’s 2023 LEAP awards
Each year, the LEAP Awards recognizes exceptional innovation that moves worldwide industries forward. LEAP stands for Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program, and this year’s expert judging panel selected the best of the best across multiple categories, including software. The 2023 LEAP Award winners in the Software category are: Gold ECM PCB Stator Tech PrintStator […]
SolidWorks 2024 makes design engineers more productive
SolidWorks 2024 is officially released to help engineers reimagine design. The What’s New in SolidWorks 2024 website is live and packed with information to get you up to speed on the latest enhancements. The new version enables design engineers to: Collaborate with other users, even if they are using an older SolidWorks version. Employ new […]
Multiphysics simulation guides project decisions at construction sites
A leading global cement supplier provides its customers with a compiled multiphysics simulation application that predicts curing times for concrete casting at construction sites. Heidelberg Materials, one of the world’s largest suppliers of building materials, is putting multiphysics simulation into the hands of contractors with a compiled simulation app called HETT22. The app enables Heidelberg […]