Terrafugia Uses Dassault Systemes to Create Street-Legal Airplane

Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that its CATIA brand has been chosen by Terrafugia, creators of the revolutionary Transition® Roadable Aircraft, for 3D composite and finite-element modeling.  Terrafugia will use CATIA Analysis and CATIA Composites Design (CPD) solutions to design and develop its beta prototype, with delivery expected in 2011.

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National Instruments and SolidWorks Collaborate on a Virtual Prototyping Solution

National Instruments, a leader in control design and embedded systems, and Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp., a leader in mechanical design software, announced their collaboration on a pioneer mechatronics tool that helps mechanical and control engineers work together to lower the cost and risk of motion system design. Seamlessly connecting NI LabVIEW graphical system design software and SolidWorks 3D CAD software, the new virtual prototyping solution helps engineers and scientists design, optimize, validate and visualize the real-world performance of machines and motion systems before incurring the costs of physical prototypes. Because LabVIEW is used for controlling the virtual prototype, engineers and scientists can deploy their graphical software to physical NI hardware with little to no change to the code.

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DS SolidWorks Surpasses One Million Licenses

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. (DS SolidWorks) announced that a cutting-edge athletic equipment company has bought the one millionth license of its 3D CAD software. In the 14 years between this landmark and DS SolidWorks’ first sale to a robotic arm designer, thousands of innovative products have been developed with SolidWorks® software.

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Cambridge University Students Racing to Design Solar Car in SolidWorks and SIMULIA Abaqus Software

Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that a team of Cambridge University engineering students is using SolidWorks ® 3D CAD and Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA brand to develop a solar-powered car they will race across Australia in the fall of 2009. More spaceship than road vehicle, the car’s flat shape will feature a large solar panel that converts the sun’s energy into speeds of 60 miles per hour or faster as the team races against other teams from around the world.

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SolidWorks Wins Engineers’ Choice Award

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. (DS SolidWorks) announced that its 3D CAD software, SolidWorks® 2009, has won a 2009 Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Award in the design simulation category.
In addition to SolidWorks 2009, eighty-five new products were nominated in 25 different categories. One winner from each category was chosen based on votes from Control Engineering readers.

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SolidWorks 2009 Released

Dassault Systems SolidWorks Corp., a world leader in 3D solutions, today in a worldwide press event unveiled SolidWorks 2009 Premium, the newest version of the most widely adopted 3D CAD software with a documented speed increase of up to 65 percent over SolidWorks 2008. No 3D CAD software is faster or easier to use in helping users transform their innovative ideas into intelligent 3D models that are ready for manufacturing.

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SolidWorks 2009 New Features Review

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. launched the new promo site about improvements and additional features in SolidWorks 2009. The system is up to 65% faster, which gives you more time to design better products – every day. With over 250 enhancements, great speed and groundbreaking performance, SolidWorks 2009 will change your sense of time.

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Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. Licenses Luxology’s Nexus Rendering Technology

Luxology LLC, developers of modern, artist-focused 3D software, today announced that DS SolidWorks has entered into a technology licensing agreement to utilize Luxology’s Nexus rendering technology. As one of the leading 3D mechanical CAD software vendors worldwide, DS SolidWorks selected Nexus for its modern architecture and superior rendering capabilities.

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Create the Future Design Contest Sponsored by SolidWorks and Tech Briefs Media Group Opens for Entries

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Moldflow Announces The Release of Moldflow Design Link 6.0

Using MDL, native CAD data from CATIA V5®, Pro/ENGINEER®, SolidWorks® and Parasolid™-based CAD systems can be seamlessly imported into Moldflow Plastics Advisers® (MPA®), and Moldflow Plastics Insight® (MPI®) software. 

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