Autodesk Ships AutoCAD 2009 Portfolio

Autodesk today announced that it is shipping AutoCAD 2009 software, one of the leading applications for conceptual design, drafting and detailing. The AutoCAD 2009 portfolio includes updates to AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, as well as the discipline-specific applications AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Mechanical, and AutoCAD MEP software applications.

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SolidWorks Announces Student Design Contest Winners

SolidWorks Corporation today announced the winners of its second annual Student Design Contest, saying the winning student designs nearly matched the quality of professional engineers’ entries. Judged in parallel with the SolidWorks World 2008 Design Contest, the student contest spotlights future designers and engineers from middle school through graduate school using SolidWorks software.

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Citizen Watch Shortens Product Design Processes with Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. has implemented ENOVIA SmarTeam’s product lifecycle management software and SolidWorks 3D CAD software as part of a company-wide transition from 2D to 3D product design.

“We aim to reduce costs and development time by 30 percent using SolidWorks for product design and ENOVIA SmarTeam for data collaboration,” said Masayuki Watanabe (Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.). 

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PTC Cites Wins Among Small, Medium Businesses

PTC announced that Pro/ENGINEER continues to gain momentum as the parametric CAD/CAM/CAE solution of choice for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

SMBs continue to adopt Pro/ENGINEER for its ease-of-use and the powerful capabilities that are required to compete in an ever-changing business environment. As a result, the PTC reseller channel continues to experience upward momentum. PTC reported 5 million in total channel revenue in fiscal 2007, growing 14% from the previous year and representing 21% of total PTC revenue.

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PTC Unveils Pro/E Wildfire 4.0. Release planned 'later this month'

PTC,The Product Development Company^®, today (Jan 16, 2008) announced the availability of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0, a major release of its integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software and a key component of the PTC^® Product Development System.

With this release, PTC expands the industry’s most comprehensive parametric solution for product development teams, delivering new industry leading capabilities to help customers optimize key global and electromechanical design processes. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 enables customers to create innovative, winning products with faster time-to-market, improved quality and reduced costs.

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Toyota Motorsport Races Forward with Dassault Systиmes Solutions

Dassault Systиmes (DS) announced the extension of its Toyota Motorsport GmbH partnership to include realistic simulation for virtual car testing and a 3D real-time development hub with DS's end-to-end PLM solutions. Toyota Motorsport's Formula 1 team practices Toyota's Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement by always pushing the limits of technical innovation. This is where Dassault Systиmes plays a major role.

To further cut vehicle development time, Toyota Motorsport started using DS's realistic simulation products from SIMULIA for virtual testing. Toyota Motorsport's chassis department uses Abaqus FEA to do important structural calculations in the early stages of car development.

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MCAD Technology Drives Medical Device Development

Anatomically accurate models created by Zygote Media using SolidWorks lead to product breakthroughs for "nature's miracle pump."

Just as a zygote, a fertilized cell, forms the basic building block of a developing fetus, MCAD models of different parts of the human anatomy from Zygote Media, Inc. of Lindon, UT — including bones, organs, arteries, nerves, skin, and muscle tissue — increasingly serve as templates for a wide range of biomedical research and new product development. While modeling different parts of the human skeleton has formed the basis of orthopedic prosthetics development for a number of years, the use of hyper-accurate 3D CAD models of soft tissues like the heart represents a new, cutting-edge application for anatomical modeling technology.

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SIMULIA Offers Abaqus for CATIA V5 V 2.5

SIMULIA recently released Version 2.5 of Abaqus for CATIA V5. This latest version is said to improve realistic product behavior simulation during the design phase by offering more productivity and an even easier-to-use interface. SIMULIA says it hopes it instills confidence during product development while minimizing software interfaces.

Abaqus for CATIA V5 (AFC) brings Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) technology into the CATIA V5 user environment. CATIA V5 provides design capabilities and Abaqus for CATIA V5 makes the design model and the simulation model one and the same, bringing power and flexibility to the engineer's desktop. The result is a complete package for deploying proven FEA-based simulation throughout the design process. The new release, Version 2.5, available on the latest 64-bit computing architecture as well as 32-bit systems, provides tighter integration with CATIA V5.

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PTC To Acquire Leading Product Development Software Provider CoCreate For 250 Million Dollars

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company®, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CoCreate Software GmbH, a provider of PLM and CAD modeling solutions for approximately 250 million dollars. CoCreate, based in Sindelfingen, Germany, is privately held, has 280 employees and more than 5,000 customers globally including Agilent, Canon, Fisher Controls, Fujitsu, HP, Liebherr, Matsushita Electric, NEC, Olympus, Phoenix Contact and Seiko Epson.

With the acquisition of CoCreate, PTC will broaden its portfolio and offer support for the most comprehensive range of modeling techniques in the MCAD industry. PTC plans to integrate the CoCreate modeling solutions with the PTC Product Development System (PDS) in order to offer CoCreate customers additional product development capabilities including engineering calculations, dynamic publishing, visualization, high-speed machining, and enterprise content and process management, and ultimately, the option of using their modeling solutions also as part of the PTC PDS.

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SolidWorks Education Edition 2007-2008 Released

SolidWorks Corporation today gave students and teachers the key resources they need to enhance engineering education with the release of SolidWorks Education Edition 2007-2008. The latest version of SolidWorks 3D CAD software for students includes links to a new 3D CAD curriculum portal (http://www.solidworks.com/curriculum) plus all the major features in SolidWorks 2007 Office Premium.

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