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An Inside Look at 3 Dawn Consulting
By John Myers, ConnectPress Editor
An interview with Kevin Van Liere about the day to day challenges of running a SolidWorks consulting operation. |
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SDC Publishes 6 CAD Books
By SDC Publications
Schroff Development Corporation (SDC Publications) releases books on AutoCAD 2008, UGS, CATIA V5, Solid Edge v19 & SolidWorks. |
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Handbook for Managers Moving from 2D to 3D CAD
A practical guide written for CAD and engineering managers and professionals in the design and manufacturing industry that are interested in adopting 3D, Moving from 2D to 3D CAD For Engineering Design: Challenges and Opportunities by Louis Gary Lamit makes a strong case in favor of change. |
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New SolidWorks Customizing Training Book
Sheet Metal Guy, LLC is excited to announce the release of "Customizing SolidWorks For Greater Productivity", a hands-on guide covering all aspects of tailoring the user interface to streamline your work environment. |
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SolidWorks Supports Math2Go Program to Teach Students STEM
SolidWorks Corporation is working with math and science education resource Ten80 Education to launch a nationwide contest in which high school students optimize, modify through design, and race a series of 10 th scale model remote-control cars. |
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SpaceClaim Offers Integrated Parts Catalog
SpaceClaim Corp. and TraceParts S.A. announced the immediate availability of SpaceClaim TraceParts, a comprehensive library of manufacturers' and industry standard parts seamlessly integrated into SpaceClaim Professional 2007. |
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Winners Announced in Dimension 3D Redesign Contest
The Dimension 3D Printing Group, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc., announced the winners in its third annual "Extreme Redesign: The Ultimate 3D Printing Challenge," a global design and 3D printing contest for high school and college students. |
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In (3D)squared, the First Magazine in 3D
The www.cao.fr portal announces that the sixth issue of (3D)2 — pronounced "3D squared" — its charge-free magazine on 3D in 3D, is available in English. www.cao.fr is a French-language Web site dedicated to CAD/CAE/PLM, virtual reality, and rapid prototyping.
Every month, this downloadable publication focuses on a software or hardware product from the markets covered by the portal. |
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What Are Open Systems?
Almost all PLM software suppliers claim to sell open systems...what are open systems? What business value do they offer? How do you evaluate openness claims? |
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Sheet Metal Guy Offers Book on SolidWorks
Sheet Metal Guy, LLC announced a new book entitled "Customizing SolidWorks For Greater Productivity". This book will help you work faster and more efficiently in SolidWorks. Out of the box, SolidWorks is a wonderful CAD system. |
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'Matereality for ALGOR' Connects Users
ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of design, analysis and simulation software, announced that it has in cooperation with Matereality, L.L.C. of Ithaca, NY, a provider of industrial-strength IT infrastructure for secure material information storage and exchange, developed an interface that seamlessly connects Matereality to ALGOR software. |
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SolidWorks Users Now Benefit
Datakit's complete range of stand-alone converters including SolidWorks ones has had a complete facelift. The end result comes to you with a modern, user-friendly appearance and a far more attractive price list. |
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SawStop Makes Woodworking Safer with Finger-Saving Table Saw
A small Oregon company is changing woodworking professionals' jobs with a table saw designed in SolidWorks software that only cuts wood – not fingers. SawStop has invented a table saw that immediately retracts the blade when it touches a finger, making woodworking safer and eliminating painful and very costly medical procedures. |
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StructureWorks Precast to Integrate with AMV SteelWorks
StructureWorks, LLC, an innovator in 3D modeling software for the precast concrete industry, announced that it has finalized an OEM partnership agreement for software integration with AMV s.r.l. of Ronchi dei Legionari, Italy. |
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CADwire.net Announces the Tech Innovator Award Nominations
CADwire.net, the leading information site for the CAD, AEC, GIS, EDA and PLM industries, and a founding member of the Targeted Advertising Consortium, announced that nominations are being accepted for the third annual 2007 CADwire.net Tech Innovator Award. |
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Personality Profile: Jeff Drust
By John Myers, ConnectPress Staff Writer
A personality profile of Jeff Drust VP Business Development for Catalog Data Solutions. |
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2007 Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering
The National Engineers Week Foundation, Lenovo, and Verizon Business are sponsoring the 2007 24-hour Global Marathon, For, By and About Women in Engineering, March 22 – 23, to highlight the increased opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for women in many countries. |
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SolidWorks Helps Trek Bicycle Invent the 'Lime'
Remember the bike you had as a kid? Remember the color? And how you felt riding it? Of course, and it’s those rapturous feelings that Trek Bicycle Corp., with the help of SolidWorks 3D CAD software, is recreating with the launch of the Trek Lime. |
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New Right Hemisphere 5 Platform
Right Hemisphere announced the Right Hemisphere 5 platform, an integrated suite of visual product communication and collaboration solutions. |
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Protomold Offers One Business Day Turnaround
The Protomold Company is pleased to announce that customers can now have injection molded plastic parts produced from a 3D CAD model and shipped as quickly as one business day after receipt of an order. |
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Chinese University Decides on SolidCAM
The University of Tianjin (China) has recently evaluated several CAD/CAM systems for the education of students in the Mechanical Engineering Institute. Tianjin University is a major university with long history in China. |
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'Megayacht' Design Sails Home with Grand Prize
A 164-foot yacht, a giant Ferris wheel, a watch with four faces, these are just some of the arresting innovations that captured judges' and spectators' imaginations in the 10th annual SolidWorks Design Contest. |
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General Motors to Sponsor Bright Minds Mentor Program
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) announced that General Motors will sponsor the fourth annual Bright Minds Mentor program. As part of the program 50 high school students will attend the Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Conference & Exposition at the Marriott Renaissance in Detroit on May 2, 2007. |
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CATI Selects SolidProfessor's Learning Management System
Computer Aided Technology, a top Value Added Reseller (VAR) of SolidWorks, has selected SolidProfessor’s self-paced multimedia instruction to complement its current training and support services. This exclusive partnership will allow CATI's customers to reinforce their live learning experience with a custom training and support solution that is fully integrated inside the SolidWorks design environment. |
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Solid Concepts Selects EOSINT P 700
EOS, the world-leading manufacturer of laser-sintering systems, has announced that Solid Concepts (Valencia, Calif.), a leading supplier of a full range of precise rapid prototyping and manufacturing services, has installed an EOSINT P 700 to address customers' demands for large, laser-sintered parts. |
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Cimmetry Announces First Annual User and Partner Conference
Cimmetry Systems, an Agile Software company and global leader in collaborative visualization solutions, announced that it will be hosting the AutoVue Customer Cimm'posium 2007, Cimmetry's first ever annual user and partner conference at the W Hotel in Montreal, Canada, on June 27-28, 2007, on the eve of Montreal's electrifying International Jazz Festival. |
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CD-adapco Holds Free Seminar Series for Aerospace
In early 2007 CD-adapco began holding a series of exclusive seminars that explore the business advantage that can be gained through the application of flow, thermal and stress simulation technology within the Aerospace and Defense industries. |
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SolidWorks Announces CSWA Exam to Test Students' CAD Skills
Building off the momentum of the Certified SolidWorks Professional certification program, SolidWorks announced a new, more effective way for teachers and potential employers to ascertain students’ 3D CAD skills and their grasp of fundamental engineering principles. |
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Top Honors Awarded in SolidWorks Design Competition
A seven-month competition between 270 product designers and 42 subsidiaries of $3.7 billion Chinese electrical equipment company Shanghai Electric Group has concluded with the company awarding top honors to one of its subsidiaries that used SolidWorks® software to design a complicated steam turbine component, the SolidWorks Corporation has announced. |
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3,500+ Attend SolidWorks World 2007
More than 3,500 of the world’s top minds in product design concluded four days of exchanging ideas and evaluating the latest 3D CAD technology when SolidWorks World 2007 finished. |
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SolidWorks Launches Online Software Test Site
SolidWorks has introduced SolidWorks Labs, a free online site designed to enable users to test emerging technologies, use new SolidWorks functionality through their Web browser and provide feedback on product direction. |
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SolidWorks Customers Choose Synergis Adept for PDM
Synergis Software, the independent software development division of Synergis Technologies, Inc., announced that companies large and small that use SolidWorks design software, including Northrop Grumman, InTEST Corporation and LaunchPoint Technologies, have chosen Synergis Adept(R) as their enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) solution over other PDM/EDM systems. |
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Spatial Selects 3D InterOp Model Contest Winners
Spatial Corp., a market-leading provider of 3D components, announced the winners of its first annual 3D InterOp Model Contest, who received a total of $8500 in cash prizes as well as commemorative plaques. |
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T-Systems Receives Software Award from SolidWorks
The SolidWorks Corporation has granted an award to T-Systems for the design of an interface between the CAD program SolidWorks and mySAP(TM) PLM. Over 2,000 licenses of the "SolidWorks Certified Gold Product" are currently in use by around 100 customers worldwide. |
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DriveWorks at SolidWorks World 2007
DriveWorks Ltd will be showing the latest release of its Rules Based Design Automation software for companies that Design & Engineer-to-Order, at SolidWorks World 2007. |
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New CFdesign V9 Offers Fastest Path from MCAD
Blue Ridge Numerics has released a new version of its CFdesign upfront CFD software that enables users to set up and view first-pass CFD simulations in minutes while generating high-fidelity design reviews up to 20 times faster than with previous versions. |
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2nd Annual 3DQuickPress International Users Conference
3DQuickTools Ltd., the leader in 3D die design automation and Strategic Technology Solutions, Inc. (STS) announced the 2nd Annual 3DQuickPress International User Conference to take place on March 22-23, 2007 in Chicago, IL. |
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Kubotek USA Offers CADKEY Users New Incentives
Kubotek USA, creator of geometry-based CAD software, launched a Fall incentive program offering CADKEY users more reasons to choose the right tools for meeting today’s CAD challenges. |
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Sham Tickoo Writes SolidWorks 2007 Textbook
CADCIM Technologies, a pioneer in the field of CAD/CAM textbooks, announces the release of SolidWorks 2007 for Designers textbook, authored by Prof. Sham Tickoo Purdue University Calumet, USA and CADCIM Technologies. |
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Elan's Tiny Test Lab Puts Change in Your Pocket
A high-performance Test & Measurement Lab in your pocket? Innovators Elan Digital have produced just that -- a set of pen-style instruments that plug into the PC's USB port including software for Windows98, 2K and XP. |
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SolidWorks 2007 Update Training Available For Free
iKnowledge Systems, Inc. (iKS, formerly Cadpo) has announced that SolidWorks and iKS have partnered to make SolidWorks 2007 Update training available in i.get.it®, free of charge to any current SolidWorks subscription customer. |
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SolidWorks Design Contest 2006 Starts
The worlds most skilled and creative design engineers have a new chance to win deserved recognition for designing better products now that the 10th annual SolidWorks Design Contest is officially under way. |
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Power Jacks Elevates Online Catalog Content
U.K. linear motion device provider Power Jacks is using SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET(R) service to create an interactive online catalog that lets customers quickly and easily configure the exact screw jack, gear box or other product for their designs. |
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Catalog Data Solutions Extends Partnership with PTC
Catalog Data Solutions (CDS), a leading provider of online product selection tools and a Gold tier member of the PTC Partner Advantage Program, announced completion of a new contract to host and maintain the Pro/ENGINEER Catalog Directory. |
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User Groups Introduce Users to New Version of VERICUT
In coordination with the release of VERICUT 6.0, CGTech has hosted 36 VERICUT User’s Exchange (VUE) events worldwide in 2006. Thus far, more than 1,100 people have attended a VUE in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, China, Taiwan, India and soon: Japan. |
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DSM Somos Ensures Availability of Supply for Growing Demand
In response to record demand for Somos stereolithography (SL) materials, DSM Somos has announced that recent investments in production capability in the U.S. and Europe continue to ensure the ready availability of product supply for customers worldwide. |
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New CAD Search Engine Born - 3DCADSearch Beta Launched
CAD Search Engine, 3DCADSearch
www.3DCADSearch.com, the Web's first CAD & Graphics targeted Search Engine developed by eDocHelp Publications, announces that it has launched the first beta version of the new site for general public use! |
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CIMdata Publishes a New Report
A new report from consulting and research firm CIMdata, Inc., entitled "Overcoming the Challenge of Electro-Mechanical Product Development in Aerospace & Defense," discusses how electro-mechanical product development enables key industry initiatives to transform the defense strategy to fully leverage the information age. |
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NVIDIA Offer Customers Enhanced Performance and Features
NVIDIA Corporation announces NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics solutions offering customers next-generation architecture, NVIDIA High-Precision Dynamic Range (HPDR) technology and refined vertex and pixel programmability for advanced graphics. |
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CD-adapco Joins the SW Community as a Gold Sponsor
CD-adapco has chosen to become a Gold Sponsor to let Community members know how it can help them empower their design process. CD-adapco is committed to offering solutions that speed product development, cut costs and improve product design. |
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