Dassault opens its arms to all designers and engineers with new pricing packages. The lesson for 2021 is that you should have paid attention in 2020. Dassault has spent the past year delivering on the framework it laid out last year at the first 3DExperience World in Nashville. If you didn’t pay so much attention, we attempted to explain it here. Dassault wants to move its … [Read more...] about Dassault advances Solidworks capabilities with cloud-based 3DExperience Works
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Ultra Librarian announces STMicroelectronics reference designs to accelerate design process
Ultra Librarian, a huge cloud-based, free PCB CAD library, announced that it has added 25 authorized STMicroelectronics interactive reference designs in Cadence system design formats that can be downloaded via Ultra Librarian website. The library helps you quickly find the verified parts from the leading component manufacturers. A user gets unlimited access to free schematic … [Read more...] about Ultra Librarian announces STMicroelectronics reference designs to accelerate design process
Dassault Systèmes announces 3DExperience Solidworks offers for makers and students
All virtual 3DExperience World 2021 was attended by more than 35,000 attendees this week. Although it was different than in-person experience, the event offered equally informative keynote sessions, free certification exams, stories from Solidworks customers using 3DExperience Works portfolio of tools, and much more. Going along with the event’s theme ‘The Freedom to Create,’ … [Read more...] about Dassault Systèmes announces 3DExperience Solidworks offers for makers and students
Pushing processors to the limit: Siemens NX incorporates new design paradigms, ease of use, and plenty of AI
Ongoing development work from synchronous to convergent expands Siemens’ concept of model-based definition. Siemens has achieved some milestones with their latest release of NX. The company has gone to a continuous release in which changes are rolled out regularly. The company expects a cadence of every 6 months or so. The company is taking more advantage of AI/ML with every … [Read more...] about Pushing processors to the limit: Siemens NX incorporates new design paradigms, ease of use, and plenty of AI
Graebert follows through on BIM
Closing the information loop from office to site. At one time, it may have been possible to consider Graebert as the maker of products to compete with AutoCAD but that was a long time ago. Graebert’s CAD tools—from DraftSight for Dassault’s customers, to the Ares products, and CAD products such as CorelCAD licensed to other companies—have found their own places in the … [Read more...] about Graebert follows through on BIM
PTC gets SaaS PLM with the acquisition of Arena
Arena to become the PLM complement to PTC's Onshape as the core of SaaS family of products. PTC announced plans to acquire SaaS PLM company, Arena Solutions of Foster City, for $715 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in PTC’s fiscal Q2 2021. In the announcement, PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann said Arena would become part of PTC’s effort to be “the industrial SaaS leader,” … [Read more...] about PTC gets SaaS PLM with the acquisition of Arena
Bentley Systems issues financial results for 3Q 2020
Sets up for growth. Indisputably, 2020 was a big year for Bentley Systems and the third quarter a major milestone, as the company provided its financial results as a public company. The company is a big data company through and through, even before it knew it was a big data company. Visualizing and understanding trends and technology flows through the company’s DNA. It’s great … [Read more...] about Bentley Systems issues financial results for 3Q 2020
Shapr3D: the little iPad product with plans to be a CAD contender
Shapr3D is a startup founded in 2015 in Budapest, Hungary. The company builds a CAD modeler originally introduced for iPads and Apple Pencil and has been optimized for the new Macs with the M1 processor. It’s causing a stir. Shapr3D has the distinction of being a Mac-native direct modeler for CAD that is very fast on an iPad, but what it getting attention is the rapid pace … [Read more...] about Shapr3D: the little iPad product with plans to be a CAD contender
PTC and Rockwell Automation expand their strategic alliance
The two companies celebrate 250 new joint customers as a result of the deal. PTC and Rockwell Automation signed a strategic alliance in 2018 to jointly sell their products for PLM, SaaS, factory automation, IoT, virtual machinery simulation, and testing software. At that time, the deal was sealed with a $1 billion equity investment in PTC shares and a seat on the board for … [Read more...] about PTC and Rockwell Automation expand their strategic alliance
Inside the new SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark for measuring professional graphics performance
By Bob Cramblitt The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization Group (SPECgpc) has released an all-new version of its SPECviewperf benchmark that features updated viewsets, new models, support for both 2K and 4K display resolutions, and improved set-up and results management. This article outlines the major components of the new benchmark. New features SPECviewperf … [Read more...] about Inside the new SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark for measuring professional graphics performance