Software translates CAM tool paths for routing robots (24/07/2008)
To implement robotic routing applications using tool paths generated in CAM software, KMT Robotic Solutions is now offering the CamPro CAD/CAM system for use with the company’s range of cost-effective, turnkey RoboTrim 6-axis robotic router trimming...

New version of steady-state simulation improves chemical processes (16/07/2008)
Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology, software and consulting firm, has released the newest version of SimSci-Esscor's PRO/II software, a steady-state process simulator used to design, analyse and improve chemical processes. In...

Multi-CAD viewing, translation and productivity software upgraded (15/07/2008)
CCE, a provider of CAD/CAM data translation and viewer products, has announced that EnSuite Version 2 - its multi-CAD viewing, translation and productivity software - has been upgraded with two new useful features. Users that do not have access to a...

AEC Software interoperability advances (09/07/2008)
Autodesk and Bentley Systems have announced an agreement to expand interoperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) software. Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries, including Autodesk...

New standards set by modelling and simulation tool (07/07/2008)
Adept Scientific has announced that Maplesoft, a provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science and mathematics, has released the pilot version of a revolutionary tool that is expected to set new standards in modelling and...

Free version of plastic injection simulaiton software (02/07/2008)
Simpoe SAS, a French software developer specialising in plastic injection moulding simulations, has announced the launch of e-Simpoe; a free internet downloadable version of Simpoe's flagship plastic injection simulation software product,...

Siemens offers new approach to CAD (01/07/2008)
Siemens PLM Software has released what it claims to be the PLM industry's first-ever history-free, feature-based modelling technology that provides users with up to 100 times faster design experience. Launched via a global webcast in conjunction...

Autodesk completes acquisition of Moldflow (01/07/2008)
Autodesk has completed its acquisition of Moldflow Corporation. Moldflow provides software that enables designers to predict and optimise how plastic components will perform during each phase of the design and manufacture process. Autodesk announced...

POS-Industry to unveil AutomationXpert (30/06/2008)
POS-Industry of France, a software designer, will be exhibiting its AutomationXpert software package at the Worlddidac trade fair in Basel, which will be held from 29 to 31 October 2008. AutomationXpert is the only existing English-language,...

Perceived quality simulation and visualisation software (25/06/2008)
Icona Solutions has released Version 3 of its perceived quality visualisation package, aesthetica. This software, used for auditing and improving perceived quality in manufactured goods during the digital product development process, introduces a...

Software used to create digital models of Euro 2008 stars (18/06/2008)
Football fans, commuters and visitors using Zurich’s central rail station during this month’s final stages of the four-yearly European Football Championship - Euro 2008 - will find they are confronted by giant, 17 metre high life-like models of 11...

Flow simulation helps solve power LED overheating problem (17/06/2008)
Voxdale, a Belgium based engineering consulting firm, used Flomerics' EFD.Pro computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to solve a power light emitting diode (LED) thermal management problem in just one day. The initial prototype of the LED system...

Software tool for electromagnetic design (16/06/2008)
Vector Fields has released a new version of its Concerto software tool for high-frequency electromagnetic design. Although Concerto's developers already believe the package to offer the fastest-executing solver for this electromagnetic application...

A first-pass, fully integrated simulation tool for Pro/ENGINEER (09/06/2008)
ALGOR has released ALGOR DesignCheck – a first-pass, fully integrated simulation tool – for users of PTC's Pro/ENGINEER. Expanding upon the existing technology partnership between ALGOR and PTC, ALGOR DesignCheck is free, time-limited finite element...

3D CAD software for education sector (09/06/2008)
SolidWorks Corporation has released the next generation of its 3D CAD software for students and educators, SolidWorks Education Edition 2008-2009, which delivers all the powerful capabilities of SolidWorks 2008 Office Premium plus new analysis...