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    <title>The New Cubify Draw</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5760/The-New-Cubify-Draw.aspx</link> 
    <description>In a move to further democratize 3D printing, 3D Systems unleashed Cubify(R) Draw. This free iOS app for iPhone(R), iPad(R), and iPad Mini(TM), allows users to doodle an object on the touch screen and easily send it to Cubify.com for 3D printing or generate an STL file. If you can doodle, you can create 3D, unless you run Android.

Users begin with a 2D sketch. The built-in tools then allow for thickening, fills, extrusions, and auto-connects to make a watertight solid that can be 3D printed. ...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Scott Wertel</dc:creator> 
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:36:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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    <title>BricsCAD v13.2 - More than a Dot Release</title> 
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    <description>(image courtesty Bricsys)

Can 2D get any better? I would have thought that problem was solved by now, but apparently not. &amp;nbsp;Bricsys recently released a new version of its flagship software BricsCAD, now in 64-bits.

Maybe drawing lines and arcs hasn&amp;rsquo;t changed much because the enhancements to BricsCAD v13.2 is more about hardware and collaboration than geometry including over 20 new features and 50 fixes. &amp;nbsp;Highlights of the release include:

    
    Native 64-bit support f...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Scott Wertel</dc:creator> 
    <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:39:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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    <title>AutoCAD WS Renamed to AutoCAD 360</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5747/AutoCAD-WS-Renamed-to-AutoCAD-360.aspx</link> 
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Back on May 7, 2013, Autodesk teased the AutoCAD WS community with news regarding a new name and &amp;ldquo;some exciting time coming.&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp;Today marks the official day of the announcement. &amp;nbsp;AutoCAD WS has been renamed to AutoCAD 360 in order to align with Autodesk&amp;rsquo;s existing &amp;ldquo;360&amp;rdquo; family of products. 

AutoCAD 360 will remain a free app for the time being (12 million people agree it&amp;rsquo;s a good price), but the name change also opens the door to a paid-f...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Scott Wertel</dc:creator> 
    <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:41:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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    <title>3D Systems Announces Geomagic Solutions</title> 
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    <description>(image courtesy of 3DSystems)

Shortly after the fury of the name change from Alibre Design to Geomagic Design, 3D Systems again throws a kink in the works of users trying to understand what&amp;rsquo;s in their future with all of the mergers and acquisitions 3D Systems has executed recently.

The latest barrage consists of the announcement of Geomagic Solutions. &amp;nbsp;The press release is rather vague, and Geomagic&amp;rsquo;s website doesn&amp;rsquo;t add much meat to the story either.

    
    Is...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Scott Wertel</dc:creator> 
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:46:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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    <title>PTC’s Mathcad Now Free and On-Demand</title> 
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    <description>(image courtesy of PTC)
OK, so maybe I&amp;rsquo;m playing with words a little bit. &amp;nbsp;Let me clarify.
PTC hosted a free virtual conference for Europe (although the Americas, Middle East, and Asia were allowed to participate as well) on May 13, 2013. &amp;nbsp;If you don&amp;rsquo;t follow the Mathcad blog or are not a member of the PTC Community, you probably missed the event. &amp;nbsp;Or did you?
Although attending any conference, webinar, or other virtual event is better live, being able to pause and ...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Scott Wertel</dc:creator> 
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:14:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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    <title>Autodesk and NetSuite Announce Strategic Partnership</title> 
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    <description>(image courtesy of John Evans)
On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Autodesk and NetSuite announced a partnership during the Netsuite World 2013 Conference (#nsw13) that will integrate Autodesk PLM 360 with NetSuite ERP.
While the announcement has caused a bit of a stir in social media channels, it hasn&amp;rsquo;t really lit up my scoreboard at all. &amp;nbsp;ERP and PLM integration is not anything new. &amp;nbsp;Perhaps the hype comes from the cloud. &amp;nbsp;As a matter of fact, I counted 25 references to the cloud ...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Scott Wertel</dc:creator> 
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    <title>Dassault Syst&#232;mes Acquires FE-DESIGN: What Does It Mean for the 3DEXPERIENCE Vision?</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5686/Dassault-Systemes-Acquires-FE-DESIGN-What-Does-It-Mean-for-the-3DEXPERIENCE-Vision.aspx</link> 
    <description>Another day, another acquisition. I have to admit though, I find this one intriguing. Not because the SIMULIA brand feels relatively complete already from a portfolio perspective. More from the perspective of what it means for their whole 3DEXPERIENCE vision. There&#39;s actually a lot there. Read on and I&#39;ll give you my perspective.
Background
On April 25th,&amp;nbsp;Dassault Syst&amp;egrave;mes announced their intent to acquire FE-DESIGN Group, a software provider focused on FEA-based topology optimizat...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Chad Jackson</dc:creator> 
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:23:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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    <title>Chuck Grindstaff on how Siemens gets the core of PLM right</title> 
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    <description>In this episode of Battle of the Visions, Verdi Ogewell talks to Siemens PLM President Chuck Grindstaff about the future for Siemen&amp;rsquo;s Teamcenter, NX and Solid Edge.&amp;nbsp; He also includes commentary from analysts Mark Halpern of Gartner and Joe Barkai from IDC.&amp;nbsp; 

This video on Siemens is the fourth in a series of interviews on the future of PLM.&amp;nbsp; Others include:
&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Jim Hepplemann, CEO of PTC about their vision to bring Ser...</description> 
    <dc:creator>John Hayes</dc:creator> 
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    <title>PDM: Boon or Plague?</title> 
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    <description>Wow. So PDM is a hot topic now, eh?
Over the past few weeks, we&#39;ve had our Tech4PD episode on PDM for small organizations&amp;nbsp;and a slew of blog posts on the topic. While there&#39;s a lot of content out there to browse through on PDM, one post got my attention this week from&amp;hellip; *drumroll*&amp;hellip; Oleg Shilovitsky from Autodesk.
&quot;Nobody Likes PDM&quot;
Yesterday, Oleg penned a post titled PDM: Rightsize, Wrongsize or Overkill? The following point, in particular, made me think.&amp;nbsp;

The discu...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Chad Jackson</dc:creator> 
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:05:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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    <title>When Imported Geometry Problems Occur, Things Get Personal</title> 
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    <description>Do you enjoy research?
No, I&#39;m not talking about the dry make-you-fall-asleep stuff that are published by professors from universities. I&#39;m talking about research that&#39;s relevant to your work life. Statistics and facts that describe what your peers are doing on a day-to-day basis.
Well, I admit it. I do.
I find that nothing cuts through the opinions, positions and debates like some hard facts. That one of the reasons that I&#39;m currently running the 3D Collaboration and Interoperability study. ...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Chad Jackson</dc:creator> 
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    <title>GrabCAD launches “Workbench” Beta</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5594/GrabCAD-launches-Workbench-Beta.aspx</link> 
    <description>We all know the problem.&amp;nbsp; Engineers spend a lot of time sharing files with non-CAD users and with customers and suppliers who operate outside their PDM system.
Many vendors offer collaboration solutions.&amp;nbsp; Design teams can choose from the tools in their CAD packages; or they can access stand-alone viewers like like Actify or eDrawings; or use popular file sharing services like Dropbox.&amp;nbsp; For a lot of engineers, email and ftp still gets the job done.
So why has GrabCAD put their 25...</description> 
    <dc:creator>John Hayes</dc:creator> 
    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:59:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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    <title>Autodesk announces Pricing for Fusion 360 in the Cloud</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5599/Autodesk-announces-Pricing-for-Fusion-360-in-the-Cloud.aspx</link> 
    <description>We&amp;rsquo;ve been wondering how Autodesk&amp;rsquo;s cloud-based modeling solution, Fusion 360, was going to be priced.&amp;nbsp; If it comes with unlimited access, engineers could start dreaming of processing huge assemblies at rocket speed using the near-limitless capacity of the cloud.&amp;nbsp; 
But if that&amp;rsquo;s a benefit of cloud-based design, would a per-user or a usage-based model make more sense?
Carl Bass answered that question at the Develop 3D Live event in Coventry England this morning.&amp;nbsp...</description> 
    <dc:creator>John Hayes</dc:creator> 
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    <title>The future of Engineering Software</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5595/The-future-of-Engineering-Software.aspx</link> 
    <description>I heard 4 key trends during scheduled and unscheduled conversations at COFES in Arizona last weekend:
1. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;1. Simulation is becoming easier to use and more common earlier in the design process.&amp;nbsp; This is good in that it enables more iterative design cycles, but risky in that it places simulation tools in the hands of people who may not have all the training they need.&amp;nbsp; That yin-yang will drive more structure around the process of simulation to ensure verification and validat...</description> 
    <dc:creator>John Hayes</dc:creator> 
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    <description>I lost my Android tablet on a plane last week.&amp;nbsp; Thankfully, I still had my notebook computer.&amp;nbsp; Which made me wonder, why do I even need an Android tablet?&amp;nbsp; Why can&amp;rsquo;t I just use a supercharged tablet with a mouse and detachable keyboard as my primary computing platform?&amp;nbsp; Now that Microsoft has released the Surface Pro running Windows 8, engineers can start asking themselves that same question.

Surface Pro running 3D Viewer for JT
Tablets are great devices for consumi...</description> 
    <dc:creator>John Hayes</dc:creator> 
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    <title>PLM Requires Business Transformation? Bollocks</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5550/PLM-Requires-Business-Transformation-Bollocks.aspx</link> 
    <description>I don&#39;t mean to get into debates. Really, I don&#39;t. Well. Maybe a little. But I only do it when I believe there is a misconception in the marketplace. One that can affect a number of engineering organizations or manufacturers at large. And, low and behold, I stumbled across one just yesterday.
PLM Adoption Is A Journey?
Do you read Jos Voskuil&#39;s blog? If you don&#39;t, and you&#39;re involved in PLM at your company, you should follow his posts. He has great ideas and insights into how this technology c...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Chad Jackson</dc:creator> 
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    <title>PTC&#39;s answer to the &quot;PDM for SMB&quot; question</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5532/PTCs-answer-to-the-PDM-for-SMB-question.aspx</link> 
    <description>PTC recently released their PTC Windchill PDM Essentials package, a PDM solution targeted to companies with less than 500 employees. 

A lot of SMB customers try to minimize their spending when it comes to technology. As a result, it&amp;rsquo;s not uncommon for them to manage files with just an FTP server and email. So it&amp;rsquo;s not surprising that they feel the pain of looking for files, working on outdated drawings and coordinating all the documents associated with a project.
But full-blown P...</description> 
    <dc:creator>John Hayes</dc:creator> 
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    <title>Clarifying the Confusing Terminology of Drawingless Initiatives</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5517/Clarifying-the-Confusing-Terminology-of-Drawingless-Initiatives.aspx</link> 
    <description>In this industry, terminology is a bear. There are special acronyms and terms with subtle differences that can actually have big implications. And unfortunately, there isn&#39;t a good place to get definitions for them all.
A few weeks ago, I launched survey that looks at design data interoperability, model-based enterprise initiatives and the use of 3D outside engineering. Statistics and findings from that survey will be used to publish The State of 3D Collaboration and Interoperability Market Rep...</description> 
    <dc:creator>Chad Jackson</dc:creator> 
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    <title>Integrated Design Suites or stand-alone CAD tools?</title> 
    <link>http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/5516/Integrated-Design-Suites-or-stand-alone-CAD-tools.aspx</link> 
    <description>In a recent episode of Tech4PD, duelling analysts Chad Jackson and Jim Brown debated whether design teams get better value by sticking to a single vendor&amp;rsquo;s integrated product offering or by using task-specific tools.

The benefits of a single vendor suite stems from the data integrity that a common data set offers.  That in turn can be leveraged into less rework when creating new designs or modifying old ones.  According to Jim, companies are simply spending too much time and energy tran...</description> 
    <dc:creator>John Hayes</dc:creator> 
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    <title>Performance boost from next generation PLM</title> 
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    <description>I just read a white paper from Aras stating that their software was 14% to 81% faster in loading very large CAD assemblies than a legacy system.  The paper also points out that the performance improvement was achieved using a much lighter-weight infrastructure &amp;ndash; 1 server running Windows Server 2008 vs 3 servers running UNIX.
The report was written by a team from T Systems, the corporate services arm of Deutsche Telekom.  They benchmarked their results against a legacy PLM system at an act...</description> 
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    <description>FloTHERM XT is intended to bring electronics and mechanical design processes closer together through earlier thermal simulation.
It seems everything that was formerly the domain of mechanical design engineers, from dishwashers and toasters to car seats and sprinklers, now has an electronics element.  (And an internet connection.)
Capitalizing on this trend, Mentor has introduced an integrated MDA-EDA electronics cooling simulation tool that is intended to bring thermal analysis earlier into th...</description> 
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    <description>Today GrabCAD reached a big milestone &amp;ndash; 500,000 members for the CAD library community.  But haven&amp;rsquo;t you always wondered how the investors are going to earn a return on this free resource?
I spoke with Rob Stevens, GrabCAD&amp;rsquo;s new VP of Sales &amp;amp; Marketing.  Rob is a Mechanical Engineer, former Mckinsey consultant, and a start-up pro with 3 successful launches under his belt.  So he knows a thing or three about business models.  And it turns out, GrabCAD does have one.
From it...</description> 
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    <description>As CPU power increases, as rendering applications get more features and as designers develop even more customized products, the value proposition for realistic renderings becomes increasingly irresistible.  Eventually, high-quality renderings will be part of all product design processes.
 
With KeyShot 4, Luxion brings us one step closer to that day. 
In case you are unfamiliar with KeyShot, it&amp;rsquo;s a CPU-based rendering and animation engine that creates realistic images from standard CAD ...</description> 
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    <description>Volvo Construction Equipment uses multiple simulation packages in their product development process.  They have a 50 person virtual product development team that design loaders, pavers, graders and even simulation devices for training drivers.  In this episode, Verdi Ogewell from Verkstads Forum interviews Dr. Reno Filla, product development specialist at Volvo CE.

Virtual simulation has been growing in importance for Volvo CE because it lets them iterate more designs faster.  And of course, ...</description> 
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    <description>What should we make of the Ansys earnings announcement?&amp;nbsp; In case you missed it, Ansys reported record revenue and profitability for Q4 2012.&amp;nbsp; Revenue was up to $221M for the quarter and operating earnings were 37%.
Participants in the simulation market are doing well because the market is being driven larger by a few important trends:
1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Simulation is getting easier.&amp;nbsp; Some level of simulation is included or easily added on to every major CAD p...</description> 
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    <description>Inspiration for this post:

    CCE Announces Immediate Availability of EnSuite 2013 




CCE has released the newest version of EnSuite 2013 featuring enhancement to their support of both SolidWorks and CATIA&amp;hellip;

    Full support of SolidWorks 2013. 
    CATIA V5 assemblies that include Catshape components can now be processed. 

This suite of Viewers and Translators touts an array of features that can fill out your CAD management needs&amp;hellip;

    
        
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