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  Mar 05, 2024

  Autodesk Informed Design Unlocks Industrialized Construction to Connect Design and Make Workflows

  Autodesk, Inc. unveiled Autodesk Informed Design, a cloud-based solution that connects design and manufacturing workflows to streamline the building design and construction process. Informed Design allows architects to work with customizable, pre-defined building products that yield valid results and manufacturers to share their products with design stakeholders. Informed Design unlocks industrialized construction – the application of manufacturing principles to the built environment – and will help transform the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry.

  • Digital Construction
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  Sep 02, 2022

  Autodesk – The First to Pioneer Cloud-CAD With Over 55 Million Users Today

  Over the past 3 months we’ve achieved some huge milestones at Autodesk. We’re passionate about the next generation of innovators and remain committed to our community of educators and students. Let’s look back at where we started, where we’re at, and where we’re headed.

  • Digital Construction
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  Apr 06, 2022

  The Wild Joins Autodesk

  We are thrilled to announce that The Wild is joining Autodesk to continue our mission of helping AEC professionals present, collaborate, and review together, from anywhere in the world.
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  Mar 21, 2022

  Autodesk Partners with ModuleWorks

  Autodesk and CAD/CAM software specialist, ModuleWorks, announce a long-term partnership. The partnership enables Autodesk to continuously enhance and extend its Fusion 360 software platform with the powerful ModuleWorks toolpath calculation technology.
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  Jan 12, 2022

  Aras Announces Minerva Merger for Best-in-Class PLM Functionality in Medical Devices and High-Tech Electronics

  Aras, which provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build, and operate complex products, today announced the merger of Minerva Group, the leading Aras Innovator PLM implementation partner. Minerva brings best-in-class PLM functionality—built on the Aras platform—for medical devices and high-tech electronics companies. The company also brings extensive vertical industry expertise in automotive, aerospace, defense, and industrial equipment manufacturing, and will provide Aras with direct, local representation in the Nordic region and the Netherlands. The merger is effective immediately.

  • PLM
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  Dec 01, 2021

  Kendrion Selects Aras Enterprise SaaS for Single Digital Backbone

  Aras, which provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build, and operate complex products, today announced that Kendrion, a leading provider of electromagnetic systems and components that increase performance, comfort, and safety in automotive and industrial applications, has selected Aras to connect siloed data and introduce common processes and methodologies across all divisions.

  • PLM
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  Oct 04, 2021

  Zemax 21.3 Supports Modeling Complex Geometries Required for Miniaturization of Next-Gen Optical Systems

  Zemax announces the latest releases of their flagship software, OpticStudio, the OpticStudio STAR Module, and OpticsBuilder. This release continues our commitment to deliver regular updates to our customers. Zemax has delivered three major product releases in 2021, the first in January (21.1) followed by the May release (21.2) and now the September (21.3) release.

  • Optical Design
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  Jun 03, 2021

  Zemax Releases OpticStudio, OpticsBuilder v21.2

  Zemax is pleased to announce the latest release of our software, OpticStudio and OpticsBuilder. Version 21.2 of these products represents our second of three 2021 releases.

  • Optical Design
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  Mar 30, 2021

  Aras Releases Systems Architecture

  Aras, the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications, announced the release of Systems Architecture, a new application that coordinates systems model definition with tool independent data from all engineering disciplines including mechanical, software, electronics, simulation, and more.

  • Release
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  Mar 11, 2021

  Leveraging Parasolid for reliable design operations in generative engineering

  Siemens solution helps ELISE customers to reduce product development times by 80 percent or more. Classic modeling procedures like blending, offsetting and tapering work time and again in Parasolid without fail.

  • PLM
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  Jul 23, 2020

  Aras Announces Digital Twin Core

  Aras, the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications, announced the release of a new application, Digital Twin Core, adding to the set of Aras low-code capabilities for creating and managing digital twins. The Aras Digital Twin Core application provides powerful new functionality for defining the digital twin configuration – the virtual representation of a specific physical asset or unique product instance. This provides the necessary context to interpret and analyze Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data for complicated scenarios such as predictive maintenance, performance optimization, over-the-air software updates and others. …

  • Digital Transformation
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  Apr 27, 2020

  Zemax and Ansys Collaborate to Enable Safer, Reliable Autonomous Vehicle Navigation

  Optical engineers can now certify their designs faster and with greater accuracy — optimizing the optical sensor’s effectiveness in dark or hazardous environment conditions and minimizing time to market.
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  Feb 24, 2020

  Aras & ANSYS team up but no acquisition

  Aras Licenses Platform to ANSYS in Strategic OEM Deal. Partnership will enable better processes and data management of simulations for digital thread traceability across the lifecycle.
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  Jul 22, 2019

  SOLIDWORKS Sell Expands Augmented Reality Capabilities for Android Users

  Augmented reality (AR) combines the technology of a camera and software to superimpose 3D objects into a real-life environment in real time. SOLIDWORKS Sell has utilized this interactive technology and has expanded its AR capabilities to Android users with the help of Google’s ARCore. Now, even more people get to have fun customizing and viewing products in their own homes. …

  • SOLIDWORKS Sell
  • Augmented Reality
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  Jun 20, 2019

  SOLIDWORKS xDesign at SOLIDWORKS World 2019

  SOLIDWORKS xDesign is arguably the most hotly anticipated addition to the SOLIDWORKS portfolio for many years. It represents a paradigm shift in design and is so much more than 3D CAD. It has been shown at various stages of development at previous SOLIDWORKS Worlds but 2019 is the year it will be available commercially. …

  • xDesign
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  Jun 06, 2018

  Aras Introduces Flexible Effectivity to Solve How Manufacturers Manage Complex Effectivity at Scale

  Aras®, the leader in open product lifecycle management (PLM) software for the enterprise, today announced availability of version 11 SP14 of the Aras PLM Platform, which features Effectivity Services. Aras delivers a flexible, multi-factor approach to effectivity to enable manufacturers to manage complex effectivity at scale. Using Aras’ Effectivity Services, organizations are able to create and apply customized effectivity rules and manage all variants in a single, dynamic product structure. The result is a massively simplified approach for engineering teams to specify and manage large numbers of variants and customized product configurations, collaborate on designs, and incorporate effectivity into the Digital Thread.

  • PLM
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  Apr 30, 2018

  CAD Report: What’s in store for Solidworks

  Dassault Systèmes reassures users that desktop Solidworks won't disappear but it still dreams of Cloudy future. During January’s annual Solidworks World love-in, Dassault Systèmes made what could be perhaps its most important announcement in a decade: Desktop Solidworks is here to stay. This comes following the French company’s attempts to cloud-ify the software since 2007.

  • CAD
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  Feb 16, 2018

  Tech Start-up Katerra Aims to Optimize All Aspects of Development

  Most of the building services provider's $1.3-billion-plus bookings have come in multifamily construction. Trevor Schick can’t stop the urge. “Whenever I walk by a construction site, I look in their Dumpster,” the former Hewlett-Packard executive in Silicon Valley admits. “Fifteen percent of the wood from a job site is thrown away! In a factory, if we’re not down to 2%, you’d get a better guy to run that factory. It’s the inefficiency of the [construction] industry that makes you really open your mind. I come home every night with 10 new things to go after. My head is spinning.”…

  • Construction
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  Jan 24, 2018

  Katerra, a Construction Start-Up, Raises $865 Million

  Over just three years, Katerra has grown from a start-up with an unusual approach to the construction industry into a company with $1.3 billion in bookings. Now it has drawn support from one of the biggest and most disruptive backers of start-ups around.

  • Investment
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  Sep 18, 2017

  SIMERICS and CFD Go To LIVEWORX 17 for the First Time

  Like any first experience, we didn’t know what to expect or what would happen at LiveWorx 17. We traveled to Boston from Seattle to provide a preview of Creo CFD, a new module for Creo. When we arrived, we thought we would let all customers, salespeople, and resellers know that Creo CFD would be available in Creo 5.0.
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  Jun 06, 2016

  Success at Microsoft and Airbus: Can Aras Battle Their Way into the PLM Big Leagues?

  The battle for a place on the podium in the PLM “olympics” is fierce, but usually among the same competitors. After 15 years with the same few dominant players, aren’t there any new ones that can seriously threaten Dassault Systèmes, Autodesk, Siemens PLM, IBM, PTC, Oracle and SAP PLM? …

  • PLM
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  Apr 21, 2016

  Autodesk Envisions New Automotive Workflow, Refines Alias for Future Generations

  This week, Autodesk published a blog post announcing its strategy to cater to the auto industry with a bundle comprising Autodesk Alias, VRED, and Studio Wall. …

  • Alias
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  Apr 18, 2016

  Autodesk Adds to its Renderers, Buys Solid Angle

  Autodesk just announced that it has acquired Solid Angle, maker of Arnold, a ray-tracing image renderer for high-quality 3D animation and visual effects creation. Arnold was co-developed with Sony Pictures Imageworks and is now their main renderer. Autodesk says Arnold (not an awesome product name, but must have a great backstory) is used by over “500 studios and thousands of independent artists” including on project such as the Academy Award-winning films Ex Machina and The Martian and the Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones.

  • 3D
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  Apr 14, 2016

  Autodesk Formit 360 - SketchUp to Revit Converter - Game Changer

  At one point in time, Autodesk was seriously considering purchasing SketchUp from Google. In the end, it was purchased by Trimble. Afterwards, many of the SketchUp development team left to join Autodesk. This team created Autodesk FormIt , a product for creative sketch design.

  • FormIt
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  Jan 26, 2016

  Siemens CEO Says CD-adapco is a Perfect Fit

  Siemens held its December-quarter earnings call this morning and, not surprising, CD-adapco was a headline topic. From Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser, during his opening remarks: …

  • PLM
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  Sep 29, 2015

  Aras Doubles Up To Address Cloud, Holistic Systems Design

  Aras, quietly behind a series of firsts in the PLM industry, just made a pair of announcements that address two of the biggest and most current trends: Simplifying the design of complex products involving PCB components and helping organizations move product design data safely into the cloud. …

  • Cloud engineering
  • PLM
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  Sep 25, 2015

  ArchVision Ships BIM Content Service DETAIL WAREHOUSE

  ArchVision announced the immediate availability of a new BIM content subscription service called DETAIL WAREHOUSE. …

  • BIM