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Contents CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 2

Product Lifecycle Management Special Interest Report Published in The London Times December 2012 __2

Acquisitions _______________________________________________________________________ 3 Hexagon Acquires 3D City Modelling Pioneer GTA Geoinformatik GmbH__________________________3 Synopsys Completes Acquisition of SpringSoft ________________________________________________3

Company News _____________________________________________________________________ 4 Edgecam Training Event for European Resellers _______________________________________________4 FISHER/UNITECH Announces Partnership with the New Stratasys Ltd. ___________________________5 GibbsCAM Selected for Membership in Okuma Partners in THINC _______________________________5 Kelar Pacific LLC Earns Autodesk Structural Engineering Specialization ___________________________6 Knovel Selected for 2012-2013 EContent 100 _________________________________________________7 NGC Software Earns Top 10 Rankings in Retail Industry's Most Influential Guide to Software Vendors ___7 PRION Group in a New Design ____________________________________________________________8 Synergis Student Competitions Open for a Third Year __________________________________________9 Tata Consultancy Services wins ITSMA Diamond Award for Marketing Excellence _________________10 Team “BIM Unlimited” Wins Award at Build Qatar Live 2012 Using Vectorworks Software __________10 Vectorworks Architect to Integrate Bradley BIM Library _______________________________________11

Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 12 Cadence CEO to Keynote at CSIA-ICCAD 2012 in China ______________________________________12 Delcam Programs Used for Turbo Milling Demonstrations ______________________________________12 Keynote Speaker Named For 2013 Collaboration & Interoperability Congress ______________________13 SoftInWay to Exhibit at Power-Gen 2012 ___________________________________________________14

Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 15 Infosys Plans To List Its ADS on the NYSE Euronext _________________________________________15 Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2012 _________________________15

Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 17 Chien Kuo Construction Builds Asia’s Largest Cultural Complex with Help from Autodesk Technology _17 COSCO Extends Partnership with Intergraph® _______________________________________________18 Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Used on Visteon’s e-Bee Vehicle Concept Project ______19 Delcam Extends 20-year Partnership with Autovaz during Ministerial Visit ________________________20 ElectraNet Chooses Bentley Substation to Improve the Efficiency and Accuracy of Electric Substation Design _______________________________________________________________________________21 First Leading Company in Engineering and Technology Consulting Services to Massively Deploy the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to Provide Game-Changing Industry Solution Experiences ____________21 Lectra Fashion PLM Supports Façonnable in its French-chic Brand Strategy ________________________23 Most LA Auto Show Debut Vehicles Designed Using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform ___24 Siemens PLM Technology to Help Tri-Ring Group Enhance Digital Design and Manufacturing ________25 University Research Lab Leverages aPriori for Automated Product Costing on Defense Manufacturing Project _______________________________________________________________________________26 Vessix Vascular Prepared for Growth and Compliance with Empower PLM ________________________27

Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 29 ActiveState Announces HP OEM Licensing Agreement for Platform as a Service With Stackato ________29 Advance Steel Release of Version 2013 _____________________________________________________30

PLM Industry Summary Jillian Hayes, Editor

Vol. 14 No 49 Friday 7 December 2012

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Agilent Technologies Ships New ADS Software to Further Advance Single-, Multi-Technology Design of RF Power Amplifiers ___________________________________________________________________32 Amdocs Announces First Product Lifecycle Management Solution with Pre-Integrated Business Processes for Communications Service Providers _____________________________________________________32 BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the Release of ANSA v13.2.4 with Enhancements and Known Issues Resolved _____________________________________________________________________________33 BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the Release of µETA v6.8.3 with Enhancements and Known Problems Resolved _____________________________________________________________________36 Corel Introduces New CorelCAD™ 2013 ___________________________________________________38 Delcam adds OrthoticSelector to Software Range for Custom Insoles _____________________________39 Delcam’s New ArtCAM Pro Makes Complex Artistic Designs Easy ______________________________40 DST Announces SimWise Version 8.5 ______________________________________________________41 Equalis Introduces Advanced Image and Video Processing Module _______________________________42 FARO Introduces New 3D App Center _____________________________________________________43 Find and Apply Crucial Materials Information with GRANTA MI Version 6 _______________________44 GstarCAD MC PRO: Over Hundreds of Thousands of Downloads after a Month's Release ____________45 HP Harnesses the Power of Big Data with New Information Optimization Solutions __________________46 Lantek and Kerf Work Together to Offer the Best Profile Cutting Solution _________________________48 MecSoft Releases VisualXPORT 2.0 for Inventor _____________________________________________49 New Release of InspectionXpert for SolidWorks 2013 _________________________________________49 Parasolid V25.0 Delivers Broad Set Of Customer-Driven Enhancements to Boost Productivity _________50 SENER launches new FORAN Release, V70R2.0 _____________________________________________51 Tribold and TM Forum Release Product Lifecycle Management Guidelines ________________________52 V8i (SELECTseries 3) Releases of Bentley’s SewerCAD, SewerGEMS, StormCAD, and CivilStorm Products Streamline Workflows ______________________________________________53 Vero Announce the Launch of Machining STRATEGIST V14.0 _________________________________55 ZW3D 2012 SP2 Now Available in 7 Languages _____________________________________________56

CIMdata News Product Lifecycle Management Special Interest Report Published in The London Times December 2012 6 December 2012 As a world-leading source of information and strategic advice to both industrial organizations and providers of PLM technologies and services, CIMdata is dedicated to promoting the sector in the most informative and effective manner. CIMdata has therefore partnered with specialist publishers Raconteur Media to co-operate in the production of a dedicated report on the PLM industry that was published in The Times on December 5. The report creates a clear dialogue between industry thought leaders and business decision makers who are increasingly under pressure to deliver innovative products more efficiently. This content will empower them to make more informed decisions about the PLM solutions they use. The report will provide a comprehensive and credible platform to communicate to a full range of stakeholders on the issues that are shaping the industry.

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A copy of this Special Interest PLM Report can be downloaded at http://np.netpublicator.com/netpublication/n01818408

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Acquisitions Hexagon Acquires 3D City Modelling Pioneer GTA Geoinformatik GmbH 3 December 2012 Hexagon AB, global provider of design, measurement and visualisation solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of GTA Geoinformatik GmbH, a pioneer in georeferenced virtual 3D city models and highly efficient building reconstructions. Founded in 1995, GTA Geoinformatik is the developer of tridicon® software, which enables the automatic generation of high-quality, coloured 3D point clouds. The company also specialises in uniting point cloud data with aerial images including oblique and LiDAR images to create intelligent, navigable 3D city models, or smart cities. "The idea of creating a smart city has been an important part of Hexagon's geospatial vision to merge maps with information and real-time updates," said Hexagon President and CEO Ola Rollén. "Solutions such as those GTA Geoinformatik delivers are becoming increasingly important, as they build the foundation for industry-specific applications in areas of city development such as security, traffic, infrastructure management, energy and emergency response." GTA Geoinformatik, based in Berlin and Neubrandenburg, Germany, will be fully consolidated as of end of November. The acquisition will not have any visible impact on Hexagon's earnings in the short-term.

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Synopsys Completes Acquisition of SpringSoft 2 December 2012 Synopsys, Inc. has completed the acquisition of SpringSoft, a global supplier of specialized IC design software headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, through a follow-on merger to acquire all of the remaining outstanding shares of SpringSoft. Previously, on October 1, 2012, Synopsys completed a tender offer for approximately 91.64 percent of SpringSoft's outstanding Shares. As of November 30, 2012, Synopsys is the 100 percent owner of SpringSoft and SpringSoft stock is no longer trading.

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The acquisition increases Synopsys' investment in Taiwan by growing local engineering expertise, technology development capabilities and customer support. The combination of SpringSoft's and Synopsys' technology portfolios will help accelerate delivery of a unified, powerful system-on-chip (SoC) debug platform, and a higher level of automation in custom implementation tools to customers. Synopsys, through its Taiwan subsidiary, acquired all of the outstanding shares of SpringSoft forNT$57.00 (approximately US$1.95) per SpringSoft share in cash. The final gross transaction value was approximately US$417 million (NT$12.2 billion), or approximately US$320 million (NT$9.4 billion) net of cash acquired.

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Company News Edgecam Training Event for European Resellers 5 December 2012 Edgecam CAM software held the first of what is likely to become an annual training event for 36 of its resellers from Europe and India. Geared towards detailed training on specific developments in the latest release of Edgecam, the week-long seminar was the first of its type at such a high level. “We’re now aiming for it to become an annual event,” says Edgecam General Manager Raf Lobato. And there are plans for similar events in Asia and the USA in 2013. “Edgecam is developing extremely fast. Each new release contains new or considerably enhanced functionality, and our resellers want to demonstrate all these new aspects of it in their own countries, so we’re setting up these training events to offer them our full support.” Presented by Edgecam’s development and support staff, the sessions covered the new Wire EDM functionality introduced in Edgecam 2013 R1, along with Part Modeller, 5-axis Machining, Strategy Manager, Customisation and Post Processors. Resellers who attended the event in Reading, were enthusiastic about the information they received, as well as supporting the idea of it becoming an annual event. “Between us, our resellers and staff have clocked up hundreds of years of Edgecam experience...and the week proved to be extremely valuable in sharing that with each other,” says Raf Lobato.

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FISHER/UNITECH Announces Partnership with the New Stratasys Ltd. 3 December 2012 FISHER/UNITECH, a product life cycle management company, announced its partnership with Stratasys will continue under the new Stratasys Ltd. As a direct result of the Objet/Stratasys merger, the company has been authorized to expand their product line of 3D Printers and Production Systems to include all of the Objet products. FISHER/UNITECH has been selected to participate in a pilot of the new combined product line commencing in January. The company has been a Stratasys partner for 16 years and for the past several years has been the top reseller for Stratasys Corporation in the Americas. "The merger of Stratasys and Objet brings together two very complimentary technologies to address the fast growing 3D Printing market," said Charlie Hess, President & CEO of FISHER/UNITECH. "We are anxious to bring Objet’s polyjet technology and its advantages to customers and prospects in our markets. We believe the new Stratasys Ltd will continue to provide great technical leadership and innovative products within the additive manufacturing industry." FISHER/UNITECH has established two Rapid Technology Centers to support benchmarks, part building services and advanced training. Each center is equipped with systems for both 3D Printing and 3D Production Manufacturing applications with the ability to print parts using both technologies. FISHER/UNITECH has increased its commitment to Rapid Technology in 2012 with an expanded sales, service and support team to support the entire array of solutions from the new company. Each of the company's 14 offices house equipment for localized printing, demonstrations and training. 3D Printing has become a necessary component of the overall product development process, helping design teams test form, fit and function while accelerating time to market and enhancing collaboration and communication. Most recently, 3D Production has become a disruptive technology and is quickly displacing many traditional manufacturing processes through additive manufacturing vs. subtractive manufacturing.

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GibbsCAM Selected for Membership in Okuma Partners in THINC 3 December 2012 Cimatron Limited announced today that its subsidiary, Gibbs and Associates, has been selected for membership in Okuma America's Partners in THINC. THINC is a collaborative network of over 40 companies that service the metal-cutting and manufacturing industry with specialized software, equipment, expertise and a commitment to solve problems and increase productivity for end users. With Okuma's open architecture, PC-based THINC®-

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OSP control as its nucleus, Partners in THINC strive to provide the best possible integrated solutions to end users. "We are pleased to be recognized for our expertise in providing a highly efficient, productive, and easy-to-use CAM system to industry, and for the service and support we provide our customers," said Bill Gibbs, founder and president of Gibbs and Associates. "We have been supporting Okuma machinery for over thirty years, and the THINC-OSP controls since their introduction in 2004. We look forward to participating in the delivery of integrated solutions that help manufacturers increase efficiency and profitability with the latest and most sophisticated machine tools from Okuma." GibbsCAM is known in the industry for its easy-to-use graphic interface, and its extensive capabilities, providing a modular solution for programming all Okuma machine tools, from their 3-axis mills and 2-axis lathes, to their multi-axis and multi-task machines (MTMs). GibbsCAM is especially renowned for its support of Okuma MTMs, because it programs turning and milling operations from a single interface, and provides error-free postprocessing that results in machine-ready programs that require no editing. These capabilities extend to all of Okuma's machine tools. With a library of over 11,000 postprocessors, including over 1,000 for MTM machines, Gibbs has many postprocessors for Okuma CNCs, including the MU, Millac, Multus and Macturn series. Mr. Gibbs was recently the speaker at the Okuma "Go Beyond Productivity to Profitability" open house, in Houston, Texas, on November 15, where machine-tool distributor Hartwig used GibbsCAM to program all of the Okuma machine tools on display and in operation, including four 4-axis, double-turret vertical and horizontal lathes, three 4-axis vertical and horizontal mills, plus the Okuma LB3000 EX, a double spindle, single turret, Y-axis lathe, and the MULTUS B400, a multi-function horizontal lathe with B-axis head.

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Kelar Pacific LLC Earns Autodesk Structural Engineering Specialization 6 December 2012 KELAR PACIFIC, LLC, an Autodesk Gold Partner celebrating thirty years in the AEC industry, announced that it has earned the new Structural Engineering Specialization designation for value added resellers from Autodesk, Inc. As an Autodesk Specialized Partner, Kelar Pacific has shown that they have made significant investment in their people, they have a solid business plan specific to their specialization area, they have customer references, and that they can offer a high level of knowledge and support to customers in the Structural Engineering industry. The new Autodesk Partner Specializations enable value added resellers to highlight and brand their expertise in delivering services in key industry areas. By completing the required curriculum and training, as well as meeting required levels of service and standards set by Autodesk, Kelar Pacific demonstrates through their strong customer service and support in sales what it means to be a trusted adviser to Autodesk customers throughout the world.

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Derek P. Renn, AEC technical manager for Kelar Pacific stated, "The Structural Engineering industry is highly unique and we have the experience and specific knowledge base to be a trusted partner."

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Knovel Selected for 2012-2013 EContent 100 5 December 2012 Knovel, the provider of a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools, announced it has been named to the 2012-2013 EContent 100. The 2012-2013 EContent 100 list identifies the top 100 companies in the digital content industry. Companies are selected by a panel of eight judges. This is the third consecutive year Knovel has been selected for this list, totaling seven appearances since 2003. "The econtent industry changes from day to day. From one year to the next, it's hardly recognizable, but there are some companies that manage to change with the industry, earning a spot on the EContent 100 year after year," said EContent Magazine Editor, Theresa Cramer. "And then there are the upstarts -- the companies that see a need within the industry and work to fill it. Our judges strive to recognize companies all along that spectrum, curating a truly representative list of companies making an impact on the digital content industry." Knovel offers depth and breadth of validated engineering content, as well as optimized search and data analysis tools, giving engineers convenient access and the ability to analyze, document and incorporate data into their everyday work. "At Knovel, we strive to provide engineers with a single place to answer questions; one that also easily integrates analytical tools and trusted content into engineers' workflows," said Chris Forbes, CEO and co-founder of Knovel. "Workflow integration is the key to profitable use of digital content, and we are honored to be named to the EContent 100 again this year."

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NGC Software Earns Top 10 Rankings in Retail Industry's Most Influential Guide to Software Vendors 5 December 2012 NGC Software® announced that it earned three top 10 rankings in the 2012 RIS News Software Leaderboard, widely regarded as the retail industry's most prestigious guide to the top retail technology software companies.

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Now in its 12th year, the RIS News Software LeaderBoard is produced by the industry's #1 retail technology publication. Based entirely on retailer evaluations, the LeaderBoard ranks technology vendors based on customer satisfaction across a wide range of criteria. The LeaderBoard is a widely quoted, eagerly anticipated annual report that many in the industry have called the Oscars of retail technology. It serves as a guide to help retailers find the vendors and solutions they need with an unmatched level of clarity. For this year's LeaderBoard, retailers evaluated 100 software vendors in 50 different technology categories. NGC was one of only two PLM/Supply Chain Management providers named to the 2012 RIS News Software Leaderboard, with top-10 finishes in three categories:

• Targeted Solution Vendor Leaders • Criteria Leaders in ROI • Vendor Leaders in Customer Satisfaction

“The Software LeaderBoard represents the 'best of the best' in retail technology software vendors, and NGC Software joins an elite group by being named to the 2012RIS LeaderBoard," said Joe Skorupa, group editor-in-chief. "Return on Investment and Customer Satisfaction are critical measures of a software vendor's performance, and retailers have named NGC as one of the very best in these categories. NGC has distinguished itself not only among PLM and Supply Chain Management providers but across the full breadth of retail technology solution providers as well." "NGC is honored to be named to the 2012 RIS Leaderboard, and we appreciate this validation from our retail customers," said Mark Burstein, president of sales, marketing and R&D for NGC Software. "PLM and SCM are critical technologies for helping retailers shorten lead times and improve profitability, and NGC is proud to work with many of the very best retailers in the industry."

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PRION Group in a New Design 4 December 2012 PRION Group, a Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) implementation partner with its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany is revamping its corporate design after 15 years. “We are proud of our new, modern and fresh design. Innovative PLM solutions require an innovative and modern design”, said Dr. Joseph Unger, Managing Partner at PRION Group. “The main elements of the new design are the change from the combination mark to the word mark, the plain layout, the reduction of the colour palette to main colours like blue and white as well as a modern and light font. The new logo emphasizes the clarity, elegance and power of our solutions as well as the professionalism and straightforwardness of our implementation – these are the character traits which our customers appreciate and value about PRION Group.” added Dr. Unger.

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Since its foundation in 1998, PRION Group established and evolved to an internationally recognized partner for PLM solutions. Well-known customers like Alstom Power, Areva Wind, Daimler, Diehl Air Cabin, OCE, Siemens Industry & Energy or SMA Solar Technology trust in PRION Group’s competence, international knowledge pool and expertise. PRION Group employs more than 330 professionals worldwide and operates from subsidiaries in Switzerland, UK, USA and India. PRION Group underlines the importance of serving its APAC customers by opening a new location on January 1st, 2013 in Singapore.

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Synergis Student Competitions Open for a Third Year 6 December 2012 Synergis Engineering Design Solutions, a division of Synergis Technologies, Inc., announced registration is now open for two Synergis student design competitions for secondary school students in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. To further promote engineering design in schools and recognize students for their design talents and skills, Synergis created these competitions. Now in their third year, over 100 students from 20 schools have been involved, with the winning designs being presented during Synergis University, an annual technology event that pulls over 200 engineering professionals across the region. The Synergis Architectural Design Competition focuses on real-world situations in architecture and construction today. This year, students will learn adaptive reuse while redesigning a small-town Main Street building into a children's museum. Creativity is built in with very few requirements for the space so students will be able to design with their own interests in mind. The Synergis-F1 Design Competition follows the Pennsylvania F1 rules to design a CO2 powered model racing car. "We are excited to see this year's designs. Last year, the first-place students from Montgomery High School, NJ impressed design professionals at Synergis University with their presentation and design ideas," said Kristen Tomasic, vice president of Synergis Engineering Design Solutions. "Each year we've had more schools participate and we are hoping to see even more teams engaged this year. This is one of our favorite student events and we look forward to the competition, the design submissions, and the students' involvement in Synergis University." Entries are due March 1, 2013 for Synergis-F1 and April 15, 2013 for the Synergis Architectural Design Competition. The winning design teams get $1,000 and will present their designs to professionals at Synergis University on June 5, 2013. For further information on these design competitions, please visit www.synergis.com/industries/education.

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Tata Consultancy Services wins ITSMA Diamond Award for Marketing Excellence 5 December 2012 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that it has won the ITSMA (IT Services Marketing Association) Diamond Award in the Transforming the Marketing Organization category at the 19th Annual Marketing Conference held today. Open to all companies that market and sell technology, telecom or professional services, the ITSMA Marketing Awards honors special achievements in these sectors. A jury of distinguished industry experts evaluates companies that have truly transformed major aspects of their global marketing programs as measured by innovation, execution, and results. TCS' European entry, highlighting its global Big 4 brand presence campaign, was recognized as best in class for the industry. TCS has been investing heavily to build up its brand presence worldwide through a full range of activities, which include an award-winning global public relations program, major sports sponsorships and a wide range of local event engagement, campaigns and community activities. The company's significant portfolio of sports partnerships over the past five years have cut across Formula 1 racing, pro-cycling, cricket and marathons, while its community initiatives have ranged from health and wellness to youth education and environment conservation. As recognition of its enhanced brand strength, recently TCS was named the fourth most valuable IT services brand worldwide by Brand Finance, the world-leading brand valuation firm. The TCS Brand value stands at US$ 4,068 million in 2012, up from US$ 3,718 million in 2011. "With shifts in the global economy, the explosion of data, new delivery channels, emerging skill-set requirements and changes in buyer behavior, B2B marketers can no longer afford to make incremental moves. TCS made a bold move and tackled a significant branding challenge that is a major obstacle for all services firms," said Dave Munn, President and CEO of ITSMA. "As a result of this creativity and flawless execution, TCS was able to demonstrate the importance of marketing to the wider organization." N Chandrasekaran, CEO & Managing Director, TCS, said, "Building our company's brand across the markets we operate worldwide has been and continues to be a key strategic priority for the company. We are pleased with this recognition, which validates our effort to elevate the company's brand presence in tandem with our growing stature within our Industry globally."

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Team “BIM Unlimited” Wins Award at Build Qatar Live 2012 Using Vectorworks Software 5 December 2012

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Team “BIM Unlimited” was granted the “Best Use of BIM for Technical Assessment” award at Build Qatar Live 2012, the first Open BIM design competition held in Qatar. “BIM Unlimited” members with experience in architecture, structural engineering, pedestrian analysis, energy analysis and BIM management disciplines collaborated on their design from locations around the world, including the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Japan, India, France and the UK. Adopting a true Open BIM approach to their workflow, members used Vectorworks® Architect with Renderworks®, Scia Engineer, DDS-CAD, ArchiWIZARD, CadFaster, Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) and SimTread software, and they utilized the IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) file format, the preferred Open BIM data model of buildingSMART International and the model format of choice for the Build Qatar competition. “Vectorworks’ high-end modeling tools gave us the ability to model a project with organic shapes without losing precision, as well as the ability to communicate with other tools,” said Architect Rubén Hernández Fontana from Estudio Caribe. “Vectorworks 2013 stood rock solid during the 48 hours of the competition. Fast, precise and robust.” Organized by Asite, AEC3, buildingSMART MENA & India and BIM Journal, Build Qatar Live is a 48-hour virtual competition in which participants use cloud-based technology and a variety of software platforms to design a multi-use development for an internationally known site. The event took place November 27-29, 2012. Please visit www.buildqatarlive.com for more information about the competition, including project images and a video announcement highlighting all the winning teams.

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Vectorworks Architect to Integrate Bradley BIM Library 3 December 2012 Vectorworks is happy to announce a new partnership with Bradley Corporation, a leading manufacturer of commercial plumbing fixtures and washroom accessories. Vectorworks users will soon be able to incorporate Bradley products into their designs, as Vectorworks has begun integrating Bradley BIM resources into the Vectorworks content library. Their Integrated Practice team has been working with the Bradley BIM team since late September, and they plan to launch phase I of the Vectorworks Bradley BIM Library in early 2013. Stay tuned to Planet Vectorworks for future announcements.

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For more information, visit www.vectorworks.net.

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Events News Cadence CEO to Keynote at CSIA-ICCAD 2012 in China 3 December 2012 Lip-Bu Tan, president and chief executive officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. will deliver a keynote at the China Semiconductor Industry Association’s International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (CSIA-ICCAD) in Chongqing, China. This is the 18th ICCAD and it is considered one of the most influential industry events in the China semiconductor industry. The annual conference discusses the opportunities and challenges of IC design industry in China. WHEN: December 6, 2012 WHERE: Chongqing International Convention & Exhibition Center Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor Chongquing, China WHAT: Cadence President and CEO Lip-Bu Tan will deliver a keynote titled, “Opportunities, Challenges, and Collaboration,” addressing the rapid growth of video, mobility, and cloud computing that is driving a wave of new design in electronics today. Smartphones, tablets, cameras, and networks all require new mixed-signal, low-power SoCs, which are often manufactured using advanced technology, and integrated with complex system software and “apps.” Lip-Bu Tan will describe how the electronics industry is moving forward and how key ecosystem partners are collaborating to address the technology and business challenges of the mobile internet. For more information, visit www.cadence.com.

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Delcam Programs Used for Turbo Milling Demonstrations 30 November 2012 Delcam’s PowerMILL software for five-axis machining is being used to program a novel machining method for the creation of "fir-tree” profiles in components for turbo machinery. The new process, which provides an alternative to broaching, will be demonstrated during a "Turbo Milling Process

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Chain” event to be held by INIRAM Precision, a New England-based importer and distributor of five-axis milling machines, in Peabody, Massachusetts, on 5th and 6th December. The milling approach, which is based on the trochoidal machining strategies in PowerMILL, has been patented by Iruba, a German provider of engineered solutions. It allows complex "fir-tree” profiles to be produced on five-axis milling machines, rather than having to use specialist broaching equipment. For the Massachusetts event, the demonstrations will be carried out on a Hermle C60 five-axis machining centre, which will be used to machine a complex fan disk. The use of trochoidal strategies gives a number of benefits, in particular giving high material removal rates with lower, and more consistent, cutting forces. The more consistent cutting forces also ensure higher accuracy in the position and in the shape of the slots, with minimal thermal effects on the surface of the profiles. The process also reduces the number of specialist cutting tools that are required, and cuts the machining time by between 30 and 40 per cent. Commenting on the event, Brett Hopkins, Manager of Delcam Professional Services North America, said, "We are pleased to be working with other leaders in manufacturing technology like Hermle and Iruba to develop this innovative technology. The collective collaboration began several months ago and was received with great enthusiasm when we presented the process at IMTS earlier this year.”

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Keynote Speaker Named For 2013 Collaboration & Interoperability Congress 4 December 2012 Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), announced its keynote speaker for its 2013 event (www.3DCIC.com) to be held May 21-23, 2013 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Tom Soderstrom, CTO in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Office of the CIO, will present "Collaborating to Put Wheels on Mars." Soderstrom will discuss the tremendous amount of innovation that was involved in the development and landing of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), and the intense collaboration, interoperability and coordination in JPL's IT systems and organizations. He will also discuss how these innovations, lessons learned and implications impact the future of collaboration and interoperability. As IT CTO at the JPL, Soderstrom leads a collaborative, practical, hands-on approach with JPL and the industry to investigate and infuse emerging IT technology trends that are relevant to JPL, NASA and large enterprises. Now in its tenth year, CIC has become a yearly barometer of the state of collaboration and interoperability strategy, technology and solutions in manufacturing and business communications. The three-day international event gives attendees a unique opportunity to network, learn and strategize with thought leaders from many sectors of discrete manufacturing, including automotive, aerospace, heavy

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equipment and electronics industries, as well as with representatives from government and defense communities. Conference organizers are pleased to announce that NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) is merging with CIC and will hold its 14th annual product data exchange meeting at CIC 2013 and thereafter. In addition, the PDES Board of Directors will again hold its annual meeting at CIC this year, and the 3D PDF consortium will be holding its second annual meeting at CIC 2013. Interested attendees are encouraged to register soon as time-limited discounts currently apply. Longview Advisors also is pleased to announce that free, open access to all presentations from past events is now available at (www.3DCIC.com).

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SoftInWay to Exhibit at Power-Gen 2012 5 December 2012 SoftInWay Inc. has announced that the SoftInWay team will be located in booth 4348 and presenting the latest advancements in their Turbomachinery Software Suite: AxSTREAM – the tool for the rapid design, analysis and optimization of Turbomachinery. Rated #1 in customer support for the last 3 years in a row, SoftInWay’s engineers offer 24/365 support to their clients. In addition to demoing the AxSTREAM Software Suite, the team will share their experiences with recent and complicated ORC / Super Critical CO2 Cycle designs and demonstrate strategies for leveraging their advanced software tools, training and engineering consulting services for their customers to beat the competition. SoftInWay will also share the recently published training program schedule for the first half of 2013. Attendees will be able to pick up a paper copy, or they can visit SoftInWay’s website: www.softinway.com/EDU For turbomachinery professionals that will not have time to attend Power-Gen 2012, SoftInWay will host a webinar which will take place at the beginning of January 2013 and will recap recent updates in software, complex new consulting areas ( such as ORC Turbines and Critical CO2 Cycle designs), etc. For more information and webinar registration, visit: www.softinway.com/webinar “Have you developed or bought software, invested a lot of money into training your team, hired consultants and yet you are still stuck? Are you tired of hearing: “Maybe next year we will develop this feature”, “check the help files”, or worse: "I don't know how to improve that efficiency"? We are not a marketing or sales company; we are a company of Turbomachinery Engineers, so solving complex

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design problems for our clients is our Obsession. We welcome you to come and talk to us - let’s discuss what we can do together!” said Tim Brown, Vice President, Business Development - SoftInWay Inc.

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Financial News Infosys Plans To List Its ADS on the NYSE Euronext 30 November 2012 Infosys announced that it will be transferring the listing of its American Depositary Shares (ADS) to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from the NASDAQ Global Select Market (NASDAQ). The company is also seeking to list its ADS on the Paris and London exchanges of NYSE Euronext. Infosys ADS will begin trading on the NYSE Euronext markets in the U.S. under the ticker symbol ‘INFY’ on December 12, 2012. Until the transfer is complete, Infosys ADS will continue to trade in the U.S. under the ticker symbol ‘INFY’ on the NASDAQ. Once the separate Euronext listing process is complete, Infosys ADS will begin trading on the NYSE Euronext markets in Paris and London. The NYSE Euronext listing will not change Infosys float, share/ADR count and capital structure. "Our decision to transfer our American Depositary Shares listing to NYSE is motivated by a desire to leverage the NYSE Euronext partnership to empower our investor base, increase access to our stock for European investors and broaden the trading window available for our global investors," said S. D. Shibulal, CEO and MD, Infosys. "We thank NASDAQ for the support and partnership we received from them as we took the Infosys brand to the global market. We look forward to a strong and long engagement with NYSE Euronext." "Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing, and we welcome the company's decision to transfer its listing to the NYSE," said Duncan Niederauer, CEO, NYSE Euronext. "Infosys will benefit greatly from our leading global community, superior visibility platform, and innovative market structure and technology. We look forward to building an outstanding partnership with Infosys and its shareholders in order to further unlock the company's potential.”

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Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2012 5 December 2012 Q4 2012 Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $454.2 million

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• GAAP earnings per share: $0.19 • Non-GAAP earnings per share: $0.47

FY 2012 Financial Highlights • Revenue: $1.756 billion • GAAP earnings per share: $1.21 • Non-GAAP earnings per share: $2.10 • Cash flow from operations: $486.1 million • Ending cash balance: $700.4 million

Synopsys, Inc. has reported results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2012. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, Synopsys reported revenue of $454.2 million, compared to $390.5 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. Revenue for fiscal year 2012 was $1.756 billion, an increase of 14.3 percent from $1.536 billion in fiscal 2011. "Synopsys delivered very strong fiscal 2012 results with double-digit revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share growth. Simultaneously we also completed a significant number of important acquisitions during the year," said Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys. "Electronic design automation solutions are more critical than ever, as semiconductor companies face significant technical challenges while racing to design highly complex chips and systems. Synopsys is particularly well-positioned heading into 2013, based on our technology leadership, significant customer demand, and our predictable business model." GAAP Results On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 was $29.1 million, or $0.19 per share, compared to $39.9 million, or $0.27 per share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. GAAP net income for fiscal year 2012 was $182.4 million, or $1.21 per share, compared to $221.4 million, or $1.47 per share, for fiscal 2011. Net income for fiscal 2012 included $43.6 million of acquisition-related costs, plus higher amortization of intangibles than in the previous year primarily due to acquisitions. Due to our fiscal calendar, the first quarter of fiscal year 2012 included an extra week. Non-GAAP Results On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 was $72.4 million, or $0.47 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $65.3 million, or $0.45 per share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. Non-GAAP net income for fiscal 2012 was $315.5 million, or $2.10 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $270.3 million, or $1.80 per share, for fiscal 2011. Reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results is provided at the end of this press release. Due to our fiscal calendar, the first quarter of fiscal year 2012 included an extra week.

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To view an unabridged version of this press release, visit: http://news.synopsys.com/index.php?s=43&item=1090

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Implementation Investments Chien Kuo Construction Builds Asia’s Largest Cultural Complex with Help from Autodesk Technology 4 December 2012 Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts will be completed in 2014, providing millions of Southern Taiwan residents and tourists the opportunity to participate in cultural events. Scheduled for completion in 2014, the Arts Center is a 3.3 billion USD project. It is expected to become Kaohsiung’s new icon, evolving the reputation of this major port city. The Arts Center’s artistic design is by Francine Houben, Founding Architect and Creative Director of Mecanoo, and Chinese Architect Luo Xing Hua. The design was inspired by lush banyan trees in Wei-Wu-Ying Park. The Arts Center will be shaped like a sound wave, with a floating appearance that seamlessly integrates with the surrounding landscape. The 141,000 sqm complex will feature 6,000 seats across the concert hall, lyric theater, playhouse, recital hall, public library and orchestra rehearsal room. Chien Kuo Construction Co. is building the project with the help of Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions. Mark Lee, Vice President of Engineering Regulation Division at Chien Kuo Construction, said, “The competition for civil engineering projects in Taiwan is now of an international caliber. Faced with complex architecture designs like those of the Wei-Wu-Ying Arts Center, traditional 2D diagrams alone are not effective. We’ve adopted Autodesk BIM solutions to digitally simulate 3D models and 4D construction processes. We’re able to better detect collisions in advance, and we can visually communicate the construction schedule. This has helped to provide a new level of collaboration, as well as resource and time-savings.” Chien Kuo Construction is an Autodesk Subscription customer using the following Autodesk BIM solutions: Autodesk Revit Architecture software, Autodesk Revit MEP software, Autodesk Navisworks software products, Autodesk 3ds Max Design software and Autodesk Design Review software, as well as Autodesk 360 cloud services. Ryan Li, Project Manager of Chien Kuo Construction’s BIM Division, added, “Using Autodesk BIM solutions enables us to show changes in both 2D and 3D, providing a more accurate reference for construction engineers. As a result, we’ve seen construction time shortened to about a third of what it used to be. Autodesk 360 cloud services also help accelerate our operations. While traditional computers may take an entire day to render a model, we’re doing it in a couple of hours with Autodesk 360.”

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Chien Kuo Construction plans to fully implement BIM on all its projects by the end of the year. “BIM is still fairly new in the construction and engineering industry. At present, Chien Kuo Construction has applied the solutions mostly for pre-construction plan management and simulation testing, but 3D modeling should play a critical role in maintenance as well. We aim to actively promote the latter application of BIM,” Mark Lee concluded.

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COSCO Extends Partnership with Intergraph® 5 December 2012 COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd. (COSCO), a partner to shipping companies and offshore oil service providers, has extended its five-year master agreement with Intergraph®. The agreement strengthens the strategic partnership between COSCO and Intergraph and extends Intergraph's position within China's offshore market. COSCO has previously delivered numerous offshore projects using SmartMarine® Enterprise. With the greater software productivity, advanced quality designs and a strong, local Intergraph technical support team, COSCO renewed the long-term master agreement to expand applications and increase its competitive edge using the SmartMarine Enterprise solution. "We have been using Intergraph technology for many years, and we are pleased to extend our long-term strategic relationship with Intergraph," said COSCO officials. "We have achieved great success through the implementation of SmartMarine Enterprise for our engineering projects, and we are confident that SmartMarine Enterprise will continue to deliver tremendous value to our company." "Since first implementing SmartMarine 3D in 2006, COSCO Shipyard Group has seen significant gains in productivity and quality through the use of our next-generation, rule-driven offshore and shipbuilding design solution," said Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president. "Intergraph is a long-standing, trusted partner in China, and we are pleased to see the tremendous success COSCO is having with our solutions." Welch Sun, general manager of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine in Greater China, said, "Intergraph's talented staff combined with our excellent solutions create more value for our customers. At any time and on any project, Intergraph's technical staff will throw themselves into the implementation of projects to support our customers. We are dedicated to fulfilling Intergraph's 'Rule No. 1': We will never let a customer down." Intergraph's SmartMarine Enterprise is the advanced, integrated offshore and shipbuilding solution, driving improvements in design efficiency, production schedule, handover, and overall life-cycle cost control for enhanced global competitiveness. Intergraph is a world leader in marine structure design and data management, with SmartMarine Enterprise endorsed and used by the world's leading offshore and

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marine companies, including the most productive shipyard, the top offshore owner operator, the top fabrication yard, and the top classification society in the world. SmartMarine 3D is an offshore and shipbuilding design solution, featuring breakthrough engineering technology that is knowledge-based and rule-driven to improve delivery schedules, with increased detail and manufacturing design productivity of up to 30 percent. SmartMarine 3D is endorsed and used by leading offshore and marine companies globally. To learn more about SmartMarine 3D's capabilities for the offshore market, visit www.intergraph.com/go/offshore.

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Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Used on Visteon’s e-Bee Vehicle Concept Project 4 December 2012 Dassault Systèmes today announced that Visteon Corporation, a leading automotive global supplier, is applying the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s 3DSwYm social application on the cloud to its recently unveiled e-Bee vehicle concept. The use of 3DSwYm’s social, cloud-based community environment helped Visteon quickly develop innovative new concepts for this demonstration vehicle in its product areas of climate, interior and electronics. Visteon achieved efficiency gains in the development process, while reducing early prototype costs. Visteon also applied the 3DSwYm application to co-create with strategic customers and key supplier/partners on the e-Bee project. “Transforming our current creation environment was one of the primary goals of the e-Bee project,” said Tim Yerdon, Global Director Innovation and Design, Visteon Corporation. “Visteon designers in multiple regions can now work as if they were all in the same room, speaking the same language of 3D. This enables them to visualize the design as it evolves, leading to more effective interactions and faster product development.” Visteon’s e-Bee co-creation project involved people from around the globe, connecting joint venture partners and internal Visteon departments not typically involved in the innovation process. In most product development solutions, few personnel beyond engineers can share and view data in real-time. With Dassault Systèmes’ 3DSwYm application, ideas are now socially shared and informed decisions are made, keeping everyone in the loop without numerous change reports or electronic files. The “experience and demonstrate” capabilities of a socially shared 3D environment helped make it possible for Visteon to show its first design in seconds instead of weeks. Additionally, Visteon was able to solicit real-time project feedback from customers, joint venture partners, and suppliers. 3DSwYm communities on the cloud can be created very quickly, as users don’t have to purchase and set up hardware or buy specialized applications to connect people, share their ideas and collaborate. Globally, Dassault Systèmes has more than 1000 3DSwYm communities on the cloud.

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“Innovation always starts with an idea. The automotive ecosystem is replete with creative talents who need to share ideas, sometimes in unusual ways. Unleashing creativity is one of the key values we bring with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Our social applications allow the gathering of ideas from everywhere,” said Monica Menghini, Executive Vice President, Industry and Marketing, Dassault Systèmes. “Social experience sets the ground for the creation of tomorrow’s industry winning experiences.”

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Delcam Extends 20-year Partnership with Autovaz during Ministerial Visit 3 December 2012 Delcam has extended its 20-year partnership with Russian automotive manufacturer, AutoVAZ, with an agreement covering support and maintenance for the coming year. The new agreement with Delcam’s Samara office was signed during a visit to Russia by Delcam Director, Hugh Humphreys, as part of a trade mission led by UK Trade and Investment Minister, Lord Green, and John Cridland, Director-General of the CBI. AutoVAZ, which is generally known by its Lada trade name, produces 700,000 cars per annum. It is unusual as an automotive company in that the most of its components are manufactured in-house, in one of the world’s largest car factories. AutoVAZ was one of Delcam’s first customers in Russia and remains one of its largest users in the country. A combination of the PowerSHAPE design software, the PowerMILL CAM system for five-axis machining and the PowerINSPECT inspection software is used by the company. The design and machining software is used primarily in the pre-production and pilot-production plant, especially for tooling manufacture. PowerINSPECT is used to control over 50 inspection arms and co-ordinate measuring machines throughout the plant. "We are pleased to extend our partnership with AutoVAZ and look forward to helping the company in its drive to improve productivity and quality” commented Mr. Humphreys. "The contract is another landmark in a very successful year in Russia for Delcam so far, with sales for the first nine months up by over 40% on the same period last year.” The trade mission, which took place between 26th and 29th November in Moscow and St. Petersburg, included representatives of twenty-five mid-sized businesses keen to increase their exports to Russia. Delegates were given the opportunity to meet key figures from the Russian Government and business community.

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ElectraNet Chooses Bentley Substation to Improve the Efficiency and Accuracy of Electric Substation Design 29 November 2012 Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced that ElectraNet Pty Limited, the principal electricity transmission network service provider in South Australia, has chosen Bentley Substation to reduce high-voltage electric substation design costs and enable existing design resources to meet an ever-increasing volume of capital projects. Bentley Substation, the integrated software product for intelligent electrical and physical substation design, empowers project teams to design substations 30 percent faster, increasing productivity, while also reducing errors and minimizing rework. In addition, it enables organizations such as ElectraNet to automate reporting processes and enforce their design standards, further increasing the accuracy of their design work. With its more than 5,600 circuit kilometers of transmission line and 87 substations and switchyards, ElectraNet’s transmission network delivers efficient and reliable high-voltage electricity from power generators to South Australia’s electricity distributor and large industrial users. Switching from manual CAD design to intelligent substation design enables ElectraNet to significantly reduce detailed design time and create more accurate project estimates from precise bills of material. Hamish McCarter, ElectraNet’s Senior Manager Engineering Services, said, “With Bentley Substation our current design resources, both internal and external, will be better able to accommodate a growing workload. In addition, the added structure and reporting will ensure our design partners are better equipped to adhere to our standards, which will provide long-term benefits in the form of reduced maintenance challenges.” Richard Zambuni, Bentley Global Marketing Director, Geospatial and Utilities, said, “We are extremely pleased that ElectraNet has joined the many owner-operators and utilities around the globe that are using Bentley Substation to complete both brownfield and greenfield projects faster, more cost-effectively, and with higher quality. We look forward to increasingly serving the company’s needs through our wider set of products for substation design, further accelerating the delivery of intelligent, better-performing substation infrastructure.” For additional information about Bentley Substation and Bentley’s wider substation solution, visit www.bentley.com/substation.

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First Leading Company in Engineering and Technology Consulting Services to Massively Deploy the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to Provide Game-Changing Industry Solution Experiences 4 December 2012

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Sogeti High Tech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Capgemini group, and Dassault Systèmes today announced that Sogeti High Tech has adopted the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. By investing in Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its applications, Sogeti High Tech plans to deliver the best industry solution experiences and improve project performance efficiency for customers in the aerospace & defence, space, energy and transportation & mobility industries. Sogeti High Tech has been a strategic integration partner of Dassault Systèmes since signing an industry solution alliance in 2008. “As part of Sogeti High Tech and Dassault Systèmes’ joint drive to innovate, we have decided to invest and migrate our equipment pool to Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, specifically its CATIA, ENOVIA and SIMULIA applications. This migration is very large-scale and significant for a services company, encompassing over 250 workstations and over 150 additional industry products. Our aim is to give our engineering teams the benefit of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s new capabilities, openness, and innovative collaborative functionalities,” said Laurent Rouchouse, CIO, Sogeti High Tech. Thanks to the 2008 industry solution alliance, Sogeti High Tech has been able to consolidate its strong leadership in the PLM market. With today’s announcement, the company exponentially increases its innovation capabilities by changing the way it provides value to its customers, thanks to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform specifically. By adopting the platform, Sogeti High Tech has enabled multiple enterprise-spanning engineering disciplines to communicate in real-time with transparent and visually intuitive simulation data, creating the best services and products for their customers. In addition, Dassault Systèmes and Sogeti High Tech will keep working together to develop their activities in four fields: simulation, composites, deployment and systems integration, and digital manufacturing. “As the first service company to commit to such a transformation, we stand to gain an advantage for our teams, who will be able to advise and accompany our customers when they will operate the same transformation,” added Philippe Sottocasa, Vice President, Business Development, Sogeti High Tech. “Now, with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we have an integrated environment for business collaboration. Our offices will benefit from the latest generation of 3D and simulation data management tools, combined with the creation of a new training centre within Sogeti High Tech.” “2012 marks the year in which we brought industry solution experiences to the customers we serve in our industries to let them create innovative product experiences. This is critical to our partners to scale their business by better embracing their ultimate customers’ needs,” said Bruno Latchague, Executive Vice President, Global Sales Strategy & Operations, Value Solutions, Dassault Systèmes. “Combining Sogeti High Tech’s deep expertise in key industries with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we will create unparalleled value for our joint customers.”

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Lectra Fashion PLM Supports Façonnable in its French-chic Brand Strategy 4 December 2012 Lectra is pleased to announce that Façonnable has successfully implemented Lectra Fashion PLM to streamline collection development and preserve brand heritage, both prerequisites for driving a strategy of top line growth. Founded in the 1950s by Jean Goldberg, Façonnable was acquired by M1 Group in 2007. The world-renowned company with a global presence is enjoying a new era that brings with it a long-term vision to increase brand equity. Façonnable’s brand value is firmly rooted in style, quality and fit; preserving this chic French Côte d’Azur foundation while developing new lines for men and women and expanding into new territories is central to the company’s strategic growth plan. However, it requires organization and structure that Façonnable strived to enhance. Façonnable chose to implement Lectra Fashion PLM throughout product development to improve communication and monitor development in a way that would keep brand strategy consistent from design to final product. With strategy clearly defined and communicated from step one, Façonnable can now develop collections knowing that quality standards are clear and that selections will accurately reflect the brand in core regions as well as new territories. Company-wide change to align business strategy with creative vision The motivation to adopt Lectra Fashion PLM came from organizational challenges which threatened to undermine product quality, deliveries, and business development. “There wasn’t a standard workflow before; this is now 100% controlled,” says Peter Nyhan, Merchandising Director, Façonnable. Lectra Fashion PLM has aligned the business and creative departments to help strengthen the brand and enable growth. Lectra Fashion PLM has had an impact at every level of Façonnable’s organization, from Line Planning to Production, helping to monitor collection development and keep pace with the company’s strategic goals. “With Lectra Fashion PLM, we now have a common thread running through the company that allows us to be more professional and more precise,” says Amélie Serri, Product Manager, Façonnable. “The main reason we sought a PLM solution was to streamline the product development process in the context of seasonal calendars,” explains Allison Smith, Calendar and Special Project Manager, Façonnable. This not only saves time and confusion, it is helping Façonnable achieve their financial objectives as well. “One of the biggest improvements has been the ability to control cost from the beginning,” explains Guilaine Ipert, Director of Production, Façonnable. “We are pleased to count such a prestigious brand among Lectra’s fashion customers,” says Daniel Harari, Lectra CEO. “Like us, they are building the future on their legacy. We hope to continue to play a key part in their development through our full range of advanced solutions.”

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Most LA Auto Show Debut Vehicles Designed Using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform 29 November 2012 Dassault Systèmes announced that its 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s CATIA application was used in the development of the majority of vehicle debuts -- both worldwide and North American – at the 2012 LA Auto Show. Dassault Systèmes, a sponsor of the LA Auto Show Design Challenge, revolutionized vehicle development through digitalization of design processes. Originally adopted by pioneering automakers in 1982, CATIA and other applications, including ENOVIA, DELMIA, 3DVIA, and SIMULIA, continue to be at the forefront of product development innovation. CATIA firmly maintains its position as the leading automotive design and engineering application and continues evolving to better meet industry trends. Today’s automakers are faced with multiple challenges, including increasing vehicle complexity due to aggressive emission standards, rising use of embedded technologies and globalization. To address these trends, Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to product development where all engineering domains and solutions are linked together in a common and dynamic platform. Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its industry solution experiences are comprehensive solutions comprised of multiple applications that can be implemented in a modular approach and directly targeted at specific industry trends. Dassault Systèmes’ most recent automotive industry solution experience, “Smart, Safe & Connected Car,” assists automakers in meeting the demands of increasing vehicle complexity due to burgeoning electronics and software usage, helping accelerate development of embedded systems while achieving ISO26262 safety standards and AUTOSAR compliancy. “It is no longer enough to just focus on offering a CAD or PLM solution,” said Al Bunshaft, Managing Director, North America, Dassault Systèmes. “Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform creates intelligent virtual products that allow customers to test form, behavior and interactions inclusive of consumer emotion and preferences. This allows the industry to make critical decisions earlier in the vehicle development process, helping deliver cars that people truly desire, while meeting cost and quality targets.” Visitors to the LA Auto Show can experience the power of Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform through live demonstrations at the CATIA Design Café in room #511A, featuring CATIA for Creative Designers. Designers can take a Test Drive of the CATIA unified industrial design workflow applications, including Natural Sketch for drawing concepts directly in 3D, Imagine & Shape for ultra-fast 3D concept models, and instantaneous Live Rendering with physically correct photorealistic visualization. These demonstrations are powered by the latest hardware technology from NVIDIA for graphics processing, and Wacom for sketching excellence.

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Siemens PLM Technology to Help Tri-Ring Group Enhance Digital Design and Manufacturing 5 December 2012 Tri-Ring Group, one of China’s Top 500 manufacturing enterprises, has deployed Siemens’ NX™ software at its technical center and some of its subsidiaries in order to increase its digital design and manufacturing ability. NX is a leading integrated solution for computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) developed by Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) business unit. Tri-Ring Group, a leading player in China’s machinery and automotive manufacturing industries, selected NX following a thorough evaluation and selection process. “Siemens PLM Software has achieved a number of successes in the automotive manufacturing industry, and is able to fully understand our current challenges and long-term development requirements,” said Tang Zhibiao, Director, Technology Research Center, Tri-Ring Group. “The successful deployment of NX will help us improve knowledge management during the design process, significantly reducing the number of errors and delays caused by design changes.” Tri-Ring Group manufactures and sells special purpose vehicles, military vehicles, automotive components and CNC metal-forming equipment. The company cited Siemens’ proven history and expertise in the automotive industry as important selection criteria, along with its record of delivering advanced technologies that help companies improve knowledge management, increase efficiency and enhance decision making across the product lifecycle. With the majority of the world’s leading global and domestic automobile manufacturers using its PLM systems and related solutions, Siemens has established a number of successful PLM application models for China’s automotive industry. “The goal of transforming any company into a digital enterprise is a significant undertaking and we are honored to be selected as Tri-Ring Group’s PLM technology partner in this mission,” said Leo Liang, Managing Director, Siemens PLM Software, Greater China. “We look forward to working with Tri-Ring on this transformation to help them create an environment to facilitate smarter decisions that ultimately lead to better products for their customers.” Broad automotive leadership, unmatched momentum Siemens PLM Software has experienced unmatched momentum and established a broad leadership position in the global automotive industry by adding several prominent automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers to its customer base over the past several years. Its technology is now used throughout product development and manufacturing by more than 90 percent of the world’s top 15 automotive OEMs and nearly 90 percent of the top 25 Tier One auto suppliers. In fact, Siemens PLM Software technology is used in the development of more than 80 percent of all the vehicles produced worldwide by all 47 of the world’s top OEMs ranked by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA).

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University Research Lab Leverages aPriori for Automated Product Costing on Defense Manufacturing Project 3 December 2012 aPriori, a provider of enterprise product cost management software solutions, today announced that its platform has been selected by the Applied Research Lab at Penn State University (ARL-PSU) to support its recent contract award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). ARL-PSU will use aPriori as an automated back-end solution for optimizing manufacturing cycle time and product costs for DARPA’s Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program. The goal of AVM is to reduce the development cycle time for complex defense systems by a factor of five, according to DARPA. “To effectively address cycle time, we need to understand the cost and time impact of different processes and materials much earlier in the product lifecycle,” said Dr. Mark Traband, the lead investigator for ARL-PSU. “aPriori’s ability to interpret CAD data and use that to rapidly estimate the cost of manufacturing components utilizing different manufacturing processes and materials is a critical component to the success of this project.” ARL-PSU has been developing advanced systems for the United States Navy and other Department of Defense organizations for 67 years. This includes extensive experience with complex manufacturing systems, large IT systems, enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and product lifecycle management (PLM), relational database management systems and various middleware, web and Internet technologies. Leading the Instant Foundry Adaptive Through Bits (iFAB) effort, the manufacturing arm of the DARPA AVM portfolio, ARL-PSU is working to develop an automated, end-to-end solution that provides real-time manufacturing routing and cycle time data along with detailed production cost estimates. These tools are intended to evaluate submissions on a series of design challenges being released by DARPA related to a new generation of military ground vehicles. aPriori’s Product Cost Management software platform will enable ARL-PSU to determine the cost and manufacturability of a design by pulling geometric and feature information from any 3D CAD model. The software leverages intelligent cost models based on the manufacturing process, materials and the plant where a product or part will be produced. It is anticipated that this knowledge will help iFAB and DARPA understand product cost and cycle time implications earlier in the product lifecycle and target the optimal suppliers, manufacturing processes and materials for its new defense vehicles. “The concept of deploying an automated engine for costing and manufacturing analysis powered by aPriori can have tremendous benefit on cycle time optimization, product cost and innovation for any manufacturer,” said Stephanie Feraday, president and CEO of aPriori. “Given that more and more large manufacturers are relying on their supply chain to design and manufacture a substantial portion of their products, we expect to see this approach really take hold in the broader marketplace over the next few years. It requires the right technology platform and consulting expertise to implement and support this kind of automated, end-to-end process, and aPriori can deliver both to its customers.”

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Vessix Vascular Prepared for Growth and Compliance with Empower PLM 27 November 2012 Vessix Vascular is a privately held, venture-backed company developing novel radiofrequency balloon catheter technology directed towards a variety of clinical applications including the treatment of medication resistant hypertension via percutaneous renal denervation, and peripheral in-stent restenosis. This new technology has the potential to help the one in three adults in the world who suffer from hypertension–a condition that is more common than cancer, diabetes and coronary artery disease combined. Their newest product, the V2 Renal Denervation System for hypertension, recently received CE Mark and promises to greatly simplify the renal denervation procedure. Challenge/Situation: Manual Product Development Processes Vessix Vascular offers a unique approach to treating uncontrolled hypertension that is faster, easier to use and less painful for patients than any renal denervation system currently available in the market. Comprised of a group of individuals with previous experience at successful medical device companies, one of their first priorities was to formalize their product development processes to prepare for their market introduction, successfully meet regulatory guidelines and implement best practices early on. As a small group, Vessix could ‘get by’ with their paper processes for managing engineering changes, product documentation, and Bill of Material (BOM) information but knew this process would not be effective as they grew-particularly where they needed to track engineering change history with full audit trails to meet regulatory requirements. “Even as a start-up, we faced multiple challenges using a paper-based system to manage product revisions,” stated Rinda Sama, Director of Operations and Quality for Vessix Vascular. “Documents would pile up on people’s desks, which meant that items were not reviewed right away, causing delays, and many times by the time it was reviewed, the product was already in the next revision.” Goal/Strategy: Implement Product Lifecycle Management Early On The team at Vessix had previous experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software as a tool to automate product design and development processes. They wanted to implement PLM early on as a best practice for managing BOMs, engineering changes, product documentation, training records, and Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs). “Implementing a solution early on prevents the company

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from being bogged down by legacy data and processes when transitioning to an automated system in the future and also helps to eliminate resistance to change from employees entrenched in those practices,” stated Mr. Sama. “Tools like Omnify that are affordable, already configured to meet the needs of medical device manufacturers and can adapt to a company’s processes make it easy to adopt PLM as a start-up and get off on the right foot.” As they evaluated PLM vendors, they were looking for a solution that did not require huge backend support and that they could install on their existing servers. Omnify Software was recommended by a colleague at another medical device company using the Omnify Empower PLM system. “We looked at Agile due to previous experience with the software but found it to be very expensive and not quite what we needed as a start-up,” stated Mr. Sama. “After viewing a demo of Empower PLM we found the tool to be identical to Agile, and even better in some areas, but with a much more affordable price tag.” Vessix selected the Empower PLM solution because it met their needs as a small start-up with an easy to use and configure system and also delivered the features they needed for controlled product development processes to meet compliance requirements. The scalability of Empower PLM ensured Vessix that they would be able to continue to use the tool as the company grew. Customer Success: Time to Process ECOs is Transparent Empower PLM has supplied Vessix Vascular with a proven scalable solution as they have already grown from ten users to twenty-five. “Empower PLM is part of our day-to-day life at Vessix and the employees here love it,” commented Mr. Sama. Empower PLM addressed Vessix Vascular’s manual revision management issues by providing team members with the ability to see all Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) in real-time. ECOs no longer pile up on people’s desks. All of our product design and development processes are streamlined and viewable in a single snapshot and the time to process an ECO is transparent,” stated Mr. Sama. “We converted the Vessix Approved Supplier List from a static Excel spreadsheet to a dynamic Omnify list,” said Joseluis Espinosa, Project Manager and Omnify Administrator at Vessix Vascular. “In this way, vendors are now able to be linked with individual parts and assemblies. Opening a vendor record displays every part acquired from them. Another advantage to dynamic vendor management is the simplicity with which secondary vendors are able to be qualified and linked to pre-existing parts.” Omnify Empower Vendor Management provides an additional layer of information not available through the legacy paper system. Similarly, all tools and equipment are now managed through the Omnify Empower Training Management Module in order to track calibration and preventive maintenance. “Since we have test and manufacturing equipment both in-house and offsite at various contract manufacturers, using Omnify Empower PLM for automated equipment tracking and maintenance has substantially increased our overall efficiency,” added Mr. Espinosa. Vessix Vascular is ISO 13485:2003 compliant, which specifies requirements for a quality management

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system. The company has already been through two ISO 13485 Quality System audits using the Omnify Empower PLM system. Prior to Empower PLM, they would have to find and print documents to pull for an audit. Now, they can quickly search in Empower PLM to show the necessary documents along with change history, who approved the change, when it was released, change justifications, and links to any other Omnify items relevant to that part. The company recently received their CE Mark, which will allow Vessix to begin marketing the product throughout the European Union, making their Renal Denervation System available to the wider number of people suffering from drug-resistant hypertension. “Omnify PLM offers some subtle yet powerful advantages to the CE Marking application and review process,” stated Mr. Espinosa. “Design History Files and Phase completions were enhanced by citing project deliverables with dynamic links through the Omnify BOM structure, which increased the response speed when regulatory bodies inevitably requested more information. In addition, the web interface kept overseas employees in the loop with time-sensitive signoffs and item releases, and uploading legacy design documents en masse was a breeze, facilitating research into previous-generation projects to address regulatory concerns.”

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Product News ActiveState Announces HP OEM Licensing Agreement for Platform as a Service With Stackato 6 December 2012 ActiveState®, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, announced that HP has entered into a licensing agreement with ActiveState for the OEM integration of ActiveState Stackato®, the enterprise private Platform as a Service (PaaS), with HP Cloud Services, HP's public cloud service. With this technology integration, the HP Application PaaS, powered by Stackato from ActiveState, will provide the PaaS engine for HP Cloud Services. "HP Cloud Services creates new possibilities for developers and enterprises to enjoy the benefits of cloud computing," notes ActiveState CEO Bart Copeland. "Stackato brings multi-language PaaS capabilities to HP Cloud Services. With its innovative polyglot development support, sophisticated management controls, and best-in-class security model for applications and data, Stackato enhances the HP Cloud Services offerings." The Stackato integration provides:

• Agility: By reducing the time spent on IT configuration, Stackato will help HP Cloud users get applications to market faster. Developers can easily test in a production environment, self-serve, and get apps to the cloud in minutes, not weeks.

• Scalability: With built-in auto-scaling, Stackato supports the requirements of individual developers running smaller projects, while having the ability to easily scale to support the mission-critical needs of large enterprises.

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• Freedom of choice: Stackato delivers freedom of choice and flexibility. Users can choose whichever data service, language, or web framework that works best for each application. For instance, enterprise developers can code in Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Node.JS, Java, and many other languages. IT Managers can deploy on LAMP, Java, .NET, or any other stack (and even leverage WebSockets).

• ROI: Stackato saves time and money. Enterprises can get cloud apps to market faster with Stackato's innovative IT as a Service model that features automatic middleware configuration and scaling capabilities.

• Innovation: Stackato automates the configuration, deployment, and management of applications, freeing enterprise teams from managing infrastructure resources and middleware configuration, and enabling a fast and simple test bed environment for all innovative ideas.

• Security: Stackato's innovative individual-wrapper security layer uses Linux containerization technology to envelop each application, and reduce hack-once-compromise-all risks.

Concludes Copeland, "ActiveState is proud to support HP Cloud Services, and is eager to help HP Cloud users realize the full power of the cloud." To sign up for the HP Cloud Application Platform as a Service beta, go to http://go.hpcloud.com/PaaS-private-beta-signup.

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Advance Steel Release of Version 2013 5 December 2012 GRAITEC, a European software developer for modeling and drawing creation for the construction industry, announces the release of version 2013 of its flagship 3D structural steel detailing software for automating drawing production: Advance Steel. Advance Steel is specifically designed for steel professionals who require an easy-to-use 3D structural steel detailing software for automating drawing production. Advance Steel is based on the implementation of a digital model (BIM / Building Information Model) and automates the creation of drawings, BOMs and NC files. Advance Steel drastically increases productivity and drawing quality, while reducing the risk of errors. The software also allows users to communicate information in the digital model to all project stakeholders. The improvements in Version 2013 are organized in the following categories: ERGONOMICS AND EASE OF USE

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Independent of the AutoCAD platform since Version 2012, Advance Steel improves its ergonomics and ease of use by providing a new user interface element, the "palette", which contains animated buttons and tooltips. New features, such as direct access to workshop drawings with a simple right-click in the model or the improved capabilities of working with joint groups, further enhance the simplicity of this new version. NEW PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS Advance Steel has many new innovations: first, the ability to create custom connections allowing users to define, store and reuse custom connections in their projects and thus easily adapt to all types of situations. For Olivier RASQUIER, Steel detailer at Ets J-C FASSLER (France) and Version 2013 beta user: "Until now, I was frequently creating my connections "manually" because my projects are all specific. With Advance Steel 2013, I can create my own custom connections and save them in my library. I can then easily reuse them in my new projects because they automatically adapt to new situations: changed profile orientation, different section etc. I can also clone them and create slightly different ones, as nothing is fixed anymore." Version 2013 also adds new connections for cold rolled profiles (anti-sag and tie rod systems, trimmer cleats, and eaves beam connections) for faster and more efficient drawing creation. Many other features are also available such as the option to create welding lines in drawings. This function is based on recognition technology of "notable points" that updates automatically when the model is changed which also applies to manual dimensions that are updated automatically by Advance Steel 2013. These innovations provide greater efficiency in terms of modeling and document creation for fabrication and assembly, and significantly increase user efficiency. Advance Steel "Professional" and "Premium" versions come with an Application Programming Interface (API) which allows users with computer programming skills to enhance and customize the software. NEW MARKETS Version 2013 has been adapted for the Australian, Indian, and Brazilian markets. Besides translation, the following software configurations are implemented: initialization of software settings according to local usage, enriched libraries (profiles, bolts, cladding, etc.), and drawing style configuration that meets local requirements. Advance Steel 2013 has also been enhanced with specific connections for the Australian market.

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Agilent Technologies Ships New ADS Software to Further Advance Single-, Multi-Technology Design of RF Power Amplifiers 5 December 2012 Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced shipment of Advanced Design System 2012, its flagship RF and microwave EDA software platform. ADS 2012 features new capabilities that improve productivity and efficiency for all applications the system supports and breakthrough technologies applicable to GaAs, GaN and silicon RF power-amplifier multichip module design. The capabilities and breakthroughs now available to new and existing ADS users include:

• User interface enhancements designed to improve design efficiency and productivity, such as dockable windows for quickly accessing frequently used dialog boxes.

• Updated Load Pull and Amplifier DesignGuides, which offer mismatch simulation and make it easy to see amplifier performance at a specific output power level or a specific amount of gain, respectively.

• Dramatically improved integration with EMPro, which enables 3-D electromagnetic component designs to be saved as database cells for use directly in ADS.

• A new ADS electro-thermal simulator that incorporates dynamic temperature effects to improve accuracy in “thermally aware” circuit-simulation results.

• Multichip module electromagnetic simulation setup and Finite Element Method simulation of different technologies to analyze electromagnetic interactions between circuits and interconnects, wire bond and flip-chip solder bumps in typical multichip RF power-amplifier modules.

• Model support for Agilent’s artificial neural network-based NeuroFET model (extracted by Agilent’s IC-CAP device modeling software) to enable more accurate FET modeling and simulation results.

Currently supported Agilent customers interested in the ADS 2012 breakthroughs and features should contact their local applications engineer or field sales person for more information.

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Amdocs Announces First Product Lifecycle Management Solution with Pre-Integrated Business Processes for Communications Service Providers 5 December 2012 At Management Word Americas, Amdocs today introduced the Amdocs Product Lifecycle Management solution. The new solution centralizes and automates a service provider's internal workflow processes, from product ideation to launch, considerably reducing time to market. The solution is already being rolled out by two service providers, one in Southeast Asia and the other in South America.

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The Amdocs Product Lifecycle Management solution incorporates: • Amdocs' Enterprise Product Catalog deployed at more than 40 tier one and tier two service

providers worldwide: centralizes all product information across the service provider's business. • A Business Process Management (BPM) platform: can be easily integrated into the service

provider's systems environment and offers a highly collaborative workflow experience to internal stakeholders.

• Pre-integrated business processes best practices: based on experience gained by the Amdocs Consulting Division in its work with service providers to optimize product lifecycle management and in supporting organizational change management. Processes cover lifecycle management for both simple and bundled products and span more than 100 different workflow activities and more than 50 supporting web forms, such as forms to drive creation of market analysis, business cases, product design and network impact assessment.

"When launching a new product, multiple internal stakeholders are called to action, from marketing, finance and legal to IT and network organizations, challenging service providers' ability to launch products quickly," said Ari Banerjee, senior analyst at Heavy Reading. "The Amdocs Product Lifecycle Management solution is the first to offer pre-integrated business processes best practices to govern this complex flow of information, helping to speed service innovation and minimize time and resources spent on less optimal ideas by stopping them earlier on." "Service providers today compete with agile over-the-top players and mobile virtual network operators," said Rebecca Prudhomme. "The new Amdocs Product Lifecycle Management solution leverages Amdocs' 30-years of experience in supporting service provider operations to introduce an effective solution that can help providers improve time to market, reduce operational costs, and better compete."

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BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the Release of ANSA v13.2.4 with Enhancements and Known Issues Resolved 7 December 2012 Supported platforms The software is available on MS-Windows, Linux and Mac OS only. The support of the UNIX platforms: HP-UX, IBM-AIX and SUN-Solaris is discontinued. The support of Windows 2000 SP3 is also discontinued and Windows XP SP1 is the earliest MS-Windows supported version. For details, please review the latest document on the supported platforms and minimum system requirements Enhancements

• CAD data Translators: New translation library CT_2012_SP3 is available providing

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enhancements and corrections. • STL input: The imported coincident nodes are now automatically pasted. • BOXEs (Morph/Hexa/Size) are now coloured according to the ANSA part they belong to. • Pedestrian Safety: A new option in for the “EuroNCAP Grid” provides car marking on the area

between the bonnet and the windscreen, as an “extension” of the bonnet surface. • Enhanced keywords for Abaqus, LS-DYNA, ANSYS. • DIRECT Morphing: The Transformation option Linear-Cubic now provides two algorithms. • New script built-in commands. • Updates in the scripts-collection.

Known issues resolved

• Translating a JT assembly with “Flatten assemblies” deactivated, was leading to unexpected termination on Windows platforms.

• IGES files translation with the option “Perform topology between PIDs” enabled, was causing unexpected display behaviour on some faces.

• A new check is added during the “saving” operation informing the user if there was an error avoiding corrupted files.

• Opening a file with stored measurement between Edges and Curves could lead to unexpected termination if the curve was hidden.

• Significant improvement in visual handling (Rotate-Panning) of very big STL files that was very too slow.

• Read Spots>XML: It was leading to unexpected termination when the file contained Seamline with weld direction.

• Connections Output: When the connection ids were having 9-digits, the model output was leading to unexpected termination.

• Saving a database that contained Gumdrops realized with a FE-Representation of *_IQUAD, was not being saved.

• PBAR ID was not accepting the ELFORM-9 of LS-DYNA for the SPIDER2 FE-Representation. • DACH>DIVIDE FACE: Occasionally the preview was different from the result. • PASTE [Manual]: The nodes belonging to perimeters, were not respecting the “Param paste

position” • MESH GEN>CFD : sometimes was not considering the option "Calculate min-max length" in

the Options List. • SHELL MESH PROJECT[Shell/Facet]: Sometimes the function was leading to unexpected

termination. • WRAP: Very acute angles were failing to be wrapped. • WRAP: Models of very small dimensions sometimes were having missing parts being wrapped. • VOLUME>LAYERS: The options "Stop inflating / Stop growing" were not always being read

properly.

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• Imported models with many APARAM parameters occasionally were taking too long to be loaded.

• PENETRATION>INTERSECTIONS: The Fix options "Flip nodes / Flip edges" were not moving the mid-nodes.

• RENUMBER: Rules with conflict in ranges (intersect or range smaller than the entities), could cause the loss of elements.

• INCLUDES: Some part of the exported file was missing, if it had stored unsupported keywords. • NASTRAN: Output: Sometimes the "Short" format was issuing weird fe-mesh output. • NASTRAN: RBE3>FACET: The function was not finishing the process or it was taking too

long. • NASTRAN: converting RBE3 to MPC occasionally was leading to unexpected termination only

on Windows platforms. • Abaqus Output Section Controls with DEFINED=NO, were unexpectedly being output. • LS-DYNA: The material MAT_LAMINATED_GLASS was written with 3 extra blank lines. • The DynaSectionNumSchema in ANSA.defaults file was not working for negative ELFORM

values. • CHECKs Executing LS-DYNA RIGID DEPENDENCY through Checks Manager, was leading

to unexpected termination. • LS-DYNA Seatbelt: Random material orientation (AOPT) was being applied when

MAT_FABRIC was created. • RADIOSS Output: The M00 format was not being exported correctly. • ANSYS Output: Nodes of Pre-tension Sections were being missing after exporting the model.

This was happening with 2nd order surfaces. • MEDINA: Occasionally the SPRING elements of Pam-Crash were leading to unexpected

termination while exporting to Pam-Crash solver. • FLUENT 2D BCs>BC>List: The Renumber alphabetically was not working. • OpenFOAM Output of empty SOLID_PROPERTY was causing conflict in the internalField. • STAR CCM Output: Files could not be read in STAR v6 and v7. • RADTHERM Performance on Windows OS has been improved after the Libraries have been

upgraded to v10.4.0.0 • MOPRH BOXES NEW: Picking a local coordinate system of a cross section, was leading to

unexpected termination. • MOPRH DIRECT was not selecting Cylindrical or Spherical coordinate system (right click). • MOPRH MODIFICATION RADIUS could lead to weird elements when the “Translate” option

was being switched. • Optimization Task: Morphing Boxes related to Parameters which were loaded to DV files, were

not being saved. • Input script functions (any Deck), could not read files from drives different than local C:/. This

was happening on Windows OS only.

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• AutoPaste script function was not accepting nodes as container. Compatibility ANSA files saved by version 13.2.4 can be opened by v13.2.0 but not by older versions. Documentation Documentation is packed into the "common" file. While the "common" file is unpacked, you will find an html file that will guide you through the available PDF documents, including the Release Notes and the Users Guides. Release Notes Please refer to the Release Notes document for more details about the software corrections and the new features. A detailed Release Notes document is available in PDF in the download directory and also in the /docs sub-directory within the installation directory. Tutorial files' availability' The demo files necessary to cover the tutorials' documentation are available as separate downloads within the META_POST_TUTORIALS folder of the [ Public ] area. For more information, visit: http://www.beta-cae.gr/news/20121206_announcement_ansa_v13.2.4.htm

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BETA CAE Systems S.A. Announces the Release of µETA v6.8.3 with Enhancements and Known Problems Resolved 7 December 2012 Supported platforms µETA v6.8.x is available on MS-Windows, Linux and Mac OS only. The support of the UNIX platforms: HP-UX, IBM-AIX and SUN-Solaris is discontinued. The support of Windows 2000 SP3 is also discontinued and Windows XP SP1 is the earliest MS-Windows supported version. For details, please review the latest document on the supported platforms and minimum system requirements New features introduced

• The Modal Response and FRF Assembly tools can now calculate the pressure on fluid grids from the complex eigenvalues (Nastran SOL107) of a coupled acoustic model.

• META now supports reading, in the 2D Plot tool, modal contribution fractions from Nastran *.pch files.

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• It is now possible to draw the interior surfaces of Fluent models. Known issues resolved

• The result option "Max of In Out/All Layers" would not calculate correct results from Abaqus *.odb files.

• The 32-bit MS-Windows version of META would crash when reading FEMZIP-L files compressed with the 64-bit executable.

• The graphics performance of META would deteriorate when working with multiple Pamcrash *.DSY files and numerous plotted curves.

• Pamcrash TETRA10 elements would not be read. • META would not read certain Permas *.uci files. • META would not read certain Ensight files.

Compatibility µETA v6.8.3 can only run with beta_lm_tools v6.0 or later. The latest beta_lm_tools version is v6.3. The .metadb files saved by the later versions of µETA are compatible and can be opened by earlier versions of µETA. Documentation Documentation is packed into the "common" file. While the "common" file is unpacked, you will find an html file that will guide you through the available PDF documents, including the Release Notes and the Users Guides. Release Notes Please refer to the Release Notes document for more details about the software corrections and the new features. A detailed Release Notes document is available in PDF in the download directory and also in the /docs sub-directory within the installation directory. Users Guide An Users Guide, updated for version 6.8.3, is also available in PDF. Tutorial files' availability The demofiles necessary to cover the tutorials' documentation are available as separate downloads within the META_POST_TUTORIALS folder of the [ Public ] area. Some tutorial files have been updated for µETA v6.8.2. For more information, visit: http://www.beta-cae.gr/news/20121206_announcement_meta_v6.8.3.htm

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Corel Introduces New CorelCAD™ 2013 4 December 2012 Corel® has announced CorelCAD™ 2013, the latest version of its CAD design solution. Adding full compatibility with the new AutoCAD® .DWG 2013 file format, CorelCAD 2013 gives engineers, designers and architects precise 2D drafting capabilities and a variety of customizable 2D and 3D design tools. The new alignment and revision tools, DGN Underlay functionality and in-place text editing, allow users to design with even more accuracy. CorelCAD 2013 also offers improved performance and speed, support for the latest Windows and Mac operating systems and a native 64-bit Windows version. "CorelCAD 2013 continues to be one of the most cost-effective CAD solutions available for small-to-medium businesses and larger enterprises today. It's a powerful and comprehensive CAD solution with innovative tools that are easy-to-use, understand and implement for day-to-day 2D and 3D design projects," said Klaus Vossen, Product Manager for Technical Graphics at Corel. "CorelCAD 2013 is also an ideal solution for users in the architecture, engineering, manufacturing and design communities who rely on full compatibility when importing and exporting CorelDRAW and Corel DESIGNER file formats." CorelCAD Communicates Ideas with Precision Tools The latest version is a highly productive CAD product that has added new industry standard file support, advanced functionality, performance enhancements and intuitive tools that improve the design workflow. Key new features of CorelCAD 2013 include:

• AutoCAD .DWG 2013 Support: Open, work with and save files in .DWG format natively—full compatibility, support, features and CorelCAD file attributes

• Native 64-bit Windows Support: With the new 64-bit version of CorelCAD 2013, manage and process large files with a significant increase in workflow performance

• Enhanced Performance and Speed: Increased efficiency allows improved memory use that will expedite the loading process for large files

• Align Viewport Tool: Easily arrange the elements of a drawing to gain better, more accurate alignment in sheets—the viewports are aligned by the geometry on the inside of the viewport

• Revision Cloud Tool: Simplify the review and revision process by using the Cloud command to create revision clouds that highlight areas to be edited—accentuate with specific shapes or freehand clouds

• DGN Underlay: As with PDF Underlay, you can now insert Microstation .DGN files as referenced drawing, specify layer visibility , clip (mask) DGN Underlay and align new drawing elements to objects in a DGN Underlay

• In-place Text Editing: Edit text directly on screen to modify the definitions of components and view the changes in real-time

• Automation Capabilities: Use the VSTA (Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications) Manager Toolbar to record, edit, and run VSTA macros that will perform repetitive tasks or automate command sequences. Plus, utilize the support for continued Lisp commands to avoid extra programming steps

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• More OS Support: The latest operating systems including Windows 8 and Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) are now supported

CorelCAD Delivers an Affordable CAD Solution to Businesses of All Sizes "I've been using CorelCAD since it was first introduced and have been very impressed by its performance and speed. CorelCAD includes impressive features and a familiar interface that definitely makes it a smart choice for a variety of graphic users", said Scott Davis, Owner of Davis Drafting & Design. "The native .DWG support allows me to work with all of my documents and with 3D modeling, CorelCAD delivers well beyond what other, more expensive CAD solutions offer for my business." For more information, please visit www.corel.com.

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Delcam adds OrthoticSelector to Software Range for Custom Insoles 4 December 2012 Delcam has added a new program, OrthoticSelector, to its range of software for the design and manufacture of custom orthotic insoles. OrthoticSelector provides a lower-cost solution for practitioners and laboratories by allowing them to identify, from a library of existing designs, the prefabricated orthotic or cast that best fits a patient’s requirements. It also enables faster development of new designs when the patient needs fully-customised insoles. OrthoticSelector is Delcam’s first software that can also be used in the retail orthotic market, either for sports or medical applications, as well as by practitioners and laboratories. It provides a scientific method for the selection of the most appropriate orthotic design to match a patient’s foot anatomy and needs from a stock of existing devices. This approach is often more cost-effective than developing a customised orthotic since standard designs for frequently-found problems can be mass-produced. In addition, using standard designs means that patients can have their orthotics off-the-shelf rather than having to wait for them to be made to order. OrthoticSelector can also be used to select the most appropriate cast positive to match a patient’s pathology, again from a set of existing designs covering the most common pathologies. It is ideal for laboratories that have developed a physical database of casts covering the spectrum of foot conditions they need to treat most frequently. Vacuum-forming the orthotic from an existing cast again reduces costs and speeds up delivery to the patient. In both cases, the process starts with a scan of the patient’s foot, from which key anatomical features are extracted. These features are then used to select automatically the appropriate orthotic or cast design from the database. The software always lists the "ideal” fit for the patient, plus a range of suitable

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alternatives on either side, giving the practitioner or laboratory complete clinical control over the selection process. OrthoticSelector is unique in that it can even accelerate the development process in many cases when a new design of custom orthotic insole is required. It can be used to select an existing design from the database which best fits the pathology of the patient. This design can then be scaled to match the size of the individual’s foot and the key anatomical features, before being passed for manufacturing. If required, the design can be added to the database to expand the laboratory’s offering to future patients. "The OrthoticSelector offers a way to provide relief for a patient more quickly and at a lower cost,” claimed Delcam’s Healthcare Business Development Manager, Chris Lawrie. "It will be of most benefit to those patients with relatively minor problems and those requiring additional support, for example, from sports orthotics. However, it will also mean that patients with more unusual or more extreme needs can have their custom orthotic insoles made more quickly.”

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Delcam’s New ArtCAM Pro Makes Complex Artistic Designs Easy 6 December 2012 The new release of Delcam’s ArtCAM Pro CADCAM software for artistic applications has made it much easier to create complex designs, especially those that include repeated elements that are similar but not identical within the design. Unlike most other CADCAM systems, ArtCAM Pro is aimed at skilled artisans rather than engineers and requires little knowledge of engineering or computing. It has been particularly successful in the signmaking, woodworking and engraving industries. In these areas and in other artistic applications, ArtCAM Pro allows users to increase productivity, improve quality and deliver new designs more quickly, by combining their craft skills and creativity with the power and precision of computer-aided manufacturing. The main addition in the latest release of ArtCAM Pro is a new way of working called ‘Free Relief Modelling’. This technique allows previously-created reliefs to be selected and then moved, rotated, rescaled and copied, either individually or as part of a group. Any part of the design can be isolated, edited and then recombined into a group for duplication or further editing within the group. At any stage in the process, either individual items or a group of items can be saved within ArtCAM Pro’s clipart library for use in future projects. The overall result is much more natural than simply duplicating a single shape across the design, while also being much quicker than modelling each item individually. Examples where the technique could be used include creating the feathers in a model of a bird or designing a forest of similar trees without them all appearing identical.

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A related development that will also make it easier to create more complex designs allows the interaction between different layers to be viewed in real time. This will make it much faster to choose the optimum combination of the different layers as the effects of changing the overlap can be seen instantly. Sketching in ArtCAM Pro has been made easier by giving the designer the freedom to alternate between straight and curved vectors whilst drawing. Once created, vectors can now be added to or closed, and any nodes within them can be edited or deleted, at any time, either in the 2D or 3D view. The ability to add textures to designs has always been an important feature within ArtCAM Pro. This ability has been extended with a new patent-pending ‘Texture Flow’ tool to create more natural organic textures, such as hair, fur and scales. More natural effects can also be obtained with an addition to the sculpting tools. Sculpting effects can now be scattered randomly across the design as well as placed systematically. More control is available over all the sculpting options as these can now be limited to a specific area or to a set height. Of course, the "undo” option is still available if the results aren’t as expected. All of these new capabilities can be displayed with even more realistic renders of designs created in ArtCAM Pro. The software now comes with POV-Ray ray-tracing technology, allowing high-quality images to be generated for customer approval or marketing materials.

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DST Announces SimWise Version 8.5 4 December 2012 DST (Design Simulation Technologies, Inc.; www.design-simulation.com), has announced the availability of SimWise V8.5. This release introduces significant new capabilities for CAD integration and FEA solving along with a 64-bit version of the product. These enhancements will allow all engineers to test, refine and validate their designs without the high cost and complexity of traditional CAE systems. SimWise complements existing CAD and PLM infrastructure by working directly with product design data and adding simulation specific objects, resulting in a model that provides answers to fundamental engineering questions such as “Does it work?” “Is it optimized?” “Will it break?” Knowing the answer to these questions early in the design cycle allows necessary changes to be made at the most cost effective time without going through expensive and time consuming steps of building a physical prototype, testing it, and redesigning it.

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SimWise enables small and large manufacturers to reduce their development time and costs by eliminating physical prototypes until a concept is proven in SimWise. The results are better products and higher profits. SimWise makes it easy for companies whose products contain moving parts and assemblies in the automotive, aerospace, consumer products, and machinery fields to perform dynamic motion simulation and finite element analysis in a single product at a price that makes it possible to place a copy on every engineer’s desktop. “SimWise provides simulation capabilities previously available only in high cost products de-signed for use by engineering analysts” said Jeff Arrigotti, DST Director of Sales. “Simulation has its greatest impact when it is used as an integral part of the design cycle allowing more de-sign alternatives to be explored; resulting in better final designs. SimWise has the power and the cost effectiveness to make up-front simulation a reality for all product teams no matter the size.” New capabilities in SimWise V8.5 include:

• A 64-bit version that allows large models to be simulated and better utilizes the capabilities of today’s computer hardware.

• An associative interface with Solid Edge that translates Solid Edge parts, assemblies and assembly constraints to SimWise via Solid Edge add-in. Associative translations via an add-in is also available for SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor.

• Expanded data translation capabilities. SimWise can read the following data formats; Catia V5, NX, Creo/Elements, SolidWorks, Inventor, ACIS, Parasolids, STEP, IGES, and STL.

• A new data translation API that allows anyone to transfer part and assembly constraint data to SimWise.

• Enhancements to the Finite Element Solver to support normal modes, buckling, and steady state thermal analyses. The solver makes much better use of multi-core processors resulting in a significant decrease in solution times.

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Equalis Introduces Advanced Image and Video Processing Module 4 December 2012 Equalis today announced the availability of its Advanced Image and Video Processing module. This new capability was developed in collaboration with Equalis’ partner, Trity Technologies, based in Malaysia. It is included as part of the Equalis Pro Plus solution. The Equalis Advanced Image and Video Processing Module is an important module for Scilab users as it enables users to perform powerful image and video processing tasks efficiently and is seamlessly integrated within Equalis environment. With over 120 functions, applications such as filtering, image analysis and statistics, image enhancement and restoration, image registration and image fusion, image transforms, morphological operation, and many others, together enable high level image detection and processing to be performed within the same environment. Additionally, video files and cameras can be

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managed and manipulated, allowing users to perform soft real-time video processing. This provides Equalis users a flexible environment to explore design ideas and create unique solutions for imaging and video systems. Equalis provides premier software modules on top of the Scilab open source platform and industrial grade support through subscription programs; typically costing 90% less than purchasing equivalent software applications. Training, deployment and consulting services are also available for a fast start. Equalis’ premier modules include: Code Generation, Communications, Connectivity, Control and Power Systems, Fixed Point, Instrument Control, Neural Networks, Thunder and Lightning (Parallelization), Signal Processing, SoftCruncher (software performance enhancement), and many more. Equalis Pro Plus solution is available with prices starting at $995 per user. Existing Equalis Pro Plus subscribers can download these new capabilities from the company's customer portal. "With the introduction of our newest module, Advanced Image and Video Processing, we continue to provide compelling functionality integrated into our solution suite all for one low price,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO and Co-founder, Equalis. "These new capabilities further enrich our solution and allow our customers to tackle problems in the rapidly emerging fields of computer vision, image and video processing.” “We are excited to further enhance our partnership with Equalis in the development of this exciting solution,” said Gary Yang, Business Development Director of Trity Technologies. “As Equalis Pro Plus is being adopted in the industry, we are pleased to supplement these customers by adding Advanced Image and Video Processing functionality under the same and easy to use integrated environment.”

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FARO Introduces New 3D App Center 4 December 2012 FARO Technologies, Inc. has unveiled the FARO 3D App Center, the company’s new online exchange for Focus3D software applications. Through the 3D App Center, Focus3D users and software developers can download and share purpose-built apps to meet specific scanning challenges. The FARO 3D App Center reduces costs and simplifies workflows by replacing expensive software packages that perform tasks users may never need. Instead, customers can access and download FARO software apps built specifically to resolve their particular scanning challenges, such as surface or volume calculations. The result is lower operating cost and an assurance that scanning professionals have the FARO software they need, for the tasks they perform, each and every time. FARO’s 3D App Center also provides a forum for software developers to create and share their own

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apps with the laser scanning world. Now, third-parties and other software companies can reach Focus3D customers directly, with apps tailored to meet their needs. All third-party apps are thoroughly tested and approved by the FARO team before making their way to the 3D App Center for download. The all-new FARO 3D App Center is available now at http://3d-app-center.faro.com.

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Find and Apply Crucial Materials Information with GRANTA MI Version 6 30 November 2012 Granta Design has announced the latest release of GRANTA MI™, the materials information management system for engineering enterprises. Version 6 makes it even easier for engineers, designers, and others with a need for materials data to find that data and to apply it to reduce risk and cost while making better, more sustainable products. The release contains new features to manage and search materials data, expanded integration with key Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software, and new data and tools for considering automotive steels, materials liable to strategic supply risks, restricted substances, and surface treatments.

GRANTA MI provides a specialist database system and supporting software that enables user organizations to build a single, secure, traceable, source for all of their valuable materials data – internal data (e.g., from testing, QA, research, or design) and reference data (e.g., covering engineering, economic, or environmental properties). A range of GRANTA MI tools help users to access and apply this valuable information resource. Advances in GRANTA MI Version 6 include:

• Search with enhanced material intelligence - find what you need, even when using tricky material designations (e.g., alloy names, plastic grades) which are often written inconsistently in the source data.

• Handle real materials data – new features make it easier to store and present data for some important scenarios, e.g., for sparse populations of test data where properties vary with conditions.

• Access and apply managed materials within CAD/CAE. New for ANSYS Workbench® and NX®. Updated for Pro/ENGINEER® and Abaqus/CAE®.

• Report on restricted substance risk within CAD, including consideration of surface treatment specifications.

• Aid preparation of simulation models for crash, stamping, and forming with new data on automotive sheet steels.

• Track and mitigate possible strategic supply problems, e.g., with conflict minerals, via a new Critical Materials Data Module.

• Find replacement materials fast, with an enhanced substitution tool.

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GRANTA MI is the result of a collaborative effort between Granta and its industrial and technology partners. For example, members of the Materials Data Management Consortium (MDMC) and Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT) Consortium provide guidance and feedback during product development. These members include Boeing, Emerson Electric, Eurocopter, GE, Honeywell, NASA, and Rolls-Royce. The Critical Materials Data Module was developed through the ‘Samulet’ industry-academic project led by Rolls-Royce, with supporting funding from the UK Technology Strategy Board and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. “The latest release of GRANTA MI strengthens our core materials data management capabilities, adds data and tools for new applications, and improves integration with key design and simulation technologies,” commented Dr David Cebon, Managing Director at Granta Design. “GRANTA MI is the result of our continued collaboration with leading engineering enterprises, and we look forward to working with them to apply the system and develop it further.”

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GstarCAD MC PRO: Over Hundreds of Thousands of Downloads after a Month's Release 6 December 2012 Along with the development of mobile device hardware, there are a lot of mobile CAD software on the market today. With the release of GstarCAD MC PRO for iOS and Android last month, this Mobile CAD Client has attracted users all over the world with its features and has received high praise. Features of GstarCAD MC PRO Compared with the previous version, GstarCAD MC PRO has a great functional innovation. GstarCAD MC PRO enables users to view and edit CAD drawings (.dwg, .ocf and .dxf files) directly on their mobile device, which is a milestone of the mobile CAD software. It can save drawings without a network, and the safety of the designs would be guaranteed. After all, the files' safety is the most important to a designer. On the other hand, GstarCAD MC PRO is equipped with perfect online functionality. GstarCAD MC PRO implements complete network functions by supporting the attachment of emails and web disks. It breaks the limitation of placing undue emphasis on networks; as a result, its practicability has been significantly improved. Feedback of users As the leading 2D/3D CAD software provider, Gstarsoft has an experienced R&D team and mature technology in CAD soft development. Once GstarCAD MC PRO was released, its market performance was extremely outstanding. A few days ago, Gstarsoft released a market data: GstarCAD MC PRO has been downloaded in more than a dozen countries, with the cumulative download amount over hundreds of thousands. This amount of downloads has set the record in the mobile CAD software market.

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Mobile CAD in the future The customer survey tells us that GstarCAD MC PRO has received a perfect result all over the world. To meet customers' requirements, GstarCAD MC PRO will work harder in the future and pursue a more perfect CAD design product for designers worldwide. Download GstarCAD MC PRO for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gstarcad-mc-pro/id555578651?l=en&mt=8 Download GstarCAD MC PRO for Android: http://www.gstarcad.net/cad_143_79.html

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HP Harnesses the Power of Big Data with New Information Optimization Solutions 4 December 2012 HP has announced new and enhanced Information Optimization Solutions that help enterprises manage, understand and act upon the variety, velocity and volume of organizational data to drive maximum "Return on Information." Return on Information is the value that organizations generate from their investments in information solutions, services and resources by gaining insight from their data to make better and quicker decisions. Big data is composed of structured data, from traditional databases; unstructured data consisting of images, videos, emails, texts and more; and semistructured data collected from sensors and machines -- and are all factors in the challenge that organizations are facing today. The volume of the world's "digital universe" is expected to reach 8 zettabytes by 2015,1 making storage and management of data a massive challenge. And according to new research conducted on behalf of HP, nearly 60 percent of business executives report that their organizations are not equipped with the right solutions to gain insight from Big Data, and only 10 percent of executives said their organizations currently incorporate unstructured data into their enterprise insights, processes and strategy.2

With new solutions from Autonomy and HP Vertica -- both HP companies -- coupled with new HP Converged Infrastructure solutions and deep services expertise, HP enables businesses and governments to extract value from 100 percent of their structured, semistructured and unstructured information. "Over the next several years, Return on Information will become the single most important measure of success for organizations," said George Kadifa, executive vice president, Software, HP. "HP will continue to invest in and develop solutions and services that harness the volume, diversity and unpredictability of information to deliver real value to our clients."

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HP helps clients manage information with an intelligent ecosystem To address the need for configuring and deploying Big Data systems, HP today expanded its HP AppSystems portfolio to offer improved customer choice and expanded capabilities of HP Converged Infrastructure with Apache™ Hadoop™, HP Vertica Analytics Platform and Autonomy eDiscovery environments. The Autonomy Legal and Compliance Performance Suite is an end-to-end solution that uniquely enables organizations to detect and act on new signals of risk; understand, protect, govern and collaborate on information; and maintain compliance with local, federal and international regulations. The suite is powered by the Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), a unique pattern-recognition engine that understands concepts in all forms of information, and includes market-leading offerings for archiving, data protection, enterprise content management (ECM), eDiscovery and records management. HP Proactive Care for SAP optimizes an infrastructure running SAP solutions, enabling faster analysis of large amounts of data, including application trend analysis, capacity planning and measurement of system resource utilization. The newly enhanced HP Converged Storage portfolio eliminates administrative complexity, reduces costs and accelerates information insight in virtualized, cloud and Big Data environments. HP helps clients to intelligently understand their data The HP Vertica Analytics Platform 6.1 is an analytics platform, purpose built to optimize Big Data. It enables enterprises to optimize and monetize Big Data with analytics packs, performance enhancements, enhanced integration with Hadoop and simplified Amazon EC2 cloud deployments -- all at hyperspeed and massive scale. The new HP Telco Big Data and Analytics solutions enable communication service providers (CSPs) to transform data from a variety of sources, including subscribers' experience and preferences, into actionable intelligence. Leveraging HP's Big Data analytics software, as well as HP's consulting, research, information management and business intelligence experience, HP Telco Big Data and Analytics enable CSPs to manage, analyze and use business-relevant structured and unstructured data. The HP Big Data Strategy Workshop provides clients with solutions to address some of their biggest information challenges, so they can leverage their data to accelerate informed decisions. The workshop educates clients on aligning IT and organizational goals, and on identifying critical success factors for Big Data architecture and system infrastructure strategy. It also helps to enable protection and compliance. As a result, clients can implement the right solutions to handle the growing volume, velocity and variety of their organizational information. HP helps clients act on data to make intelligent, critical decisions -- faster The Autonomy Marketing Performance Suite, powered by Autonomy IDOL, uniquely enables marketers to understand, attract, engage and convert customers in real time, resulting in increased market share and

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revenue. The suite consists of market-leading offerings for Customer Experience Management, Marketing Optimization and Multichannel Analytics. A recording of the HP Discover Frankfurt press conference and additional information about HP's announcements at its premier client event, HP Discover Frankfurt, is available at www.hp.com/go/HPDiscoverFrankfurt2012.

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Lantek and Kerf Work Together to Offer the Best Profile Cutting Solution 5 December 2012 Lantek Systems and Kerf Developments have been collaborating for over five years in the UK to offer sheet material manufacturers a one-stop, premium solution for CADCAM, oxy-fuel, plasma and waterjet cutting. Together the two companies have installed around 100 systems at all types of companies, including leading end users within the industry. Dan Taylor, Managing Director of Kerf Developments says, “Our most popular machines are high density plasma and oxy-fuel. We work with Lantek because of the support it offers and the capabilities of its Lantek Expert software. In particular it minimizes user input with automatic lead-in and lead-out moves. Its auto nesting is quick and easy to use and produces excellent material utilization results.” Kerf’s oxy fuel and plasma machines use the Burny 10 control system which is the market leader and, in addition, the plasma machines use the Kaliburn high density plasma cutting power supply. This uses the company’s proprietary technology which includes special ramping and piercing routines. These routines increase consumable life, produce a high quality cut and reduce operating costs. Furthermore, the machine can achieve 2 degree bevel on the profiled part edges for the lifetime of the Kaliburn consumables. Dan Taylor adds, “We have the ability to remotely interrogate a machine at the customer’s site to diagnose any fault or operating problem. Because Lantek’s engineers understand the machine control interface as well as their CADCAM software, we can, where necessary, allow them to remotely access the machine control as well. This ensures that with Lantek we can accurately pin down any issues on the customer’s site and deliver a solution which often avoids the need for a service visit.” Kerf keeps an extensive range of spare parts at its Rochdale headquarters. Remote diagnostics ensure that when a service visit is required, the correct spare part can be brought along at the first visit, getting the user up and running again as quickly as possible. Lantek Expert includes dedicated technology for the full range of Kerf’s machines including its waterjet profilers. These machines are ideal for cutting non-conductive materials, eliminate any thermal damage to the parts being cut and remove the need for secondary operations on the component. Dan Taylor says, “The technology in Lantek Expert addresses all the techniques required by the three different processes. For example, the software has a heat avoidance routine which cuts one area on the oxy-fuel machine,

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then moves to the opposite corner to continue cutting while the first area cools.” Rob Powell, Managing Director of Lantek Systems says, “We have a very good relationship with Kerf Developments. They supply high quality machinery and together we offer a system which is optimized for efficient and profitable manufacture. Our engineers understand Kerf’s machines and technology, and Kerf’s engineers understand our software, giving customers a uniquely seamless and integrated solution.”

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MecSoft Releases VisualXPORT 2.0 for Inventor 6 December 2012 MecSoft Corporation, the developer of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software solutions, has announced VisualXPORT 2.0 for Inventor. VisualXPORT for Inventor is an integrated plug-in for Autodesk’s Inventor allowing users to transfer Inventor geometry directly to VisualMILL without having to go through a neutral format such as STEP or IGES. The solution provides an enhanced workflow for companies that design in Inventor and use VisualMILL in their manufacturing process. "A number of our VisualMILL customers are using Inventor and need enhanced export capabilities beyond the traditional 3D DWG, STL, IGES and STEP formats. VisualXPORT for Inventor meets this need,” stated Uday Honnalagere, Support Manager for MecSoft. “We’re excited to offer this new release of VisualXPORT for Inventor that offers enhanced capabilities including the ability to export solids and surfaces as NURBS surfaces.” VisualXPORT 2.0 for Inventor can be used to export 2D & 3D Sketches (curves), solids with combined faces, solids with separate faces and individual surfaces. It is certified to run inside Autodesk Inventorversions 2009 through 2013. To learn more about VisualXPORT for Inventor, please visit www.visualxport.com.

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New Release of InspectionXpert for SolidWorks 2013 4 December 2012 InspectionXpert Corporation announced the release of InspectionXpert for SolidWorks 2013. InspectionXpert for SolidWorks 2013 supports the recently released SolidWorks 2013 version. InspectionXpert for SolidWorks is an add-in for SolidWorks 2013.

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InspectionXpert for SolidWorks is a SolidWorks Gold Partner product designed to eliminate manual processes and bottlenecks in the quality department that arise from manual processing of inspection documentation. With InspectionXpert quality departments will experience time savings of 50 to 90% when creating inspection plans. InspectionXpert helps meet reporting requirements for Aerospace AS9102, Automotive PPAP, Medical Device, Oil and Gas, Defense, and Equipment manufacturing and their supply chains. InspectionXpert for SolidWorks is also available for SolidWorks 2012 users. The InspectionXpert product line creates ballooned inspection drawings and generates inspection report forms in minutes. InspectionXpert integrates with popular CAD programs including Solid Edge, CATIA, SolidWorks, AutoCAD Mechanical, and Pro/ENGINEER or Creo, and InspectionXpert for PDF and InspectionXpert OnDemand work with any PDF and TIFF files. The Inspection product line includes CMMXpert, which imports CMM results data from almost any CMM directly into InspectionXpert projects. For the latest news and information visit their web site at http://www.inspectionxpert.com or call 800.379.0322.

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Parasolid V25.0 Delivers Broad Set Of Customer-Driven Enhancements to Boost Productivity 4 December 2012 Siemens PLM Software, today announced the latest release of Parasolid® software, its 3D geometric modeling component for computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) as well as architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) applications. Parasolid version 25.0 delivers a broad set of customer-driven enhancements with particular emphasis on surfacing, visualization and performance. “Parasolid delivers high quality solutions to meet the technical challenges presented by our diverse user-base of world-class application developers,” said Paul Sicking, senior vice president, Chief Technology Office, Siemens PLM Software. “This latest release of Parasolid delivers an impressive set of enhancements that enable application developers to further automate workflows in order to boost end user productivity.” Parasolid version 25.0 includes enhancements in a wide variety of areas with a special focus on surface and curve modeling as well as performance optimization.

• Surface Modeling – includes enhancements that provide end-users fine control of surface modeling. For example, when repairing a hole in geometry that is often present in imported models, it is now possible to provide additional data to act as a framework structure for the repairing surface. Also, sweep operations through multiple profiles can be clamped to

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smoothly meet faces adjacent to the profiles. • Curve Modeling – includes new functionality to provide fine control when manipulating

curves. A single smooth continuous curve can now be created from a chain of smoothly-connected edges and one or more curves may be projected onto a surface along the surface normal or along a user supplied vector.

• Performance optimization – enhancements were made to improve established algorithms in functionality such as Booleans and ray-fire to address new workflows in CAE applications. This has been achieved with no compromise to the performance of the more sophisticated operations in these areas.

These broad enhancements are in addition to numerous highly-specialized improvements targeted at specific industries and workflows. For more information please visit www.siemens.com/plm/parasolid/v250.

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SENER launches new FORAN Release, V70R2.0 5 December 2012 Following a strong strategy for innovation, last 30th of November SENER launched its newest V70R2.0 FORAN release. With a good payload of new capabilities and innovative developments, FORAN continues as a provider of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for shipbuilding and offshore. Nowadays, when the design cycle has shorten and the globalization allows companies to provide design services virtually from anywhere, the key factors to guarantee staying competitive are the right management of information through the complete design process and the seamless transition from one design stage to the next. This is, taking the right decisions as early as possible and developing them gradually, from basic design to production, with no data loses or derived drawbacks. For this last FORAN release, we at SENER have strengthen the links between the basic and detail designs, and between the ship design and the running PLM solution. Another step towards a cost-effective, energy-efficient, green design as the market demands. Ship model in FORAN V70 FORAN remains as the only CAD/CAM system which has been fully in-house developed, completely ship oriented. In FORAN integration doesn’t come as an effort to communicate between different disciplines from different developers, but as the natural result of accessing the same information from different perspectives. This natural integration has been even improved for the new release by unifying input data windows, opening the electrical data to generic pipe and HVAC fittings, controlling the equipment position in the ship regarding the maturity of the already connected cables. The FORAN V70R2.0 also includes the complete management of the ship applicability, which means full control of sister ships (like modifications applied downstream but restricted upstream, integrity of

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the shared standards…). The PLM links have been extended too, yet in the process to integrate completely to the degree demanded by the most stringent markets, such as the naval ships and the offshore. In relation to enhancements in all the design disciplines, the new FORAN V70R2.0 incorporates new capabilities to improve the designer´s routine. Starting from the Initial Design discipline, a new and revolutionary module FBASIC replaces all the former Naval Architecture applications, with a single and modern environment. This, in addition to the FORAN General Arrangement module (FGA), also subject to improvements, allows a fast and successful management of the initial design stage. Many changes in the Hull Structure discipline allow a quick generation of the 3D model of the structure. The most relevant are the new module FNEST for the management of the nestings, the new profile definition options and the new clash detection command to calculate interferences between structural parts. It is worth to mention the benefits of the FORAN link with FEM tools, being an important approach especially relevant when the 3D model is built at early design stages. Regarding the Machinery & Outfitting discipline, the most remarkable improvements are FSYSD, the new application for the complete management of system diagrams (symbols, P&I and electrical diagrams), enhancements in the clash detection algorithm, a new level of integration between the 2D diagram and the 3D model for pipelines (including even a graphic selector of pipes from the diagram), as well as the interactive solid routing of HVAC ducts and cable trays. For the Electrical Design discipline, beside the new FSYSD already mentioned, the most relevant development is a new set of commands for the complete calculation of electric loads on board. About the drawings generation in FDESIGN module, it is worth to mention the new option to perform a multiple selection of sections, as well as the filtering of structure drawings, among other useful developments. Some other general innovations are the new solution to extract material reports from any ship discipline, and the incorporation of stereoscopic visualization and tracking in FVIEWER, the Virtual Reality viewer. Minor, cosmetic change but with everyday impact is the new palette for FORAN 3D model: it was time to replace the very basic and strong colors with new, softer and more natural ones. Sometimes just small details make the difference. With a continued history of more than 45 years in the market, SENER keeps on developing the cutting-edge solution for the shipbuilding success.

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Tribold and TM Forum Release Product Lifecycle Management Guidelines 4 December 2012

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Tribold in collaboration with Telecom New Zealand and TM Forum have released a PLM Introductory Guide for the Digital Economy, which will prove critical for all companies seeking to capitalize on the explosion of new service revenue by reducing their time- and cost-to-market, whilst improving innovation and quality. This guide is a contribution from Tribold and Telecom New Zealand to TM Forum’s Frameworx suite of best practices and standards. It explores the rationale for PLM in the Digital Economy, the maturity of the frameworks available and how such organizations might go about deploying PLM fit for their purposes. Catherine Michel, CTO and founder of Tribold, observes that “with subscriber saturation in the communications sector at an all-time high, the emergence of multi-service providers from non-traditional sources, the convergence of user interfaces and increasing network abstraction, the pressure is on to execute a product strategy that delivers simplification and accuracy, personalization without customization, reliability and flexibility at a low cost. In this context, PLM is becoming an essential enabler of the Digital Economy.” The introductory guide outlines how PLM, if implemented correctly, can have significant operational, financial and customer experience benefits:

• Operating cost reduction. Decrease execution cost, increase human resource performance, decrease churn rate.

• Time management. Decrease time to market, decrease waiting time, decrease delay in delivery to the customer through improved collaboration and establishing a consistent, product development process across the business.

• Innovation. Organizations are looking for PLM to improve the business by enabling more innovation at the idea stage, producing better product designs, increased reuse, standards and consistency, clearer visibility and management of product data.

• Product and process quality improvement. Increases can be observed in product management process performance; customer value performance; value net performance; information agile product catalogues availability and accuracy; product launch quality; provisioning performance; service quality and reductions in technical defects.

“Product Lifecycle Management is rapidly becoming a key competency for service providers as they embrace digital services which demand dramatically shorter lifecycles and agile product data management,” said Nik Willetts, chief strategy officer, TM Forum. “This introductory guide, based on the collective expertise and experience of Tribold and Telecom New Zealand, provides a solid foundation for anybody embracing PLM, and for best practice in this area.” Follow this link to TM Forum’s Product Lifecycle Management Introductory Guide, Version 1.1

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V8i (SELECTseries 3) Releases of Bentley’s SewerCAD, SewerGEMS, StormCAD, and CivilStorm Products Streamline Workflows 29 November 2012

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Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced that the forthcoming SewerCAD, SewerGEMS, StormCAD, and CivilStorm V8i (SELECTseries 3) releases will have a unified file format. As a result, users of each of these software products can now directly open models created in any one of the other three, eliminating the need to import one type of file into another. To support this streamlined workflow, the same hydraulic element types are now available in all four products. Together, these enhancements increase information mobility across the Bentley portfolio of sewer and stormwater products, reducing the risk of data loss and thus increasing not only users’ return on data but also the quality of some of their most complex projects. Numerous solvers have been proposed for the equations that describe wastewater collection system hydraulics because the calculations are so difficult to perform. They require users to solve equations for partly full and full pipes with pumps and various control structures, and conditions can change during the simulations. Until now, users were forced to rely on manual workarounds when importing a model that included a hydraulic element for which calculations were not supported in the destination application’s solver. Dr. Thomas Walski, Bentley senior product manager, explained, "The new unified file format and support for all hydraulic element types in the new releases of our sewer and stormwater products have made modeling teams’ workflows a great deal more efficient. This means that a model created in any one of these products can be seamlessly opened and edited in another. The huge time savings that result from this improved information mobility are especially valued by the large, distributed project teams using any or all of these software products. It also means that the inconvenience of data model differences that occurred during imports prior to our new unified file format have now been eliminated, saving time and user challenges resulting from model inconsistencies." For more details on the numerical engines supported by each product, and to learn when it’s best to use each solver, please download Dr. Walski’s technical briefing note "What Is the Right Way to Analyze Collection System Hydraulics." In addition to the new unified file format, the V8i (SELECTseries 3) releases of Bentley’s sewer and storm water software also include the following new features:

• The SewerCAD and StormCAD solvers are now included in SewerGEMS, making SewerGEMS a full superset of SewerCAD, StormCAD, and CivilStorm. This enables the automated design of sanitary and storm sewers in SewerGEMS.

• The StormCAD solver is now also included in CivilStorm, making CivilStorm a superset of StormCAD. This enables the automated design of storm sewers in CivilStorm.

• All four products can now publish i-models (containers for the open exchange of infrastructure information) in 2D or 3D.

• Low-impact development controls can now be analyzed in SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, and CivilStorm.

• Culvert inlet control calculations are also available in StormCAD and SewerCAD (in addition

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to SewerGEMS, CivilStorm, and PondPack). • HEC-22 inlet capture efficiency calculations are automatically performed when using the

SWMM solver in SewerGEMS and CivilStorm. • Pond outlet structure calculations are now available in StormCAD and SewerCAD (in addition

to CivilStorm, PondPack, and SewerGEMS). • Support for catchment elements is now available in SewerCAD (in addition to

CivilStorm, StormCAD, PondPack, and SewerGEMS). • Support for v-shaped and parabolic gutters is now available in SewerGEMS, CivilStorm,

and StormCAD. • Support for pressure elements, including pumps, is now available in StormCAD (in addition

to SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, and CivilStorm). • Node headloss calculations in accordance with HEC-22 3rd Edition are now available

in SewerGEMS, CivilStorm, and StormCAD. • The input and results fields are automatically filtered according to the solver used.

For additional information on these new releases, please register for a free live eSeminar: • North America – December 4, 2012, 11:30 a.m. (US Eastern Time), click here. • Europe, Middle East, and India – December 11, 2012, 11:00 a.m. (Central European Time),

click here.

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Vero Announce the Launch of Machining STRATEGIST V14.0 3 December 2012 Vero Software is pleased to announce the release of Machining STRATEGIST V14, a powerful multi-axis CAM solution that generates optimum High Speed CNC toolpaths for both the office and shop-floor environment. Machining STRATEGIST is a CAD independent solution and can work with data from all major 3D modelling systems. Within the latest release, support for VISI 20 has been added and the CAD interfaces have been aligned to Parasolid v25. Significant product enhancements include a new innovative Roughing algorithm that will greatly benefit both Machining STRATEGIST customers and OEM partners. The new roughing strategy massively reduces rapid moments by controlling the tool movement so that it remains on the part, following previous cut paths instead of rapid feeding to the new position. Additional toolpath optimisation features include the ability to automatically machine flat areas only instead of adding extra Z levels to clean up planar zones. The new roughing algorithm also permits to the use of a large step over (greater than 50%), where an innovative offset algorithm ensures total coverage of the machining area by adding smooth transition corner pips to clean up any remaining areas.

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Other significant developments include:

• Improvements to linking core area clearance toolpaths. • Linking horizontal area passes from outside to in (core linking). • Use pre-drilled entry points for cavity regions of core roughing toolpaths. • Minimise retract moves on vertical walls. • More consistent lead arcs when linking.

Steve Youngs, MS Development Manager concludes "The ever increasing complexity of our customers work continues to drive forward the development of Machining STRATEGIST. Our ability to deliver solutions to their demanding requirements helps us all to win new business. Machining STRATEGIST v14 keeps us at the leading edge of CAM technology as we look forward."

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ZW3D 2012 SP2 Now Available in 7 Languages 3 December 2012 ZWSOFT, a supplier of CAD/CAM solutions to the AEC and MCAD industries, has announced that ZW3D 2012 SP2 is now available in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean , Portuguese and Turkish. Now the powerful new service pack is available to many users in their local language. This allows designers and engineers to work easier and more relaxed in their own environment. There will be more languages localized soon including Czech, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish. The major improvement in this pack is the more efficient and intelligent mold design module. It provides features including project management, multi-product design, multi-cavity design as well as faster patching, which helps designers manage mold projects and improve design efficiency. For more information or to download ZW3D 2012 SP2 visit: http://www.zwsoft.com/zw3d2012sp2/index.html

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