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Handbook for Managers Moving from 2D to 3D CAD
A practical guide written for CAD and engineering managers and professionals in the design and manufacturing industry that are interested in adopting 3D, Moving from 2D to 3D CAD For Engineering Design: Challenges and Opportunities by Louis Gary Lamit makes a strong case in favor of change. |
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Bentley Architecture Achieves IFC2x3 Certification
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that Bentley Architecture, an advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) application for architectural design and construction documentation, has successfully passed certification for the coordination view of IFC2x3. |
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ECAD Offers Engineering Consulting Services to Mid-West
ECAD, LLC, a new engineering consulting company, is putting a new spin on cad support. ECAD offers customized on-site training, support and cad management for MicroStation and GEOPAK, in addition to ODOT Roadway Plan production work. |
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Altiva Software Expands CADconform
Altiva Software announces it has added new functionality to CADconform, its CAD standards conformance software, that drafts, finds and fixes, and reports on drawing elements that are missing hidden meta-data created by GEOPAK, a road and highway design tool from Bentley Systems |
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Hydro Tasmania Consulting Wins BE Award
Hydro Tasmania Consulting, a leading global provider of expert engineering and environmental services, has won a BE Award for its accurate, photorealistic 3D model of Hobart’s scenic and historic waterfront in the Australian state of Tasmania. |
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Machinist Gets a CAD Education the Easy Way
Canadian machinist Westley Chagnon was very familiar with reading technical drawings. For the last 35 years, he performed his trade at Crown Packaging, a Calgary can manufacturer, where he manually machined dies at extremely low tolerances. |
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SpaceClaim Offers Integrated Parts Catalog
SpaceClaim Corp. and TraceParts S.A. announced the immediate availability of SpaceClaim TraceParts, a comprehensive library of manufacturers' and industry standard parts seamlessly integrated into SpaceClaim Professional 2007. |
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Winners Announced in Dimension 3D Redesign Contest
The Dimension 3D Printing Group, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc., announced the winners in its third annual "Extreme Redesign: The Ultimate 3D Printing Challenge," a global design and 3D printing contest for high school and college students. |
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GIS Conversion Project Sets Stage for TECO People
TECO Peoples Gas, a business unit of TECO Energy, is standardizing all 15 of its operating centers using ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) technology. As part of the standardization project, Peoples Gas is migrating all its facility information systems from CAD to ESRI GIS software. |
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In (3D)squared, the First Magazine in 3D
The www.cao.fr portal announces that the sixth issue of (3D)2 — pronounced "3D squared" — its charge-free magazine on 3D in 3D, is available in English. www.cao.fr is a French-language Web site dedicated to CAD/CAE/PLM, virtual reality, and rapid prototyping.
Every month, this downloadable publication focuses on a software or hardware product from the markets covered by the portal. |
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What Are Open Systems?
Almost all PLM software suppliers claim to sell open systems...what are open systems? What business value do they offer? How do you evaluate openness claims? |
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'Matereality for ALGOR' Connects Users
ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of design, analysis and simulation software, announced that it has in cooperation with Matereality, L.L.C. of Ithaca, NY, a provider of industrial-strength IT infrastructure for secure material information storage and exchange, developed an interface that seamlessly connects Matereality to ALGOR software. |
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Bentley Publishes 'The Year in Infrastructure'
Bentley Systems, Incorporated has published "The Year in Infrastructure," a 162-page project yearbook highlighting the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. |
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Altiva Software Becomes a Platinum Level Sponsor
Altiva Software, Inc. and ConnectPress, Ltd. are pleased to announce that Altiva Software, the only company dedicated to 100% conformance to CAD standards, has become a Platinum Sponsor of the ConnectPress MicroStation Connections Community. |
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Personality Profile: Jeff Drust
By John Myers, ConnectPress Staff Writer
A personality profile of Jeff Drust VP Business Development for Catalog Data Solutions. |
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2007 Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering
The National Engineers Week Foundation, Lenovo, and Verizon Business are sponsoring the 2007 24-hour Global Marathon, For, By and About Women in Engineering, March 22 – 23, to highlight the increased opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for women in many countries. |
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The Banks Group Wins BE Award
The Banks Group, a leading property development, mineral extraction, and land reclamation firm, has won a 2006 BE Award for its Bowesfield Riverside Community project. |
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GiveMePower Launches Technical Services Division with MACTEC
GiveMePower Corporation announced it has launched a new Technical Services Division with its first project providing expert training and consulting for MACTEC Federal Programs Inc.'s deployment of PowerCAD SiteMaster to more than double the speed of creating precise digital building floor plans and related facility asset reports at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia. |
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ExxonMobil Focuses on Keys to Successful Project Execution
In the latest issue of BE Magazine, published by Bentley Systems, Incorporated, Mark Albers, president of ExxonMobil Development Company, highlights seven attributes that open the door to improved performance and excellence in project management and execution. |
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New Right Hemisphere 5 Platform
Right Hemisphere announced the Right Hemisphere 5 platform, an integrated suite of visual product communication and collaboration solutions. |
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Registration Open for BE Conference 2007
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that registration is open for the BE Conference 2007, being held April 29-May 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California. Those registering by March 23 will receive an early bird discount that reduces the Learning Program fee by $200 – from $995 to $795. |
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Protomold Offers One Business Day Turnaround
The Protomold Company is pleased to announce that customers can now have injection molded plastic parts produced from a 3D CAD model and shipped as quickly as one business day after receipt of an order. |
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CADwire.net Announces the Tech Innovator Award Nominations
CADwire.net, the leading information site for the CAD, AEC, GIS, EDA and PLM industries, and a founding member of the Targeted Advertising Consortium, announced that nominations are being accepted for the third annual 2007 CADwire.net Tech Innovator Award. |
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STAAD.Pro 2006 Supports Russian and Chinese Standards
STAAD.Pro 2006, the newest version of Bentley’s leading general-purpose structural analysis and design solution, is quickly gaining certification for use by multinational and domestic design firms in countries around the world. |
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General Motors to Sponsor Bright Minds Mentor Program
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) announced that General Motors will sponsor the fourth annual Bright Minds Mentor program. As part of the program 50 high school students will attend the Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Conference & Exposition at the Marriott Renaissance in Detroit on May 2, 2007. |
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Cimmetry Announces First Annual User and Partner Conference
Cimmetry Systems, an Agile Software company and global leader in collaborative visualization solutions, announced that it will be hosting the AutoVue Customer Cimm'posium 2007, Cimmetry's first ever annual user and partner conference at the W Hotel in Montreal, Canada, on June 27-28, 2007, on the eve of Montreal's electrifying International Jazz Festival. |
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St. Thomas More School Wins 2007 Future City Competition
A city of the future—“Mwinda”—engineered by students from St. Thomas More School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has won the 2007 National Engineers Week Future City Competition. The students—Jake Bowers, 12, Emily Ponti, 14, and Krisha Sherburne, 12—teamed up with their teacher Shirley Newman, and volunteer mentor, chemical engineer Guy Macarios. |
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Building Design Partnership Wins BE Award
Building Design Partnership (BDP) Ltd, a leading provider of architectural, design, and engineering services, has won a 2006 BE Award for its Bridge Academy, Hackney project in the United Kingdom. |
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Local Company Honored by Red Cross
When the tsunami devastated the regions of Southeast Asia and East Africa on December 26, 2004, Bentley Systems, Incorporated, was immediately motivated to help those hard-hit areas in the best way it knew how. |
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DSM Somos ProtoComposites Helps to Shorten Development
Using heavily-filled composite stereolithography resins from DSM Somos, Italian rapid prototyping service bureau Provel is opening up new frontiers in wind-tunnel test applications with the development of a scaled prototype of the new M-346 fighter trainer aircraft for Alenia Aermacchi. |
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Freeware Makes Windows Vista Run Faster in One Click
IObit has released the new version of Advanced WindowsCare Personal, a free and powerful Windows utility that analyzes and fixes Windows problems, protects users from spyware and from threats to their privacy, all the while tuning up Windows system to the peak performance. |
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Shibaura Institute of Technology Selects Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that Shibaura Institute of Technology, a leading engineering university in Tokyo, has selected the BE Careers Network program to help its students graduate with market-ready technology skills. |
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Get More for Less with CivilStorm V8 XM Edition
Bentley SELECT subscribers can download the new CivilStorm V8 XM Edition, the only stormwater modeling solution in the market to offer seamless integration with AutoCAD 2007, MicroStation V8 XM Edition, and an easy-to-use stand-alone platform. |
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Mastercam X Art Brings Efficiency and Speed
CNC Software announces the release of Mastercam X Art CAD/CAM software. Built from the ground up, Mastercam X Art delivers artistic relief design and cutting and includes new features like an improved Art Manager, wrapping capabilities, new toolpaths, and much more. |
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FIC Annual Meeting and BIM Workshop Sessions
AEC-ST Federal has announced the addition of the Facility information Council (FIC) Annual Meeting a component of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) to its conference line up, December 5-7, 2006, in Washington, D.C. |
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Elan's Tiny Test Lab Puts Change in Your Pocket
A high-performance Test & Measurement Lab in your pocket? Innovators Elan Digital have produced just that -- a set of pen-style instruments that plug into the PC's USB port including software for Windows98, 2K and XP. |
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User Groups Introduce Users to New Version of VERICUT
In coordination with the release of VERICUT 6.0, CGTech has hosted 36 VERICUT User’s Exchange (VUE) events worldwide in 2006. Thus far, more than 1,100 people have attended a VUE in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, China, Taiwan, India and soon: Japan. |
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New CAD Search Engine Born - 3DCADSearch Beta Launched
CAD Search Engine, 3DCADSearch
www.3DCADSearch.com, the Web's first CAD & Graphics targeted Search Engine developed by eDocHelp Publications, announces that it has launched the first beta version of the new site for general public use! |
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Schwennsen Becomes 82nd AIA President
Katherine Lee Schwennsen was inaugurated as the 82nd president of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) during ceremonies held earlier this month. |
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