CADD Microsystems, an Autodesk Platinum Partner, today announced that it has launched the CADD Community, an online customer-only portal that integrates on-demand training, applications and extensions, videos and additional value-added content exclusively for its customers.

solidThinking, Inc. today announced the latest version of solidThinking Inspire®, adding a multitude of new features. solidThinking Inspire enables design engineers, product designers, and architects to create and investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily leading to reductions in cost, development time, material consumption, and product weight. Important new features in solidThinking Inspire 2014 include geometry simplification tools, linear static analysis, concentrated mass parts, and smoothing options as well as the ability to export solid geometry.

Belgian Additive Manufacturing pioneer Materialise is thrilled to announce the launch of 3-maticSTL 9.0. 3-maticSTL is an innovative, flexible software tool that allows for design modification and simplification, 3D texturing, remeshing, forward engineering, and much more – all on the STL level.

Organic inspiration for automotive design engineers

Daimler AG has officially certified solidThinking Inspire®, a product that enables design engineers to create and investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily. With this certification, the tool becomes available to all design engineers at the customer as part of the Altair HyperWorks® computer-aided engineering software suite. Traditional structural simulations allow engineers to check if a design will support the required loads; solidThinking Inspire enhances this process by directly generating an optimal new material layout within a given design space using loads as an input.

Altair, a US-based engineering company, recently acquired EM Software & Systems - S.A., makers of FEKO® electromagnetic field analysis software. FEKO is now becoming part of Altair's computer-aided engineering (CAE) suite HyperWorks®. With this move, Altair gains a local presence in South Africa with tremendous depth of industry expertise. Personnel in Stellenbosch will be responsible for all Altair sales and support activities in the region.

Skyforge lets users turn math to matter in their web browser. It connects 3D printers to an online interface and management system, making 3D printing simple, collaborative, and accessible. Element Robot has released Skyforge on Kickstarter, but the project remains an undiscovered gem.

"Licensed to Cure for Medical Device" Industry Solution Experience to Optimize Resource Allocation, Ensure Regulatory Compliance and Maximize Capitalization and Design Reuse

ZWCAD Design, an innovative supplier of CAD solutions for the MCAD and AEC industries, has today launched an exciting new update to ZWCAD Touch for Android. Version 1.3.0 introduces innovative new features, such as a home-screen widget and improved one-hand operation, which bring added efficiency and simplicity to the design process.

Last week, during RAPID 2014, we announced the availability of two significant product enhancements from Mcor: ICC colour mapping and automatic file fixing.

What does this mean for you?
ICC colour mapping provides Mcor 3D printers with unprecedented colour accuracy for a truly what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) colour experience. Mcor is the only 3D printer manufacturer to include this capability.

Mcor Technologies Ltd, manufacturer of the only line of desktop paper-based 3D printers in the world, and winner of the 2013 Brand of the Year Award, announced today that the profile for their Mcor IRIS 3D printer is included in the latest version of Adobe® Photoshop® CC, released today. Photoshop CC users can now select the Mcor IRIS, the world's most colour capable 3D printer, from a drop-down menu in the software, enabling them to print directly to a locally connected IRIS.

Virtual Construction Management Software Automates Processes to Reduce Project Risk and Ease BIM Adoption

Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) today announced Trimble® Document Controller Standard, a powerful and easy-to-use virtual construction management application that automates change detection between design iterations in both 2D design drawing sets and in 3D models created using Building Information Modeling (BIM) software. The new application allows project stakeholders to quickly understand design changes to better anticipate and mitigate issues that might increase cost or risk.

GRAPHISOFT®, the global leader in Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions for architects, announced today that ArchiCAD® 18's global rollout process and the introduction of its brand new BIMcloud® Solution has begun. BIMcloud allows a BIM workflow on any network, hardware or software configuration, connecting teams and projects of any size or setup, 24/7.