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Issue 102 (4 Dec 2001)

  • Autodesk's ShapeManager takes shape
  • Management group to purchase ICEM surfacing business from PTC
  • New products: Alias/Wavefront's PortfolioWall , ANSYS' AI*EMAX high-frequency electromagnetic analysis and AI*Environment, Autodesk Civil Series, Autodesk Raster Design , a video gesture UI
  • Upgrades: Cimmetry Systems AutoVue v16 supports MicroStation v8, ICAM CAM-POST 2001, FARO Technologies CAM2 Measure 3.7, IronCAD ships INOVATE and TEAMVAULT , LightWorks version 6.5, Dynamic Designer for Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 6, moldbase add-on for Pro/ENGINEER
  • Marketing: Emhart and Enerpac use 3D PartStream.NET, Metrix Build!IT bundled with API Laser Tracker II, SIMSCI's PRO/II simulation software offer
  • Financials: Agile Software revenues increased only 5%, ANSYS to acquire CADOE S.A., Autodesk reports a slight decrease in net revenues to $216.4 million, RAND acquires ProGroup Australia
  • Competitive wins: ASTRIUM GmbH Space Infrastructure business division selects ENOVIAVPM , Gnatus selects CATIA Version 5 and TeamPDM, Hyundai Motors orders MDI simulation software from MTS, Nacom Corporation buys Moldflow's Manufacturing Solutions products, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and PTC CPC solutions expanded
  • On the move: ANSYS partners with SAS LLC, CoCreate allies with OHIO Design Automation, DM Solutions to resell Delcam software, MatrixOne adds 100th partner
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    • Issue 101 (14 Nov 2001)

  • John McEleney becomes president of SolidWorks
  • SolidWorks 2001Plus rolls out
  • New products: free beta evaluation of Argon
  • Upgrades: Centric Innovation 3.0, VISI-Series Release 9, PocketCAD PRO 4.0
  • Marketing: Surfware Step Reduction Milling, Elysium Inc. and Maya Metrix, iSIGHT for Design Optimization, ASPire3D to translate parametric feature based 3D models, OpenHSF Initiative, CostVision, MSC.Software to an IBM Business Partner in Europe, 40 companies join PTC MCAD partner program
  • Financials: Dassault Systemes revenue up 15%, PTC revenue down 4%, ANSYS up 23%, MSC.Software , Moldflow down 7%, RAND Worldwide down 11%, Stratasys revenue flat
  • Competitive wins: Menasha uses ConceptStation, Sony Corporation uses CATIA Version 5, CMN's luxury yachts use Dassault Systemes Shipbuilding Solutions, Usinor to use Open CASCADE, Wagon Automotive Waldaschaff selects ESI Group's VTOS
  • On the move: George Manthous to Infrasoft, Joanne Masingill and Les Bonney to MatrixOne, Frank Azzolino, Ben Cesare and Paul Giaconia to Eigner, ImpactXoft licenses LightWorks' rendering engine, SensAble Technologies allies with PTC, Revit secures $7 million in funding
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    • Issue 100 (24 Oct 2001)

  • IronCAD's InnovationSuite adds integrated design management
  • Joe Costello, CEO of think3, discusses their recent cutback
  • Solid Edge's Insight appears irresistable
  • New products : EDS PLM Solutions design interoperability, LCMFLOT 2001, Open CASCADE, UGS enterprise quality solution
  • Upgrades : ESPRIT 2002, ACIS 7.0, Autodesk downloadable product extensions, CADCAM-E, EMbassyWorks3.0, TESIS Software online, COSMOS/DesignSTAR 3.0, Pro/ENGINEER Mechanism Dynamics Option, eDrawings Professional
  • Collaboration : OneSpace Select (and our comments)
  • Marketing : NIKA adds to FloWorks, IMSpost postprocessor embedded in CATIA V5, IBM adds SmarTeam, MatrixOne's DocuManagement Central, MSC Software faces U.S. antitrust action
  • Financials : MatrixOne Inc. expects to report loss
  • Competitive wins: Dresser Inc. and Alamo Group by SolidWorks, Fujitsu by Agile, Evans Consoles by Autodesk Inventor, Kalmar Industries by CATIA V5, Toshiba and Precision Plus by think3, R&S Design by RealityWave, Liebherr Group by PTC
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    • Issue 99 (6 October 2001)

  • Near ground zero
  • Coming soon : Articles on Inventor R5, PDMworks, Solid Edge Insight, and TTI's translation technology
  • Charge for this newsletter? survey results, decision still open
  • New products : Autodesk Inventor 5 ships, Cimitron's ShoeExpress, ImpactXoft's launch of IX SPeeD Suite, Kapsoft unviels Congero, TESIS Software introduces 3D Vision for CAD Neutral Data Translation, Mechanical Dynamics Functional Digital Aircraft Solution.
  • Upgrades : Cimatron Version 12, MSC.Software's MSC.visualNastran 4D, SRAC's AC Magnetic Module for COSMOS/EMS, Delcam Inspection Software. Immersive Design IPA 7.1. Delcam Adds Solid Edge To Ps-Exchange Translation Service, R&B Mold Designer Bundle for SolidWorks, Algor User Documentation
  • Collaboration : ShareChive Uses Informative Graphics' Brava! WebKit, netGuru's Web4 partners with Engineered Software
  • Marketing : 32 Solutions achieve 'Certified Select' Status on Solid Edge Version 10, Dassault Systmes and PCO Technologies partner for PLM solutions, Custom Programming Unlimited Software Version 6.6 of SimplePDM, Fluent Incorporated and Enductive Solutions partner, PTC Named #1 for sourcing, U.S. Air Force Academy licenses EnSight as teaching tool, Sensable Technologies ships 1,000th System, think3 & Applied Engineering grant $9.9M to Korea Manpower Agency, Four Mexican Universities get $283 Million CAD/CAM/CAE donation, General Motors recognizes Assentive for contributions To 'Virtual Factory', SolidWorks adds four new Certified Gold Products, Moldflow's Moldflow Center for Professional Development, MatrixOne's Engineering Central gains CMII Certification, MDI expands Durability Solutions, ICEM CFD Engineering partners with Dassault Systemes, Computer Aided Technology introduces InFlow Technology, CADATA to resell ACS Software's AutoEDMS, Solid Concepts builds Direct Pro/ENGINEER Interface with PTC's Granite One.
  • Financials : EDS closes acquisition of SDRC , ESI Group firts half revenue up 7%
  • Competitive wins : Brembo Chooses CATIA and ENOVIA for e-collaboration, Keio University Deploys 500 seats of Solid Edge , Covisint Selects MatrixOne, John Crane purchases 300 Licenses of Solid Edge, Japanese automaker places $470,000 Software Order With Mechanical Dynamics, JUN-AIR chooses CATIA V5, Solid Edge at University of Tokyo Design Engineering Laboratory.
  • On the move : Sean Roche of Tecnomatix-UniCAM, Spatial's Dan Ganousis, PTC's Fritz Fleischmann, Andrew Rodger of Seaside Communications
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    • 31 August 2001 (Issue 98)

  • Where were we?
  • What would you pay?
  • Coming soon - Inventor R5
  • New products: SolidWorks ' New Office Suite, Surfware packages design tools, CoCreate and R&B Mold and Die Design , PTC's Windchill PartsLink - an Interactive Product Catalog
  • Upgrades: Unigraphics Version 18, VisConcept 2.0 , Autodesk Volo View version 2, Geomagic Studio 4, IRONCAD version 4.2J
  • Collaboration: TTI allies with engineering.com, Hearst Business Media to scrub PartsLink data
  • Marketing: SPEC/GPC new benchmarks, SmarTeam / Aalborg win award, Pro/ENGINEER Special Edition for SDRC Users, UGS receives ISO certification, CADKEY donates one for one academic licenses
  • Financials: Autodesk Q2 sales miss forecast, lowers outlook - revenues decline to $231.4 million, Agile Announces Quarterly Financial Results - revenues increase 48%, PlanetCAD Acquires eCAS
  • Competitive wins: PTC Quick-Start shrinks implementation time, UGS signs $1.2 million contract with Strachan & Henshaw, PTC follow on order from Construcciones Mecanicas Caballe, Daewoo Heavy Industries will exclusively provide GibbsCAM CAM programming software, PDD integrates FreeForm modeling
  • On the Move: Israel Levyof Tecnomatix, HighRES joins PTC's Partner program
  • Letters to the editor: A user objects to our SensAble comments
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    • 10 August 2001 (Issue 97)

  • SensAble Technologies moves haptic technology into surface modeling
  • New products: PTC Ships Windchill 6.0, Covisint Releases Version 4.0 of Covisint Fulfillment, TTI to Announce CAD Interoperability
  • Collaboration: Wellspring Solutions and SolidWorks form alliance, CoCreate's collaboration software now available to all federal agencies, PTC Showcases MCAD Migration Projects
  • Marketing: Applied 3D Science and Pathtrace form OEM partnership, Autodesk forms alliance with Brainbench, Bosch & Mechanical Dynamics collaborate on $1 million project, MSC.Software signs 26 North American Resellers, think3 & Open Mind expand partnership.
  • Financials: Cimatron reports revenue Increase by 8.2 Percent
  • Competitive wins: Jenbacher Chooses CATIA V5 for Cleaner Engines, Machinery Manufacturer CMS SpA Selects UGS' Solid Edge, i-Man
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    • 3 August 2001 (Issue 96)

  • UGS Analyst Meeting Reveals More Plans for the UGS/SDRC Consolidation
  • New products: LightWork Design's LightWorks 6.0, ALGOR One-Step Assembly Meshing, Gibbs and Associates Wire-EDM Module
  • Collaboration: SolidWorks and SAQQARA Team to Provide 3D Online Catalogs
  • Marketing: PTC Grows Enterprise Software Partner Program, Sap And Tecnomatix Sign Global Strategic Agreement
  • Financials:Dassault revenue up 21%, Engineering.Com revenue up 157%, Mechanical Dynamics revenue up 29%, MSC.Software Reports 41% Growth in Earnings, Rand revenue up slightly
  • Competitive wins: BMW Selects CATIA V5 for Chassis Design Project, Ecinet Selects Cimmetry's Autovue To Provide Online Visualization, Kettering University Students Benefit from $88 Million CAD/CAM/CAE System Donation from UGS
  • On the move: Arnaud Poujardieu
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    • 26 July 2001 (Issue 95)

  • Correction : Granite can read Pro/E files
  • Solid Edge rolls out V10 for TechniCom
  • New products: DTM's new selective laser sintering systems
  • Upgrades: Cadalog ships SE-PartsXL parametric parts library, IPA 7.1 supports Autodesk Inventor , NIKA's FloWorks 2001, Synergis Adept plugs into Autodesk Inventor
  • Collaboration: KPMG Consulting and PTC to cross-train sales teams and consultants, UGS and HP announce rapid deployment solution, PTC Pro/ENGINEER 2001 to provide 64-bit support
  • Marketing: Dassault Systemes signs agreements with EADS Matra Datavision , Metalsoft, Innoveda, NK-EXA and Zuken, Surfware award
  • Financials: Dassault Systemes to acquire Alliance Commerciale Technologique, PTC 3Q revenue up 1%, SDRC revenue up 3%, UGS revenue up 14%
  • Competitive wins: thinkdesign becomes part of Dassault Aviation system, FISHER/UNITECH becomes DSP Ford, Kodak translates with TranscenData's DEX, PSA Peugeot Citroen models with Enovia, PTC wins at Nissei Sangyo , eMPower selected by Shanghai Volkswagen, SDRC renews with Joe Gibbs Racing, Rinnai Korea Corporation selects Solid Edge, UGS wins at St. Jude Medical, Royal Military College to use SolidWorks
  • On the move: Jon Stevenson, Lou Volpe, Alexander Moffat, ANSYS
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    • 15 July 2001 (Issue 94)

  • Windchill ProjectLink and Granite One visited
  • New products: Pro/COLLABORATE free to Pro/E users
  • Upgrades: Parasolid version 13.0, Alias/Wavefront StudioTools 9.7, Dassault Systemes Software Community Program
  • Collaboration: Autodesk Streamline service available
  • Marketing: Alventive's Business Alliance Program expands to implementation support, CENIT AG Systemhaus signs up for Dassault SCP, PTC new student editions, SolidWorks bundled with student book, PlanetCAD and Theorem to collaborate
  • Financials: PTC expects lower than expected revenue for the third quarter, Autodesk will acquire Buzzsaw.com
  • Competitive wins: Cimatron wins with FootCAD, GETRAG gets i-Supply
  • On the move: Robert Reback and Scott Berkey advance, Smart Solutions Ltd. changes name
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    • 3 July 2001 (Issue 93)

  • New products: IBM-Aerospace Aircraft Interior solution, MatrixOne Engineering Central, SolidWorks Utilities
  • Upgrades: Tech Illustrator V12.1, V5R7 of CATIA and V5R7 of ENOVIA, Moldflow MPX 3.0,
  • Marketing: PTC Awards Competition winners, CADENCE 2001 A/E/C SYSTEMS Show Stopper awards, Delcam builds huge Maitreya Buddha model, PTC customers win Industrial Design Excellence Award and PTC gets VARBusiness award, Spatial makes public its prices (gasp!)
  • Financials: Exodus drops like a rock
  • Competitive wins: Pfaltzgraff drops CATIA for think3, Community Playthings picks think3 also, ATS and Hague choose Moldflow, FCI Electronics to use OneSpace, Dainippon chooses Autodesk Inventor, Nanyang Polytechnic expands with Unigraphics and Solid Edge
  • On the move: Larry Diamond of Autodesks GIS Division, Jim Heppelmann of PTC
  • Letters to the editor: An even faster system than the world's most powerful unclassified supercomputer in the works, a new graphics performance benchmark to be unveiled at SIGGRAPH, Tania Campanelli: think3 also has Intent referencing
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    • 23 June 2001 (Issue 92)

  • Pro/ENGINEER 2001 review
  • Feeling queasy about recent job cuts? Look at these layoff numbers!
  • New products: Rand Worldwide launches iTools
  • Upgrades: i-Man Version 7, CAMWorks 2001, ESPRIT 2002, SLATE 6.0, 3D PartStream.NET 2.0, Vdraft, AutoCAD Mechanical 6 and Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 6 shipping, MYRIAD 5.1, PrescientQA 4.1, SolidWorks 2001 Super Service Pack
  • Marketing: PTC and TRW ally on CPC, Butler International becomes PTC Global Services Partner, SmarTeam embeds AutoVue, Cimatron and DP Technology transalte with TTF , IBM PLM adds SmarTeam to poortfolio, PTC Pro application 64-bit process on Sun's Solaris 8, MDI to  Dynamic Designer for CATIA, IBM delivers worlds most powerful unclassified supercomputer
  • Collaboration/ CAD on the web: SoluSource for product information search
  • Competitive wins: S.A.B.C.A. buys CAM-POST, IOA Healthcare Furniture and Pininfarina opt for thinkdesign, ImpactXoft licenses D-Cubed products, PTC MCAD products and Oracle Racing to design America's Cup yacht, PTC sells Windchill to FiatAvio, Airbus  uses Tecnomatix eMPower, Honda models human forms with ShapeSnatcher
  • On the move: Joseph Walsh of IronCAD, Paul N. DeStephano of Cadcentre, Shanghai Automotive Information Industry Investment to resell of MSC.Software's software
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    • 13 June (Issue 91)

  • Pro/ENGINEER 2001, along with GraniteOne and ProjectLink review next week
  • New products: Heide Corp. Intent Knowledge Station, 3G.web.decisions 2001, ALGOR simulates MEMS, Alventive Collaborative Design Solutions 3.0, RedSpark ProductEdge Parts Publisher, DELMIA PLC Verification Solution , SDRC I-DEAS Freeform, Geomagic Capture
  • Upgrades: IronCAD version 4.2, GEOPAK 2001, AutoVue supports Office XP, Solid Edge Version 10, PAM-SAFE 2001, SmartSketch 4.0, MSC.Marc 2001
  • Marketing: Command Technology MRO for eMatrix, awards to Synergis Technologies- think3-Inventor 4-Streamline-MYRIAD, Spatial University Partner Program up 30%, Dassault Systemes OEMs MachineWorks
  • Collaboration/ CAD on the web: PartsNow
  • Financials: Cadcentre reports record revenue and profits, financial analyst meets with Autodesk, Rand to acquire Custom CAD Inc.
  • Competitive wins: Applied Film coats with Autodesk Inventor, Cardianove pumps and Cub Scouts race with CATIA, Proton Team KR races with Delcam , Mazda prototypes with MDI, McKee Foods chooses SolidWorks , Draexlmaier GmbH - to use eMatrix, Tokyo Metal Stamping teaches with Solid Edge, The Japan Atomic Research Energy Institute optimizes with EnSight Gold, Witzig & Frank GmbH chooses eMPower Machining, TRW selects Windchill, Honeywell buys Moldflow Plastics Insight, Alenia Spazio selects ENOVIA
  • On the move: Robert de Monts of Solsoft, W. Patrick Decker of MatrixOne, Jerry Thorson to 3Si Holdings, Regina Morton and David Hushbeck to PlanetCAD
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    • 31 May 2001 (Issue 90)

  • ImpactXoft 's Functional Modeling and software suite explored
  • SDRC Rolls out TeamCenter at its Collaborative Product Management Conference
  • New products: CAD Centric Systems OneView Compare for I-DEAS drawings
  • Upgrades: ANSYS ships DesignSpace 6.0, ANSI adopts DMIS version 4.0, Arc Second's PocketCAD PRO for mobile CAD
  • Marketing: AIM's COMPASS PDM system to view with Cimmetry's OEM technology, Delcam CopyCAD- reverse engineering for the real world, Animating for robot battles with Immersive Design
  • Collaboration/ CAD on the web: About Redspark's RapidTeam
  • Financials: Agile Software's results for the fourth fiscal quarter and year showed sharply higher revenue along with sharply higher net losses, ESI Group's revenue for fiscal year 2000 increases 28%
  • Competitive wins: Riptide Design selects thinkdesign, Solo Golf reduce new product development time by 75 percent with CATIA, Ford selects SOFY Technologies to coordinate CAE processes, Hynix Semiconductor and Intersil extend PTC's Windchill solution into more semiconductor companies, Celanese AG to use Sequencia processPoint Marketplace, Tecnomatix races cars with Dome Co., ITT's Gilfillan Radar Systems chooses UG and i-MAN
  • On the move: Bruce Boes of SensAble Technologies
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    • 23 May 2001 (Issue 89)

  • Hot off the press - EDS to acquire SDRC and take UGS private!
  • More on MSC.Software's acquisition of AES
  • Autodesk unveils MDT 6 and Mechanical 6
  • UGS to supply 2600 seats to Fiat
  • SolidWorks demos their intrinsic surfacing
  • New products: Cadcentre interfaces to FOUNDATION DESIGN SUITE, ElectronixWorks offers complete electronic packaging solution, Engineous iSIGHT 6.0, HOOPS Stream Toolkit, Raindrop Geomagic and Minolta partner for reverse engineering
  • Upgrades: Alias/Wavefront new StudioTools family, Version 3.4 of FiberSIM, LMS FALANCS and LMS TecWare 2.10, new Elysium translators, ESPRIT CAM integrates with Solid Edge models, MSC.Nastran 2001, Virtue3D views 3D Instant Website
  • Marketing: Spatial and PVM release FEVA, IntegWare integrates to MatrixOne customers, PocketCAD third party developer program, Centric Software partners with Softlab GmbH, UGS had fastest growing CAM business, Frank O. Gehry exhibition, Digital Innovation Center for Aerospace Engineering
  • Collaboration/ CAD on the web: EASi to develop stochastic simulation ASP
  • Financials: Autodesk revenues up 6%
  • Competitive wins: Kajima deploys 2800 AutoCAD seats, Cleveland Golf chooses MSC.Software CAE, BAE SYSTEMS migrates to Metaphase, Honda selects LMS, La-Z-Boy sits with InSite, 3M Malaysia orders Moldflow Plastics Insight, OSU try for record with CATIA, Hyundai Motors Stamps with Delcam, GM doubles design productivity, Kelley Racing opts for Solid Edge
  • On the move: James H. Johnson, CAE Northwest, Schmidt Electronics Asia
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    • 14 May 2001 (Issue 88)

  • MSC.Software buys AES (why?)
  • New products: LMS International 's multi-channel noise and vibration analyzer
  • Upgrades: Linius Technologies' EMbassyWorks2.0, processPoint, GibbsCAM's supports new Parasolid and ACIS kernels and adds 4-axis Wire-EDM, "out of the box" ENOVIA Life Cycle Applications, Delcam upgrades PS-Estimator
  • Marketing: ANSYS eBusiness promotions, Informative Graphics to support streaming, CAD Potential targets Unigraphics learning, PTC adds 25 new channel partners, Accenture, PTC, and Sun Microsystems to work together on PTC CPC solutions, use CAD/CAM Publishing Onine Rapid Prototyping Directory for free
  • Financials: MatrixOne 3Q revenue up 91 percent, Workgroup Technology revenue up slightly
  • Competitive wins: Floyd Rose Guitar Company makes music with CATIA, PlanetCAD's PrescientQA enabling quality for European auto companies, ALSTOM Power adds to Metaphase, Fujitsu Limited allies with MatrixOne, Talley Defense Systems selects Solid Edge, MTS Systems gets $13 million order for vehicle design validation tools, Open CASCADE to be used by U.C. Berkeley, UGS to supply The Tegema Group, UGS and ESG partner on virtual manufacturing
  • On the move: Joy Godesiabois Sullins of PlanetCAD, Pierre Lortie of Bombardier Transportation, resellers Cimetrix Solutions,H.B. & Associates, BRT, CAD/CAM/CAE Consulting, Choice Designs, Pentagon Engineering Corp., Elite Consulting Limited sign deals

    • 30 Apr 2001 (Issue 87)

  • CAD-Portal 's new engineering contracting e-marketplace
  • TechniCom 's latest pricing study reveals interesting details
  • SDRC 's I-DEAS to soon have new User Interface
  • MSC.Software to develop on CAA V5, to distribute CATIA analysis software
  • New products: Arius3D color scanning systems, COSMOS/Nonlinear
  • Upgrades: Engineered translations for those difficult files, PTC Foundation Value Package, Tecnomatix new suite, PDM/Works 2001
  • Collaboration / CAD on the web: IntegWare uses an ASP to remotely, but locally, manage data
  • Marketing: Exchanging with RosettaNet, Smart Solutions allies with Access Commerce, SolidWorks patents SmartMates, MfgQuote network expands, Solid Edge has SPEC benchmark
  • Financials: ANSYS revenue up 25%, Dassault Systemes revenue up 23%, Mechanical Dynamics reports 29% growth in revenue, MSC.Software revenue grows 13.5%, PlanetCAD reduces workforce by 15%, SDRC revenue up 4%, UGS revenue up 14%, Moldflow revenue up 57%, Rand Worldwide revenue down 10%
  • Competitive wins: A-dec standardized on Autodesk Inventor, Comau selected SolidWorks , Hitachi implements Agile, Spatial and IMSI expand OEM partnership, Meccanotecnica orders Plastics Insight, SDRC wins with I-DEAS at Siemens Medical, Aptum orders fromTecnomatix , Ritvik Holdings selects PDM/Works, Kolbus GmbH orders Unigraphics
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    • 18 Apr 2001 (Issue 86)

  • Eagerly awaiting?
  • Upgrades: Prelude INSPECTION Version 6 from EADS Matra Datavision, Cimmetry Systems AutoVue 15.4, Delcam's PowerMILL 3.1, SmartHelix, Furix CompareDWG
  • Marketing: Trace Software delivers ACIS -enabled Trace Parts in three months, PTC to incorporate Raindrop Geomagic, RasterVect 4.3 for $79?, Intercim and CIMx combine, Pathtrace donates EdgeCAM
  • Financials: PTC revenue up 8%, MCAD revenue rise!
  • Competitive wins: Decathlon runs with UGS i-Man, Saab Automobile motors with DELMIA , infoAccelerator speeds with Windchill ProjectLink, Perkins Engineering races with SolidDesigner, Automobili Lamborghini surfaces with CATIA, Tennant to clean up with Unigraphics
  • On the move: Dr. Paul Stallings to CADKEY, MightyCar Service Co. and Spicer, Smart Solutions joins OASIS, MACDAC to sell IMSpost, Elysium opens in Livonia, Rapid Design Service to VAR for Solid Edge
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    • 10 Apr 2001 (Issue 85)

  • Editor attends COE meeting
  • ImpactXoft debuts IX Design at Daratech
  • More on think3's Global Shape Modeling
  • Dassault Systemes to Acquire SRAC
  • New products: TTI's feature based translation service, mySmartMeeting
  • Upgrades: Delcam's PowerSHAPE 3.1, SURFCAM 2001, Amapi 3D (v6), Paraform creates live data links with Oculus Technologies
  • Data management and collaboration: UGS links to mainframes with iWay Software
  • Marketing: SmarTeam teams with Océ-USA, MSC.Software and FIAT extend, Design for an interactive mobile with embedded intelligence wins Alias/IBM Competition, HOOPS graphics technology used in ActiveProject, Viewpoint Technologies uses Net-It Central, D-Cubed's 2D DCM used by RedSpark, AutoVue to embed in Alventive Collaborative Family, CADCAM-E.COM translates CATIA and Unigraphics to Mechanical Desktop
  • Financials: Agile Software revenue flat - Ariba acquisition called off
  • Competitive wins: Angelus Sanitary selects Solid Edge, UGS e-Vis automates real-time quality for Jeep, EADS Airbus GmbH buys TransCAT Q-Checker
  • On the move: Maida Koller of Delcam, Kenneth Shain of MENSI
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    • 29 Mar 2001 (Issue 84)

  • Notes and Observations from the Daratech Summit2001: Daratech on the market, Dassault Systems , PTC, Autodesk, UGS, SDRC, KTI, think3, Rand Worldwide, LMS, SolidWorks, CoCreate , Paraform, Vistagy, Spatial Corp.
  • New products: Sun Microsystems new Sun Fire midframe servers aim for exceptional uptime, DELMIA Process Engineering Solutions
  • Data management and collaboration: Alibre integrates with eMatrix, Smart Solutions teams with Primavera Systems
  • Marketing: IBM discount for Microcadam migration, MatrixOne to offer Spicer's ViewCafé
  • Financials: Delcam's year 2000 revenue up 18%
  • Competitive wins: Terex Earthmoving supports products with Bell & Howell's Net-Compass, BLM Group to design with Solid Edge, QuadRite and Maxim I/T view with Cimmetry's AutoVue technology, Innoveda TransBridge wires up SDRC's I-DEAS, Marcolin sets sight on thinkdesign , Microsoft's Xbox outsources using Agile, PTC and U.S. Army integrate data for transport and weapons, Malaysia's Ministry deploys UG software in curriculum, Volvo Cars unites creativity with Centric Innovation
  • On the move: Frank Carrabba, Alberto Costales , Brian Murphy to vice presidents, MatrixOne
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    • 22 Mar 2001 (Issue 83)

  • Alventive Spins-Off IronCAD
  • VX CAD and VX CAM - a formidable duo for machining
  • New products: StereoEnabler permits stereoscopic viewing,
  • Upgrades: CATIA V5R6 has 17 new products, Actify's new SpinFire Publisher and SpinFireViewer Publisher 2.0, Cimsoftek to interoperate on Granite One, iMPA 5.0 streamlines PlasticZone
  • Data management and collaboration: Liaison Technology manages online catalog content
  • Marketing: 3G.web.decisions promotes collaborative design, SDRC deploys Accelis on BEA Weblogic Server, Tecnomatix integrates VizStream, CEI flow feature extraction aids CFD analysis, Arthur D. Little forms OneSpace group
  • Financials: ESI Group revenue up 28%
  • Competitive wins: Pella selected Solid Edge, Hyundai Motor uses CATIA V5 for Class-A surfaces
  • On the move: Tom Kopinski of TTI, Clive Martell of Delcam, Varimetrix becomes VX, Rand Worldwide acquires Ketiv Technologies, resellers Corporate Software and South Bend Drafting merge
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    • 15 Mar 2001 (Issue 82)

  • PlanetCAD turns away from an ASP business model
  • CAD-Portal engineering contracting site now in beta test
  • New products: PTC introduces Granite One software platform, Kinzan launches its Distribution Chain software, Micro Estimating Systems automates machine shop estimating, QuickConcept Compare compares versions
  • Upgrades: IronCAD 4.0, DesignSpace V6.0 includes parametric simulation, COSMOS/DesignSTAR V3.0 now associative, ESI Group SYSWELD 2000, Behavioral Optimizer from MechSoft.com , Pro/ENGINEER 2001 features 400 enhancements, SolidDesigner 2001 with Rapid Design, CFdesign 5.0 for Pro/ENGINEER
  • CAD on the web: CADKEY incorporates HOOPS Streaming, CubicEye adds new dimension to web viewing
  • Data management and collaboration: (new category) SmarTeam's SmartBOM packages the BOM assembly structure
  • Marketing: SmarTeam IXF - an XML-based data standard, Solid Edge Exchange, Trace Parts library for Autodesk Inventor, Merlin 3D ships, ITI forms TranscenData
  • Financials: PlanetCAD revenue up - but loses $11.4 million, MSC.Software FY 2000 revenue up 19 percent, NIKA LLC Q4 vs Q3 2000 revenue doubles
  • Competitive wins: Solid Edge and Unigraphics software picked for International Truck and Engine suppliers, Goldman Industrial Group transforms subsidiaries with IBM PLM, Smoby selects CATIA V5, Tecnomatix $1 million initial order from Schneider Electric, Theorem translates at Pratt & Whitney
  • On the move: Marc Smadja of ESI Software, Vic Leventhal to NIKA board, Craig Berry of PlanetCAD, EPI-K AG distirbutes KTI Process Modeler, Cyon Research acquires
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    • 5 Mar 2001 (Issue 81)

  • UGS redefines itself
  • Spatial acquires
  • Daratech Summit update next week
  • New products: ImpactXoft 's IX SPeeD Suite, Windchill ProjectLink
  • Upgrades: PolyWorks/Modeler V6, ACIS V6.3, Mentor Graphics CAPITAL H V3.0 wire harness software, RedSpark RAPIDteam
  • CAD on the web: On line libraries from PartsWorks.com and www.cad-symbols.de, cPDm market grew 62%, CollabCAD beta software available
  • Marketing: Paraform and Alibre, Cadcentre and PIP Consortium, ChannelWave and PTC's Partner System, Cimatron sells 1000 Quick Tooling applications, CKGP and EAI, SDRC and Sun drive CPC, IPA provides VET format, WATT - a new concept mechanism tool, Spatial and Hoops
  • Financials: Autodesk revenue up 7%, think3 books 10,500 annual subscriptions
  • Competitive wins: LMS partners with Leyland, PTC sells Windchill to Lockheed, Poltrona Frau opts for think3, Agito to use Windchill ProjectLink , RTS Wright buys more Autodesk Inventor, Lochinvar chooses Solid Edge, Bucyrus chooses SolidWorks, Sanyo Machine Works deploys DELMIA, Traub Heckert installs Delcam software, KTI and Rolls-Royce plc ally, Axcelis Technologies gets Pro/ENGINEER
  • On the move: Louis Pascarella to ENOVIA, Denis Senpere to ENOVIA, Werner Mack to PTC, RAND Worldwide adds divisions
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    • 23 Feb 2001 (Issue 80)

  • Issue delay
  • C4W : CAD software development toolkit
  • Autodesk Streamline - hosted collaboration for the mid markets
  • Notes from SolidWorks World
  • New products: RealityWave's ConceptStation , bom.com to solve BOM management issues using an ASP, LMS new DSA300 data analyzer, Delcam's direct translator for Pro/Engineer 2000i2, ESI Group's SYSTUS 2000 for multi-physics simulation
  • Upgrades: Cimmetry's AutoVue supports Inventor
  • CAD on the web: Smart Solutions mySmartMeeting adds WebEx, OneSpace to form ASP
  • Marketing: AutoManager View 3.2 free trial, Thomas Regional and ManufacturingQuote.com co-brand, MyB2O to include TTI CAD translations, Agile Software and Manugistics ally for enterprise profit optimization, KTI KPM software research project, LanFlow drag and drop symbols, PlanetCAD to integrate PrescientQA within Catia, MatrixOne Team Central, FeatureCAM licenses MachineWorks
  • Financials: ANSYS revenue up 18% over 1999, Agile profitability beats analysts estimates
  • Competitive wins: Enidine Inc. choose SolidWorks, ULMA selects 45 seats of Solid Edge, four guitar manufacturers choose thinkdesign, UGS $3.5 million from British American Racing, GE Aircraft Engines orders 1,000 seats of i.get.it eLearning program, ROHN Industriesorders 20 licenses of Solid Edge .
  • On the move: John McEleney, Dr. Gary Carter, Hariharan Sridharan, Unigraphics Solutions changed its name to UGS
  • Upcoming events

    • 7 February 2001 (Issue 79)

  • Ray Kurland, will lead the discussion group "CAD/CAM: The Next Generation" at the Daratech Summit
  • cad-portal.com to offer a site for posting and seeking engineering contracts
  • New products: Delcam to introduce PS-Electrode, Baan's new iBaan
  • Upgrades: 2Dto3DCAD.com adds native SolidWorks output, Linius Technologies implements WebEx Meeting Center, an illustration of a custom design from specs
  • Marketing: CADTECH to integrate MachineWorks into SOLIDCAM 2000, AutoVue SolidModel 15.4 demonstrated, CoCreate Software OneSpace and MatrixOne alliance, Alias|Wavefront IBM Design Competition, Bentley Systems number two in plant creation software
  • CAD on the Web: Aspen Manufacturing Suite for process industries, eRoom project collaboration
  • Financials: Unigraphics Solutions 2000 revenue up 18%, Mechanical Dynamics 2000 revenue up 16%, Dassault Systemes revenue up 25% (CATIA up 17%, SolidWorks up 62%, PDM up 82%)
  • Competitive wins: Align Technology awards Raindrop Geomagic $1.6 million contract, Varco International selects Framework Technologies' ActiveProject for 1,000 employees, Amana Heating and Air Conditioning purchases 14 licenses of Solid Edge and 10 licenses of SmartTeam, ULMA Packagingbuys 45 licenses of Solid Edge, eMatrix chosen by Aviointeriors S.p.A., Kablooe Design selects thinkdesign, Lamb Technicon and SPX Corporation choose Autodesk Inventor, General Motors, Isuzu Motors, Fuji Heavy Industries, and Suzuki Motors will migrate to Unigraphics
  • On the move: Al Moulton and Tamas Hajas of Graphisoft, Philip Hewitt of Delcam, Zero Wait-State joins PTC's MCAD Channel Partner Program
  • Upcoming events

    • 31 January 2001 (Issue 78)

  • Ariba to acquire Agile Software
  • New products: Cimatron's Wire-EDM application, CircuitWorks 2000 completely re-designed, Kaon Interactive 's HyperSpace-3Dforum
  • Upgrades: Alias|Wavefront StudioTools, ICEM 2001 Styling and Surfacing Solutions, LightWorks v5.6, ALGOR addsbody-to-body radiation analysis, ADAMS Version 11.0, SDRC's Metaphase Express Aerospace and Defense Solution, SURFCAM 2000.1
  • Marketing: DD 21 Alliance chooses Dassault Systemes to develop shipbuilding software, Bentley Systems integrates VizStream
  • Financials: MathSoft in management buyout, SDRC's revenue for 4Q2000 at new record, but not all is rosy
  • Competitive wins: Innovation Sports and Asterisk select thinkdesign, Pro/ENGINEER to design Neighborhood Electric Vehicle, SolidWorks donates licenses in China, BMW uses CATIA Solutions to develop racing V10 engine, four companies selected PlantWise, Keane wins Toyota Motor Sales $19.8 million outsourcing contract, PTC order from XCELLSIS, Tecnomatix gets EADS Airbus order for eMPower
  • On the move: Michael Wheeler and Joe DiNucci
  • Letters to the editor: replies from Delcam, Theorem, and Coretech to our lead article on healing CAD data, in Issue 77
  • Upcoming events

    • 25 January 2001 (Issue 77)

  • ANSYS CADfix repairs CAD model geometry, more about CAD model repairs, PTC's Harrison explains CPC
  • Upgrades: RasterVect Software converts scans for $79, rent Pro/ENGINEER by the month.
  • CAD on the web: IBM launches e-sourcing for automakers and their suppliers
  • Marketing: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young offers implemention services for Windchill, CGTech 5.0 can export an "as-machined" CAD model, FiberSIM developer changes name to VISTAGY
  • Financials: SofTech struggles, SRAC has most profitable year in their history, 3Dlabs exceeds expectations
  • Competitive wins: HP continues with CoCreate software, Cyco sells 5000 licenses in six months, DaimlerChrysler standardizes on TransCAT's Q-Checker , Northern Illinois University buys $5.6 million of Unigraphics , GROB-WERKE buys 170 seats of Unigraphics
  • Upcoming events

    • 18 January 2001 (Issue 76)

  • A talk with Mike Payne, CEO of Spatial Corp.
  • Upgrades: Cimatron's QuickConcept V 2.0, SolidMech includes catalog hardware, SRAC's COSMOS/M 2.6
  • CAD on the web: Simulation Exchange now live, GlobalSpec.com increases site traffic, e2open-MatrixOne-Ariba partner on CPD
  • Marketing: ADV Group to carry TopSolid , CADKEY adds LicketySplit software, Raindrop Geomagic integrates Studio with laser measurement machines, Seoul National University-IBM-Dassault Systemes open Digital Shipbuilding Innovation Center, CoCreate opens eSupport M@rketplace, myB2O.com and eLance, EMC and PTC ally
  • Financials: PTC reports revenue stable with previous quarter, Moldflow to acquire Branden Technologies
  • Competitive wins: Johnson Controls and MatrixOne partner for automotive suppliers, Adtranz extends use of MSC.Software products, Amada selects Solid Edge to sell, Matrizes Belga selects Delcam, EO Technics chooses SolidWorks
  • On the move: Ralph L. Genesi to SDRC
  • Letters to the editor: Autodesk Inventor , MDT, or other system?
  • Upcoming events

    • 10 January 2001 (Issue 75)

  • SolidWorks 2001
  • Upgrades: Linius Technologies ships EMbassy v3.0
  • CAD on the web: Paraform launches myB2O.com
  • Competitive wins: Dover Corporation installs >250 seats of SolidWorks, Snecma Control Systems purchases ICAD, Océ Technologies to integrate with CATIA V5, QUALCOMM chooses Agile Anywhere
  • On the move: MDSI expands to India
  • Upcoming events
  • eWeekly publisher information

    • 4 January 2001 (Issue 74)

  • Inventor R4
  • New products: ELSA Synergy III professional graphics accelerator, Geomagic Qualify, IBM offers the world's fastest UNIX-based computing workstation
  • Upgrades: CADKEY to present the all new CAD architecture for CADKEY, PTC ships Windchill 5.1, IPA 7.0 transforms CAD data into animations, Parasolid Version 12.1 provides extreme modeling, ANSYS 5.7 includes Multiphysics
  • CAD on the web: Livelink integrates AutoVue and Panoramic!
  • Marketing: Proficiency design chain collaboration, SolidWorks' 3D PartStream.NET goes live, awards for SolidWorks, Unigraphics, and DesignQA, debis Systemhaus and Dassault Systemes partner on press die manufacturing, LightWork Design's new Partner Program, D-Cubed Collision Detection Manager will enhances Solid Edge, Rand's TransCAT to sell CATIA Solutions to the AEC industry, PTC's Enterprise Software Partner program expands, 5,000 SolidWorks users sharing designs, Evolution Computing FastCad7, GibbsCAM Millennium Edition
  • Financials: IMSI rises from the ashes, Bentley acquires Intergraph's civil engineering and plot software, SDRC writes off $45.0 million of reorganization and acquisition charges
  • Competitive wins: DCT saves with SmarTeam, PTC received a $6 million order from US DOE NWC, Unigraphics Solutions signs Jaguar Racing, Moldflow Corporation gets five big orders, Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group of China orders over $1 million of Unigraphics, FARO Technologies sells 150th license to DaimlerChrysler
  • On the move: Cimatron opens Korea Liaison Office, CIM Solutions acquires 3Datum CAD business, Bruce Morgan of PlanetCAD resigns, James Bracking to CEO PlanetCAD, Elizabeth Rescigno to PlanetCAD CFO
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