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Issue 127
(27 October 2003)
- Since the
fire
- COE happenings
- EDS PLM to
spin off from EDS
- Autodesk wins
rights to ACIS code
- ANSYS variational
technology allows fast exploration of design alternatives
- CADKEY and
IMSI
- New
products: AutoCAD
Electrical 2004, IDEAL.com's WiseImage 6.0,
ABAQUS 6.4, Geomagic Studio 6, GrafiCalc 2.0, ACERI Electrical Designer
LT 2004, Autodesk Vault, iQSun 880 3D Laser Scanner,
SINDA/G for 3G.author.
- Upgrades:
MSC.Robust
Design, SMARTEAM V5 and eDrawings, Teamcenter Consumer and Packaged
Goods, LMS Pimento, OneSpace.net is shipping, ALGOR V14, LightWorks for
the G5 Macintosh, Synergis Adept 5.1, LightWork Design material libraries,
Trace Parts version 2.3, Mastercam Version 9.1, CADKEY Version 21.5, CADCAM-E
bi-directional SolidWorks / Unigraphics Translator -- UGWorks V1.0, ESPRIT
2003, EdgeCAM V8, FASTBLANK 5.
- For software
developers: Tekla
licenses D-Cubed 2D Dimensional Constraint Manager
- Marketing:
Cadpo new transition courses, AMR Research credits
PTC with strong PLM leadership, IBM adds PLM Centers of Competency
by industry, DELMIA users share digital factory
strategies, CoCreate honored by Forbes, Parts manufacturers and PartStream.NET,
AMR Research awards EDS PLM Solutions strong ratings, ALGOR
InCAD certified by Autodesk.
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Financials:
Agile
Software acquires Tradec, MatrixOne loss greater than expected.
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Competitive
wins: DCS
Manufacturing and Autodesk, EDS PLM Teamcenter has exceeded
1 million licenses, Queensland University and
SolidWorks, ACE Clearwater and VX, Franz
Schneider and think3, Ritsumeikan University and Solid Edge, RTSand
SMARTEAM, Vestfrost and SolidWorks, Hayter designs with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire,
Rockwell and PARTsolutions, LMS reduces noise at Jiangling Motor,
United Space Alliance and McLaren Software, Shaanxi Aircraft and First
Aircraft opts for IBM and Dassault Systemes PLM, Universe Corporation outsources to think3, ISA
Group shortens lead time with IBM PLM solutions, Cal Poly uses 200 licenses
of SolidWorks, COSMOSWorks, and COSMOSMotion, Bombardier Transportation
and Polyplan, VAI CLECIM and Solid Edge,
SAIC uses 1000 Inventor seats.
- On the
move: People:
Jeff
Ray to SolidWorks, Jerry McFeeters
to Imaginestics, Kriss Goad
to Graphics Systems Corporation, Ray Ryan
to Arc Second, Luis Quiles to Cyco Software, Sandy
Hagerman and Jim Sirko
elected to G-10.
Partnering: Autodesk
- Microsoft, Gehry Technologies -IBM/Dassault Systemes, ICEM
- Pelorus Consulting, InnovMetric
Software - resellers of PolyWorks, Fishbowl Solutions - Spicer ViewCafe,
Autodesk - AVEVA, think3 -GlobalSpec, Cadpo - 15 of the top SolidWorks VARs,
Pou Yuen Tech - CADKEY, Fluent - Dassault Systemes, Impac Systems - PTC,
Advanced Technologies and Engineering LLC -Pathtrace, Processia
Solutions -Actify, Simmetrix Inc. - Tech Soft America.
- Upcoming events
Issue 126
(18 September 2003)
- TechniCom office
destroyed by fire
- What we learned
form the fire
- Next issue to
be delayed
Issue 125
(12 August 2003)
- IBM's new PLM
Express solutions
- Matrox Parahelia
Graphics Card Review
- Wonder why
engineering jobs are going across borders?
- Agile Software Corporation acquired Eigner
- New products: CD
adapco STAR-Pro/E and Comet-Pro/E, Net-Intent new iFilters, Alias ImageStudio
and Alias StudioTools, CoCreate OneSpace.net, Penguin for Rhino, Nlighten
from NinaTek
- Upgrades: ALGOR
fluid flow analysis software, AutoVue 17.1, CADCAM-E CIMINV-Ug V1.0, EnLiten
1.6, VERICUT 5.3, Delcam ArtCAM Pro, solidThinking 5.5, BLANKNEST 4.0,
Mastercam Version 9.1, Pro/DESKTOP Express 8.0, Pro/CONCEPT, Mastercam
Router Version 9, MSC.ADAMS 2003, Synergis Adept 5.1
- For software
developers: HOOPS
Stream Toolkit, LightWork Design cross-platform support for RPC Content,
STEP Tools ST-Plan
- Marketing:
Computer Systems Odessa, Elysium's CADfeature, NX on Itanium 2-based HP workstations, Solid Edge
Evolve to 3D, Autodesk Inventor Certified Hardware
Program, Virtual DesignWorks, COSMOSDesignSTAR
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Financials:
Dassault Systemes, MatrixOne, MSC.Software, PTC, ANSYS, Cimatron, Tecnomatix
acquires USDATA
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Competitive
wins: Moldflow MMS, Anhui Jianghuai Automotive and Solid Edge,B.A.T.
Machine and Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Evernham Motorsports and CATIA V5,
ICEM at SEAT, Koito and CATIA V5-SMARTEAM-DELMIA, motor coach companies
drive with Autodesk Inventor Series, CATIA V5 - ENOVIA at BMW, IBM's
PLM Shipbuilding Solutions, PTC at LLN, UCLA uses SolidWorks and COSMOSWorks, Bosch and DELMIA, INUS Technology, Schneider
and Tecnomatix, RID and SolidWorks, MTU Friedrichshafen and MSC.ADAMS, ISC Engineering and SolidWorks
3D PartStream.NET
- On the
move: People:
Nitzan Sapir Partnering: CADKEY
and IMSI, Dassault Systemes and Avatech, PTC and Enser, Fluent Europe
and Materialise, PTC and Mallett Technology, MSC.Software
and Livermore Software Technology Group,mental images and Dassault Systemes,
various CAM companies and SolidWorks, Surfware and Spatial, VX and resellers, CGTech
and Mitsui Seiki U.S.A.
- Upcoming events
- eWeekly publisher
information
Issue
124 (14 July 2003)
- think3's Product
Configurator powers mass customization
- EDS
PLM Solutions gets rights to MSC.Nastran
- Autodesk
Inventor Professional 7
- SolidWorks
2004
- Does price
matter? A follow up.
- New products:
ANSYS' new AI*Environment, CADCAM-E CATIA Version 5 to Mastercam translator,ALG/NASTRAN,
c-Ark / AutoVue, CETOL 6s, CMMWorks
- Upgrades: COSMOS
2004, ANSYS
7.1, i.get.it, Proficiency Collaboration Gateway, StudioTools, PowerCAD
Pro 5.2, Moldflow Design Link (MDL) 4.0, think3 8.4 release, Autodesk
Streamline 5, AutoVue / SAP, version 7.6 of EnSight and EnSight Gold, CAM-POST
V-15, LMS SYSNOISE,Version 8 of VX CAD/CAM, MSC.visualNastran
V5i
- For software
developers: D-Cubed
DCM and AEM
- Marketing: PTC
aerospace and defense study, Pro/ENGINEER
Wildfire Student Edition, PTC PLM research project, Actify licenses
Vis JT, EDS certifies select partners, PTC's
Certified Professional Program, largest 3D component portal integrated
into Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
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Financials: MSC.Software
exits systems business, FISHER/UNITECH
completes acquisition, PTC expects another shortfall in revenue
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Competitive
wins: SEAT
and Alias StudioTools; SolidWorks and Kern AG, President Office Furniture,
McDantim, and Dorel
Juvenile Group; IBM Dassault PLM and CIMOS, Heroux-Devtek, and Brunvoll
AS; Deere and MatrixOne; Autodesk Inventor and Fujitec Singapore and
Unicorn Industrial Sewing Machine; Engineering Bausch und Ziege GmbH
and Tecnomatix; ESI Group's casting simulations; Solid Edge extends with MetaCAM 5.0 and Adam Aircraft; PTC and Team
Bentley and Volkswagen
- On the
move: People: Neil
Moses, Cecil
Lewis, Walt Silva, Dan Starr Partnering: PTC
- INNEO Solution, Cimatron
- Micro-Milling Research Project, EdgeCAM - Sandvik Coroguide, LMS
International - T-Systems, Kistler - Moldflow, BattleBots - SolidWorks
- Upcoming events
Issue
123 (12 June 2003)
- Systems
Engineering in CAD
- Autodesk
Inventor Series best selling 3D design software product
- Alibre
offers a $1,000 reward
- New
products: SGI
OpenGL Shader, LMS SCADAS 305, Glass Cutting Suite v. 2.01 and Sheet
Metal Cutting Suite v. 2.01, Matrox Millennium P-Series graphics boards,
p-Shell scripting for Pro/TOOLKIT
- Upgrades: Cimatron’s
EDM Setup Wizard, SYSWELD 2003, MSC.Marc 2003, Pro/ENGINEER
Routed Systems Designer 4.0, 3DVision (3DV) 2003 edition, RapidForm2004, PolyWorks/Inspector
V8
- For
software developers: Spatial
R11 release, MachineWorks V6, DWGdirect libraries for AutoCAD 2004
- Marketing:
think3's new MyTraining, Windchill 7.0 and J2EE standards, SimMechanics
2.1, ESPRIT CAM Certified Application, Cadpo and M-TEC - GM Certified Unigraphics
NX training, AutoVue and Livelink CADManager, Synergis Technologies and
COADE CADWorx
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Competitive
wins: MatrixOne -
Calypso Medical Technologies; EDS PLM Solutions - H.B.
Fuller; SolidWorks - Denmark's Aalborg University, Riverwood
International, Northern Ireland Department of Education, Nightowl Keyboard,
Vanderlande Industries, Weir Pumps; MSC.Software - Polaris
Industries; Dassault Systemes - China Motor Corporation; CoCreate Software
- PN Beslag; LMS International - Husqvarna; Materialise -
Hyundai Mobis
- Financials: Autodesk down
8% - earnings down 57%, think3 revenue up 63%, IronCAD LLC
revenue up 8%, RAND Worldwide 1Q revenue down 15% - loses
$7.1 million, Arena Solutions 1Q revenue up 50%
- On
the move: People Jaap
Smit, MatrixOne; Roberta Carlton, SparkSource; Dean
Franks, ICEM; Steve Lorenz, AVEVA; Robert
G. Beauchemin, Polyplan Technologies; Cecil Lewis,
Elysium; Hans Wynendaele, NOESIS Partnering Actify
and Spatial; Alias/Wavefront and Acer; Alias/Wavefront and Spatial Corp.;
Cadence Design Systems and MatrixOne; Cadence Design Systems, MatrixOne,
and IBM; Dassault Systemes and Avatech Solutions; Graphics Systems Corporation
COSMOS/Works
- Upcoming
events
Issue 122 (5 May 2003)
- CAD-portal.com
adds instant polling to its website
- T-Systems,
Inc. launches s!CMI and eCMI
- Autodesk Inventor
Series 7 available now
- CATIA V5R11
announced
- New
products:
Surfware Internet-based training, Alias/Wavefront DesignStudio Productivity
Pack, CATFORM, CEI's Harpoon, Moldflow Manufacturing Solutions 1.0
- Upgrades: SURFCAM
2003, Imagenation 7.2, CADServer 2, AutoManager
Meridian 2003a and AutoManager TeamWork 2003a, LMS Virtual.Lab
Rev 2, PolyWorks
V8, Windchill 7.0
- For
software developers: CADIQ
to use HOOPS 3D Application Framework, V1 of STEP Tools STIX, AutoCAD
2004 data file encryption, Alibre PhotoRender Industrial Pack is LightWork
Design enabled, LightWorks 7.0
- Marketing:
ALGOR's InCAD associative, HighRES launches Sphinx, Fluent
GAMBIT 2.1 preprocesses native CATIA V4 data, Elysium
OneSpace-to-CATIA V5 CAD Data Adapter, TraceOnline parts catalog within
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, RAND Worldwide support
companies implementing Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire
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Competitive
wins:
Pearson Engineering and Brakes India upgrade to Autodesk Inventor,
Mann & Hummel Hydromation switches to SolidWorks, Leica
Geosystems Metrology atToyota, Siemens AG deploys more of Centric Software,
United Defense buys 900 seats of Windchill, PSA Peugeot Citroen
surfaces with ICEM, Renault
adds more LMS Virtual.Lab, WDS Ltd. catalogs with SolidWorks
3D PartStream.NET service
- Financials: Quarterly
reports: Dassault Systemes revenue down 9%, PTC revenue down 5%, Moldflow
revenues unchanged, ANSYS Inc. revenues
up 15%
- On
the move: People Eric
Pratt, Adam Oaks, Susan
Walter Partnering GiveMePower-PROSTEP-Altair-Vexcel and
Spatial, Agile acquires ProductFactory, Metronor to bundle CADKEY, Dassault
Systemes and StreamlineSCM, TransMagic
adds resellers, EDS and ABAQUS
- Upcoming
events
Issue
121 (31 March 2003)
- Meetings
and interviews with industry executives from the Daratech Summit2003
- From
NDES:
Iced*CAD, Autodesk acquires, Inventor 7 and Streamline 5 and AutoCAD
2004 announced
- New products: Resinate "Plastics
Engineer in a Box," Resource Manager-DB for Lean
Manufacturing, WoodMill for Woodworking
- Upgrades: COSMOSDesignSTAR, TransMagic,
free HOOPS 3D Part Viewer for PTC Granite, CADKEY
V21 Viewer, Actify SpinFire V5 Catia V5 importer, Axiom
CAD-to-PDF Package
- For software
developers: PTC Granite release 2.0, Simmetrix simulation
modeling toolkits for Granite, D-Cubed's Profile Geometry
Manager
- Marketing: EDS Voyager
B2B Supplier Program for Solid Edge; awards for SolidWorks
2003, PTC's strategy, Solid Edge; Out of work or want to change
careers- SolidWorks 3D Skills Program, Gibbs new
Custom Solutions Group, SPEC/GPC benchmark for Solid Edge
Version 12
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Competitive
wins: DP Technology at Alan Johnson Performance Engineering,
Lightolier reports 35 percent increase in productivity with Autodesk Inventor,
ESA-ESTEC selects LMS, Ferris State University educates
with Autodesk Inventor, Miba slides to Pro/ENGINEER,
Nilfisk-Advance cleans up with IBM/Dassault Systemes PLM,
Sikorsky chooses SGI Origin 300, Moscow's Domodedovo
Airport plans with eM-Plant, Leviton extends deployment
of OneSpace, KeyMed standardizes on SolidWorks,
Vanderlande selects SMARTEAM for PLM, Suzuki selects EDS
PLM, Lindsay and Synergis Adept, Northrop Grumman Newport News
analyzes with ABAQUS
- On the move: People Ralph
Grabowski publishes Tailoring AutoCAD, Bruce Engelmann of
ABAQUS, Peter Heath of Elysium Partnering Imagecom
and Boeing Continental DataGraphics, Visiprise and EDS PLM Solutions,
ModernTech and Resinate
- Upcoming events
Issue
120 (28 Feb 2003)
- Dassault
Systemes and IBM win big at Ford
- Pro/ENGINEER
Wildfire ties it all together
- Solid
Edge V14 allows stylized modeling
- ICEM
Ltd. has big plans
- New
products: I-deas 10 NX Series, CADKEY Workshop EX, ALGOR NASTRAN, BlankWorks
and Fastblank
- Upgrades: EDS'
Imageware 10, ACUITIV Version 3.2, Cimatron E 4.2, PAM-CRASH 2G, PhotoWorks
- Marketing:
GoEngineer top SolidWorks reseller, HOOPS and
3D ACIS Modeler inside CoventorWare 2003, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire on Linux,
CADporter certified for Inventor 6
- Financials:
ANSYS, Dassault Systemes, MatrixOne, Moldflow, Tecnomatix,
MSC.Software, Autodesk
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Competitive
wins: Autodesk
Inventor at Hawkes Ocean Technologies, Capvidia at Audi, EDS
at UTS, Autodesk Inventor at Joy Global,
SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET at Nook Industries, IBM and
Dassault Systemes at Daewoo Heavy Industries & Machinery, Delmia
at Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Moldflow at Jada Plastics, SolidWorks at Taiwan's
largest forging machine manufacturer, MSC.Software at Forgecast
- On
the move: People: David
Lemont of AppIQ, John
Alpine of CoCreate Software, Paul
Bremner and Jane Trenaman of ESI North America, Jim Heppelmann of PTC. Partnering: SensAble
Technologies and Delcam, EDS
and Avatech Solutions, Hexagon and CATIA Version 5, Spicer Corporation
and Hummingbird, LMS Internationa and ANSYS, EFD.Lab
extends distribution
- Upcoming
events
- eWeekly
publisher information
Issue
119 (30 Jan 2003)
- SolidWorks
World 2003 shows strength of SolidWorks
- PTC's Pro/ENGINEER
Wildfire Wins Mouse Click Test
- Upgrades: ImageModeler
3.5, SURFCAM now includes include the latest
release of the Predator CNC Editor software, CADporter translation
now supports Autodesk Inventor 6 file formats, Cimmetry
Systems AutoVue 17 adds new function, VX CAD/CAM
software V7, MSC.visualNastran 4D 2003, new SolidWorks-to-GibbsCAM transfer
add-in, TTI adds SolidWorks data conversion, new ABAQUS/Foundation, Geomagic
Studio 5
- For software
developers: LightWorks 7.0
- Marketing: Proficiency and Solid
Edge Insight win awards, PlassoTech's 3G.author
allows a fully parametric digital mockup, bom.com changed its name to Arena
Solutions, GibbsCAM certified for Autodesk
Inventor 6, education and certification program for Pro/ENGINEER
Wildfire, FeatureCAM now certified for AutoDesk
Inventor 6
- Financials: LightWork
Design spins off MachineWorks, Moldflow
Corporation acquires Controle Processus Industriels, PTC
reports revenue totaling $171.9 million for the first quarter
ended December 28, 2002, with a net loss for the first quarter of $11.4
million.
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Competitive
wins: Entrada
Software and Cimmetry, New Balance deploys MatrixOne,
Rotem and MSC.Software, CSIRO 50% witj Autodesk Inventor, PTC order
from Raytheon, DE-STA-CO and 3D PartStream.NET, EDAG
Engineering + Design AG signs with IBM and Dassault Systemes,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) standardizes EDS PLM Solutions,
three German shipyards order PLM from EDS, SmarTeam and
Kvaerner, Polymer Technologies and Moldflow , Hinterkopf
and SolidWorks, Crown Cork & Seal uses SolidWorks,
Embraer purchases licenses of CEI's EnSight
- On the move: People and Partnering
- Letters to
the editor - Mike Rebrukh, Director of Product Management,
Unigraphics NX, EDS PLM Solutions took issue with some of the comments
we made in the last issue of this newsletter (Issue 118) about UG Knowledge
Fusion. He replies to our article.
- Upcoming events
- eWeekly publisher
information
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