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Issue 135 (13 Dec 2004)

• Feature Articles: Productstream 2, Windchill on demand, CATIA V5R14, Microsoft - Dassault Systemes alliance.
• New products: Delcam race line machining, i.get.it e-learning solution for COSMOSWorks, PolyWorks/IMView, SolidWorks price-quoting service, FaroARM interface for SURFCAM, JT2Go no-cost 3D viewing products, Mastercam Art, bringing brings its power and experience to artistic relief design and cutting.
• Upgrades: KeyCreator 4.0, IntelliShip, R14 of the Spatial 3D Modeling and Data Interoperability product lines, FormatWorks 2005, Bluebeam Pushbutton Plus for SolidWorks, Brava! Enterprise content visualization server, Designer Modeling 2005, Visual-Crash for PAM, Geomagic Studio 7, ToleranceCalc, GibbsCAM 2004+, rapidformXO Verifier, Alias StudioTools 12 - Alias ImageStudio 2 - PortfolioWall 2, CADSTAR Express free PCB design suite, LMS Pimento Rev 5.1, Moldflow CAD Doctor, Document3D, EdgeCAM Solid Machinist for CATIA V5, ANSYS 9.0.
• Marketing: IBM and Dassault Systemes at Purdue University, Alibre offers AutoCAD LT upgrades, Lattice3D wins award from DoD, Proficiency wins INDUSTRYWEEK award, AVEVA appreciated by DAEWOO, PTC strengthens electronics and high tech offerings.
• Competitive wins: Elettronica - MatrixOne, Babcock & Wilcox - RuleStream, SARGENT Manufacturing, Tempus Computers, and Nutek Singapore - SolidWorks, Superior Die Set - 3D PartStream.NET, Schilling Robotics - SolidWorks, Avio - MSC.Software, Aperto Networks and Mobile Digital Media - Arena, Nikon Corporation - COSMOSDesignSTAR, Hydro-Quebec and Northrop Grumman - IBM and Dassault Systemes PLM, leading printer manufacturers - CoCreate OneSpace Designer Modeling, superDimension Ltd. - SMARTEAM, Delcam PowerINSPECT - General Motors, Malmo University of Sweden - IronCAD, DARPA - PTC, three German engineering universities - SolidWorks, Transport Design International - VX CAD/CAM.
• Financials: ANSYS revenue up 15%, Autodesk revenue up 28%, RAND Worldwide revenue down 5% - losses continue, UGS revenue up 8%.
• On the move: People: Trenton H. Brown - Proficiency, Marc Dulude - Proficiency, Todd McCall - Cyon Research, Gregory P. Spivy and William J. Weyand - MSC.Software. Partners: Lattice3D - 5 new resellers, ALGOR - FatigueWizard, IGC - SealedMedia, CAXA - Dassault Systemes, CADopia - SolidWorks, CoCreate - Systinet, Delphi Technologies - Design Solutions, ImpactXoft - MCG, Spicer Corporation - JT Open.
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Issue 134 (20 Sep 2004)

• Back from vacation
• A quickie about NX3
• New and interesting papers from CoCreate, CPDA, and Boothroyd Dewhurst
• Merrill Lynch survey confirms misplaced product development priorities
• New products: Delcam free CAD viewer, QuadriSpace Notes3D, Rhino Universal Deformation Technology, FARO Gage and FARO Gage-PLUS
• Upgrades: OneSpace.net 2005, SprutCAM, DezignWorks, Mastercam, Solid Edge Version 16, VizStream, Arena TrueEdge Pack,Geomagic Qualify 7, KollabNet, MachineWorks, VX Version 10, AutoVue 18, AutoSEA2 version 2004, solidThinking DESIGN 6.0, ICEM Style, TurboCADCAM, IronCAD Inovate V7, TransMagic 2005, Alibre Design 8.0, FaceWorks 2005, COSMOSDesignSTAR Version 4.5
• Marketing: Daratech names Delmia, CIMdata names UGS, IMSI 'Smart Choice' Award, PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0 Student Edition, Alibre Design PRO Pack, PlassoTech 3G.Design Simulation/Optimization Suite
• Competitive wins: Robert Bosch Corporation - SolidWorks Office Professional; Makino J Co. - DELMIA Virtual NC; AquaCal - SolidWorks, PDMWorks, COSMOSFloWorks; FAW Bus and Coach Co. Ltd. - Solid Edge; Trek bicycles - SolidWorks and COSMOSWorks; Florida schools - VX CAD/CAM; Johnstone Safety Products Ltd. - VX CAD/CAM; Alenia Aeronautica Italy - MSC.Robust Design and MSC.Nastran 2004; Techmire - SolidWorks; Anderson Power Products - Kubotek KeyCreator; Atlas Copco Drilling Solutions - Informative Graphics' MYRIAD; medical technology companies - COSMOS; - IronCAD; BAE SYSTEMS- Metrix Build!IT; Michael Graves Design Group - think3; Timex - ActiveProduct; Ford Motor Company - Elysium; Elkay Manufacturing Company - SolidWorks Office Professional; Lockheed Martin -Leica LR200 laser scanner; PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN - LMS Test.lab; M-TEC GmbH - CoCreate OneSpace.net; Olympus Corporation - OneSpace Designer; Vehma International of America - PAM-CRASH 2G; RealityWave - Innoject
• Financials: ANSYS 2Q revenue up 16%, Autodesk Inc.'s 2Q revenue up 32%, Dassault Systemes 2Q revenue up 6%, MatrixOne acquired Synchronicity Software, MatrixOne 4Q revenue up 14% and return to profitability, Moldflow 4Q revenue up 54%, PTC 3Q revenue up 2% and becomes profitable, Bentley Systems acquired AXSYS integrated process engineering solution product line, Delcam 6 month revenue up 5%, Dellego Technologies gets $1.5 million financing, RAND Worldwide 2Q revenue down 13% and continues earnings loss in operating profits, think3 2Q revenue grew 12% to $9 million, Cimatron Limited 2Q revenue up 14% to $6.11 million, FISHER/UNITECH acquired Corporate Software Solutions.
• On the move: People: Christopher Dress - Product Sight, Tim Bailey - Spatial Corp., William Berutti - PTC, Martin Huml - Arena Solution Partners: Sigmetrix -PTC, ALGOR's -Autodesk, Gibbs and Associates -FANUC, ICAM - Makino, Delphi Technologies - SCATE Technologies, Solid Edge-LightWorks, Digital Dimensions - SolidProfessor, IronCAD - Spatial, ACUITIV Software - Seomoon Technologies, Agile Software - Adobe Systems, Appropriate Technology, Inc. and Midwest Engineering Design Systems, Inc. - ImpactXoft, ASA Systems - Actify, PlassoTech - Toyota Caelum, Tech Soft America - Microsoft
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Issue 133 (20 Jul 2004)

Issue 132 (3 Jun 2004)

• Systems Engineering - Tomorrow's CAD?
• Product Sight's FindView technology certified
• Solid Edge V16 launched
• Rand seminars benchmark results - caution
• UGS' purchase completed
• New products: AnvilCAD Lite
• Upgrades: GrafiCalc, NE/Nastran FEA software, CATFORM R12 CAA V5 Based, CEI Macintosh OS X support for Harpoon, CFX-5.7, Cimatron E 5.1, Imagenation 7.4 and Image aoX 7.4, , eM-Execution, ProjectWeb, LATTICE3D, LMS Test.Lab 5, OneSpace Designer for mySAP, ANSYS solves 100 million DOF problem.
• Marketing: Alibre Inc. increases prices, AutoVue for Documentum receives logo designation, Bluebeam Software launches Bluebeam blue-print, VX improves its website, Stratasys the market leader in RP, VirtualCAD adds Models, on CNC Software's 20th Anniversary CEO predicts, Dassault Systemes PLM enables halving the assembly time of new business jet.
• Financials: ANSYS first quarter revenue up 27%, Autodesk first quarter revenue up 41%, AVEVA completes Tribon acquisition, Avatech Solutions third quarter revenue up 29%, RAND Worldwide's first quarter revenue down 20%.
• Competitive wins: Product Sight deploys in 3 days at Rexnord, QED, Micro Motors, Inc. and Joy Mining Machinery adopt latest version of Autodesk Vault, Smiths Aerospace deploys PTC Windchill solutions, Elasis - Fiat's selected AutoSEA2 from ESI Group, Bean combination grocery cart designed in SolidWorks, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company to IBM and Dassault Systemes solutions for new Russian Regional Jet program, India's Hero Global Design ordered ICEM Surf
• On the move: People: Keith Mountain, Spatial Corp. and David Opsahl, Actify Partnering:Enovia Corp. - Galaxia, ProductSpace Solutions - PTC, ESI Group - LSTC, AVEVA - Leica Geosystems, Moldflow - Materialise, IBM and Dassault Systemes - Tata Technologies, Tecnomatix Technologies - EXAPT, Imaginestics - Purdue Research Foundation, Spatial Corp. - EtherAct
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Issue 131 (4 May 2004)

• TechniCom comments on: RAND Americas, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0, Silicon Graphics sells Alias, think3 9.0, I-deas 11 NX Series
• New products: Autodesk DWF Composer
• Upgrades: Actify, Autodesk Building Systems 2005, Autodesk VIZ 2005, Net-It Now CSF writer, Mastercam Automatic Toolpathing, PAM-CEM Solutions 2004, SURFCAM 3D Offset Finishing
• Marketing: InVision HR 3-D, 1,000th Certified SolidWorks Professional, Mastercam delivers speed boost, Surfware's SURFCAM Step Reduction Milling
• Financials: RAND Worldwide, PTC, Moldflow
• Competitive wins: 10 wins summarized
• On the move: People and Partnering
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Issue 130 (26 March 2004)

• Industry happenings - ImpactXoft product rollout, Autodesk - MechSoft, Autodesk Vault 2, SolidWorks Harnessing, 3D Partstream.net version 6, COSMOSWorks Designer,Solid Edge Mold Tooling, NDES vendor panel, CADKEY - Kubotek USA, Product Sight's FindView, EDS sells UGS PLM Solutions, Dassault Systemes V5R13, Autodesk Inventor Series sold more seats, ASME Y14.41-2003 Standard, PLM search technology
• New products: Autodesk DWF Composer, CFdesign v7.0, EFD.V5, STAR-CAT5 and Comet-CAT5, CAT5Works, VX QuickShapes
• Upgrades: Autodesk DWF Composer, CFdesign v7.0, EFD.V5, STAR-CAT5 and Comet-CAT5, CAT5Works, VX QuickShapes
• Financials: Autodesk fourth quarter revenues increased 51 percent, think3 secures $11 million in new capital investment
• Competitive wins: 24 wins summarized
• On the move: People - from Cimatron, Proficiency, Delcam, and Delmia Partnering - IBM and MSC.Software, Noesis - ABAQUS, ALGOR - Solid Edge, Belcan - PTC, COSMOSDesignSTAR - Solid Edge and Autodesk Inventor, High school students - PTC, ABAQUS - First Technology, Advanced Computer Solutions - Open Design Alliance, IBM - Dassault Systemes, Cadpo - Macomb, Corel - Spatial, RAND Worldwide - IBM and Autodesk, CETIM - ANSYS
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Issue 129 (14 February 2004)

• We love being popular, but the MyDoom virus tested us to our limit
• Ever wonder what caused the Enron fiasco?
• Solid Edge V15 moves the bar ahead
• SolidWorks World continues SolidWorks strong showing
• News of a potential sale of UGS PLM Solutions generates many possibilities
• Alias also considering sale
• Talking about Systems Engineering
• What is PLM?
• New products: Windchill 7.0, Virtual Laser Keyboard for PDAs, ToolWorks ERP-Link version 1.5, OpenCNC Grinder, Autodesk DWF Writer, Autotask for SolidWorks, IBM-Dassault IMPD, IMSverify, eDrawings for Wildfire, LMS PolyMAX
• Upgrades: MSC.Simulation Data Management (SDM) 2004, ESI Group's ProCAST 2004, T-FLEX Parametric CAD 8.0, VX Version 9, Mastercam Version 9.1, Alibre Design Expert, Elysium SMARTEAM integration
• Marketing:Cadpo's new pricing for i.get.it, Solid Edge Voyager Program grows, CoCreate's orders for OneSpace.net reach 1,000 seat mark, ICED*CAD QuickStart, CNC Software's new Mastercam Maintenance program, Logopress3 Flattening Module, ALGOR's InCAD products Inventor 8 Certified, Spirit rover's robotic arm tested with COSMOSWorks, RAND CAVA" Standards.
• Financials:IMSI to acquire Aladdin Systems, PTC reported revenue of $156.8 million declines 4% sequentially, ANSYS record fourth quarter and annual 2003 results, MatrixOne second quarter revenues down slightly, Moldflow acquires American MSI Corporation, think3 has 80 percent revenue growth for 2003, Dassault Systemes reports slight increase in fourth-quarter revenues.
• Competitive wins: Freightliner -Tecnomatix, Hyundai Heavy Industry Offshore & Engineering Division -AutoCAD Mechanical, Invacare -SMARTEAM, Joinease Industries Ltd - SolidWorks, Matsushita Welding Systems -Autodesk Inventor, Texas Instruments Sensors and Controls -SolidWorks, Southco-3D PartStream.NET, Swagelok - SMARTEAM, Toyota Motorsport GmbH - Dassault Systemes Generative Car Design Industry solution, IEE Luxembourg -MSC.Software's SimDesigner, EFD.Lab software, SolidWorks - China Textile Machinery Industry, GE Medical Systems - think3's thinkiD, think3 -Phoenix International, MTU Aero Engines -Teamcenter, Xyron - PTC, IBM and Dassault Systemes - The Boeing Company, Army's Defense Ammunition Center (DAC) - Solid Edge, GM Daewoo Auto&Technology (GM Daewoo)-UGS PLM Solutions
• On the move People - Bryan Diehl, Franco Ellena, Gordon Moir, Dr. Albert L. Klosterman, Dr. Dennis A. Nagy, Gregory C. Milliken, Bertram Anderer, Gary Yost, Beatriz Hubert Partnering - 3D Shapes - Moldflow, CD adapco Group - STAR-Works, GlobalSpec -Autodesk, Acuity - ImpactXoft, Alibre - Infograph, NASCO Technologies - PTC, ESI Group - CFD Research Corporation, QuadriSpace Corporation -SolidWorks, Rand A Technology - Boeing, Tecnomatix - HP, Tecnomatix Technologies -UGS PLM Solutions, SofTech - Cimmetry.
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Issue 128 (6 January 2004)

• NX Systems Engineering Powers the Product Lifecycle
• PTC Pending Timeout
• ImpactXoft Launches "Need SPeeD" Reseller Channel Program
• New products: Raindrop Geomagic Cadmus Fashion, AutoCAD Electrical 2004, Moldflow MMS/Production Monitoring 1.0.
• Upgrades: Moldflow Plastics Advisers 7.0, MSC.Patran 2004, SimDesigner 2004 for CATIA V5R11, VX Version 8, COSMOSDesignSTAR 4.0, Net-It CAD Plug-In for Autodesk Inventor, FactoryLink 7.2, ALGOR V14.2, Service Pack 1 for AutoVue 17.1, CATIA V4 to Rhinoceros translator, PwerMILL 5
• Marketing: PTC Product First Roadmap UPDATED, Pathtrace Systems' EdgeCAM V8 and B-axis positioning, IBM expanded its Express Portfolio, CNC Software’s Mastercam was first once again, UGS PLM Solutions software to be foundation for Digital Body Development System, upFront.eZine publishing "Tailoring IntelliCAD 4", Parasolid leads in modeling for CAE, VX Corporation's new designer fillet, D-Cubed AEM provides motion simulation for Solid Edge Version 15
• Financials: think3 increases revenue 110% in Q3 2003
• Competitive wins: Invensys Rail Systems deployed Matrix10, Mission3-D starts up with SolidWorks, Stellenbosch University teaches Autodesk Inventor, FoldaCover - Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Foundation, Neville Johnson Offices - SolidWorks, AGCO Corporation - PTC PLM, Shonan Design - Delcam Power Solution, AMC Centurion AB - SMARTEAM, Braun GmbH -SolidWorks, Babcock Power Environmental - PTC Digital Model Definition Optimizer, Loewen Inc. - IBM and Dassault Systemes PLM, PARTsolutions Web-enables NSK Precision America, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. Aerospace Division - Q-Checker
• On the move: People: Rob Burgess, Lynne Saunders Partnering: EDS PLM Solutions business becomes UGS PLM Solutions, ANSYS - Texas Engineering Systems, ImpactXoft joined Dassault Systèmes’ CAA V5 Software Community Program, MSC.Software - immixTechnology, and IndustrieHansa, 3 H Technology Institute- PTC, Autodesk - Pathtrace, ICAM Technologies and WALTER Informationssysteme GmbH, MatrixOne - Sogeti USA LLC, Cornerstone Technology - ImpactXoft, Sage CAD Applications -Geomate, Pathtrace - Project Lead the Way
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