TOLLAND, CT, USA, Mar 3, 2021 – Mastercam Mill offers expanded machining flexibility and an increased emphasis on speed and automation. Multi-axis features, 3D enhancements, and 2D high speed toolpaths combine with dozens of additional new enhancements in a software package intended to improve shop floor productivity.

The new 3+2 Automatic Roughing toolpath automatically makes multiplane 3-axis toolpaths for roughing. Mastercam analyzes the model and stock, and then creates a roughing toolpath. Mastercam calculates the remaining stock and computes a new toolpath. This continues until only a defined amount of stock remains, and results are all contained within one toolpath.

Multiaxis Roughing has been enhanced and renamed to Multiaxis Pocketing and includes new options such as undercut roughing, wall finishing, and floor finishing. Multiaxis Pocketing provides greater control of the tool contract point and machining angle when using Accelerated Finishing tools and ensures that you get the best possible motion.

The new Unified Multiaxis toolpath allows you to select multiple pieces of input geometry to generate the toolpath pattern. Then, using those geometry choices, the toolpath picks the best algorithm to calculate the path.

3D Enhancements

Mastercam’s 3D High Speed Blend toolpath includes many enhancements including the ability to keep created passes equidistant in 3D by adding cuts in steep areas, the capability to set the exact number of cutting passes, reverse cutting direction, confining curves to Tool tip or Tool contact point, as well as two new methods in the Cut method options. By applying Automatic and Custom Angles to Raster Toolpaths, Mastercam now automatically sets different angles to maximize the length of the cut pattern and/or minimize the connecting moves.

2D Enhancements

Advanced Drill, a new toolpath, is a customizable multi-segment drill cycle that is useful for spot drilling, deep hole drilling, and back spot facing. Each segment of the drill cycle can be defined in a table, and for each segment, you can customize any or all conditions. The new Chamfer drill uses tools with a tip angle and chamfers holes after calculating the correct depth based on the desired width or depth. It also allows you to select holes of different diameters or sizes—or that lie in different planes—and machine them in a single operation with a single tool.

Additional Improvements in Mastercam Mill that benefit efficiency include:

1. Improved toolpath processing time and surface accuracy for many Multiaxis toolpaths.
2. Toolpath Hole Definition has multiple new enhancements.
3. A new function, Check Tool Reach, can check your tool and holder against selected model geometry to view where the tool can and cannot reach.
4. In 2D Dynamic Mill, users are now able to skip pockets based on tool diameter or pocket size.
5. Contour enhancements such as additional Spring pass improvements and Profile ramping for Lead In/Out moves.
6. Setting separate feed rates for Entry and Exit linking moves.
7. And much more.

You can learn more about these and dozens of additional enhancements to Mastercam Mill at whatsnew.mastercam.com.

About Mastercam

Developed by CNC Software, Inc., Mastercam is Windows-based CAD/CAM software for 2- through 5-axis routing, milling and turning, 2- and 4-axis wire EDM, 2D and 3D design, surface, and solid modeling. Privately owned and founded in 1983, CNC Software provides CAD/CAM solutions to more than 250,000 installations in 75 countries in industries including mold making, prototyping, automotive, medical, aerospace, consumer products, and much more. For more information, visit www.mastercam.com.

About CNC Software, Inc.

Founded in 1983, CNC Software, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut, with corporate offices in Switzerland and China. The company develops Mastercam, a suite of CAD/CAM software created to reduce production time and expense with efficient machining strategies and advanced toolpath technologies. Mastercam is the world’s #1 CAM software, with more than 250,000 installations in industries such as mold making, automotive, medical, aerospace, consumer products, education, and prototyping. It is distributed through an international channel of authorized Mastercam Resellers in 75 countries, providing localized sales, training, and support for 2- through 5-axis routing, milling, and turning; 2- and 4-axis wire EDM; 2D and 3D design; surface and solid modeling; artistic relief cutting; and Swiss machining. For more information, visit www.mastercam.com.

WATERLOO, ON, Canada, Mar 3, 2021 – Maplesoft announced a new release of Maple Calculator, a free mobile app that lets students solve math problems, check homework, and explore graphs from a wide variety of mathematical topics. With the app, students can enter, solve, and visualize mathematical problems from algebra, precalculus, calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations. With the latest release, Maple Calculator not only solves the problem, but in most cases, also provides a step-by-step solution so that students can learn how to solve the problem themselves.

Students can enter problems into Maple Calculator using the phone’s camera. They can take a picture of a handwritten or typeset math problem, and the app will use AI technology to translate the image. Alternatively, they can enter the problem directly using the same mathematical notation they would use in their own notebooks. Once entered, students can choose to perform a variety of mathematical operations, such as graphing the 2D curve or 3D surface, finding an integral, solving a system of equations, inverting a matrix, factoring a polynomial, and much more. The available operations change according to the mathematical expression that was entered, so they are always relevant.

With the new release, students also have the option to then ask for the steps that lead to the given result. Consequently, students can use the app not just to check if their own work is correct, but to find the source of the problem if they made a mistake. Students can also use the steps to learn how to approach problems they are unfamiliar with. Steps are available in Maple Calculator for a wide variety of problems, including solving equations and systems of equations, finding limits, derivatives, and integrals, and performing matrix operations such as finding inverses and eigenvalues.

“Students around the world are using Maple Calculator to check their homework, visualize problems and solutions, experiment with ‘what-if’ scenarios and more, and all these activities help them deepen their mathematical understanding and improve their confidence,” says Karishma Punwani, Director of Academic Product Management at Maplesoft. “Mathematics education is incredibly important, and is especially challenging this year with so many students learning remotely. So we’re especially gratified that, with the addition of step by step solutions in this new release, Maple Calculator will be even more helpful for students learning math.”

Maple Calculator is part of the Maple Math Suite, which provide access to the world’s most powerful mathematics engine through a variety of specialized, easy-to-use interfaces that make it extremely easy to explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems in different situations. Other products include Maple, the world-leading mathematical software used by researchers, educators, and students around the world, and the recently introduced Maple Learn™, an online environment for teaching, learning, and doing math from high school to the second year of university. Maple Calculator is complementary to both products, and can be used to avoid transcription errors when entering mathematical expressions in Maple or Maple Learn. By using Maple Calculator to take a picture of their math, users can easily upload those mathematical expressions to Maple or Maple Learn for further explorations.

Availability

The free Maple Calculator app is available from the Apple App Store for iOS, and from Google Play for Android users. For more information about Maple Calculator, visit https://www.maplesoft.com/products/MapleCalculator.

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft has provided mathematics-based software solutions to educators, engineers, and researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for over 30 years. Maplesoft’s flagship product, Maple, combines the world’s most powerful mathematics engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems. Building on this technology, the product line includes solutions for education and research, system simulation, calculation management, and systems engineering.

Maplesoft products provide modern, innovative solutions to meet today’s technical challenges, from exploring math concepts on a smartphone to reducing development risk in complex engineering design projects. Maplesoft products and services are used by more than 8000 educational institutions, research labs, and companies, in over 90 countries.

Maplesoft is a subsidiary of Cybernet Systems Group.

EXTON, PA, USA, Mar 3, 2021 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, announced that Greg Bentley, Bentley Systems’ chief executive officer, will present virtually at the Berenberg Design Software Conference on Thursday, March 11, 2021 at approximately 11:00 a.m. Eastern time.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, and industrial facilities. Our offerings include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset and network performance, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,000 colleagues and generates annualized revenues of more than $800 million in 172 countries. For more information, visit www.bentley.com.

PARIS, France, Mar 2, 2021 – GRAITEC, an international BIM, Fabrication, and Design software developer for AEC, and Autodesk Platinum Partner across Europe and Gold across Canada, USA, and Russia, is delighted to announce the acquisition of REDCAGE, a Canadian based company that provides Autodesk solutions for the AEC Industry & Manufacturing industries to a broad range of clients located across Canada.

REDCAGE operating from premises in Ontario provides consulting, support and training to companies from across a broad range of sectors. This acquisition will further enhance the Graitec position in one of its key markets in North America, adding to its existing operations in Quebec. With the recent investment from Apax partners, Graitec continues to show its appetite for expansion to serve customers across North America.

Manuel Liedot, GRAITEC CEO comments: “With this acquisition, we invest further into one of the key BIM markets in North America. Redcage is a perfect addition to Graitec: by joining our forces, we will create tremendous value for Architects, Engineers, and Construction companies around our CREATE – SIMULATE – FABRICATE – MANAGE strategy”.

Gino Barone, REDCAGE Founder, and Managing Partner comments: “By joining Graitec, our customers will further benefit from being owned by a company with a long history in design & collaboration. The Graitec team has the skills and expertise to enable Redcage customers to have access to a wider range of BIM Tools and consultancy.

Kevin Degabriele, REDCAGE Founder and Managing Partner comments: “This exciting news will provide unprecedented opportunities for both our clients and employees.  “The vast expertise and additional resources Graitec provides as a Global Autodesk Reseller will compliment Redcage’s consultancy approach to solving our customer’s ever-changing business challenges.”  Kevin goes on to share that   “Graitec’s unique software offering, such as their well-known Powerpacks for both the AEC and Manufacturing industry will provide a useful tool chest of solutions for our clients”.

Steve Houlder, GRAITEC COO comments: “We look forward to welcoming the Redcage customers & staff to Graitec. Redcage has had a very successful history, we look forward to further enhancing this experience with additional products and services from Graitec.

About GRAITEC

Founded in 1986, GRAITEC is an international group (13 countries worldwide – 48 offices) helping construction and manufacturing professionals to successfully achieve their digital transformation by providing BIM and Industry 4.0 software and consultancy. Graitec is a developer of high-performance BIM applications as well as an Autodesk Platinum Partner in Europe and Gold Autodesk Partner in North America and Russia. With more than 550 employees including 200 BIM consultants, GRAITEC is an innovation focused company whose products are used by more than 100,000 construction professionals worldwide. For more information, visit www.graitec.com

FRIEDRICHSDORF, Germany, Mar 2, 2021 – Maxon announced it has completed the acquisition of forger, a digital 3D sculpting and texture painting application for iOS. Conceived over a decade ago by Javier Edo Meseguer, forger offers desktop-class, professional-level sculpting workflows on mobile devices.

forger features an intuitive multitouch interface and a comprehensive collection of sculpting brushes and tools. Powerful remeshing algorithms as well as masking and layering capabilities make concept- and production-level sculpting on a mobile device a reality. The ability to import/export OBJ and Alembic file formats further facilitates mobile to desktop workflows.

“We are always looking for ways to expand the creative freedom and capabilities of our artistic community. We love the fun and immediacy that forger’s workflow on iPad offers for sculpting and painting. We look forward to exploring what more it can bring to our users,” stated David McGavran, CEO. “Javier is a respected programmer who has dedicated himself to developing tools that expand and enhance the everyday needs of production artists, and we’re thrilled to have him join the Maxon team.”

forger supports all iOS devices (iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch), although it benefits from the extra workspace found in the larger devices and makes great use of the performance benefits that iPad Pro(s) bring to the table. It also supports Apple Pencil.

forger maker Javier Edo, who cut his teeth creating visual effects and pipeline tools for award-winning VFX and production companies working on blockbuster films, commercials and TV shows, will become permanent part of the Maxon family.

Availability

forger is currently available for $9.99 on the Apple App Store.

About Maxon

Maxon makes powerful yet approachable software solutions for content creators working in 2D and 3D design, motion graphics, visual effects, and visualization. Maxon’s innovative product portfolio helps artists supercharge their creative workflows. Its product lines include the award-winning Cinema 4D suite of 3D modeling, simulation, and animation technology, the diverse Red Giant lineup of revolutionary editing, motion design, and filmmaking tools, and the high-end production, blazingly fast Redshift rendering solutions.

Maxon’s team is comprised of fun, passionate people who believe in building and empowering a successful artistic community. From its popular, inclusive events to its free Cineversity educational resources, Maxon recognizes that developing strong connections with creatives and fostering their professional growth is integral to Maxon’s ability to stay on top of industry trends and better serve their customers.

Maxon is part of the Nemetschek Group.

About Nemetschek Group

The Nemetschek Group is a pioneer for the digital transformation in the AEC industry. With its software solutions, it covers the complete life cycle of building and infrastructure projects and guides its customers into the future of digitalization. As one of the world’s leading corporate groups, the Nemetschek Group increases quality in the construction process and improves the digital workflow of all those involved in the construction process. Leveraging the software, buildings can be planned, built and operated more efficiently, sustainably and in a resource-saving manner. The focus of the Nemetschek Group is on the use of open standards (OPEN BIM). The portfolio also includes digital solutions for visualization, 3D modeling and animation. The innovative products of the 16 brands in the four customer-oriented divisions are used by approximately six million users worldwide. Founded by Prof. Georg Nemetschek in 1963, the Nemetschek Group today employs more than 3,000 experts.

Publicly listed since 1999 and quoted on the MDAX and TecDAX, the company achieved revenue in the amount of EUR 556.9 million and an EBITDA of EUR 165.7 million in 2019.

FLORENCE, KY, USA, Mar 2, 2021 – Mazak Corporation announced the release of the latest version of its popular HCN Series of horizontal machining centers, the HCN-6800 NEO. Introduced and demonstrated during the February 23 broadcast of All Axes LIVE, Mazak’s online event series, the new model features a fully redesigned enclosure, best-in-class standard and optional equipment and improvements throughout the machine, all of which result in a fast, optimal solution for an even wider range of part-production applications.

The HCN-6800 NEO received numerous upgrades that take the previous generation’s performance to a new level of efficiency and ease-of-use. The standard spindle, table, and magazine have all received significant improvements, including an upgraded, new standard 43-tool drum-type magazine that reduces tool exchange times. A redesigned ATC door is now servo-driven and faster; the new design will now also accommodate a longer tool. Likewise, for ease of maintenance, the machine incorporates hydraulic/motorized pallet changer mechanisms and an easier-to-access maintenance panel.

The machine’s MAZATROL SmoothG CNC has expanded functionality with the Windows 10 operating system. In addition to the standard suite of SMOOTH TECHNOLOGY solutions and full EIA/ISO and MAZATROL compatibility, the HCN-6800 NEO provides users with access to the new Ai Thermal Shield technology first debuted on the new MAZATROL SmoothAi CNC. This advanced system uses machine learning and modeling to compensate instantly for changes in machine and ambient temperature over the course of operation, ensuring the highest degree of accuracy even over long machining cycles.

In addition to newly enhanced standard features, the new NEO model offers many new options. The high-torque 8,000 rpm spindle now provides even greater torque. The new machine also boasts an optional direct-drive motor table that offers the fastest indexing time in its class and, thanks to its rotary scale, high-accuracy positioning.

The HCN-6800 NEO can accommodate parts weighing up to 3,306.93 pounds and as part of the NEO configuration, the machine enclosure itself has been reduced in size; with a chip conveyor, the new model has a width of 134.06″ and depth of 266.61″. These redesigned machines feature enhancements that further reduce cycle times, increase maximum part and tool capacities, reduce required floorspace, extend part processing versatility and streamline automation.

About Mazak Corporation

Mazak Corporation is a leader in the design and manufacture of productive machine tool solutions. Committed to being a partner to customers with innovative technology, its world-class facility in Florence, Kentucky, produces over 100 models of turning centers, Multi-Tasking machines and vertical machining centers, including 5- axis models. Continuously investing in manufacturing technology allows the Kentucky Mazak iSMART Factory™ to be the most advanced and efficient in the industry, providing high-quality and reliable products through its “Production-On-Demand” practice. Mazak maintains eight Technology Centers across North America to provide local hands-on applications, service and sales support to customers. For more information on Mazak’s products and solutions, visit www.mazakusa.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

EXTON, PA, USA, Mar 1, 2021 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, announced the acquisition of E7 Pty Ltd, a Brisbane, Australia-based leader in field-based construction delivery software for heavy civil construction. The acquisition adds capabilities to Bentley’s comprehensive project delivery solution that helps civil contractors meet the schedule and budget requirements of infrastructure investment programs.

E7 uniquely provides project leaders with daily clear line of sight, filling the gap between each end-of-month financial reporting cycle with reporting on high-quality progress, resource usage, and cost data captured in the field daily. They can optimize resource deployments that deliver more profitable and predictable outcomes.

E7 helps organizations achieve greater resource utilization and field productivity through mobile and web interfaces that transform manual, field-based tasks into digital workflows. It includes capabilities specifically designed for heavy civil construction, including daily diaries, unplanned event tracking, timesheets, dockets, daily costs, and quantity progress measurement, which enable supervisors to produce daily progress measurement reports simply and quickly.

E7’s flexible daily cost capture methods will extend Bentley’s SYNCHRO construction modeling, project management and reporting, task management, voice-based field data capture, and automation capabilities to create a comprehensive 4D construction digital twin solution. The combined capabilities enable heavy civil construction contractors to effectively optimize the utilization of field resources to stay on schedule and on budget.

“Visibility into field resource utilization is key to project profitability,” said Dustin Parkman, vice president, project delivery, Bentley Systems. “The addition of E7 to Bentley’s SYNCHRO digital construction delivery solution complements our industry-leading 4D construction modeling with field-based resource management tools that are essential for heavy civil contractors. This new combination makes possible a truly comprehensive digital construction delivery solution for heavy civil contractors everywhere.”

E7 has been deployed on over 350 projects valued at more than AUD 50 billion. On the Caloundra Road to Sunshine Motorway (CR2SM) AUD 812 million Bruce Highway Upgrade project, the Fulton Hogan Seymour Whyte joint venture uses E7 to deliver daily productivity insights and optimize resource deployment to drive better cost and schedule outcomes. E7 ensures that data from 115 subcontractors is efficiently captured and can be used with confidence for productivity tracking, progress measurement, and payment of invoices. Brad Thompson, CR2SM project director, said, “Managing a large project of this nature requires failsafe systems that ensure large volumes of information can be processed accurately and fast. The efficiency of E7 has saved our project time and money, as it minimizes errors and maximizes productivity.”

Hugh Hofmeister, E7’s chief executive officer, and Adrian Smith, E7’s chief technology officer, join Bentley as director of product management and director of product development, respectively. Hofmeister said, “After more than 10 years of working, first as Envision and then as E7, to develop the leading field-based construction delivery solution for Australian and now global projects, Adrian and I and our colleagues are excited to be joining Bentley. There is already great alignment between E7 and Bentley’s SYNCHRO team. Our shared vision will accelerate the adoption of 4D construction digital twins that will significantly benefit our users in driving more profitable and predictable project outcomes.”

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, and industrial facilities. Our offerings include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset and network performance, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,000 colleagues and generates annualized revenues of more than $800 million in 172 countries. For more information, visit www.bentley.com.