TOLLAND, CT, USA, Apr 21, 2021 – Mastercam is known for precision NC programming, but it also delivers a suite of shop-tested design tools aimed at getting parts on and off the machine as quickly as possible. Powerful modeling tools include not only 3D surfacing and solids, but hole-filling, direct editing without a solids history, geometry repair, and more.

Mastercam Design streamlines and simplifies modeling and editing geometry. It also supports advanced geometry creation, including solid and surface modeling, hybrid machining, NURBS curves and surfaces, 2D and 3D associative dimensioning, surface extension, blending, trimming, splitting, variable filleting, and hybrid modeling to complete your jobs quicker and more efficiently.

Solid Enhancements

Mastercam Design has the power to recognize hole geometry—including intersecting and non-conventional holes—in solid bodies with no history. Once Mastercam discovers these holes, you can use expanded options to save your custom holes to a template for future use. Users can use Mastercam’s Add History function to detect complex holes in solid bodies. Simply select Hole operations to find all holes within the range of minimum and maximum radius values that are entered. Mastercam creates an operation for each unique detected hole style.

Wireframe Enhancements

Modifying geometry by dragging your mouse is now available for Trim to Entities, Fillet Entities, and Chamfer Entities functions. As you drag the mouse, Mastercam performs the function on the wireframe entities your mouse encounters. Mastercam now also has the ability to incorporate DrillPt functionality into small arcs.

Note Enhancements Mastercam makes it easier to create text for notes and labels by adding many of the capabilities of the Create Letters function into the Note function. Note’s redesigned function panel gives users improved usability, more options, and increased control.

Other Mastercam Design Improvements:

1. Two new flowline functions, Edit UV and Reflow UV, can be used to analyze and modify the UV direction on surface models to more effectively utilize the flowline milling toolpaths.
2. Ability to mirror geometry about both the X and Y axes in one operation.
3. Draw a window to select multiple faces when you want to change the color of a set of solid faces.
4. And much more.

These are just a few of the recent enhancements in Mastercam Design. For more information, please visit https://www.mastercam.com/solutions/design/.

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.

Invitation

EXTON, PA, USA, Apr 21, 2021 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY) (“Bentley Systems” or the “Company”), the infrastructure engineering software company, announced today the date for the release of its first quarter 2021 operating results and its presentations at upcoming investor conferences.

First Quarter 2021 Operating Results

Bentley Systems will release first quarter 2021 operating results, before the market opens, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.

A live Zoom Video Webinar of the event can be accessed at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time that same day through a direct registration link here. Alternatively, the event can be accessed from the Events & Presentations page on Bentley Systems’ Investor Relations website here. A replay and transcript will be available after the conclusion of the live event on Bentley Systems’ Investor Relations website.

Upcoming Investor Conferences

David Hollister, Bentley Systems’ chief financial officer, will participate in the Daiwa Corporate Day – Companies Gone Public in 2020 and Beyond Virtual Conference on Monday, May 24, 2021.

Greg Bentley, Bentley Systems’ chief executive officer, will present at the Baird Global Consumer, Technology & Services Virtual Conference on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.

Greg Bentley will present at the Nasdaq Virtual Investor Conference on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 and Wednesday, June 16, 2021.

A live webcast and replay of the presentations will be available through Bentley Systems’ Investor Relations website.

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 annual revenues of more than $800 million in 172 countries.
www.bentley.com 

BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Apr 21, 2021 – MakerBot, a Stratasys company (Nasdaq: SSYS), announced the newest edition of the widely-popular MakerBot Educators Guidebook, a free and comprehensive resource complete with new projects plans, design inspiration and ideas, best practices, industry examples, and more. The MakerBot Educators Guidebook aims to inspire educators with ideas to enrich their curriculum, enhance student learning, and redefine what 3D printing in education looks like.

MakerBot Educators Guidebook, the definitive guide to 3D printing in the classroom

“Since 2009, MakerBot has been a leader in bridging the gap between classroom learning and 3D printing. Over the past twelve years, we’ve worked closely with educators around the world who have realized 3D printing’s potential to demonstrate ideas and principles in a new light and engage with students on a whole new level,” said Nadav Goshen, CEO, MakerBot.

“Integrating 3D printing into schools is no longer a question of why, but of how. During our 3D Printing in Education Summit, we heard directly from students and teachers who shared stories on how the technology impacted their education and the importance of expanding access to it across different grade levels,” Goshen continued. “We believe that equipping students with tools and resources will better prepare them for the future and help drive success along the way.”

There are endless possibilities with using 3D printing to support learning objectives. Its versatility—from creating manipulatives and teaching models to boosting project-based learning methods—has propelled its use in schools. The ability for students to physically visualize and experiment with their ideas has changed how subjects are taught in schools. 3D printing can be used in numerous ways to reinforce core learning objectives across several subject areas, from exploring clear STEM applications in engineering and physics, to understanding mathematical theorems, to blending cross-curricular projects involving history, music, foreign languages, and more. As a result, students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and communications skills that will be instrumental to them outside of the classroom.

“There are so many ways that 3D printing can enhance the curriculum and help students engage in authentic learning,” said Beverly Owens, Guidebook co-author and 11th Grade Chemistry Teacher at Cleveland Early College High School. “I introduced my students to different aspects and applications of 3D printing, and allowed them the opportunity to print out their own designs. Providing tiered support and guidance for students has transformed my classroom into an environment in which students can iterate on designs and solve problems using technology.”

Some of the book’s project examples include creating a “cell city” to learn how organelles function within a cell, designing a planetary gear system to study the different components, studying the mechanics of hand movement with robotic hands, and visualizing trilobites to better understand the organisms.

Owens added, “I want to be able to show my students that no matter the level at which you’re 3D printing, you can still learn and grow—you just need a little bit of confidence and practice. Going through the MakerBot Certification™ to become a MakerBot Operator and Curriculum Creator really solidified my confidence to help me see what I can do. With 3D printing, my students are only limited by the breadth of their imagination.”

While previous MakerBot handbooks provided a primer on 3D printing, 3D design, and introducing 3D printing into the classroom, the third and latest edition of the MakerBot Educators Guidebook features more advanced project plans, design ideas, professional applications, and additional step-by-step instructions to help teachers get the most out of 3D printing with their students. Also included are instructions to familiarize users with the newest MakerBot 3D printers—the MakerBot METHOD and MakerBot SKETCH.

The new MakerBot Educators Guidebook can be used as a complementary resource to the first two books, MakerBot in the Classroom and the original MakerBot Educators Guidebook. Key chapters in the new guidebook include:

1. The Ins and Outs of 3D Printing in the Classroom: Learn how to apply 3D printing in the classroom, adapt the curriculum to hybrid or remote settings, and integrate design thinking as part of the learning cycle.
2. The X, Y, Zs of 3D Printing: Learn the overall process of transforming a digital concept into a physical product, from start to finish.
3. Get to Know Your MakerBot Printer: Dive into the main functionalities of MakerBot’s METHOD and SKETCH 3D printers, and learn how to best use MakerBot CloudPrint™ to slice, manage, and print projects.
4. Curriculum Project Ideas: Find carefully curated projects and design inspirations spanning Natural Sciences, Engineering, Robotics, Mathematics, and Art, History, and Music.
5. Teachers’ Tricks of the Trade: Discover different tips and tricks that other educators have learned in their 3D printing journey.
6. 3D Printing Beyond the Classroom: See how 3D printing is impacting industries today and how these applications can be applied in the classroom.

MakerBot continues to stand at the forefront of 3D printing in education, with a mission to create the next generation of designers, engineers, and innovators. The company offers a fully-connected 3D printing ecosystem of hardware, software, and resources, including METHOD and SKETCH 3D printers, the comprehensive 2021 Grant Guide, hundreds of lesson plans and millions of printable design ideas and inspiration from Thingiverse, an engaged community of educators, MakerBot Certification Programs—the only ISTE-certified 3D printing training for educators and students, and MakerBot CloudPrint integration with Google Classroom for a streamlined 3D printing workflow.

Some of these projects, and more, can be found on Thingiverse at http://thingiverse.com/education.

For more information, visit makerbot.com/guidebook.

About MakerBot

MakerBot, a Stratasys company, is a global leader in the 3D printing industry. The company helps create the innovators of today and the businesses and learning institutions of the future. Founded in 2009 in Brooklyn, NY, MakerBot strives to redefine the standards for 3D printing for reliability, accessibility, precision, and ease-of-use. Through this dedication, MakerBot has one of the largest install bases in the industry and also runs Thingiverse, the largest 3D printing community in the world.

MUNICH, Germany, Apr 20, 2021 – ALLPLAN, global provider of BIM solutions for the AEC industry, introduced the service release of Allplan 2021. The latest version ensures that recurring processes such as provision for voids, reinforcement or bridge design are automated. This saves architects and engineers a lot of time and helps to avoid errors while ensuring a high level of precision. To make working on BIM models easier, new functions are available in the data management platform Bimplus, which can be used to further increase the planning quality in BIM projects.

“Automated processes ensure smooth workflows as well as time, cost, quality and lifecycle-optimised planning. Therefore, the improvement and simplification of work processes in the everyday design of architects and engineers is the focus of the latest Allplan update,” says Kevin Lea, Senior Vice President Product Management at ALLPLAN.

At a glance – Allplan 2021-1 offers the following benefits:

Automated creation of provision for voids

With the Allplan 2021-1 release, architects can now complete their provision for voids in a fraction of the previous time because time-consuming, manual remodeling of slots and openings is no longer necessary. With the new functions, it is possible to automatically convert cut-outs from the building services model into breakthroughs and slots in walls, ceilings and floor slabs.

Automated reinforcement in the shortest possible time

Thanks to new parametric reinforcement objects and the combination of many individual work steps, Allplan 2021-1 considerably speeds up the reinforcement design of walls, beams and columns. Users can specify reinforcement rules with regards to minimum and maximum spacing, minimum diameter or permissible reinforcement ratio, and define offsets, connection reinforcement and different bracing areas. The automatic comparison of the design with the stored reinforcement rules helps to detect errors at an early stage. Finally, views and sections can be conveniently generated and placed. The planning of punching shear reinforcement is facilitated.

Improved interaction between Allplan and Allplan Bridge

Allplan Bridge now offers the option of placing intelligent objects (e.g. street lights, elastomeric bearings, bored piles, …) at defined positions with correct alignment and predefined parameters. When the bridge model is transferred to Allplan, parametric objects (so-called PythonParts) with the predefined properties are automatically placed at the corresponding positions. This significantly speeds up the generation of a detailed bridge model, including reinforcement if necessary. In addition, changes can be made particularly easily due to the parametric nature of these objects.

Improvements for handling the BIM model

Using the BIM Explorer, you can now upload your 3D models even faster and display them more realistically in the data management platform Bimplus. With the new measuring toolkit, you can increase the control and design quality of your building model. For a clearer overview, the document management in Bimplus has been optimized. You can now invite additional members with view-only rights, via the guest viewer, to facilitate your coordination processes and make important decisions earlier.

Availability

Allplan 2021-1 is available for download via the Auto Update function in Allplan or on Allplan Connect.

More information: https://www.allplan.com/products/allplan-2021/features/

About ALLPLAN

ALLPLAN is a global developer of open solutions for Building Information Modeling (BIM). For more than 50 years ALLPLAN has pioneered the digitalization of the construction industry. Always focused on the clients we provide innovative tools to design, construct and manage projects – inspiring users to realize their visions. ALLPLAN solutions are being used by over 240,000 architects, engineers, contractors and facilities managers in 20 languages. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, ALLPLAN is part of the Nemetschek Group. Around the world, over 400 dedicated employees continue to write the ALLPLAN success story. For more information, visit www.allplan.com.

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 in this field, the Nemetschek Group increases quality in the construction process and improves the digital workflow of all those involved in the construction process. This revolves around the use of open standards (Open BIM). The innovative solutions 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.

PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, Apr 20, 2021 – AMD and Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) are collaborating to help engineering organizations across every industry spur new product design by substantially improving modeling run times. Data centers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors are enabling engineers to produce superior designs with unprecedented speed — delivering high quality products to rapidly address new market opportunities.

AMD’s new EPYC 75F3 processors speed up Ansys simulations including most recently crashworthiness simulations performed by Ansys LS-Dyna

Engineers face increasing pressure to complete design cycle times sooner. However, a large portion of engineering simulations require overnight runs. The rising complexity of these simulation workloads increases the need for high-performance computing (HPC) resources, which increasingly rely on more performant parallel processing and processor architecture capabilities. Through internal testing, AMD demonstrated that its new EPYC 75F3 processors could reduce specific Ansys simulation runtimes by up to a factor of two1.

From improving the energy efficiency of gas turbines with Ansys’s computational fluid dynamics software to enhancing automotive safety with Ansys’s explicit dynamics software, AMD EPYC processors empower engineering teams to execute extreme scaling of computationally demanding applications and rapidly design leading-edge products. It is expected that Ansys simulations will soon run even faster with the upcoming U.S. Department of Energy’s exascale supercomputers, which will be built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and used by Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, integrating AMD EPYC processors to produce high-fidelity models. This will supply engineers with insights into how products like autonomous vehicles, aircraft and medical devices will virtually behave across millions of real-world operational scenarios.

“3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors provide leadership performance for HPC workloads and we’re incredibly excited to collaborate with HPE and Ansys to enable the HPC industry to run a fantastic combination of HPC, server infrastructure and simulation software to push the design envelope further than before,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions Business Group at AMD. “Working together, AMD and its technology partners are helping to drive HPC to new heights that will help tackle problems that have previously been beyond humanity’s reach.”

Modeling at exascale will empower engineers to analyze considerably more data in less time and solve extremely sophisticated design challenges.

“HPC and AI workloads are becoming more compute and data-intensive, requiring higher performance and specialized capabilities,” said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager of HPC at HPE. “By combining Ansys’ software capabilities to target simulation goals with AMD’s powerful generation of EPYC processors, HPE is further optimizing systems to support business and research missions to improve accuracy in simulations and advance designs and models.”

AMD EPYC processors’ technological advancements enable engineering organizations of all sizes to solve demanding simulation workloads.

“AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors are helping Ansys customers provide improved time to value, enabling the quick creation of state-of-the-art designs that deliver fast answers and drive better decisions,” said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president at Ansys. “We look forward to future collaborations with AMD, which will explore how Ansys’s comprehensive suite of simulation solutions can be accelerated using new AMD EPYC processor technologies. This will empower engineering teams to accelerate innovation throughout their enterprise to build next-generation products and win the race to market.”

On April 20th and 21st, HPE and AMD will present “The Supercomputer Comes to Everyone: Leveraging Exascale Era Technology in Today’s Computing Environment” at Simulation World 2021. The presentation will be available live and on demand. To register for Simulation World, please visit: https://www.simulationworld.com/.

About Ansys

If you’ve ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you’ve used a product where Ansys software played a critical role in its creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help the world’s most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.

PLANO, TX, USA, Apr 20, 2021 – Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that Royal Dutch Shell has selected Polarion Requirements software as the foundation for managing and streamlining the flow of requirements across Shell’s global Capital Projects ecosystem. Shell will leverage Siemens’ Polarion to accelerate development of its digital enterprise as they further transition from document-centric communications to data-driven execution. This will improve the efficiency and flow of digital project data and integrated requirements throughout the Shell supply chain.

Shell is using Polarion, a contextual tool within Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software and services, to enable highly effective and transparent collaboration between its project development teams.

Shell is using Polarion, a contextual tool within Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software and services, to enable highly effective and transparent collaboration between its project development teams. The software connects Shell’s project teams as they apply Systems Engineering techniques to rapidly and efficiently gather, author, approve, manage, and audit requirements for complex systems across the entire project lifecycle.

“Shell invests billions of dollars each year in new capital projects, Powering Progress in the energy transition and working toward our climate target of being a net-zero energy emissions business by 2050, in step with society. We need trusted partners to do this – which is why we are working with Siemens on a robust, comprehensive and innovative requirements solution,” said James Haug, General Manager for Systems Engineering at Shell. “The Polarion Requirements software will be the lynchpin technology for advancing our digital enterprise. As we standardize on and deploy Polarion globally, we look forward to enhanced efficiencies and lower costs for Shell and for our supply chain and project ecosystems.”

Siemens and Shell worked collaboratively to ensure that the Polarion solution provided was configured to accelerate Shell’s digital transformation goals. The strategy involved atomizing corporate specification documents into data using Polarion to automatically create status reports, documents and workflows that subsequently improve the real-time availability of relevant standards content and requirements across the organization. As a result of the initiative, requirements previously managed in documents are now available as data to be modified and tracked, via a user-friendly collaborative interface, to support and deliver greater efficiency in engineering workflows across the project development lifecycle. Shell quickly expanded the use of Polarion to a substantial number of projects globally within the first year, following the technology’s initial deployment.

“Siemens is pleased to help one of the world’s foremost energy firms develop and deploy a modern, world-class digital enterprise based on the management and coordination of requirements data and other critical initiatives,“ said John Nixon, Senior Director for the Energy & Utilities Industry at Siemens Digital Industries Software. “By implementing a unified approach to requirements management that connects all project development processes with their engineering artifacts, and improving the collaboration between the teams that originate, manage and review them, Polarion is helping Shell and its supply chain partners reduce their total cost of ownership, improve regulatory compliance, and accelerate time-to-value on assets.”

For more information on Shell’s selection of Siemens’ technology please see here. For more information on Siemens‘ solutions for the energy and utilities industry, please see here.

About Siemens Digital Industries Software

Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics design meet tomorrow. The Xcelerator portfolio helps companies of all sizes create and leverage digital twins that provide organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit www.sw.siemens.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Where today meets tomorrow.

About Siemens Digital Industries

Siemens Digital Industries (DI) is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely collaborating with partners and customers, DI drives the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With its Digital Enterprise portfolio, DI provides companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Optimized for the specific needs of each industry, DI’s unique portfolio supports customers to achieve greater productivity and flexibility. DI is constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate cutting-edge future technologies. Siemens Digital Industries has its global headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and has around 76,000 employees internationally.

About Siemens AG

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for more than 170 years. Active around the world, the company focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems and on automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries. Siemens brings together the digital and physical worlds to benefit customers and society. Through Mobility, a leading supplier of intelligent mobility solutions for rail and road transport, Siemens is helping to shape the world market for passenger and freight services. Via its majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, Siemens is also a world-leading supplier of medical technology and digital health services. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power that has been listed on the stock exchange since September 28, 2020. In fiscal 2020, which ended on September 30, 2020, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €57.1 billion and net income of €4.2 billion. As of September 30, 2020, the company had around 293,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and ANDOVER, MA, USA, Apr 20, 2021 – Aras, the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications, announced a substantial growth investment from GI Partners, a leading private investment firm. This investment will further accelerate Aras’ low-code platform innovation, global expansion, and customer success.

Aras continues to disrupt the industrial software market with its low-code platform and suite of digital solutions spanning the product lifecycle from global product development and systems engineering to manufacturing, maintenance, and digital twins. Large enterprises such as Microsoft, Honda, and Airbus use Aras to rapidly digitalize mission critical processes and replace legacy systems faster.

“We believe the pace of digital transformation in manufacturing is just beginning to increase, and that Aras is uniquely positioned to deliver the next generation of platform-based applications for global companies. We are excited to partner with Peter and the management team to help further extend their cloud technology leadership, world-class support, and operations as the business scales,” said Travis Pearson, Managing Director and Co-Head of Private Equity at GI Partners. “Our vision is to grow the company through investment in internal processes and innovation, both organic R&D and acquisitions.”

“As hardware and software processes merge across the lifecycle, an industrial low-code platform with open interoperability is critical to layer over, rationalize, and replace legacy systems faster, creating a single, end-to-end digital thread foundation to enable artificial intelligence & machine learning analysis and optimization,” said Peter Schroer, Founder & CEO of Aras. “We are transforming the way the world makes products by reinventing software for engineering and manufacturing to empower our customers with the flexibility to adapt quickly to tomorrow’s most strategic challenges.”

“The Aras team has developed a truly differentiated low-code platform powerful enough for the most complex scenarios in industry. We see significant opportunity for large companies to fast-track their enterprise SaaS migration with Aras and achieve step-function results,” added Sendil Rajendran, Director at GI Partners.

“Aras has established itself with a market-leading solution and has achieved significant growth throughout the duration of our investment at Silver Lake Kraftwerk,” said Karen King, Managing Director at Silver Lake. “It has been exciting to help launch a true innovator like Aras as the company continues to show strong momentum toward category leadership in this next phase of its expansion.”

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to Aras and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP served as outside counsel. Evercore served as exclusive financial advisor and Ropes & Gray LLP served as legal advisor to GI Partners.

About Aras

Aras provides a resilient platform for digital industrial applications. Its open, low code technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible, upgradeable solutions for the engineering, manufacturing and maintenance of complex products. Aras’ platform and product lifecycle management applications connect users in all disciplines and functions to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain. Airbus, Audi, DENSO, GE, Honda, Kawasaki, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and Nissan are investing in the platform to manage complex change and traceability. For more information, please visit www.aras.com.

About GI Partners

Founded in 2001, GI Partners is a private investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm has raised over $26 billion in capital from leading institutional investors around the world to invest in private equity, real estate, and data infrastructure strategies. The private equity team invests primarily in companies in the Healthcare, IT Infrastructure, Services, and Software sectors. The real estate team invests across a broad range of platforms and strategies. The data infrastructure team invests primarily in hard asset infrastructure businesses underpinning the digital economy. For more information, please visit www.gipartners.com.

About Silver Lake Kraftwerk

Silver Lake Kraftwerk is part of Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing with more than $79 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia. Silver Lake Kraftwerk has a portfolio of technology and technology-enabled growth businesses that seek to drive efficiency across the operations, energy, and resources industries. For more information about Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Silver Lake, please visit www.silverlake.com.

FRIEDRICHSDORF, Germany, Apr 20, 2021 – Maxon, the developers of professional software solutions for motion designers and visual effects artists, is pleased to announce the release of an update to Moves by Maxon for iOS devices. Moves by Maxon capitalizes on the emerging technology of Apple’s AR-Toolkit, which enables users to capture facial motion and whole body movement; enabling artists to bring motion sequences into Cinema 4D with limited technical effort. Moves by Maxon was released in early 2020 and has become quite popular among Cinema 4D users. In this latest updated release several optimizations have been implemented to make the app more stable and user-friendly. Most notably, Moves by Maxon now includes simplified connectivity to Cinema 4D S24 via automatic network discovery, removing the previous need to scan a QR Code image or manually configure the IP address of the machine running C4D.

Availability

Moves by Maxon is immediately available from the Apple App Store and is compatible with iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Plus, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPad Pro (3rd Generation). This new version of Moves by Maxon will work with Cinema 4D R21+ but the ability to transfer content to C4D without the need for a QR code of IP address configuration, requires C4D Subscription Release 24.

Find out more about Cinema 4D system requirements here.

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.