GHENT, Belgium, Mar 1, 2021 – Bricsys is pleased to announce that CADaptor Solutions Ltd, a technical-based software development firm, has joined the Bricsys reseller channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
“CADaptor is proud to have provided BricsCAD pre and after sales support and training to an extensive portfolio of both large and small clients across the UK and Ireland for over a decade,” said Peter Booth, CADaptor Founder and Managing Director.
“Now as an official BricsCAD reseller, we look forward to offering these services to an even greater network of industries and organizations.”
Through the support and training the company has provided to over 1,000 users, CADaptor has played a leading role in converting an ENTIRE Cinderella industry from hand drawn sketches to CAD drawings through its CONESOFTWARE, a temporary road traffic management application for BricsCAD.
“We are delighted to welcome CADaptor as a partner for Bricsys,” said Jas Pawar, Bricsys Country Manager for the UK & Ireland. “Peter and the team have a vast amount of experience as resellers in the CAD industry and as developers for BricsCAD. They understand the current need from customers – to deliver more in less time and for less cost – which is possible with BricsCAD.”
For more information about CADaptor, please visit www.cadaptor.com.
About CADaptor Solutions Ltd
Established in 1993, CADaptor Solutions Ltd are a technical biased software development company specializing in innovative industry specific application solutions for BricsCAD and AutoCAD. Based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire we have an extensive portfolio of both large and small clients located across the UK.
About Bricsys
Bricsys, a part of Hexagon AB’s PPM division, is a global provider of the BricsCAD® brand of engineering design software since 2002. We are relentlessly committed to the success of our customers by offering cost-effective, mission-critical CAD software with industry-leading product support. We have offices all over the world, partners in more than 80 countries, and 1,200 registered application developers.
About Hexagon
Hexagon is a global leader in sensor, software, and autonomous solutions. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety, and mobility applications.
Our technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.
Hexagon’s PPM division empowers its clients to transform unstructured information into a smart digital asset to visualize, build, and manage structures and facilities of all complexities, ensuring safe and efficient operation throughout the entire lifecycle.
Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 20,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.9bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.
MUMBAI, India, Mar 1, 2021 – Siemens Limited has closed the acquisition of C&S Electric Limited after receiving the approval of Competition Commission of India on August 20, 2020 and the successful completion of further closing steps.
Siemens has acquired 99.22% (approximately) of C&S Electric Limited from its promoters for Rs. 2,100 crore. This acquisition addresses rising demand for low-voltage power distribution in India. Apart from gaining access to the Indian market, the transaction is also aimed at creating an export hub.
About Siemens Limited
Siemens Limited focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems and on automation and digitalization in the process, discrete & hybrid manufacturing industries. The Company brings together the digital and physical worlds to benefit customers and society. It offers broad expertise across the entire energy value chain, along with a comprehensive portfolio for utilities, independent power producers, transmission system operators, the oil and gas industry, and other energy-intensive industries. With its products, solutions, systems, and services, it addresses the needs of energy transition, including storage and sector-coupling solutions. It is also a supplier and service provider of intelligent mobility solutions for rail, road and inter-modal transport for passenger and freight services. Siemens Limited is the flagship listed company of Siemens AG in India. As of September 30, 2020, Siemens Limited had Revenue from continuing operations of INR 9,581 crore and 9,258 employees. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.co.in.
TROY, MI, USA, Mar 1, 2021 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology company providing solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI) is collaborating with Gruppo Cimbali, one of Italy’s leading industrial coffee machine manufacturers, to put data, simulation, and the Internet of Things (IoT) at the core of its innovation efforts by establishing a digital twin-driven development process. Altair’s platform blends physics- and data-driven twins to support optimization throughout the lifecycle of Gruppo Cimbali coffee machines. This holistic simulation approach reduces the need for physical tests, shortens time-to-market, and increases the energy efficiency of the machines.
As products become increasingly complex, connected, and smarter, and the industrial equipment market more demanding, development processes must evolve to include machine learning (ML). Gruppo Cimbali has a long tradition of including cutting-edge technologies in its operations and has fully embraced the digital transformation of its development processes by utilizing digital twins – powered by Altair Activate – to take the company’s connected coffee machines to the next level.
“As an organization whose technologies blend simulation with artificial intelligence and HPC, we are excited to be part of Gruppo Cimbali’s digital transformation,” said James Scapa, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. “Our goal is to help our customers become increasingly more innovative by allowing them to make better decisions faster and create world-class products. As the world of product development evolves, going beyond mechanical, thermodynamics, and aesthetics, taking a holistic development approach utilizing Altair’s electronics and system design capabilities will help Gruppo Cimbali propel its product innovations to new heights.”
“Our commitment to always deliver the best products has made innovation a key element in our philosophy,” said Maurizio Tursini, chief products and technologies officer, Gruppo Cimbali Spa. “The continuous investments in research and development of high-performance machines, and the Group’s efforts to fully embrace digital transformation brought into existence the digital twin project with Altair.”
Gruppo Cimbali is one of the first companies in the sector to expand into telemetry and offer innovative management, display, and data representation systems for WiFi-connected machines. The traditional, fully automatic professional espresso coffee machines are created based on IoT functionalities, where information about each drink crafted is added to a database along with insights about drink quality to ultimately improve daily management.
Gruppo Cimbali’s high technology and innovation standards will support the R&D and engineering teams in their quest to develop the best coffee equipment with the goal to optimize performance and energy efficiency, all while reducing development time and physical prototypes.
On April 14, 2021 Altair will host its virtual ATCx Industrial Machinery event featuring a virtual coffee break with Gruppo Cimbali. To learn more and to register, visit our event website at: https://web.altair.com/en/atcx-industrial-machinery.
About Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR)
Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI). Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.
About Gruppo Cimbali
Gruppo Cimbali is a world leader in the design and manufacture of professional machines for coffee and milk-based drinks and coffee bar equipment. Thecontinuous search for innovative solutions, attention to detail and a particular focus in design, has allowed Cimbalito bring passion, tradition, design, quality and coffee culture into the world of the baristaand coffee lover since 1912. Thanks to extensive research, revolutionary technical developments, and distinguished design elements, the group offers the widest range of solutions that continuously support the advancement and quality of coffee throughout the industry. Tradition and innovation are the driving force behind the group’s progress towards new objectives, from generation to generation. The attention the company pays to the environment is reflected in the use of environmentally friendly materials of all Gruppo Cimbali machines. Every design is created using only recyclable and eco-compatible materials. To learn more, please visit: www.gruppocimbali.com.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a Revolutionary technology and also one of the best fabrication processes when we consider the Geometric freedom, Personalization and mass customization, Rapid tooling, more Iterative work in our design and development cycle. Also, one of the best uses of this technology and its products are for the human being in the medical industry, where we can replicate the anatomy model for applying a perfect approach before surgery, medical implantation, etc. to save operational time and cost of the patient. And at some levels we are also creating human prosthetics by using AM technology.
Presently, the industry has fully adapted this technology not only for prototyping work but also at some level they are also using this technology for producing end-user products. But if we consider some other fields such as education which is the backbone of our society, here use of AM is very less or sometimes negligible. In education, as we know that there is a very big void created between theoretical and practical knowledge and still we are more concentrating on rote learning instead of skill development. So AM can help us to enhance our practical knowledge by converting the student’s curiosity and imagination into a real product. It can also be useful for the students to acquire at least one skill for their life and also to serve society. We can also use AM to help us to enhance the implementation of NEP- 2020.
The New Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) is the third education policy of India. It is a most awaited policy and also a much-needed decision by the government of India to enhance the quality of education as well as it is aiming to enable the student to acquire at least one skill during the period of education by choosing their own path in life according to their talent and interest. NEP-2020 is also going to focus on establishing our education system mostly student-centric instead of teachers or educational institutions centric. Some objectives of the NEP-2020 are given below:
Recognizing, identifying and fostering the unique capability of each student by sensitizing teachers and parents to promote Holistic development of the student.
To provide a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary liberal education to students, meaning no hard separation between Arts & Science, Vocational and Academic stream, etc. and also provide multiple entry & exit options to the student as per their requirement.
Motivate for conceptual learning rather than Rote learning for exams, and also encourages them for creativity, critical thinking and decision making.
To develop life skills such as communication, cooperation, teamwork and resilience, etc.
To enhance the quality of education by using of Technology in education on teaching, learning, etc., and makes this system more accessible for the Divyang students.
*Image Source: Stratasys.
Now let us see how Additive Manufacturing (AM) can enhance the implementation of different stages of New Education Policy- 2020, below:
Foundation stage: The aim of this stage is to do Holistic development of students, which includes cognitive development, social & emotional development, cultural & curiosity development, development of communication, literacy and numeracy. Children learn the concept, vocabulary and expression through a process of first engagement with the environment, objects and person. As we know that at this stage, engaging the student into the different activity is also a very big task. So we can use AM to engage and motivate the students by producing the Product to their prior knowledge and experience and current circumstances, AM can also help us to produce products with challenges in nature which will increase their competence and understanding.
As we know that there is two type of essential learning and playing material which is used in this stage,
First Indoor material: which includes different type of blocks & shape for Constructive play, Manipulate Toys material for imaginative play, Dramatic play material to develop language skill & cognitive skill and art material for creative expression of natural things etc.
Second outdoor material: which includes Sports Equipment, movable item etc. Apart from this, by AM we can show them cross-section of human body parts for better understanding, and we can also use AM to show geography of our country for understanding topography or demographics structure. And by AM we can also elaborate information about Indian culture in a better way by fabricating different types of Monuments, Caves, Forts, Tombs, Minaret, Palaces, old archaeological sites, museum statues, etc. If we will get success into Students engaging & motivating then we can Increase Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER), which is the one of the important goals of NEP-2020.
Preparatory stage: In this stage, we are going to gradually introduce the formal classroom-based learning to the student for giving deeper insight which we have learnt in the foundation stage such as human body circulatory and skeletal system, simple environmental & Science concepts, different geometrical shape pattern finding, etc. Here, AM can help us to do activity based learning Instead of only textbook based learning. We can also apply play Discovery phenomena in our educational activities, where we can show them 3D printed models instead of 2D shapes to enhance the student’s imagination and curiosity about science.
Middle school stages: As we know that in NEP-2020, coding is going to be introduced from the class 6 level and this stage is also going to focus on abstract concepts of each subject like Science, Mathematics, Arts, Social Science and Humanities. So we can use AM to promote conceptual and experimental based learning to students here, to enhance theirs concept testing and proofing Skill, communication, integration and synthesizing skill, etc., Also by combination of AM and coding language with basic knowledge of Electronics or by the help of the instructor, students can begin to develop any of their idea or imagination into the physical model.
Secondary Education stage: To provide greater flexibility & in-depth knowledge to the students, this stage is a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary Stage, meaning with the availability of basic subjects, we can choose other subjects for learning which are arts and culture and Humanities etc. Also in this stage instead of only showcasing the 3D print parts in front of students we can encourage them to do individual or group projects, related to their curriculum such as Geographical model, Historical model, Science based model and Mathematical model etc. By these project works, students can develop their Task creating skill, Design and Development skill, Testing and Proofing skill, Conceptual learning & critical thinking skills and they can also enhance their teamwork and leadership skill etc. We can include these projects or experimental work in the Bag-less Days program of the NEP-2020.
Under graduation education stage: Also in this stage, Multidisciplinary curriculum option with multidisciplinary Educational Institute is provided to the student by which any Technical student can add non-technical subjects on their curriculum. Apart from 3 years (same as the old traditional program) there is another 4-year (one more year to do a certain amount of research work) undergraduate degree program is available, with multiple Entry and Exit options to get deeper and practical knowledge of the field according to the interest of the student. But we have to also accept that by increasing the project work our workload will also increase and Generally we have seen that during our project period we waste our lot of resources (time and money) for searching the vendor for preparing our physical model, so here AM can remove lots of unnecessary work and can play an important role by improving our efficiency to do Major, Minor & Research project work for the student. Sometimes for understanding any similar type of theoretical mechanism, they face some challenges so 3D printing can help here to bring any mechanism from our theory book to actual physical objects. Also it has been seen that in some Higher Institute there is less resources to gain practical knowledge means they have no ability of machines to do research work, so by AM and its range of material and application we can fabricate any working machine for our project work.
Post educational stage and Research stage: This stage consists of high-quality research work with the flexibility to do research work in any core subject or in the multidisciplinary subject to strengthen competence in the professional area. Here AM can help us to create an actual working model by using different types of material available in AM such as plastics, ceramics or metals, etc. Presently, AM is also used to create human prosthetics for research work and it is also a very important field for research for society.And similar to under graduation stage the AM can help us to be more iterative on our research work with minimal use of resources.
Lifelong learning: NEP-2020 emphasizes on the Passion in Education, Philosophy of Education and Purpose of Education by focusing on ‘How to think’ instead of ‘what to think’. And it motivates creativity, curiosity & commitment driven life to our youth to create an empowered society and this will give them maturity and satisfaction in their life & also Encourage them to handle any Real-life Problem. We can also use AM to solve our Real-life problem Such as in the current pandemic situation, for fabricating the mask, face Shield, ventilators, Nasal swabs, hands-free door handle and other medical equipment, we are using Additive Manufacturing Technology.
SAN RAFAEL, CA, USA, Feb 26, 2021 – Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) announced the hiring of Debbie Clifford as chief financial officer, effective March 8, 2021, and Raji Arasu as chief technology officer, effective April 19, 2021.
Debbie Clifford and Raji Arasu
“We are thrilled to welcome both Debbie and Raji – two dynamic and accomplished executives – to Autodesk,” said Andrew Anagnost, CEO and president of Autodesk. “Debbie and Raji bring deep leadership experience and a passion for customer success. Their addition to our executive leadership team – along with Diana Colella, who was recently appointed to lead our Media & Entertainment group – will inject fresh perspectives into our company and towards our goal of delivering the world’s leading design and make platform.”
Clifford, who currently serves as chief financial officer at SurveyMonkey, returns to Autodesk – where she spent 13 years in various financial leadership roles – and brings with her expanded financial, strategic and operational experience. She will oversee all aspects of Autodesk’s finance, accounting, tax, treasury, operations and investor relations teams. Clifford serves on the board of Harmonic, a video technology and services company, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
“Accepting the CFO position at Autodesk is like coming home,” said Clifford. “I’m excited to reconnect with the exceptionally talented finance organization and help accelerate the next phase of Autodesk’s growth. Autodesk’s leadership in design and make and its incredible culture positions the company well for continued success. I am thrilled to be back and can’t wait to get started.”
Arasu will join Autodesk from Intuit, where she serves as senior vice president of platform engineering. She will oversee and be responsible for Autodesk’s technology strategy and ensure alignment against long-term innovation priorities and short-term technology imperatives. Arasu will replace current Autodesk CTO Scott Borduin, who announced his intent to retire last year.
Raji Arasu is a technology executive with over 25 years of experience focused primarily on eCommerce, marketplaces, payments, and fintech systems. She specializes in leading through transformative change across people, product, platform and process to accelerate customer benefits and revenue growth. At Intuit, Arasu helped shape the platform strategy and technology culture, led its cloud journey and expanded foundational core capabilities that amplified the pace of innovation for Intuit’s customers. Prior to Intuit, Arasu served as Chief Technology Officer for StubHub and held leadership roles at eBay.
Arasu has received public recognition for technology leadership, promoting diversity, and mentoring women to be successful leaders in technology. She serves on the board of directors for NIC Inc. and MediaAlpha Inc.
“Autodesk has long been one of the world’s most innovative companies and I’m thrilled for the challenge and opportunity to lead a world-class team of technologists,” said Arasu. “It’s an exciting time to join the company as we seek to deliver solutions that enable our customers to make an impact and achieve better outcomes for their products, their businesses, and the world.”
About Autodesk
Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything. For more information visit autodesk.com or follow @autodesk.
PARIS, France, Feb 26, 2021 – A major industrial intelligence solution provider (software, hardware, data and services) for brands, manufacturers and retailers in the fashion, automotive and furniture markets, Lectra announces the launch of Flex Offer by Lectra, a new offer for fashion manufacturers.
This SaaS solution for high-volume nesting has been specifically designed and developed to help manufacturers respond to new market changes and challenges. Since fabric accounts for 70% of the total cost of a garment, fabric savings enable them to maintain or even increase their profit margins. Cloud computing power takes customer order processing to a whole new level, with the ability to handle several hundred markers per hour.
Increasingly demanding consumers
More than ever, consumers want a wider variety of options, both in-store and online. They are also concerned about the environmental impact of their purchases and highly value sustainability. These demands are inciting brands to renew their collections more often, increasing the number of special edition or capsule collections for example, and impose shorter lead times for complex products with more stringent requirements.
Manufacturers in search of the perfect solution
These new demands are changing the game for manufacturers, who are producing smaller quantities of each style, increasing product variety, and seeing an exponential rise in orders. Additionally, there is a growing demand from brands for fast track1 production, which requires a high level of responsiveness. To maintain profit margins, manufacturers must determine how much material they need with pinpoint accuracy. They need a system that enables them to optimize their workflow, cope with peaks in activity and avoid bottlenecks.
Flex Offer by Lectra: A tailored solution
Flex Offer by Lectra is an automatic nesting solution hosted in the cloud, which optimizes management of material consumption at every step: from requests for quotations and the ordering of materials to production. The solution determines the amount of fabric needed, preventing both surpluses and shortages, while guaranteeing compliance with customer specifications.
Its automated, cloud-powered processing power delivers the most significant savings. The solution’s inbuilt algorithms process all nesting requests simultaneously and save time for manufacturers, who are no longer limited by computing capacity.
Three customized processing tracks
The offer has functionalities for every step in the process: costing and RFQ’s, procurement, and production (Flex Nest Cost & Bid, Flex Nest Procurement, Flex Nest Production).
Three processing tracks have been developed for this: standard track, which handles the largest numbers of markers and offers a balance between speed and material efficiency; urgent track, which delivers in a matter of minutes the speed needed by certain manufacturers; and strategic track which guarantees maximum material savings for the most expensive fabrics or for markers involving larger volumes of products in an order.
The three tracks can be used simultaneously to optimize the volume of markers processed and prioritize based on urgency and desired efficiency.
Finally, for openness and to address our customers’ interoperability issues, Flex Offer by Lectra converts pattern files from other computer-aided design (CAD) solutions using the Pattern Converter module.
“We have big ambitions for Flex Offer by Lectra, our new offer designed specifically for fashion manufacturers. It takes account of all their business challenges and delivers expertise and performance by using cloud technology, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence. It gives manufacturers in the sector the opportunity to increase their margins while avoiding material wastage,” explains Céline Choussy, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Lectra.
Fast track1: Category of fashion articles designed to respond to an emerging trend and create novelty in a collection plan, with an accelerated development cycle and made in small runs.
About Lectra
For companies that breathe life into our wardrobes, car interiors, furniture and more, Lectra is crafting premium technologies that facilitate the digital transformation of their industry. Lectra’s offer empowers brands, manufacturers and retailers, from design to production, providing them with the market respect and peace of mind they deserve. Founded in 1973, today Lectra has 34 subsidiaries across the globe, serving customers in over 100 countries. With over 1,700 employees, Lectra reported revenues of €236 million in 2020. Lectra is listed on Euronext Paris (LSS). For more information, visit www.lectra.com.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb 26, 2021 – From the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 to the Supercars Championship, the Walkinshaw Andretti United (WAU) Racing team has stood on the podium every season since their debut, the team continues to seek ways to improve both on-track and off-track. And it is with such determination to excel, that today, Walkinshaw Andretti United, together with TCL Hofmann and Stratasys Ltd., jointly announced a partnership agreement to bring the latest 3D printing solution and all the benefits of the cutting-edge technology into the WAU racing team for the 2021 Supercar Championship Season.
The WAU team will leverage Stratasys FDM Printers to produce prototypes of customized parts on the Supercars, as well as tooling and fixtures for production within the Walkinshaw Group who are a global leader in the design, engineering, development, and marketing of performance vehicles, and has significant motor sport interests in Australia and the UK. The systems are installed at the Walkinshaw Group facility at Clayton, Victoria. Stratasys and TCL Hofmann also support the team with regular training and technical support services.
“To be partnering with TCL Hofmann and Stratasys to advance our manufacturing process is an extremely exciting opportunity for Walkinshaw Andretti United,” said Walkinshaw Andretti United Team Principal, Bruce Stewart.
“3D printing technology is essential in the way we build and manufacture development parts for both our Supercars, so to have the opportunity to do it with undoubtedly the best available puts us in a fantastic position for the 2021 Supercars Championship,” Stewart added.
“Supercars is a highly competitive industry where precision matters, we are chasing milliseconds over the course of a race weekend, so our entire team is excited to have the right tools at hand to be able to chase the ultimate glory.”
A global leader and founder of the FDM 3D printing technology, Stratasys brings over 30 years of knowledge in additive manufacturing or 3D printing technology and the company’s technologies are used to create prototypes, manufacturing tools, and production parts across industries including aerospace, automotive, healthcare, consumer products and education.
TCL Hofmann joined the Stratasys channel network since 2019 and has supplied leading-edge technologies to manufacturing companies and organizations, helping them upscale businesses and optimize results. With strong teams in Melbourne and Sydney, and sister company TCL Hunt in New Zealand’s major cities, TCL Hofmann’s success has developed from the broad supply of quality products to a range of industry through to the highest levels of service and advisory, pre and post-sale support and servicing.
“The best for the best, we are excited for this partnership and look forward to seeing the WAU team reap the benefits of 3D printing to push more limits,” said Joseph Hancock, TCL Hofmann Managing Director. “And of course, we are a phone call away as time is of essence especially in the racing industry.”
“We understand the fierce competition and that every second counts in auto racing,” said Ben Darling, Stratasys Senior Territory Manager of Australia and New Zealand Region. “And that is why Stratasys invested in over 1,000 hours testing key build attributes of the printer, so that our customers can get it right first time and every time.”
About Walkinshaw Andretti United
Walkinshaw Andretti United was born from three iconic organisations in world motorsport, Walkinshaw Racing, Andretti Autosport, and United Autosports. It fields two entries in the Repco Supercars Championship, with drivers Chaz Mostert and Bryce Fullwood.
The three organisations cover the globe, with Walkinshaw Racing based in Australia, Andretti Autosport in America, and United Autosports in Europe.
The Team, originally Walkinshaw Racing, debuted as the Holden Racing Team in 1990, and is one of the most successful Supercars teams of all time, having amassed seven Bathurst wins (1990, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011) and six driver championship wins (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002). Walkinshaw also produced two other driver championship wins with their HSV Dealer team (2006, 2007) bringing its total to eight. For more information, visit www.walkinshawandrettiunited.com.au.
About TCL Hofmann
TCL Hofmann, Australia is a major supplier of industrial raw materials, semi-finished and finished products, and machinery to numerous industries including plastics processing, food & beverage, packaging, pharmaceutical, medical & industrial to name a few. Our success has developed from giving our customers a competitive advantage by providing cost effective, leading edge technologies backed up by sound industry advice and level of service aimed at surpassing customer expectations. For more information, visit TCL Hoffman at www.tclh3dprinting.com.au or www.tclhofmann.com.au.
About Stratasys
For more than 30 years, Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) has been a defining force and dominant player in 3D printing and additive manufacturing – shaping the way things are made. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel, the company’s solutions provide customers with unmatched design freedom and manufacturing flexibility – reducing time-to-market and lowering development costs, while improving designs and communications. The Stratasys ecosystem includes 3D printers for prototyping and production; a wide range of 3D printing materials; parts on-demand via Stratasys Direct Manufacturing; strategic consulting and professional services; and the Thingiverse and GrabCAD communities with over 2 million 3D printable files for free designs. With more than 2,700 employees and 1200 granted or pending additive manufacturing patents, Stratasys has received more than 30 technology and leadership awards. Visit us online at: http://www.stratasys.com or http://blog.stratasys.com, and follow us on LinkedIn.
LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, Feb 26, 2021 – Chaos (formerly Chaos Group) released V-Ray 5 for Revit, bringing an intuitive mix of real-time and photorealistic rendering to the BIM workflow. With a real-time view into their daily Revit work, users can design with immediate feedback, before moving on to full photorealism with V-Ray’s final renderer. To help in all cases, V-Ray 5 for Revit also launches with Chaos Cosmos, a powerful new 3D content library tailored to the needs of architecture.
“No one wants to start and stop when it comes to visualization; architects need constant access to push ideas to their full potential,” said Phillip Miller, VP of product management at Chaos. “With V-Ray 5 for Revit, that creative process can finally be unbroken. When changes are made, they’ll be reflected right away, giving architects an always-on view into how each idea is shaping up. This is a complete visualization solution from start to finish. And for many, it’s going to feel like a whole new world.”
Real-Time Visualization with V-Ray Vision
V-Ray Vision is an always-on viewer that updates in real-time, offering a high-quality representation of a Revit model as architects work. Encouraging fast, fluid design visualization throughout a project, V-Ray Vision helps users work through new ideas and client feedback from start to finish.
Easy Entourage
With over 650 free models and HDRIs to choose from, Chaos Cosmos reduces the process of populating environments to a few simple clicks. The highly curated library addresses the most common use cases found in architecture, including furniture, trees, cars, and people, for easy visualizations. Cosmos assets are automatically organized/categorized into native Revit families and categories. While a lightweight representation is shown in the viewport for faster feedback, the fully detailed object is always available at render time. Now, architects can add context and realism to a project, whether they are exploring designs in real-time or preparing them for the big reveal.
Beyond Rendering
The redesigned V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB) now includes some of V-Ray 5’s most user-friendly features, making it easy to bring a personal touch to any rendering.
With Light Mix, users can interactively change the color and brightness of any light without rendering again, creating multiple lighting scenarios from a single render. Image adjustments like exposure control, color balance and color corrections can also be added, replacing the need for external image editing tools. For extra control, render layers can be combined using the Layer Compositor to create more nuanced designs, or even saved as presets for later use.
Other New Features in V-Ray 5 for Revit Include:
New Sun and Sky – Improves accuracy across the board, including when the sun is near the horizon, right before sunrise and after sunset.
Line Renderings – Give renders an illustrative look by adding linework with global contour controls and material overrides.
Texture Randomization – Now easier to create subtle variations in textures and materials for added realism.
Stochastic Texture Tiling – An automatic fix for repeating textures.
Coat Layer – Gain extra reflections on polished or lacquered surfaces without using blend materials.
Sheen Layer – Easily simulate fabrics like velvet, satin and silk.
New Displacement Workflow – Displacement can now be applied to both native Revit and V-Ray materials.
Dirt and Weathering – New controls for aging materials with procedural streaks have been added to the VRayDirtMtl.
For a full feature tour, please visit the product page.
Pricing and Availability
V-Ray 5 for Revit is available now. A perpetual license is priced at $790, with upgrades available for $395. Term licensing is available at $350 (annually) and $60 (monthly). V-Ray 5 for Revit is also included in V-Ray Collection, an annual plan that gives users full access to 15 Chaos products and services for $699/year.
About Chaos
Chaos is a world leader in computer graphics technology, empowering artists and designers to create photorealistic imagery and animation across all creative industries. Chaos develops 3D rendering and simulation software that is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. In 2017, the firm’s physically based renderer, V-Ray, was honored with an Academy Award for its role in the widespread adoption of ray-traced rendering for motion pictures. Today, the company’s advancements in ray tracing, cloud rendering, and real-time visualization are shaping the future of design communication and storytelling. Founded in 1997, Chaos is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Prague, Seoul, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. For more information visit chaosgroup.com.
ROCK HILL, SC, USA, Feb 25, 2021 – 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced its introduction of a novel High Speed Fusion industrial 3D printer platform and material portfolio. Developed in a collaboration with Jabil Inc. (NYSE:JBL), this unique HSF family of products, including the Roadrunner 3D printer, is expected to provide the best economics of any high throughput industrial fused-filament offering in the market today. Through the use of advanced electric motion control, this unique system operates at speeds and precision levels well beyond current state-of-the-art production platforms. With temperature capability and available build areas greater than those of competing systems, combined with an outstanding materials portfolio, the Roadrunner system is designed to address the most demanding aerospace and advanced automotive applications. The result is not only unique application solutions but compelling manufacturing economics driven by the size, speed, and precision of this new technology platform.
“By introducing our High Speed Fusion filament printer, 3D Systems will build on the organizational focus that we adopted in 2020, and expand our presence in growing markets that demand high reliability products such as aerospace and automotive,” said Dr. Jeffrey Graves, president and CEO, 3D Systems. “Our investments in this solution, and collaboration with Jabil, will allow our customers to increase productivity and performance by using additive manufacturing with a hardware, software, and materials platform that is uniquely designed for the rigors and requirements of an industrial setting. The value proposition, which we believe is compelling, will open new markets for our company that are estimated to be over $400 million, with the promise of new markets, beyond these current opportunities, as the economics of this new technology platform are fully demonstrated.”
Existing industrial fused filament printers have often been constrained by high costs of production and low throughput. In recognizing these constraints, Jabil and 3D Systems application and industry experts are applying their combined knowledge to bring to market a robust solution that meets the day-to-day requirements of the most demanding industries. Specific applications include:
Direct Printing: aerospace interiors and ducting, drone components, automotive under dash and under hood, and other general industrial applications.
Tooling & Fixtures: manufacturing aids, automation and robotics tooling, lift assist tooling, as well as molds and sacrificial tools.
Prototyping Parts: automotive, aerospace, medical, heavy equipment, and general industry support.
3D Systems estimates the current marketplace for these types of industrial solutions is greater than $400 million and further expects this revolutionary solution to open up new markets by filling a large unmet need of balancing low cost and high throughput. The result is that 3D Systems’ High Speed Fusion industrial printer, Roadrunner, is made for manufacturing and solves key limitations of competitive offerings by providing:
Highest deposition rates combined with the best dimensional precision of any standard industrial class of fused filament platform.
Lowest landed part cost without sacrificing part quality.
Capability to process high-performance, high-temp materials, like ULTEM and PA CF with a broad range of general-purpose filaments like ABS and PETg ESD.
“We are proud of the progress the Jabil and 3D Systems teams have made and the ability of this solution to overcome the historical system and sub-system level limitations of current market offerings,” said John Dulchinos, vice president, 3D printing and digital manufacturing, Jabil. “Jabil understands the needs of a large-scale manufacturing environment and we look forward to continuing to collaborate with 3D Systems to make this new system available to the marketplace while also using it within our own factories.”
Application engineering and materials development on the new platform has been underway for more than a year and will continue during 2021, with shipments of the Roadrunner system to begin in 2022.
About 3D Systems
More than 30 years ago, 3D Systems brought the innovation of 3D printing to the manufacturing industry. Today, as the leading additive manufacturing solutions partner, we bring innovation, performance, and reliability to every interaction – empowering our customers to create products and business models never before possible. Thanks to our unique offering of hardware, software, materials, and services, each application-specific solution is powered by the expertise of our application engineers who collaborate with customers to transform how they deliver their products and services. 3D Systems’ solutions address a variety of advanced applications in healthcare and industrial markets such as medical and dental, aerospace & defense, automotive, and durable goods. More information on the company is available at www.3dsystems.com.
SAINT-ROMAIN, France, Feb 25, 2021 – Construction industry manufacturers these days need to provide a large amount of data to the various types of professionals involved in the industry. The multitude of geometric formats and product data required complicates both the creation phase and the maintainability of these complex elements.
Meeting these requirements means processes are often duplicated, thus adding to project management costs and creating a need for additional services. This leads to increases in the time taken to bring product data to market and makes it difficult to maintain this data over the long term.
To provide a solution to these problems, TraceParts and BIM&CO have decided to combine their efforts with the aim of making this transition easier for both their current and future customers. This TraceParts/BIM&CO partnership will enable those manufacturers that wish to do so to model and distribute their products in a variety of different BIM and CAD formats (such as STEP, SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, AutoCAD, 3D, Revit and Inventor) by means of a single process, whilst at the same time also giving them the added benefit of increased visibility.
CAD data is automatically converted using BIM data and published on the TraceParts CAD content platform. This not only allows manufacturers to make their products more widely available, but also reduces the development and maintenance costs associated with this data over the long term.
The concept is already proving popular, as many manufacturers were waiting for a solution that would enable them to more easily manage the entirety of their data using just one single tool.
HVAC solutions manufacturer France Air envisages this solution providing genuine productivity gains. Juliette FORTE, Technical Support Expert, explains: “We’ve already had the experience of being subject to legal action on a construction project due to an obsolete product in the CAD model used by the customer. This brought home to us just how critically important it is to regularly update our files. The content management solution offered by BIM&CO has turned out to be a veritable PIM we can use in our everyday work and has also enabled our teams to become more efficient and effective with respect to data quality by simplifying the workflow of the distribution process!”
Antoine PIGEON, TraceParts Commercial Director, remarks: “By publishing their catalogues using BIM&CO’s tools, manufacturers get the ability to make them available in over 60 different formats on TraceParts.com. At the same time, they also get to benefit from our 30 years’ experience and the fact their products are made available to an audience of more than 29 million engineers and designers on TraceParts and the partner sites in its TraceParts Publishing Network – or in other words, a huge number of professionals who could potentially recommend and use those products!”
The statistical and analytic tools provided by TraceParts and BIM&CO not only give manufacturers the ability to analyse the performance of their BIM and CAD catalogues but also to access the professional profiles of a range of engineers and designers. This provides them with a shrewd way of increasing the number of prospects they have and finding both new industry professionals to recommend and use their products and countries with high potential in terms of sales. The distribution of products on TraceParts and the statistical analysis reports will be free of charge. However, access to user data will be subject to an annual subscription.
Baptiste MULLIE, CEO of BIM&CO, has the final word to add: “BIM&CO’s content management solutions make it possible to convert BIM to CAD on the fly, and it does that in a completely simple and easy way, as the process involved will be entirely transparent. Manufacturers will be able to centralise their library and structure the process of digitally publishing their entire range of products as part of one single workflow. In addition to the convenience aspect, this simplified solution not only saves time but also saves money, as distribution on TraceParts.com is and will continue to be completely free of charge for both our current and future customers!”
To find out more details about how CAO & BIM catalogue distribution works, visit TraceParts.com or bimandco.com.
About BIM&CO
BIM&CO specialises in the field of construction industry digitalisation, with a particular focus on Building Information Modelling, or BIM for short.
BIM&CO is a SaaS software company that provides BIM object management and sharing solutions for companies and manufacturers in the construction industry. BIM&CO provides genuine operational gains by managing the complete range of BIM objects making up a BIM model using a database type approach, and by ensuring the objects comply with the various standards and software used in the industry.
The company’s “beyond the standards” positioning is achieved through its own data harmonisation technology and enables customers to unlock BIM’s full potential in terms of reducing errors, carrying out calculations rapidly, documenting and connecting to ensure better and more efficient use of the technology, automating and speeding up communications with suppliers, and improving the way products are chosen for projects.
BIM&CO is an international company with operations in Paris, Bologne, Madrid and Asia. BIM&CO uses its network of partners to build a community of industry specialists. For more information, visit https://www.bimandco.com/bim/en/ – @bimandco
About TraceParts
TraceParts is one of the world’s leading providers of 3D digital content for engineering. As part of the Trace Group founded in 1990, the company provides powerful web-based solutions, such as CAD part libraries, electronic catalogs and product configurators.
TraceParts offers digital marketing services to help part vendors, 3D printing suppliers, software and computer hardware vendors promote their products and services and generate high-quality B2B sales leads.
The TraceParts portal is available free-of-charge to millions of CAD users worldwide. It provides access to hundreds of supplier catalogs and more than 100 million CAD models and product data-sheets that perfectly meet the specific needs of design, purchasing, manufacturing and maintenance processes and operations.
Debbie Clifford and Raji Arasu
