AACHEN, Germany, Aug 31, 2020 – ModuleWorks announces the release of its 2020.08 CAD/CAM software components. This is the second major release of 2020 and is available now for download from the ModuleWorks website.

Each ModuleWorks release contains new and enhanced features across the entire product range. The highlights of the latest release are presented here. They include new performance and quality enhancing features for rotary machining, additive manufacturing, 3-axis machining, simulation and the ModuleWorks Multi-Axis Post Processor (MultiXPost).

Rotary Machining

Axis offset for roughing cycles

This new feature enables users to perform roughing cycles with an axis offset for rotary machining. The tool cuts with the cutting edges instead of the tool center to achieve more stable cutting speeds and close-to-diameter cutting with non-spherical tools. The offset is always in the opposite direction to the direction of rotation and automatically changes position when the rotation direction changes. This movement is linear to prevent damage to the tool and ensure a safe cutting process.

Additive Manufacturing

3+2 Additive manufacturing for fused deposition modeling

ModuleWorks 3+2 axis additive manufacturing uses the full capabilities of 5-axis printing machines to print extreme overhang areas without the need for support structures. This accelerates the manufacturing process and delivers a higher quality finish with reduced staircase effects.

3-Axis Machining

Profile pass for adaptive and offset roughing

To improve the quality of the machined product, additional cuts are added along the part boundaries to remove any remaining uncut cusps. A range of advanced options, such as cutter compensation and tangential arc, gives users full control over the creation of the toolpath and makes it easier to create the finishing pass.

Multi-Axis Post Processor (MultiXPost)

Post on any n-axis machine

WORCESTERSHIRE, UK, Aug 31, 2020 – Close on the heels of yet another CRISIL ‘MSE 1’ rating, XS CAD has also renewed its URS ISO 9001:2015 certification.

XS CAD’s quality management URS ISO 9001:2015 certification has been renewed amid the challenging uncertainties of the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, at XS CAD, financial and production strength has been audited through CRISIL. Modern business processes deem it imperative that global companies be industry standards compliant. A quality management system (QMS), ISO 9001:2015 establishes different standards for the certification of companies. Policies, processes, documentation and resources must achieve certain goals, and operational processes must be coordinated with the organisation.

The ISO 9001:2015 structure is required by companies using a multiple management system, focusing on risk management, communication and leadership and streamlining the process for affiliation with other management systems.

An ISO 9001 certification enables companies to consistently provide products and services of a certain quality to their customers. Factors that influence the certification are the motivation, dedication and involvement of higher-ranking executives, focus on customers, internal audits, processes and motivation for continuous company development. So, the points that ISO 9001:2015 considers to certify an organisation include:

1. Responsible management
2. Work environment with human resources and management of other resources
3. Internal resource analysis and audits to promote QMS
4. Design-to-delivery product knowledge
5. Document control, quality manual and streamlining process interactions

Endorsed by the ISO 9001:2015 certificate, XS CAD will continue to serve its global customers with high-quality services and industry compliance while following quality protocols during the pandemic and after. It is business as usual at XS CAD, with our cloud-based operation.

For more information, visit http://www.xscad.com.

WORCESTERSHIRE, UK, Aug 31, 2020 – Grey Edge, a training and recruitment division of XS CAD, has renewed its ATC (Authorised Training Centre) certification and its position as a leading training institution and Autodesk Learning Partner amid the challenges of a pandemic.

As an Autodesk ATC, Grey Edge meets Autodesk’s defined standards of excellence for a high-quality, instructor-led learning experience, and as an Autodesk Learning Partner, Grey Edge delivers Autodesk product training to industry professionals.

XS CAD benefits from the skilled resources trained by Grey Edge, as these resources become well versed with industry-specific software and industry-relevant standards. From 2010, Grey Edge has been moulding industry professionals to handle and adapt to the challenges of global projects while working for XS CAD or others.

Autodesk-certified Grey Edge trains professionals in industry-compliant practices and helps develop valuable skills with industry-relevant certifications.

An Autodesk ATC offers the following key benefits for its trainees and the companies they will eventually work with:

1. Increased competitiveness
2. Familiarisation with the latest productivity features
3. Knowledge of best practices
4. Improved skills for optimum use of Autodesk software
5. Improved preparation for certification exams

At Grey Edge, trainees specifically benefit from:

1. Well-qualified instructors and sound infrastructure
2. Autodesk-recommended content from Autodesk Official Training Guides (courseware books)
3. Hands-on sample projects and exercises with an emphasis on real-world application
4. Class options for different skill levels, as required
5. Convenient class times or custom, on-site training
6. A valuable certificate of completion with worldwide industry recognition
7. Validation of product knowledge by becoming Autodesk certified

For more information, visit http://www.xscad.com.

TUSTIN, CA, USA, Aug 31, 2020 – Luxion is excited to announce a new partnership with SIMONA Boltaron that brings Boltaron thermoform plastic sheet materials to KeyShot Cloud.

To provide a wider range of material options to product designers, SIMONA Boltaron and Luxion have worked together to digitize its library of unique textures in KeyShot. Boltaron materials are available in any custom color and in a wide range of specialty textures, such as woodgrains, leathers, fine, coarse, and technical surface effects.

Boltaron is a high performance, lightweight thermoplastic material formulated to provide advanced chemical resistance, high impact strength and meet strict fire test requirements. These high-value materials are typically used for 2D and 3D molded parts across industries for interiors, medical equipment housing, electrical enclosures, cabinetry, institutional furniture, exhibition signage, POP displays, wall cladding, personal protection, and other thermoformed applications that require some level of impact, fire retardant, and chemical performance. Furthermore, Boltaron’s lightweight, 100% recyclable materials are used for aircraft interior seat shells, tray tables, and other plane parts on most major airlines around the world.

KeyShot Cloud – a library of free resources created by KeyShot users and partners – now includes over 30  exclusive Boltaron materials with many more to come. These core materials offer even more options for KeyShot users allowing accurate material representation with the high-performance, lightweight thermoplastic materials used in the manufacturing of their design.

Boltaron materials are now available for use within KeyShot. To use, visit KeyShot Cloud (from KeyShot or at cloud.keyshot.com) and view the Boltaron Material Collection or search for a Boltaron name or category.

About SIMONA Boltaron

SIMONA Boltaron is based in Newcomerstown, Ohio and is a subsidiary of SIMONA AG, a global thermoplastic manufacturer based in Kirn, Germany. For more information, visit boltaron.com.

About Luxion

Luxion is a leading developer of advanced 3D rendering and lighting technology. KeyShot is the first real-time ray tracing application that uses a physically correct render engine based on scientific research in the areas of scientifically accurate material representation and global illumination. Addressing the visualization needs of designers, engineers, marketing professionals, photographers, and CG specialists, KeyShot breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images and animations from 3D digital data. Luxion’s customer list includes many of the Fortune 1000 product manufacturers and major industrial design companies including Google, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, Fossil, Rolex, Louis Vuitton, Victoria’s Secret, HP, Microsoft, Philips, Under Armour, Adidas and many more. Please visit keyshot.com for more information and follow Luxion on Facebook or Twitter.

HELSINKI, Finland, Aug 31, 2020 – Solibri is pleased to announce the BIM Equity as a unique Solibri training partner in Denmark.

Better communication, constructability and a more efficient design process. Those are some of the advantages that will increasingly affect the way of thinking in the AEC marketplace.

An increasing amount of advanced BIM programs are being used in the design and project phase, as programs that control the quality and consistency of the consultants’ BIM models have been developed. One of these programs is Solibri Office, which is widely used by Danish consultants.

“One thing is to acquire a BIM software – which is easy – by purchase of a license. It is quite another thing though, to implement new software at a level that maximizes the tool’s effect in the design process. Regularly we see either lack of knowledge about how software systems are best used, or simply the lack of understanding of what proper use can bring in terms of financial gains in projects. By opening up a correct approach, we can minimize the risk of errors, mostly discovered at a much later stage and therefore becomes expensive to fix,” Jonas N. Salih, CEO at BIM Equity, explains:

“It is based on this, our passion for technology & processes and our 7 years of experience with Solibri, that BIM Equity now establishes a Solibri Training Center & Consultancy in BLOXHUB, Copenhagen. This in close collaboration with Solibri Inc.”

BIM Equity hosts Solibri trainings at their premises in BLOXHUB Copenhagen, but also offers unique and tailored onsite trainings based on wishes and needs with project owners, consultants and contractors – a service offered throughout the country.

Solibri Basic Course is for those who want a basic knowledge of Solibri to increase the value of the quality assurance. The course will take you through all the basic parts of Solibri with a focus on coordinating subject models, quality assured joint models and performing advanced quantity extraction.

Solibri Office Advanced Course is an extension for the Solibri Basic course. Based on your own project, you will have a unique opportunity to get going with quality assurance and issue management. During the course you will learn how to set up and form your own set of rules – including advanced rules.

Consultancy is offered as an expert service to companies and projects either with the need to implement Solibri’s product range for users with different needs or with a need for very specific set of rules to achieve the desired quality of the project. An example could be that after completion of the phase of clash detection and build-ability analysis, rules for the control of critical building components are set up. Quality control that should be carried out in collaboration with operating personnel.

Webinars are a quick and easy way of acquiring up-to-date knowledge of collaboration and quality assurance. We host our free webinar “Reducer Fejl” (Reduce Errors) monthly – this with Solibri as the focus. Here you will find a run-through of how Solibri Office can be used to ensure the quality of construction projects by checking models and sharing faults directly to the responsible, as well as how models are rectified directly in the consultants’ BIM tools.

“Our vision of being a dedicated Solibri Training Center & Consultancy is not only to elevate the already high level of skill at consultants and contractors, but also to oblige the owner’s wish of better processes, improved coordination to increase the quality of Danish construction projects.”, states Bram Lyng Andersen, trainer and consultant at BIM Equity.

Ville Kyytsönen, Solibri CEO stated “The more we can upskill our customers, the more they will benefit from the myriad of features within Solibri. By training customers and helping them customize our solutions, we are confident quality assurance will be a common standard in all BIM processes within Denmark”.

For more information: www.bimequity.dk/solibri.

More information about Solibri’s offering can be found at www.solibri.com.

About Solibri

Solibri is the leader in BIM Quality Assurance and Quality Control. Providing out of the box tools for BIM validation, compliance control, design process coordination, design review, analysis and code checking. Solibri’s corporate message is to develop and market quality assurance solutions that improve the quality of BIM-based design and make the entire design and construction process more productive and cost effective. Solibri’s customers include major building owners, construction companies, architects and engineering firms in more than 70 countries. Solibri is part of the Nemestchek Group. For more information, visit https://www.solibri.com.

LAKE MARY, FL, USA, Aug 31, 2020 – FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), the global leader for 3D Metrology, AEC and Public Safety Analytics, announced the release of FARO Trek. Trek is a fully autonomous 3D mobile scanning integration built in collaboration with the Massachusetts-based robotics firm Boston Dynamics. The innovative solution combines the cutting-edge scanning speed and accuracy of the FARO Focus^S Laser Scanner with Spot, a quadruped robot capable of remote and autonomous data capture in challenging environments.

Ideal for general contractors and construction managers to verify production and quality on job sites, Trek leverages Spot’s Autowalk feature to create a repeatable automated scanning workflow. This allows for streamlined data collection and improved efficiency. The information collected is the same each time, ensuring enhanced analysis and reporting. Autowalk automates the inspection process after operators initially program the route walking alongside the robot. Relying on sophisticated sensors, Spot is then able to repeat that same route autonomously, and even makes minor adjustments to complete the job.

“FARO Trek marks an exciting collaboration of two leading technology companies singularly focused on solving the challenges that customers face,” said Rob Miller, FARO’s Director of Business Development. “Progressive building and facility owners are increasingly motivated to support this type of mobility and automation, particularly for their most difficult new construction and renovation projects.”

Spot is designed for remote user operation and autonomous sensing.  Using a series of integrated sensors, the robot can understand dynamic environments and avoid obstacles or people. It is through these twin capabilities that the Trek-Spot union excels as the hybrid device seamlessly enables data-rich reality capture via an automated experience. The result is a vast improvement in customers’ time to decision while delivering more data, automated.  Future applications will allow the Trek-Spot integration  to autonomously capture 3D laser scans in hazardous, confined spaces and low-oxygen environments, otherwise dangerous for humans.

“Reality capture has become more critical to on-schedule project delivery than ever before,” said Brian Ringley, Boston Dynamics’ Construction Technology Manager. “The FARO Trek integration provides customers with the ability to document true as-built conditions of their site in a repeatable fashion. Because this high-frequency point cloud data collection is automatically aligned relative to project control points and BIM coordinate systems, it’s easier than ever to maintain a continuously updated digital twin.”

The FARO Focus^S Laser Scanner enables users to capture fast, accurate measurements of complex objects and buildings, with intuitive workflows that foster an enhanced user experience. A built-in 8-mega-pixel HDR camera captures detailed imagery while providing a natural color overlay to the scan data in a range of lighting conditions. Lightweight and compact with a 4.5-hour battery per charge, the Focus^S is a complete integrated solution designed for secure and reliable mobile scanning.

For more information about FARO, visit www.faro.com.

PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, Aug 28, 2020 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) has been named the winner of a Gold Stevie Award in the Achievement in Extended Enterprise Learning Programs category in the fifth annual Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The award recognizes Ansys’ Simulation World, the world’s largest virtual event for research and development leaders and engineering simulation thought leaders and users across industries.

Ansys is a 2020 Stevie Awards for Great Employers Gold Winner for Simulation World

The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize the world’s best employers and the human resources professionals, teams, achievements and HR-related products and suppliers who help to create and drive great places to work. More than 700 nominations from organizations of all sizes were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of HR-related categories.

As one of the judges for the Stevie Awards noted, “Ansys’ effort to orchestrate such a complicated, technically difficult and logistically challenging event was very impressive… but more impressive was the fact they were able to successfully execute the event. Given the time pressure, COVID-19 and the fact that so many clients, peers and industry leaders would be participating, this is quite an impressive accomplishment. Well done!”

“When the COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from connecting at physical conferences, our team brought together executives, designers and analysts from leading-edge Fortune 500 companies, startups and academic institutions to virtually inspire each other with examples of product development agility and innovation,” said Lynn Ledwith, vice president of marketing for Ansys. “I am proud of the more than 200 speakers, 65 sponsors and 800 Ansys employees who collaborated to make our virtual event such a success.”

More than 90 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

“In the fifth edition of the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the judges were impressed by the Stevie winners who – during the crises we’ve confronted this year – continue to dedicate each day to making the lives of their employees and teams better through training, software, work-from-home plans, and more. We are pleased to celebrate them in 2020 and look forward to what they will accomplish in 2021,” said Maggie Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards.

Details about the Stevie Awards for Great Employers and the list of 2020 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/HR.

About Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.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.

MUMBAI, India, Aug 28, 2020 – The Board of Directors of Siemens Limited has approved the sale and transfer of its Mechanical Drives (MD) business for a consideration of Rs. 4,400 million (Indian Rupees Four Thousand Four Hundred million) to Flender Drives Private Limited (a subsidiary of Flender GmbH, which in turn is a subsidiary of Siemens AG ), subject to adjustment for the change in net current assets and capital expenditure, subsequent to June 30, 2020 up to the date of actual transfer of the MD business. The consideration has been arrived at on the basis of an independent valuation, recommended by the Committee of Directors and the Audit committee.

The sale and transfer of MD business is as going concern and on a slump sale basis, with effect from January 1, 2021. The same is subject to receipt of requisite statutory and regulatory approvals, as applicable.