BEND, OR, USA, May 14, 2020 – In the absence of the company’s traditional in-person regional events, Tech Soft 3D is hosting a series of virtual HOOPS Summits as well as technical trainings on the HOOPS SDKs. All virtual events are open and free for anyone to attend.

HOOPS Virtual Summits are best for heads of technology or engineering looking for information about trends in the industry, how to overcome business challenges and learn from partners who have solved specific business challenges.

1. Building the Digital Factory: explore how advancements in the building & construction industry are changing how the modern factory is built.
2. Manufacturing in the Digital Factory: explore topics ranging from utilizing 3D digital representations to optimize workflows and processes to how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) is changing how factories operate through monitoring and predictive maintenance.

The HOOPS Virtual Trainings are for developers wanting to learn how to work with the HOOPS SDKs to build applications for manufacturing, AR/VR, 3D printing, AEC and more. Developers will be introduced to topics such as building 3D web applications, CAD access and translation, and mesh processing.

Click on the links below to register.

HOOPS Virtual Summit Series – All

1. The HOOPS Virtual Summit will feature inspiring and informative events for engineering software developers interested in technology trends and challenges facing our industry. Learn about new features in the 2020 HOOPS SDKs, find out how to leverage our tools and gain a market edge directly from our partners, and benefit from engaging demos from our experts.

HOOPS Tropical Happy Hour & Product Update – Wednesday, May 20th

1. Europe (4-5pm CEST)
2. North America (4-5pm EDT) Join the Tech Soft 3D team for a lively tropical-themed Happy Hour as our product managers guide you through the HOOPS product portfolio. We’ll be discussing what’s new for 2020, what we have planned for the future, and how these developments are impacting applications from Manufacturing to Building & Construction. Grab a drink, your favorite colorful shirt, and connect with our team as well as industry colleagues

Building the Digital Factory – Wednesday, May 27th

1. Europe (3-4pm CEST)
2. North America (1-2pm EDT)
3. The Building the Digital Factory virtual event will explore how advancements in the building & construction industry are changing how the modern factory is built. We’ll explore the significance of linking construction data and manufacturing information, the efficiencies of manufacturing process planning, and how the resulting large models can be methodically visualized.

Manufacturing in the Digital Factory – Wednesday, June 3rd

1. Europe (3-4pm CEST)
2. North America (1-2pm EDT)
3. The final event in the virtual summit series, Manufacturing in the Digital Factory, picks up where our last event left off. As we take a look at the cutting edge technologies running our factory. We’ll explore topics ranging from utilizing 3D digital representations to optimize workflows and processes to how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) is changing how factories operate through monitoring and predictive maintenance.

Virtual Training Series All

BUILDING YOUR FIRST 3D WEB APPLICATION WITH HOOPS – THE HOOPS WEB PLATFORM

1. Tuesday, May 19th (10 AM PDT)
2. Robert Tadlock, Director of Consulting Engineering
3. The HOOPS Web Platform is a simple but powerful toolkit for advanced 3d web visualization. Learn how to import and visualize CAD data, add and interact with our JavaScript API, add additional functionality to a webpage, and host your project on an AWS server.

INTRODUCTION TO CAD ACCESS AND TRANSLATION WITH HOOPS EXCHANGE AND PRC

1. Tuesday, May 26th (10 AM PDT)
2. Peter Kane, Senior Consulting Engineer
3. HOOPS Exchange is the fastest and most accurate CAD data translation toolkit. PRC is the data model that allows developers to access content from over 30 CAD file formats. Learn how to traverse an assembly tree and topology, untangle material definitions, extract visualization information, and metadata.

DOCKERIZING 3D WEB APPLICATIONS

1. Tuesday, June 2nd (10 AM PDT)
2. Robert Tadlock, Director of Consulting Engineering
3. Docker container technology allows for rapid application deployment and scaling. Now that you have a 3D web application learn how to create and manage Docker images containing HOOPS based applications.

INTRODUCTION TO MESH PROCESSING WITH HOOPS AND POLYGONICA

1. Tuesday, June 9th
2. Jonathan Girroir, Senior Manager, Technical Marketing
3. Polygonica is a powerful mesh processing software used for preparing models for additive manufacturing. Learn how to heal, Boolean, and simplify models for 3d printing

About Tech Soft 3D

Tech Soft 3D is the leading global provider of development tools that help software teams deliver successful applications. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Bend, Oregon, Tech Soft 3D also has offices in California, France, England, and Japan. The company’s toolkit products power nearly 500 unique applications running on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. For more information, visit techsoft3d.com.

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VICTORIA, BC, Canada, May 13, 2020 – Cebas Visual Technology Inc. is pleased to announce its next major release of thinkingParticles. The release of thinkingParticles Subscription Drop 9 represents one of the biggest bug fix sweeps and workflow enhancements, yet. Overall simulation robustness, outstanding fluid solver stability and enhanced soft body dynamics offer a uniquely rounded overall Visual Effects experience for every 3ds Max user.

Besides some serious housekeeping, new advanced Visual Effects operators have been added to the tool chest. Find below a short summary of new functions and features found in thinkingParticles Subscription Drop 9.

Particle Based Fluids

The introduction of a new fluid solver: SPH VE 6.9 marks a landmark achievement for all 3ds Max users who usually experience a lack of realistic all purpose particle based SPH fluid solver options. The new algorithm creates a more stable fluid simulation with less experimentation and guesswork in parameter setup. Automatic foam generation in fluid simulations is now more predictable and accurate as it aligns with the real world phenomena of air bubbles rising to the top of the fluid surface.

Time Independent Simulation Caches

For the first time, thinkingParticles offers the concept of truly time independent simulation caches. In the past, once a simulation was cached out to a hard disk, there was not a lot of manipulation possible. thinkingParticles’ new time independent simulation caching offer ultra fast interactive timeline scrubbing and the possibility of easy particle manipulation after the fact.

Industries Workhorse Rigid Body Dynamics Solver ‘SC’

thinkingParticles unique Rigid Body visual effects solver; ShapeCollision (SC) has been brought forward to the 21st century. Using ShapeCollison within a thinkingParticles simulation is no more different than any of the other Rigid Body solvers. Rigid Body properties are no longer attached to a particle group, they are now assigned to individual particles.

ShapeCollision is a Rigid Body solver, unique to thinkingParticles and it has become the favorite go to tool for professional VFX artists. Over the last decade, ShapeCollision found its way into many movie productions like Independence Day, 2012 and the latest series of Marvel movies. ShapeCollision offers many options to optimize simulation setups. Although not known for its fastest processing speed, it is loved and used for its legendary robustness and ability to churn through highly complex, most often crappy, 3D meshes. A signature feature of ShapeCollision is its natural ability to simulate stickiness between intersecting geometry.

thinkingParticles Subscription Drop 9 comes as a free upgrade to all Subscription customers in good standing. thinkingParticles can be easily updated and downloaded through the freely available cebas Product Manager.

An extensive list of new features of thinkingParticles Subscription Drop 9 can be found at www.cebas.com/thinkingParticles.

The best thing to do is download the thinkingParticles unlimited free trial or email info@cebas.com for an educational license.

thinkingParticles 6.9 officially supports 3ds Max 2021, 2020, 2019.

About cebas Visual Technology 

The main focus of the company has always been offering optimized hard- & software solutions for graphics-intensive applications. In the early days of computer technology, there was no way of getting the power to create 3D images on a standard PC. This is why cebas started out as a specialized company that offered UNIX and RISC processor workstations.

With the very first release of 3D Studio DOS R1 everything changed dramatically. Because of the increasing power of desktop PCs, Windows is the preferred development platform for cebas 3D plug-ins today. Several major 3D software packages are supported, and all cebas software is under constant development. For more information, visit https://www.cebas.com.

NEW YORK, NY, USA, May 13, 2020 – With a large part of the global production of personal protective equipment (PPE) happening in the United States and China, much of Europe is experiencing a major PPE shortage, putting millions of lives at risk. In order to combat the shortage, the Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide (PCIAW) is partnering with Gerber Technology to make PPE more widely available. Through their PPE Task Force, Gerber has already helped over 1,200 manufacturers across the globe successfully convert their manufacturing capabilities to PPE production.

“Nobody should have to go without the proper protection and risk being infected by COVID-19,” said Richard Jessup, Sales Director, EMEA of Gerber Technology. “Here at Gerber, the health and safety of people all around the world is a top priority. We are working tirelessly with our partners and customers to help and rapidly increase the production of PPE to ensure nobody is without.”

The Gerber PPE Task Force is helping their global network of manufacturers switch to production of protective masks, gowns, face shields, and other PPE by providing free  resources such as production-ready patterns, sharing best practices, and connecting manufacturers and suppliers through the PPE Manufacturer Matchmaking Program.

“We are absolutely thrilled to partner with Gerber as their expertise in PPE is unmatched,” said Yvette Ashby, founder and CEO of PCIAW. “Their advanced knowledge, innovative solutions, and helpful resources are going to help vastly increase the availability of PPE in the U.K. and all of Europe.”

About PCIAW

PCIAW is the first worldwide organisation developed to serve the professional clothing industry. The UK-based association helps members such as Snickers Workwear, Hunter, and Incorporatewear to discover new business opportunities, increase their reach, and strengthen their position in the rapidly-growing professional clothing industry. For more information, visit pciaw.org

About Gerber Technology.

Gerber Technology delivers industry-leading software and automation solutions that help apparel and industrial customers improve their manufacturing and design processes and more effectively manage and connect the supply chain, from product development and production to retail and the end customer. Gerber serves 78,000 customers in 134 countries, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in apparel and accessories, home and leisure, transportation, packaging and sign and graphics.

Based in Connecticut in the USA, Gerber Technology is owned by AIP, a New York based, global private equity firm specializing in the technology sector and has more than $3.0 billion assets under management. The company develops and manufactures its products from various locations in the United States and Canada and has additional manufacturing capabilities in China. For more information, visit https://www.gerbertechnology.com.

MARLBOROUGH, MA, USA, May 13, 2020 – Kubotek3D, a leading supply chain software provider, announced the 2.1 release of the Kubotek K-Compare and K-Display software products. This release provides updates to CAD file translators, user interface improvements, and several new functions for each product.

Updated CAD Translators

Reading of 3D CAD files across all 2.1 Kubotek software programs has been updated to support the latest versions of four major CAD file formats:

1. Siemens NX 1899 Series to 1907
2. CATIA R30 (V5-6R2020)
3. SolidWorks 2020
4. ACIS SAT 2020

User Interface Improvements

Improvements to the interface of all release 2.1 products allow previews of tab contents before selection, saving time by preventing unneeded tabs from cluttering the workspace. When dialog boxes are open, the interface now blurs to provide enhanced visual focus for the user. Visual improvements to graphics and display include black edges on models as well as cleaner axis indicators, both of which provide a more precise visual field for the user. Further improvements provide consistent decimal precision in measurement results.

K-Compare Revision Commands Added

Improvements in K-Compare Revision have mostly focused on further increasing productivity of users during creation of reports which highlight the differences found between two 3D CAD models. Three new commands group differences together with nearby or similar differences which may be best documented together as a set. Another four new commands support sorting the order of differences by size or position on the part. New measurement tools in 2.1 allow users to add linear, radial, diameter, and coordinate measurement labels to the difference report and link them to precise locations on the 3D models. The general label object has also been enhanced to support multiple arrow leaders which can be locked onto positions on the model. The ability to insert custom watermark background image in reports has also been provided in release 2.1.

K-Compare Validate Enhancements

The 2.1 release of K-Compare Validate has added support to run the program from a command prompt allowing integration with numerous PLM and document management software from other vendors. The automated reporting capabilities now work with a user-definable template to allow users to customize the header content in the tamper-proof reports. Kubotek tests with sample user data have shown significant performance enhancements of a 15% overall faster performance than the 2.0 version, and a 70% increase in performance speeds over the now retired Kubotek Validation Tool 2019 SP1 version.

K-Display Commands Added

With release 2.1 K-Display users analyzing plastic parts can now create multiple thickness measurement labels across the part for communicating wall thickness. These labels, as well as other operations such as hide/un-hide, bounding box, and draft angle face coloring, now support database undo/redo and delete. To support popular 3D print preparation programs K-Compare Convert 2.1 adds the output capability option to save each solid in the CAD file into a separate STL file.

About Kubotek3D

Kubotek3D empowers the supply chain with the right design information by delivering core precision 3D technologies and easy-to-use software products. This strategy allows geometry, no matter where it originated, to be used to speed time to market, reduce costs and improve quality. Kubotek3D is a division of Kubotek USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Kubotek Corporation (7709.T Tokyo Stock Exchange). Kubotek Corporation was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan. For more information, visit www.kubotek3d.com.

CHICAGO, IL, USA, May 12, 2020 – Sciaky, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries, Inc. (PSI) and leading suppliers of electron beam (EB) welding solutions and metal additive manufacturing (AM) solutions, announced  that it will deliver a state-of-the-art electron beam (EB) welding machine to Michigan-based systems integrator and solutions manufacturer MERRILL.

MERRILL’s end-to-end offerings include solutions for design, build, test and deliver stages, along with the in-house expertise to design and manufacture intricate parts and prototypes through high-volume production. They provide solutions for a wide range of industries, including aerospace, defense, chemical, energy, oil & gas, transportation, and mining.

Sciaky’s EB welding systems have been the gold standard of EB welding technology for decades. Sciaky’s internal moving EB welding gun is the most versatile EB welding gun in the market and its multi-axis gun motion operates at half the chamber volume of fixed/external gun systems, providing beam access for unusual joint configurations, and significantly simplifies part tooling.

“Sciaky is excited to provide our world-class EB welding technology to a forward-thinking solutions provider like MERRILL,” said Scott Phillips, President and CEO of Sciaky, Inc. “The results-driven pros at MERRILL will no doubt take advantage of Sciaky’s exceptional EB weld strength and its high-precision repeatability to deliver incredible results, over and over again.”

Sciaky’s welding equipment meets rigid military specifications to manufacture items such as airframes, landing gear, jet engines, guided missiles and vehicle parts. For more information, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.

About MERRILL

MERRILL is a highly innovative American small business delivering contract manufacturing services to the defense, aerospace, heavy equipment, automation, energy and transportation markets. Headquartered in Saginaw, MI, we have nearly 400 skilled and value-driven team members and nearly 700,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing floor space. Our resources are dedicated to the design, fabrication, machining and integration of components, systems and programs. If you need it, MERRILL can make it. For more information, visit MERRILLTG.com.

EDEN PRAIRIE, MN and BOSTON, MA, USA, May 11, 2020 – More than 200 teams from around the world have submitted designs for a rapidly deployable, minimum viable ventilator as part of a hackathon hosted on GrabCAD.com, with round one ending May 1. The CoVent-19 Challenge has now shifted to a finalist round. Seven teams have been selected to participate and will be building working prototypes for testing by a team of judges led by a dozen anesthesiology resident physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital.

“Healthcare systems around the world continue to face a period of great uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dr. Richard Boyer, founder and director of the CoVent-19 Challenge. “Will they be able to provide invasive mechanical ventilation to all who need it? As anesthesiologists, we are experts at using ventilators to care for critical ill patients and believe there is an opportunity for innovative new designs particularly for areas where standard mechanical ventilators may be hard to obtain.”

Phase 1 submissions included teams from 43 different countries, including Algeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, Greece, India, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The finalist teams are:

1. SmithVent, a team of Smith College (Northampton, Mass.) engineering alumni and friends.
2. CORE Vent, submitted by Ross Hunter of Armadilla Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland)
3. InVent Pneumatic Ventilator, submitted by fuseproject, a design and innovation firm (San Francisco), Cionic, a medical device technology company (San Francisco), and a mechanical engineering team from Accenture (Seattle).
4. RespiraWorks, a global team of dozens of engineers, healthcare workers and other professionals with a focus on developing countries and low-resource communities.
5. OP Vent, submitted by a team from Nvidia (Santa Clara, Calif.), Waymo (Mountain View, Calif.), Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif.), and VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
6. Lung Evolve, submitted by an engineering team from the Universidad Nacional (Bogotá, Colombia) and Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Medellín, Colombia).
7. Baxter Ventilator, submitted by a team of educators, students, and alumni from Baxter Academy for Technology and Science (Portland, Maine).

“The CoVent-19 Challenge has been an amazing demonstration of what’s possible when a global community of innovators comes together for the common good,” said Stratasys Chief Innovation Officer Scott Crump, one of the challenge judges. “In one month, we have gone from a problem statement to remarkably creative solutions from students and professionals, engineers and designers, from everywhere. It brightens my spirit during what is otherwise a pretty dark time for our world.”

In addition to hosting the challenge on its GrabCAD site, Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) has provided a team of three application engineers to work with the seven finalist teams to help them build working prototypes utilizing Stratasys 3D printers as needed. The prototypes will be evaluated using a test bed to determine which design provides the best combination performance against safety, reliability, manufacturability, affordability, and simplicity.

The goal is to declare a winner by the beginning of June, with the CoVent-19 Challenge residents then working with the winning team to bring it to market, including securing FDA approval for the device.

Other sponsors of the CoVent-19 Challenge include Ximedica, Valispace, HackFund and Yelling Mule.

About Stratasys

Stratasys is a global leader in additive manufacturing or 3D printing technology and is the manufacturer of FDM®, PolyJet Technology, and stereolithography 3D printers. The company’s technologies are used to create prototypes, manufacturing tools, and production parts for industries, including aerospace, automotive, healthcare, consumer products and education. For more than 30 years, Stratasys products have helped manufacturers reduce product-development time, cost, and time-to-market, as well as reduce or eliminate tooling costs and improve product quality. The Stratasys 3D printing ecosystem of solutions and expertise includes 3D printers, materials, software, expert services, and on-demand parts production. Online at: www.stratasys.com.

To learn more about Stratasys, visit www.stratasys.com, the Stratasys blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook. Stratasys reserves the right to utilize any of the foregoing social media platforms, including the company’s websites, to share material, non-public information pursuant to the SEC’s Regulation FD. To the extent necessary and mandated by applicable law, Stratasys will also include such information in its public disclosure filings.

LONDON, UK, May 11, 2020 – ENGYS is pleased to announce the new release of ELEMENTS 3.2.1, an open-source based CFD software suite for vehicle design applications produced by Streamline Solutions LLC.

The product combines two simulation environments in one package: a dedicated virtual wind tunnel wizard for modelling external vehicle aerodynamics, and a general purpose CFD interface for solving other vehicle design applications (e.g. UHMT, HVAC, in-cabin flows, aeroacoustics, etc). The default methodology and best practices for external vehicle aerodynamics provided with this version of ELEMENTS have been widely tested and validated to conform to the latest regulations on alternative drag prediction methods proposed as part of the Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP).

The new version of ELEMENTS 3.2.1 offers a wide range of extended capabilities and several refinements to remove known issues found in the previous release 3.2.0. Some of the new exciting features added in this version include:

1. Enhanced display rendering for remote client-server connections to HPC systems with multiple computational nodes.
2. Faster I/O thanks to added support for solution fields in binary format.
3. Extended support for the python-based macro journaling system in ELEMENTS-GUI.
4. New mapped boundary conditions to map fields from either a boundary patch or a volumetric distance-based source.
5. New TAITherm coupling thermal boundary condition.
6. Added support for porous media in cylindrical coordinate system.
7. New vectors visualisation object.
8. Added support for box and sphere types for slice and clip visualisation objects.
9. Added support for nested hierarchy of visualisation objects.
10. Added support for fields visualisation inside volumetric cell zones.
11. New options for colour legends and backface/frontface visualisation.
12. New block-coupled density-based compressible flow solver for subsonic, transonic and supersonic regimes in ELEMENTS-Coupled add-on module.

To learn more about ELEMENTS, please visit our website or contact ENGYS to schedule a demonstration of the software and discover several success stories from automotive OEMs, tier-1 suppliers and motorsport teams who are already benefiting from using ELEMENTS.

About Streamline Solutions

Streamline Solutions LLC, a joint venture formed between ENGYS and Auto Research Center, was founded in the USA in early 2012 to serve the vehicle design software market, covering automotive, motorsports, commercial and military applications. The company develops and promotes the software ELEMENTS, a CFD analysis and vehicle design optimisation suite powered by open-source technologies developed by ENGYS. Streamline Solutions combines ENGYS’ leading-edge software development and support, a long and reputable participation in the open-source software business, with ARC’s proven vehicle design expertise and world leading wind tunnel and experimental facilities for validation purposes. For more information, visit

FORT WORTH, TX, USA, May 11, 2020 – The on-demand webinar, “Solution-Based Mesh Adaptation with Pointwise and ANSYS CFX” hosted by Nick Wyman and Steve Karman, Pointwise; and Paul Galpin, ISimQ is now available. Learn how mesh adaptation can help make your CFD process more efficient and accurate.

Simulation-driven design relies heavily on high-quality CFD simulation results. Mesh adaptation is an essential tool for controlling discretization error in your simulations. Pointwise provides a solver-independent mesh adaptation method that maintains adherence to geometry. Curious as to how Pointwise mesh adaptation can be applied to your engineering simulation workflow?

Watch the webinar. info.pointwise.com/webinar-solution-based-mesh-adaptation-pointwise-ansys-cfx

About Pointwise, Inc.

Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) today – reliably generating high-fidelity meshes. The company’s Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured, overset and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, OpenFOAM, and SU2 as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and has a scripting language, Glyph, that can automate CFD meshing. Manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide have relied on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution since 1994. For more information, visit https://www.pointwise.com.

About ISimQ

ISimQ is an innovative Computational Fluid Dynamics service provider with offices in Canada and Germany. ISimQ’s extensive CFD expertise is a guarantee for providing innovative simulation solutions that directly impact the profitability of product development processes. Our services cover the whole simulation software life-cycle from deploying software to developing best practice procedures and ultimately driving innovation with simulation projects that include custom model and simulation workflow development, multi-physics, and robust design. We work diligently and in close partnership with our customers. ISimQ stands for ““nnovative Simulations with Quality.” For more information, visit www.isimq.com.