ITC Releases IntelliCAD 8.1

PORTLAND, OR, USA, Aug 14, 2015 - The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) announced the release of IntelliCAD 8.1.

IntelliCAD 8.1 is a major release that now includes support for Microsoft Windows 10. IntelliCAD 8.1 also includes multi-core processing when opening and regenerating files, which provides a 1.5 to 3 times performance improvement on multi-core computers. Also included is support for opening and saving .dwg files version 2015, developing end-user applications with a new Microsoft .NET API, opening and exporting .dgn files, annotation scaling, publishing drawings, printing to .dwf (or .dwfx), .png, and .jpg files, drawing helices and revision clouds, lofting and sweeping entities, creating polysolids, and various other new commands such as SETBYLAYER, XPLODE, TXT2MTXT, and AUTOCOMPLETE.

Many user interface enhancements are also included: new ribbon user interface that can be used with or without menus, support for customizable workspaces, and ability to quickly switch color schemes.

Vitor Neves, ITC Chairman and President of CAD Manufacturing Solutions, Inc. (CMS), an ITC member company, stated, "ITC members will appreciate the new IntelliCAD 8.1 multi-core processor support performance boost, additional .NET 4.5 Framework, stunning new user interface enhancements and, as always, advanced CAD compatibility."

Mr. Neves added, "This release consolidates IntelliCAD Technology Consortium’s unique market position as the sole non-profit organization committed to the development of the most advanced CAD engine technology developed by an open group of CAD solutions providers. IntelliCAD 8.1 also sets a milestone on how the ITC community proactively addresses new challenges."

About IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC)

The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium is an independent, non-profit organization funded and directed by its members specifically for the development of the IntelliCAD technology. The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium licenses the IntelliCAD technology to its commercial members, who in turn market and sell applications based on IntelliCAD to their end users. Commercial members have access to the IntelliCAD source code, documentation, developer support, and more. The ITC is also a founding member of the Open Design Alliance, thereby contributing to interoperability in the engineering industry. For more information, visit http://www.intellicad.org or call 1-503-293-7655.

AVEVA Software Licenses to Support Korean Engineering Courses

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 14, 2015 - AVEVA announced that software licenses for some of its most popular products including AVEVA Everything3D and AVEVA Bocad will be provided through AVEVA’s Academic Initiative to support engineering courses at the Yeosu Petrochemical High School and Seoul Urban Science Technical High School. Students taking modules in areas such as Process Handling, Process Facility and Process Electrical & Instrumentation will now receive access to AVEVA’s industry leading 3D design, engineering and steel fabrication software to develop important engineering skills.

AVEVA attended a signing ceremony with Seoul Urban Science Technical High School on 29 June 2015. The signing ceremony with Yeosu Petrochemical High School took place on the 9 July 2015. Hi-Tech Engineering, a prominent engineering company based in Yeosu City, signed an MOU with Yeosu Petrochemical High School in 2014, agreeing to employ a number of students from the school after graduation.

‘Teaching the use of AVEVA software on our curriculum gives students practical hands-on experience with the technology they will use throughout their careers’, said YoungMan Cho, Principal of Yeosu Petrochemical High School. ‘They can simulate the design of plants in a collaborative working environment. Institutions like ours, working alongside AVEVA and Hi-Tech Engineering, can ensure that the petrochemical complex in Yeosu continues to operate its production facilities efficiently and safely as new engineers join the industry.’

‘It is important for Korea to invest in highly skilled young engineers in order to meet a demand that is often fulfilled with foreign talent’, said TaeIn Park, Teacher, Seoul Urban Science Technical High School. ‘As older engineers retire and the industry continues to grow, the need for future employment is greater than ever. It is interesting for students to see how engineering software such as AVEVA’s relates to the real world, for example, in the design of plant facilities.’

SangWook Ham, Vice President, Head of EPC and Marine Sales, NEA, AVEVA added, ‘By supporting programmes like the ones at Yeosu Petrochemical High School and Seoul Urban Science Technical High School, AVEVA is giving graduates the confidence and skills they need to enter the work force and make an immediate contribution to engineering companies and Owner Operators alike.’

Yeosu Petrochemical High School and Seoul Urban Science Technical High School are part of a network of over 40 Meister Schools, specifically designed to prepare young people for work in high-skilled manufacturing jobs and other fields. With support from the South Korean government they near-guarantee employment to graduates, follow an industry-supported curriculum design, and focuses on developing skills required by various trades while exposing students to the workplace. The AVEVA Academic Initiative benefits educational institutions, their students, employers, and the global engineering community. AVEVA's educational partners range from local vocational training centres to the world’s most prestigious postgraduate universities. Common to all is a dedication to developing engineering skills that can be applied directly in the process plant, power and marine industries. For more information, visit www.aveva.com/academic.

About AVEVA

For almost 50 years, AVEVA software has enabled the creation of some of the world’s most complex power and process plants, vessels and offshore facilities. AVEVA’s Digital Asset approach ensures there is always an accurate digital representation of each physical asset. This allows engineering contractors, owner operators and ship builders to work more safely, more efficiently and with less risk throughout the life cycle of their projects and operations. AVEVA is the proud winner of the Frost and Sullivan 2015 Global Engineering Information Management Solutions Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award. For more information, visit www.aveva.com/ednotes.

Bricsys Releases BricsCAD V15.3

GENT, Belgium, Aug 13, 2015 - Bricsys announces the release of BricsCAD V15.3. Now available for download, version 15.3 is an update that offers new and improved features. 

The major update includes the following highlights.

BIM database

The BIM database consists of Building Materials and Compositions, stored in a Project database. A Building Material contains information about one specific material, a Composition contains information about the structure of a building element, by defining Composition layers.

Compositions

A Composition describes the structure of a Building Element by an ordered set of Composition layers. To each Building Material or Composition, any number of tags can be attached. Tags can be used as a filter on the database.

Multiple BIM Projects

To reuse compositions and building materials across multiple BIM Projects, a Library database can be specified, in addition to the Project database. To maintain and extend BIM databases, users can drag Building Materials and Compositions from one database to the other.

Flexibility

The same flexibility as we offer in modeling, we offer in attaching building information. All BIM database features are accessible from the dockable BIM Compositions panel.

For the full list of changes, see the Release Notes section on the Bricsys Web site.

About Bricsys

Bricsys is a global provider of dwg engineering design software brought to market under the BricsCAD brand. With relentless commitment to the success of the BricsCAD community, Bricsys is focused on providing an industrial strength CAD software platform and industry leading support at a compelling price to customers in the AEC, GIS, civil engineering, process and power, and mechanical CAD markets. Founded in 2002, Bricsys is a founding member of the Open Design Alliance. For more information, visit http://www.bricsys.com.

Chaos Group Releases V-Ray 3.1 for Maya

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug 13, 2015 - Chaos Group announces immediate availability of V-Ray 3.1 for Maya. 

V-Ray 3.1 for Maya contains over 100 new and modified features, including Maya 2016 compatibility, numerous V-Ray RT GPU enhancements and two VR cameras. The free update also offers more efficient handling of proxy objects, an improved global illumination algorithm, and faster rendering performance.

All V-Ray 3.0 for Maya customers can download the update for free.

For more information, visit www.v-ray.com.

Chaos Group Launches V-Ray 3.2 for NUKE

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug 13, 2015 - Chaos Group announces the launch of V-Ray for NUKE. 

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V-Ray for NUKE introduces a new approach to lighting and compositing that integrates production-quality ray traced rendering into NUKE and NUKEX. Compositors can now take advantage of V-Ray's lighting, shading, and rendering tools inside NUKE's node-based workflow.

For more information, visit www.v-ray.com/nuke.

Delcam Launches PowerSHAPE Pro 2016

BIRMINGHAM, UK, Aug 11, 2015 - Delcam has added a series of enhancements to its PowerSHAPE Pro software for modelling and reverse engineering that will help users to complete complex designs more quickly and more easily. In addition, a combination of new, more efficient, code and the extension of multi-threaded calculations to many commonly-used tasks will make the software significantly faster than any previous version.

By offering a combination of solid, surface and direct modelling, together with reverse engineering, PowerSHAPE Pro provides the most comprehensive range of design techniques available in a single CAD program. Having all the different technologies in the same package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines any modelling-for-manufacture projects that require both reverse-engineering and CAD functionality.

The first enhancement in the 2016 release allows groups of features to be copied between two solids in a single operation. While the features do not need to be of the same type, the most common application is expected to be in copying patterns of holes with a single click from one solid to another, for example from one mould plate to any other plate in the mould stack.

Another new option to save modelling time is the ability to edit the axis direction of any number of surface or solid primitives simultaneously. Similarly, the axis direction of a group of primitives that are not aligned can be brought into alignment in one operation. PowerSHAPE Pro already had the ability to edit simultaneously the dimensions of groups of primitives.

For customers using PowerSHAPE Pro to capture data for reverse engineering, the software can connect directly to most scanning hardware to capture and display scan data in real time. In the 2016 release, it has been made easier to switch between measuring modes when using devices that offer data collection by both laser scanning and point probing.

Reverse engineering has been made easier for prismatic parts, with the new ability to identify planes, cylinders, cones and other primitives, or to create wireframe arcs and lines, directly from probed points. This approach can often be more accurate than using scan data to create prismatic areas of a model.

The ability to replace regions of complex, free-form geometry with a single, shrink-wrap surface was introduced in PowerSHAPE Pro 2014 R2. In the new release, it has been made easier to re-orient such surfaces interactively and so place them in the most appropriate surface alignment.

In addition to these new options, a wide range of speed improvements has been made to the core modelling functions. Specific items affected include opening and displaying models in both wireframe and shaded views, displaying any single layer that had previously been drawn, projecting curves onto multiple surfaces, replaying complex solid history trees, selecting solid features, either graphically or using the history tree, and selecting multiple faces of a solid.

The degree of improvement varies according to the size and complexity of the model but can be as much as 40% faster with larger models.

For full details, including video demonstrations, visit Delcam Learning Zone at www.delcam.tv/ps2016/lz/en.

GRAITEC Offers Advance PowerPack Free to Revit Subscribers

BIEVRES, France, Aug 7, 2015 - GRAITEC, an international BIM and CAD software developer for AEC, and Autodesk Platinum Partner across Europe, delivers exceptional value to its customers by offering the Advance PowerPack for Autodesk Revit 2016 as a complimentary benefit to all its subscribed Revit customers.

GRAITEC recently launched the impressive new application for Autodesk Revit, which incorporates a wide set of unique features tools and functionalities designed to aid design or improve productivity and efficiency for Revit users across all industries, and today announced all customers who hold a full Revit product subscription with GRAITEC will receive the PowerPack for Autodesk Revit as a loyalty benefit – free of charge. Packed with slick modeling tools, smart annotation controls, a variety of quick and auto-dimensioning tools, and a powerful Revit family manager, the GRAITEC Advance PowerPack for Autodesk Revit is quickly delivering a wealth of benefits to users.

It is understood that GRAITEC's Autodesk Revit subscription customers will benefit from complimentary access to the powerful Revit extension as part of their subscription contract when taken or even renewed with GRAITEC, potentially saving GRAITEC customers thousands. In addition, those who do not have their Revit subscription contract with GRAITEC are able to purchase the Advance PowerPack for Autodesk Revit directly from GRAITEC or from one of their extensive partners worldwide.

To find out more about what's in the PowerPack for Revit or to download a free trial check out the GRAITEC website: graitec.com/pp4revit

Rewarding Customer Loyalty

Carl Spalding, Group Product Strategy Director for GRAITEC comments: "GRAITEC recognizes and values the importance of customer loyalty and we continually strive to provide customers with the best possible advice, service and technology solutions. Offering the Advance PowerPack free to our subscribed Revit customers is one of the ways we are adding unique value to our customers and rewarding them for their loyalty."

Gstarsoft Updates GstarCAD MC for Android

SUZHOU, China, Aug 7, 2015 - Gstarsoft announces GstarCAD MC (Mobile Client), an easy mobile CAD viewer fully compatible with DWG drawings, now is officially updated to the version 2.0.3 (Android) as CAD Viewer-DWG FastView.

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CAD Viewer-DWG FastView is a completely free CAD App developed by Gstarsoft, with which you can view, edit and annotate 2D CAD drawing on mobile devices like pad and smart phone. The new version 2.0.3 for Android devices can smoothly run on Android 5.0 and 5.1. The optimization makes it reach a higher level on file opening speed and running performance, and real-time updates of promotion & latest industry news can also be easily found from the list in ‘Support’ option.

CAD Viewer-DWG FastView makes it easier to access and view DWG drawings during a meeting, at home or even when you’re on travel. It helps better communication with your team, clients and suppliers, etc. With Dropbox, you can upload or download drawings from the cloud and enjoy not only faster operation but also precise drawing by specifying coordinates, freeing you from office to design anywhere and anytime.

Due to its simple and ease of use, CAD Viewer-DWG FastView has been well received by designers, engineers, surveyors etc. from all over the world since it’s launched. Some are turning their eyes to other recent GstarCAD products like GstarCAD 2015, GstarCAD Mechanical 2015 and so on. CAD Viewer-DWG FastView for Apple iOS version is on the way and a lot of stunning 3D features are waiting for you to explore.

About Gstarsoft

Gstarsoft is the recognized leading provider of 2D/3D CAD software and solutions for the industries involving AEC, mechanical, manufacturing, electrical, GIS, survey and mapping, civil, etc. GstarCAD have focused on developing highly .dwg-compatible CAD platform for over 20 years. Versions in 14 different languages sell in over 100 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.gstarcad.net.