RSI recently attended the NIST TDP Standards Development Summit held in December 2011 in Washington. The focus was on Technical Data Package composition in a model-based enterprise (MBE).
RSI recently attended the NIST TDP Standards Development Summit held in December 2011 in Washington. The focus was on Technical Data Package composition in a model-based enterprise (MBE).
Siemens is bolstering their offerings in the CAD 3D space by acquiring Vistagy.
The Northrop and Boeing folks will be hosting the next annual Global Product Data Interoperability Summit in Chandler, Arizona this November. I’ve had the opportunity to attend for the last two years and both events were excellent. Ken Tashiro from…
The folks at PROSTEP published a white paper with a great overview of neutral 3D data formats. This link takes you to the registration page for a download.
Spatial Technologies, the CAD engine developer that is owned by Dassault, has been floundering for years. The word on the street is that Spatial is going into “maintenance mode” and there won’t be many enhancements to the ACIS 3D library.
Providing CAD via hosted services is the dream of many folks that have to use models for their work… An interesting article in Develop3D describes how AutoDesk and the other leading CAD vendors are gearing up efforts to deliver CAD…
We know that organizations such as Aberdeen and CIMData run all sort of scientific surveys about CAD tools. However, we couldn’t resist sharing our qualitative review of the four most prevalent CAD packages in use in the automotive and aerospace…
For those of you tracking the SpaceClaim “direct modeling” CAD tool, the Novedge site has an interesting first-hand review. We like the notion of SpaceClaim — namely, give engineers other than just the designer access to the model during the…
The standard for 3D CAD, ANSI 14.41, has been released for more than five years. However, the major CAD vendors appear to be implementing it in bits and pieces. For example, Pro/E captures annotation in both 3D and 2D mode,…
You may have noticed that SpaceClaim, a relative newcomer to the direct CAD modeling world, has raised additional capital to continue their product development. According to MCADCafe, SpaceClaim raised $7 million from their existing venture capital investors.