HyperWorks 12.0 Offers Product Optimization Enhancements
Altair released HyperWorks 12.0, which offers customers new tools for product optimization, finite element modeling, multiphysics analysis, and more.

Australia Activates First Large Scale Solar Project
Australia has activated its first ever large scale solar project, the 10-megawatt Greenough River Solar Farm facility.

Mentor Graphics Introduces Unique FloTHERM XT Technology
Mentor Graphics has launched FloTHERM XT, which combines mechanical design automation (MDA) and electronic design automation (EDA) domains.

Hydropower Plant in China Takes Top Honors in Competition
Autodesk presented awards in the new Autodesk Excellence in Infrastructure Competition to impressive civil projects for their use of BIM.

Ellis Furniture Selected as Inventor of The Year
The competition set the record for the highest number of participating votes and included all 2012 Autodesk Inventor of the Month recipients.

Park Hyatt Raises Sustainability Standards for Hotels
Park Hyatt Chicago\'s rooms are independently controlled with an energy efficient temperature with Telkonet\'s EcoInsight energy management thermostats.

Siemens PLM Software Announces New Teamcenter Solution
A new tool for Teamcenter focuses on giving users better quality management processes and faster closure of quality issues.

Workstation Market Remained Sluggish in Q2\'12
While the quarter proved disappointing, Jon Peddie Research does not detect any systemic weakness unique to the market

When Will GitHub\'s Open Source Approach Catch On?
Ben Apel of the PTC Blog asks the question \"is open source product development the next big thing?\"

Boeing Signs 10-Year Agreement with Siemens PLM Software
Boeing picked NX and Teamcenter software for their innovation, scalability and open architecture.

Brad Tomecek Helps Shape the Future
Architect Brad Tomecek was recently honored with the AIA National Young Architects Award.

Lessons Learned in Over 40 Years in Aerospace and Defense
With over 40 years at Rockwell Collins, Jack held numerous leadership positions in engineering, advanced technology, programs and operations.

Irkutsk State Technical University Relies on Siemens
The Computer Technologies Training Center bases its training program on CAD and product lifecycle management solutions from Siemens PLM Software.

Graphics Systems Recognized as Top SolidWorks Provider
Graphics Systems received the Elite 190 Club Award from DS SolidWorks at SolidWorks World 2013 for its high rate of licenses sales and renewals.

adidas Races into the Future with Objet 3D Printing
adidas Group leverages 3D Printing to expand its design processes and reduce time to market.

Re-Imagining PLM
This month Oleg takes on how the industry could re-imagine PLM, the new eDrawings app for the iPad and some of the challenges of open source PLM.

Javitz Center Chooses Green Roof Renovation
After the renovations to the Javitz Center, the owner will see a 26 percent reduction in energy consumption.

NVIDIA Unveils Industry\'s First Visual Computing Appliance
The new product deemed NVIDIA GRID VCA is a GPU-based system that sends graphics output over the network to be displayed on a client computer.

Objet 3D Printing Helps Model Makers Win Clients
Model makers Coleman & Associates are winning new clients since adopting the Objet Alaris30 Desktop 3D printing system.

Custom Solutions Lead Dental Industry to Rely on CAM
Even the smallest dental offices are taking an interest in the ways computer aided machining (CAM) technology can improve their businesses.

ETRAGE Offers New Tool to Search for Drawing Data
ETRAGE has launched its new Drawing Notes Search for searching for and managing Creo drawing notes that are stored in Windchill, PDMLink or INTRALINK.

Open Standards-Based Simulation Data Management
Keith Hunten from Lockheed goes over an open standards system for Simulation Data Management (SimDM) they have been developing.

Inverse Kinematics with GrafiCalc
Part three of this video series on using GrafiCalc as an early stage mechanical simulation tool focuses on Inverse Kinematics.

Classic Style, Modern Sustainability
The Alliance for Environmental Sustainability highlights only the second new-construction LEED Platinum home in the State of Illinois.

Q1-090108: Suppressing Features
How do I suppress features using Excel?

PROSTEP PDM Migration Expert Series……
Is the thought of a large Product Data Management (PDM) migration project daunting? Fear no longer. PROSTEP has put together……

PROSTEP PDM Migration Expert Series……
Is the thought of a large Product Data Management (PDM) migration project daunting? Fear no longer. PROSTEP has put together……

Vendor Spotlight: Aras……
Hear what Aras customers are saying about Aras PLM solutions in this round up of articles featuring: Lear Corporation, Xerox,……

Technology Pushes Green Building Industry……
Green building can be as simple as creating your own straw bale house, or it can be taken to the……

Analysis and Simulation Today: S&A, Simulation Data Management & New Markets……
While many manufacturing companies have come to realize that analysis and simulation software can tremendously help them improve their product……

Shake-ups and Strides in 3D Printing……
3D printed guns, bionic ears, food -- what’s next? 3D printing has stirred up quite the buzz and gained a……

The SolidWorks Community is an extremely active and involved Membership base. Membership in this Community is up 54% just this year. SolidWorks products, including the SolidWorks Office line, PDMWorks data management, and COSMOSWorks analysis, are used in the Industrial, Medical, Scientific, Consumer, Educational, Technology, and Transportation industries.

SolidWorks Digital Digest, the e-newsletter for the SolidWorks Community, is sent out every Wednesday morning.

Sun-Enews serves the business to business needs of alternative energy product and service providers and interested consumers. Though small, the Community has grown exponentially almost entirely through word-of-mouth, 32% just this year. We expect this Community to continue to explode as the interest in non-fossil fuel energy sources grows.

The Sun-Enews e-mail newsletter arrives in Members’ mailboxes every Tuesday.

The MicroStation Connections Community represents the users of Bentley Systems’ MicroStation product. MicroStation is used in the architecture/civil engineering/construction (AEC) industry for “work on buildings, civil engineering projects, power plants and geospatial information.” Though MicroStation is also a CAD program, the MicroStation Connections Community membership only partly crosses our MCAD sites but also has much in common with the Green Building Community.

MicroStation Connections Digital Digest goes to Members every Thursday.

The PLM Connections covers Dassault Systèmes’ ENOVIA product suite, including ENOVIA, ENOVIA SmarTeam, ENOVIA VPLM, and other related products. Industries covered are Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Consumer Products, Medical Devices, Shipbuilding, and more.

The ENOVIA e-newsletter is sent out ever second Wednesday of the month.

The CATIA Community covers Dassault Systeèmes CATIA PLM suite, including CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, and SMARTEAM. In conjunction with IBM, Dassault sells CATIA PLM primarily to the Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Consumer Products, Medical Devices, Shipbuilding, Electrical & Electronics, Semiconductor industries.

CATIA Digital Digest, the e-newsletter for the CATIA Community, is sent every Tuesday.

Creo Community replaced www.proe.com in June 2011 and is an online community for users of Creo Elements/Pro (formerly Pro/ENGINEER), Creo Elements/Direct (formerly CoCreate), Creo Elements/View (formerly ProductView), Windchill, and other PTC affiliated products. Creo is our largest community with coverage that builds upon 20 years of Creo content, including CAD business and technical articles, tips, case studies, and Q&A, galleries and calendars.

Creo Digital Digest, the e-newsletter for the Creo Community, goes out to Members every Thursday morning.

The new Siemens PLM Community covers new developments in the Siemens PLM Software suite, companion products, and also includes other industry focused coverage. Siemens PLM software products covered include NX, Solid Edge and The Velocity Series and more.

The Siemens Community Digital Digest, the e-newsletter of the Siemens PLM Community, arrives in member's mailboxes every Wednesday morning.

Inventor Connections serves the community of Autodesk Inventor professionals. Autodesk’s major push to move users from 2D to 3D has resulted in one of the fastest growth curves in MCAD software. Our Inventor Connections membership has grown 183% since its launch. Inventor is maximized for “Tube and Pipe design, Cable and Harness design, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for design validation, and Dynamic Simulation to test real world performance.”

Inventor Connections Digest, the enewsletter of the Inventor Connections Community, arrives in Members’ mailboxes every Tuesday.

The Revit Community represents the users of Autodesk Revit Architecture software, the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction suite and third-party companion products. Revit Architecture is Autodesk’s primary Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, designed to support all phases of design and construction documentation, used by architects and other members of the building team. The Community aims to serve the users of Revit Architecture, Revit MEP and Revit Structure.

The Revit Digital Digest, the e-newsletter of the Revit Community, goes to Members every Tuesday.

The Green Building Community presents sustainable- and green-building technology to design and construction professionals, as well as others interested in this growing market. The Community’s mission is to bring the latest green building content to the web to serve companies selling products and services and professionals seeking the latest technology. Membership is up 670% in the past 18 months.

The Green Building Community Digital Digest arrives in Members’ mailboxes every Tuesday.