05 Oct 2004
ADEM Technologies and LEDAS to integrate 3D Geometric Solver into Market Solutions

Moscow-Novosibirsk, Russia - October 05, 2004 - ADEM Technologies Ltd. and LEDAS Ltd. have announced a joint project aimed at using the LEDAS geometrical solvers (LGS) within ADEM products. A new 3D solver LGS for geometrical constraints will be used in the ADEM Assembly module to support assembly constraints.

Read more: http://www.ledas.com/press.php...

28 Sep 2004
Dassault Systemes and IBM Announce Version 5 Release 14 of their Product Lifecycle Management Portfolio

Paris, France - September 28, 2004 - Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) and IBM today announced the release of Version 5 Release 14 (V5R14) of their product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio, comprised of CATIA for collaborative product development, and ENOVIA and SMARTEAM for product data and life cycle management, collaboration, and decision support. Concurrently, Dassault Syst?mes announced V5R14 of DELMIA for digital development of factory and production processes.

Read more: http://plm.3ds.com/news-events...

16 Sep 2004
UGS Showcases Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Excellence in Asia Pacific

UGS, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today presented an overview of its business development in Asia Pacific, the world's fastest growing region for the adoption of PLM. At the event, UGS highlighted its latest digital product development software, NX(TM) 3, and showcased several examples of how PLM is transforming the business process in Asia Pacific.

Read more: http://www.ugs.com/about_us/pr...

13 Sep 2004
PTC Receives IRS Notification of Income Tax Refund of Approximately $37 Million

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced that it has received notification of a favorable resolution from the United States Department of the Treasury(TM)'s Internal Revenue Service regarding an examination of the company's income tax returns for the years 1998 through 2000, which will result in a tax refund to PTC of approximately $37 million, including interest which is subject to a final calculation by the IRS.

Read more: http://www.ptc.com/appserver/i...

09 Sep 2004
UGS Introduces Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Industry's First Common Programming Interface with NX 3, Enabling Unprecedented Access to Digital Product Development Functionality

PLANO, Texas - UGS, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced the next generation development toolkit for its NX(TM) digital product development software. Based on the PLM industry's first common application program interface (API), this toolkit provides a foundation that will enable users to automate virtually any NX interactive function using their choice of the world's most popular software programming languages.

Read more: http://www.ugs.com/about_us/pr...

30 Aug 2004
Open Design Alliance to Integrate SchemaSoft Technology

August 30, 2004 – Vancouver, B.C. - SchemaSoft today announced that its Structured Storage Library has been selected by the Open Design Alliance for use in its software libraries supporting the OpenDGN CAD data standard.

Read more: http://www.schemasoft.com/comp...

24 Aug 2004
Autodesk's Second Quarter 2004 Earnings

Net revenues were up 32% over a year ago, to US$280 million. The next quarter, however, is predicted to be flat: this is good news, because Q3 apparently is historically down. Subscription revenue is now 16%; the aim is to reach 25%.

The company has $572 million in the bank and no debt; it bought back 1.7 million shares. Perhaps not good news for employees is that the company is increasing the number of R&D (research and development) positions off-shore. For the year 2005, expect to see improvements to 3D across all divisions, as well as enhancements to PLM (product lifecycle management). The next version of AutoCAD (2006?) is scheduled to ship in March; perhaps it too will have enhancements to its 3D.

Read more: http://www.caddigest.com/subje...