Airbus is to expand its use of Dassault Systèmes' 3Dexperience simulation applications – in particular, Simulia – to speed up structural analysis and virtual testing of its next generation aircraft, starting with the A350-900.
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Autodesk has completed its acquisition of privately held German real time visualisation software specialist PI-VR, best known in the automotive industry, for an undisclosed sum.
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Car manufacturer Volvo has revealed that Autodesk design and visualisation software was central to the development of its new 'Concept You'vehicle.
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Jaguar Land Rover has deployed EMC Isilon's scale-out NAS (network attached storage) to simplify storage for its big data vehicle engineering simulation work.
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Autodesk's new 2012 3D engineering software portfolio for manufacturers now includes software claimed to make design, visualisation and simulation software easier to adopt, use and maintain.
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The first prototype car with a body created entirely using a 3D printer has been developed by KOR EcoLogic, using Autodesk digital prototyping software.
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The University of Liverpool's new virtual engineering centre is getting all its virtual reality hardware and software supplied by Virtalis.
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Green-Tide Turbine's revolutionary turbine – which generates electricity from slower tidal currents that leave conventional turbines useless – has been developed using SolidWorks.
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3D design engineering software specialist Autodesk is reporting that its Showcase solution is gathering momentum across Europe, with a rapidly growing number of designers, engineers, marketing and sales professionals using the software.
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Growing numbers of clean energy technology companies are joining the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program, following the launch of the scheme in Europe earlier this year.
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Speakers from the world of visualisation brought virtual reality (VR) to life at Virtalis' biggest ever technology day at the University of Northampton yesterday (18 May).
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National Instruments, the control design and embedded systems specialist, and Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks are to collaborate on a pioneering mechatronics tool.
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Photorealistic virtual models of around 240 BMWs are being created for all sorts of marketing – direct from their 3D CAD mode data.
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Airbus has taken delivery of a Virtalis StereoWorks VR (virtual reality) suite to help with validation of methods and process improvements around composites manufacturing for the new A350XWB aircraft.
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Dassault Systèmes is introducing increasingly sophisticated free tools and services to bring product concept designers and even games designers into its fold.
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Virtalis has written an interface to create a drive to allow Haption’s haptic force feedback devices to work with PTC’s CAD portfolio
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Dassault Systèmes has set up a mini website that allows anyone interested to follow the exploits of a French professor as he runs from Paris to Beijing, and also to take part in a relay race using virtual reality, boosting the company’s donations to a sports charity
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Jaguar and Land Rover invest £2m in a VR ‘cave’ at Gaydon engineering centre
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Toyota Motorsport in Germany has extended its partnership with Dassault Systèmes to provide realistic simulations for virtual car testing and a 3D real-time development hub.
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Honda Canada’s new 2007 Acura MDX luxury sport utility vehicle (SUV) was restyled and designed safety, race-inspired handling, advanced engineering and integrated driver technology – all with Autodesk AliasStudio software.
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See3D, a new venture by the University of Wales bringing high-performance visualisation to academics, is also targeting manufacturing SMEs that could not otherwise access the technology.
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Virtual reality (VR) technology is beginning to catch on as benefits become clearer, the technology becomes more robust and easier to develop and use, and prices come down.
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Icem’s surface modelling, surface quality validation and design visualisation software was instrumental in smoothing the Freelander 2’s body and interior design development.
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Cadbury Schweppes is to join Lotus, Bentley Motors, Red Bull Racing (formerly Jaguar Racing), Stannah Lifts, Stadco, Worldmark, Unipart, Deltron-Emcon, Diageo – in all 20 successful manufacturers – to reveal the secrets of their success at the Best of British Manufacturing IT conference.
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Yorkshire Forward has invested £6.5 million to build a ‘Factory of the Future’ as part of the second phase of its Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing in Waverley, near Rotherham.
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