Very quick: Intergraph acquires Visual Vessel Design

Very quick: Intergraph acquires Visual Vessel Design

Mar 19, 2015 | Hot Topics

Dashing to the airport (from warm and lovely San Diego, to a cold and possibly snowy Boston — what am I thinking?!) and just got an email announcing that Intergraph has acquired Ohmtech, makers of Visual Vessel Design, an analytical tool to design pressure...
Very quick: Intergraph acquires Visual Vessel Design

ESI reports strong close to 2014, ends with growth

Mar 17, 2015 | Hot Topics

ESI last week reported results for Q4 and the fiscal year ended January 31, 2015 that were surprisingly strong, with Q4 total revenue up 8% as reported to €49 million, boosting full year revenue to €110 million, up 1.5%. That’s quite a reversal, given that...
Q&A: Which is better?

Q&A: Which is better?

Mar 16, 2015 | Hot Topics

I get asked this a lot: Which is better, NX or CATIA? ANSYS or Nastran? Which Nastran? Onshape or Fusion 360? PDMS or SmartPlant? As with the last Q&A post, I see that search engines deposit you at Schnitger Corp as you try to discover what others recommend. I...
ASNE highlights need for affordable, flexible ships

ASNE highlights need for affordable, flexible ships

Mar 11, 2015 | Hot Topics

It’s ASNE time again, when the US naval engineering community gets together to figure out how to better spend the scarce resource that is taxpayer money in the defense of the nation. I wrote last year about the dynamics of the US shipbuilding industry—mostly...
Very quick: Intergraph acquires Visual Vessel Design

Trimble’s Fifth Element for the Connected Forest

Mar 10, 2015 | Hot Topics

AEC acquisitions have been all the rage so far this year — and Trimble keeps the ball rolling with today’s announcement that it’s bought Fifth Element (no, that was a movie; this is forestry), based in Finland. Financial terms were not disclosed....
Onshape’s here! Finally, we can talk about it …

Onshape’s here! Finally, we can talk about it …

Mar 9, 2015 | Hot Topics

Onshape, the latest CAD company founded by Jon Hirschtick, John McEleney and other names you likely recognize, took the wraps off this morning to finally let us talk about the worst-kept secret in the CAD world. To skip right to the part you probably care about: What...
Very quick: Intergraph acquires Visual Vessel Design

Trimble acquires Linear project to boost corridor planning

Mar 5, 2015 | Hot Topics

Trimble today announced that it has acquired Linear project GMBH, a privately-held provider of scheduling software for linear or corridor infrastructure projects –that’s highways, railways, pipelines, tunnels, transmission lines and similar built assets...
FARO snaps up kubit

FARO snaps up kubit

Mar 4, 2015 | Hot Topics

Well, well, well. Another independent, gobbled up. FARO, maker of laser scanners for metrology (very tight tolerances) and infrastructure applications (huge data sets, accurate, often outdoors) just acquired kubit, a German company that has been a leader in developing...
REAL 2015 showcases opportunities in capture, compute & create

REAL 2015 showcases opportunities in capture, compute & create

Mar 3, 2015 | Hot Topics

What do custom-made dresses for Dita Von Teese, military airfield runways, Ebola containment/patient care and museum displays have in common? Thinking … thinking … At as first glance, not much. But all were prominently featured at last week’s REAL 2015, a gathering to...