ATLANTA, GA, Apr 25, 2024 – IronCAD, a leader in CAD solutions for design productivity and collaboration, is excited to announce the first product update of 2024 for its flagship CAD software. IronCAD 2024 Product Update 1 (PU1) brings significant enhancements and product quality improvements across general modeling, sheet metal design, and collaboration capabilities, designed to accelerate the design process and improve user flexibility in a multitude of engineering environments. In addition, IronCAD is excited to announce the launch of the IronCAD AI Chatbot, a revolutionary new feature designed to enhance user experience and proficiency with IronCAD software. This cutting-edge tool, powered by the latest ChatGPT 4 AI system and backed by an extensive IronCAD database, offers users comprehensive guidance, enhanced learning, and new user guidance on IronCAD’s unique design approach.

The IronCAD AI Chatbot provides instant, personalized assistance directly within the IronCAD interface, offering tips, best practices, and tailored support for all IronCAD-related queries. Accessible through the Help Ribbon Bar or the AI icon, the Chatbot is set to become an indispensable resource for new and seasoned users.

Initially available to select partners and customers, the IronCAD AI Chatbot will be fully launched to all users later this year. Once released, the Chatbot will be offered free of charge for a limited time, with future license options based on usage to accommodate company needs.

Innovations for Enhanced Design Flexibility and Productivity

Known for its user-centric design and flexibility, IronCAD continues to push the boundaries of mechanical CAD software (MCAD) by providing solutions that are both innovative and intuitive. This latest update introduces several key enhancements and quality improvements that empower users to achieve greater creativity and efficiency.

Key features of this update include:

• Advanced General Modeling Tools: Enhanced feature-level linking capabilities allow users to create links from feature selections on parts and offers quick creation of links on drop from the IronCAD catalogs streamlining the creation process. The introduction of lock mechanisms for parts and assemblies is designed to prevent unintended alterations, securing the design data in its current state and safeguarding against unauthorized edits.
• Sheet Metal Design Enhancements: IronCAD 2024 PU1 improves the drag-and-drop behaviors for the sheet metal stock thickness selection process and introduces new bend line styles and layer support for up and down bend lines, enabling more precise detailing of sheet metal parts for manufacturing.
• Advanced Sketching Options: New sketching options, such as the ability to hide unedited parts and display hidden sketch items as dashed lines when obscured by geometry, provide a cleaner, more intuitive sketching environment.
• Structured Parts Enhancements: The update introduces new tools for structured parts, including decimal precision settings for BOM properties on structured frame members and an option to exclude hidden bodies from BOM, ensuring more accurate and tailored documentation.
• Expanded Collaboration Features and Integration Enhancements: IronCAD 2024 PU1 expands its support for KeyShot 2024 and enhances the IronCAD Native Translator capabilities for the latest file types, including CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, and its Architectural and Viewing Translator Plus for the latest BIM formats, IFC and Revit, streamline cross-platform collaboration and ease the integration of IronCAD into diverse workflows.
• Customer Driven Quality Improvements: In IronCAD 2024 PU1, they’ve prioritized customer-driven quality improvements based on feedback from our community. Stability, reliability, and performance quality improvement further enhance the overall experience. IronCAD remains committed to excellence, continually evolving to meet the needs of our users.

IronCAD’s Product Update 1 is tailored to empower users to unleash their creativity through cutting-edge technology, user-friendly design tools, and enhanced flexibility in design. The update enhances IronCAD’s already powerful tools, providing the flexibility to create, modify, and manage complex designs more efficiently than ever.

“At IronCAD, we’re dedicated to making CAD as intuitive and versatile as possible,” said Cary O’Connor, vice president of marketing at IronCAD. “These enhancements are driven by feedback from our community and our deep understanding of the challenges our users face. We continually strive to develop solutions that not only meet but exceed their needs, and our latest update is a testament to IronCAD’s commitment to this mission, offering tools that are not only powerful but also intuitive, ensuring that engineers and designers can achieve their best work with ease and precision. And now, with the introduction of the IronCAD AI Chatbot, we’re taking another leap forward in providing innovative solutions to our users that enhance user experiences and provide a foundation for future groundbreaking developments,” he added.

IronCAD 2024 Product Update 1 is available for immediate download for all current IronCAD users. New users are invited to explore IronCAD’s diverse capabilities through a free trial on the IronCAD website.

For detailed information on all the new capabilities and enhancements included in the IronCAD 2024 Product Update #1, please visit IronCAD’s website.

About IronCAD

IronCAD delivers high-performance design collaboration solutions that free engineers from the constraints imposed by traditional CAD systems. IronCAD enables designers to translate their ideas into reality through its innovative design methodology and its commitment to providing strong, customer-focused solutions in the CAD industry.

IronCAD’s mission is to blend its ingenuity and engineering expertise to develop a software suite that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of their global clientele, driving innovation and excellence in the engineering community.

For more information, visit website.

VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, Apr 25, 2024 – Dassault Systèmes announced IFRS unaudited estimated financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024. This quarter’s revenue stood at €1.49B, down 8.7% compared to €1.64B of fourth quarter of 2023, with a profit of €286M.

Comparative analysis based on Dassault’s financial results in the last 12 quarters (Result source Dassault website)

Comparative analysis based on Dassault’s financial results in the last 12 quarters (Result source Dassault website)

Pascal Daloz, Dassault Systèmes’ chief executive officer, commented: “In the first quarter, our 3DEXPERIENCE business delivered strong results. A majority of key industry leaders in manufacturing have now adopted our platform, taking advantage of its science-driven approach, integrative capabilities, and cloud flexibility. Looking ahead, we see large opportunities in transportation & mobility, as well as in aerospace & defense.

In Life Sciences, as the sector pivots towards patient-centricity, technology transfer from labs to bioreactors, and the utilization of generative AI for faster innovation, we are replicating what we have achieved in other industries by providing an end-to-end platform. This transformation lays the foundation for new sources of sustainable growth.

While we are rooted in the present, we also want to make a positive impact on the world. Shaping the Generative Economy is the next step in our journey. The Generative Economy goes beyond extending virtual twins to living organisms: it’s about learning from life to adopt net-positive ways of living ─ giving back to the planet and society more than we take. A more holistic view of the entire life cycles and impact becomes critical.

This holistic approach is made possible through our 3DEXPERIENCE platform, enabling clients to connect data from experience with models from science. Using our generative AI engines, they will nurture circularity and elevate data into valuable knowledge and know-how.”

A complete chart of the financial results is available here.

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE company, is a catalyst for human progress. They provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with their 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, their customers can redefine the creation, production and life-cycle-management processes of their offer and thus have a meaningful impact to make the world more sustainable. The beauty of the Experience Economy is that it is a human-centered economy for the benefit of all – consumers, patients and citizens. Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 300,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 150 countries.

For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

MARLBOROUGH, MA, Apr 19, 2024 – Kubotek Kosmos, a leader in engineering and manufacturing geometric software technology, is proud to announce a partnership with Revware Inc of Raleigh, NC, manufacturer of MicroScribe portable coordinate measuring machine (CMM) devices. The two companies have worked together to optimize support for use of MicroScribe products as 3D input devices into the latest KeyCreator CAD software from Kubotek Kosmos. Coordinates from the MicroScribe arm can be fed into any KeyCreator command using the universal Conversation Bar Key-in option.

“KeyCreator and a MicroScribe Portable CMM are a perfect pair for reverse engineering of desktop-sized objects. The flexible construction plane features and Z-lock mode in KeyCreator allow for fluid 3D input.” said John Wright McCullough, general manager marketing for Kubotek Kosmos.

“The direct modeling approach, hybrid surface/solid capabilities, and traditional CAD data structures of KeyCreator are ideal for when work starts with model data from an outside source. These same advantages apply to starting from a physical object using a MicroScribe,” continued McCullough.

CADpad Grid Interface Option

An enhancement included in the KeyCreator 2024 Service Pack 1 released this week allows Revware’s MicroScribe Utility Software (MUS) to call solid primitives commands in KeyCreator with consistent parameters. With this new KeyCreator capability, the MicroScribe stylus can function as an interactive 3D solid sketcher of shapes like blocks, cylinders, and spheres. Used in combination with the Revware CADpad Grid interface option, the user can execute these and other drawing commands directly from the MicroScribe arm without needing to move a hand back to the mouse to drive cursor selections in KeyCreator menus and dialog boxes.

About Kubotek Kosmos

Kubotek Kosmos is the leading independent developer of precision geometry software technology – the foundation of CAD/CAM.

For more information, visit www.kubotekkosmos.com.

MARLBOROUGH, MA, Apr 18, 2024 – Kubotek Kosmos, a leader in engineering and manufacturing geometric software technology, announced the release of KeyCreator 2024 Service Pack 1.

Improved Translators

Updates to numerous CAD file formats are incorporated in the 2024 SP1 releases of all KeyCreator CAD apps. Dassault Systemes (DS) CATIA V5 and V6/3DX support for reading 3D CAD files across all programs has been updated to the 2024 (R34) versions. DS SolidWorks read of 3D and drawings, and DS Spatial Corp. read/write of 3D ACIS SAT, adds coverage for 2024 files. Siemens Digital Industries Software (DIS) NX 3D CAD and drawing files reading in all programs now supports the NX 2306 Series files. Siemens (DIS) Parasolid read/write has also been advanced to Version 36 and JT import advanced to 10.8. Siemens DIS Solid Edge read of 3D CAD and drawings files has been extended to the 2024 format. Support for read of Rhino 3DM files from Robert McNeil & Associates has been upgraded to version 8.

Performance Improvements

The speed of DWG/DXF import and export has been improved significantly for large files (over 250,000 entities) with layouts. Changes to default handling of assembly references in ISO standard file types STEP, IFC, and IGES has also reduced processing time when importing.

Minor Enhancements

The behavior of several assembly management functions has been adjusted for improved productivity in specific situations. Conversion of a part reference to entities in the active part will no longer be delayed by re-processing of impacted drawing layout views. New interface has been added to allow users to querry part references for associated insertion planes, positions, or rotations and a function provided to highlight all objects with these associations.

The added ability for users to select whole bodies from within a drawing view supports quickly hiding solid and surface entities that are unwanted without adjusting level attributes.

About Kubotek Kosmos

Kubotek Kosmos is the leading independent developer of precision geometry software technology – the foundation of CAD/CAM.

For more information, visit www.kubotekkosmos.com.