The MRJ leverages leading-edge aerodynamic engineering and noise analysis technologies to deliver competitive economics and outstanding cabin comfort. With production planned for 2012, the MRJ is a compelling new offering in the global regional jet market, and the first new airliner produced in Japan in nearly 50 years.

To ensure its customers achieve maximum operational efficiency with each purchase, Mitsubishi Aircraft sought an advanced solution to support its reliability and maintainability management activities. This required a solution that centrally manages product improvements and enhancements (including a detailed product history), gathers and analyzes field data, and communicates necessary improvements to internal organizations and external partners.

After a thorough review of competitive solutions, Mitsubishi Aircraft selected PTC’s Windchill Quality Solutions (formerly known as Relex) and PTC’s Arbortext Service Information Solutions. The company will implement the PTC solutions in its customer support organization, with the system expected to go live before the first aircraft delivery.

“Today, PTC is proud to have achieved preferred partner status with some of the biggest and most innovative brands in the aerospace and defense industry,” said Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO, PTC. “With its next-generation MRJ, Mitsubishi Aircraft is challenging the status quo of the regional jet market. We are confident that together we can help the MRJ meet the company’s high standards for quality, meet the industry’s requirements for safety, and meet their future customers’ need for reliability.”

Once deployed, the PTC solutions will enable greater collaboration across the MRJ project teams focused on ensuring the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the aircraft. PTC’s quality and reliability management solutions are used today to help companies identify potential failure modes of a system, control or prevent their occurrence or effects, and track the compliance of parts and products against a wide range of commonly-used industry standards.

PTC solutions that support the needs of the aerospace and defense industry are designed to support product design and lifecycle management activities of aircraft manufacturers and suppliers, as well as of airlines and government/military organizations. PTC is a leading provider of reliability and maintainability solutions for the A&D industry, delivering solutions to 18 out of the top 20 companies, such as Boeing, Airbus, and other leading organizations.

Source: www.tenlinks.com

What does the CAD Revolution mean to you? The CAD industry is going through many changes that could impact the future of product development process as we know them today. If your job depends on CAD – parametric or direct modeling, 2D or 3D design, – these are exciting times and now is the time to get a clearer picture of the future.

If you are an engineering manager, CAD specialist, manufacturing engineer, simulation analyst, or business owner you don’t want to miss this quick read. So, sit back and take it in. It may have taken a little while, but according to analyst, industry-expert and well-known blogger in the global CAD arena, Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights, CAD is finally worth our time again!

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Theorem’s Autodesk Inventor Adapter for Creo View (formerly ProductView) is a completely unique solution designed to aid supply chain collaboration.

The adapter rapidly and accurately publishes 3D mechanical design geometry parts, assemblies and 2D drawings, together with attribute information to the compact format used by the Creo View application.

Now available on both Windows 32BIT & 64BIT platforms, users can digitally mock-up and interrogate native Inventor data within the Creo View environment.

The latest 64Bit Adapter allows data to be as large and complex as required, maintaining full application functionality.

The adapter can be integrated into WindChill, DIVISION Graphics Server or other PDM environments.

To improve the performance of an overall conversion process, the user may select a subset of the input Inventor data to be processed, allowing the conversion process to operate on only those items that are of specific interest to the user.

Partnering both Autodesk and PTC enables Theorem’s products and solutions to consistently keep pace with vendor software releases and development cycles, making sure their advanced data translation tools always deliver the latest functionality to support the demanding needs of the user.

To find out more about Theorem’s Inventor to Creo View Adapters, click here.

LearningExchange is the go-to place for free tutorials on PTC products. PTC University developed this new web app to provide you with direct access to free tutorials created by our own PTC product experts. We want to share our knowledge with you and make it easy to find the training you need when you need it. Just sign in (it’s free!) to track your history and rate tutorials and more.

With LearningExchange you can…

• Explore free short tutorials
• Discover new ways to use the PTC products you use everyday
• Share what you learn with your peers and colleagues

Start learning today!

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Get free learning materials at PTC’s LearningExchange: The go-to place for free tutorials on PTC products

View this clip to find out how to predict delaminiation of the plies for thick composites. To see all the composite analysis capabilities, register to for the Introducing NEi Nastran V10.1 on-demand webinar.http://www.nenastran.com/nei-nastran-v101/

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KeyShot 3.0.96 improvements

• Improved importers for SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Inventor
• Added manipulation tool for labels
• Added ability to position textures and labels interactively
• Improved render performance and quality for diffuse materials
• Improved quality of background in rendering
• Improved quality for compressed video output formats
• Fixed issue with HDRLightStudio plugin
• Misc. bug fixes

Maya Importer

Luxiona have also included the Maya importer in 3.0.96. Please note that it is in BETA. In order to use the importer on PC or Mac make sure you have either MAYA 2011 or 2012 installed AND licensed (Maya import works a bit different from other importers.)

Latest download links

You can request  all the updated version of KeyShot at Keyshot’s downloads section

Source:
http://blog.keyshot.com/keyshot-update-maya-importer-improved-render-performance-and-more/

FloVIZ is a fully functional software module – it does not have a time limit nor does it have limited functionality.

Open and view files of any size with FloVIZ as long as they were originally created withFloTHERM, FloTHERM PCB or FloVENT.

The download file is quite small – it is 60MB – therefore it can be downloaded easily. FloVIZ itself is quite intuitive but the download file still contains a complete set of documentation aimed at showing you how to get started quickly and maximize its visualization power.

The download file contents:

• FloVIZ software
• License agreement
• Installation instructions (in the Release Document folder)
• FloVIZ 9.2 release highlights
• Documentation including a couple of examples

Download free eDrawings Viewer software to view, print, and review all types of eDrawings files.

In addition, eDrawings Viewer allows convenient viewing of supported AutoCAD^® DWG and DXF files and native SolidWorks^® parts, assemblies, and drawings. The eDrawings Viewer is intended primarily for people who do not use CAD software and thus do not need to publish eDrawings files themselves. Innovative built-in interpretation tools include 3D Pointer, Virtual Folding, Point-and-click Animation, and Hyperlinking.

eDrawings Publisher

Publish and share product designs more effectively via email

Download eDrawings™ Publisher software to publish eDrawings files directly from SolidWorks®, AutoCAD®, Inventor®, Pro/ENGINEER® CATIA® V5, Unigraphics/NX®, Solid Edge®,  CoCreate’s OneSpace software, Google SketchUp® and eDrawings RapidFire Lite (View IGES, STEP & STL files). You can reduce bandwidth requirements more than 95% by publishing and emailing eDrawings files instead of CAD files. Each of the four free eDrawings Publisher products also includes the free eDrawings Viewer. eDrawings Publisher products are intended for CAD users who need to share products designs more effectively.

eDrawings Professional

Generate accurate representations of 2D and 3D product designs that anyone can view, mark up, and measure

Purchase or try out eDrawings™ Professional software free for 15 days — you will be provided with a code that will enable all the capabilities of eDrawings Professional. You will also need to download the appropriate eDrawings Publisher unless you use a current version of SolidWorks® 3D mechanical design software, which has the eDrawings Publisher built in. eDrawings Professional lets you create review-enabled eDrawings files that allow an unlimited number of recipients to mark up and provide feedback on product designs. eDrawings Professional products are intended primarily for CAD users who need to both share product designs and coordinate design reviews.