IMAGINiT Technologies Industry News

IMAGINiT Technologies Partners with ExactFlat to Offer Customers 3D-to-2D Flattening Capabilities

IMAGINiT Technologies has partnered with ExactFlat to enable customers to convert the most complex 3D CAD models into production-ready 2D flat patterns in just minutes. Integrated with Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software, ExactFlat extends the power of Autodesk Inventor to solve the 3D flattening problem.

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Cadalyst - Workstation Innovation News: IMAGINiT Technologies and HP Team Up on Training

In the January edition of Cadalyst's HP Workstation News, contributing expert, Robert Green profiles the partnership between HP and IMAGINiT Technologies. The partnership enhances the IMAGINiT training centers and mobile labs across North America with HP Technology.

Included in the eNewsetter edition is an interview with Kevin Kuker, vice-president, services operations with IMAGINiT Technologies.

BIM Spectrum Registration Opens

We are pleased to announce our third Interactive online conference focused on building information modeling - BIM Spectrum - will be held on February 16, 2012. This event will showcase industry and IMAGINiT experts as well as a keynote presentation from Autodesk's own Phil Bernstein, FAIA.

There are two concurrent tracks with content for software users and managers as well as special industry sessions focused on civil engineering, plant design and building product manufacturing.

The complimentary event runs from 10:30 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (US/CAN) and offers a chance for attendees to network with peers, visit online exhibitors and learn from the experts.

Find out more or register at http://bimspectrum.com.

Rand Worldwide and IMAGINiT First Employee Food Drive Challenge a Success!

Rand Worldwide, the parent company of IMAGINiT Technologies, was pleased to host our first employee Food Drive Challenge this holiday season. As a global company, we wanted to find a way to give back to the community on the local level where our employees live and work. So we encouraged our local offices to participate in a little healthy competition to see which office could contribute the most food by weight per employee in that location. It was an overwhelming success and a HUGE thank you to our employees for participating and showing what kind and generous employees we have at Rand Worldwide.  In total, we collected 4,129 lbs of food which was donated prior to December 25 to food banks in many of our local communities. 

 

The winning office was Des Moines, Iowa which collected 458 lbs of food equal to 57.3 lbs per employee.  Not far behind was Cleveland, Ohio which needed a truck to take away the 1,139 lbs collected (45.6lbs per person) and Omaha, Nebraska with 598 lbs of food (37.4lbs per person).  Honorable mentions to Winnipeg, Manitoba and Syracuse, NY, which have 3 and 2 employees respectively but brought in close to 30 lbs per person. Tampa, Florida also donated toys in addition to food.  We enjoyed seeing so much employee engagement and the competitive spirit between our offices all for a great cause. We demonstrated a great sense of team spirit and worked together to benefit so many in the local communities.  Kudos to all of our employees who participated! 

 

Autodesk Acquires T-Splines Modeling Technology Assets

Autodesk has acquired certain technology-related assets from T-Splines Inc., a privately-held surface modeling software company, based in Utah. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“The technology acquisition will strengthen our Digital Prototyping portfolio with more flexible free-form modeling and will help achieve even closer integration between industrial design and engineering workflows,” said Buzz Kross, senior vice president, Manufacturing Industry at Autodesk. “T-Splines technology will benefit designers and engineers that require watertight surfaces for downstream analysis and manufacturing.”

Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Horizontal Systems, Inc.

Autodesk announced last week that it has completed the acquisition of Horizontal Systems, a provider of innovative cloud-based Building Information Modeling (BIM) collaboration solutions for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Autodesk announced its intent to purchase Horizontal Systems on Nov. 30, 2011.

Horizontal Systems technology will be an important contributor to the Autodesk 360 for BIM solution for collaboration, data and lifecycle management. By providing diverse, distributed teams with more secure, easy-to-use and fast-to-deploy solutions, Autodesk 360 for BIM makes project data available across the project lifecycle, wherever and whenever it is needed.

 

Introducing VIMtrek - Visual Information Modeling from Revit (quickly)

Announced at Autodesk University, VIMtrek software converts Autodesk Revit® design files into an immersive collaborative 3D environment quickly. But the truly exciting part is the building information modeling (BIM) and embedded environmental and energy efficiency data, such as ecoScorecard™ are kept within that rendered environment.

The platform is structured on gaming industry standards, so that you get all the benefits of amazing compression technology, where files end up about one-third of the original Revit file size, and you have a fully navigable walkthrough environment, in which the viewer can roll the cursor over objects to see all the embedded data. Learn more about VIMtrek.

A-dec Revolutionizes Dental Equipment With Help From Autodesk Software

Autodesk has named A-dec, Inc. — a leading manufacturer of dental chairs and equipment — as Autodesk Inventor of the Month for November 2011, recognizing its use of Autodesk software to more effectively design and develop products and generate technical documentation, such as user manuals and service guides, for its popular dentistry products.

A-dec has started exploring Autodesk Inventor Publisher software, supplied by IMAGINiT Technologies, as part of its workflow. Inventor Publisher is innovative, easy-to-use technical documentation software for creating 2D printed and 3D interactive product documentation.

Rand Secure Archive Showcases Data Archive and Retrieval Solution at Autodesk University

Rand Worldwide today announced that its Rand Secure Archive division is demonstrating specific data archiving solutions for the engineering, building, civil and manufacturing industries that are built upon Autonomy’s IDOL platform.

To meet with CAD industry veterans and data archiving and retrieval experts who can discuss an archiving solution that fits your unique needs, or to see a demonstration of the Rand Secure Archive solution based upon globally renown Autonomy software, please visit Rand Secure Archive in the IMAGINiT Technologies booth (#724) at Autodesk University.

Autodesk Introduces Cloud-based Product Lifecycle Management

Autodesk today previewed a new solution designed to transform how manufacturers manage the entire lifecycle of a product--from its conception, through design and manufacture, partner and supplier management, procurement, quality, compliance, service and more. Autodesk is tapping into the cloud to deliver a new approach to product lifecycle management (PLM), which enables companies to capture and manage product information and processes to continuously improve the products they manufacture.