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by Jeff Rowe - Contributing Editor Each MCAD Weekly Review delivers to its readers news concerning the latest developments in the MCAD industry, MCAD product and company news, featured downloads, customer wins, and coming events, along with a selection of other articles that we feel you might find interesting. Brought to you by MCADCafe.com. If we miss a story or subject that you feel deserves to be included, or you just want to suggest a future topic, please contact us! Questions? Feedback? Click here. Thank you!

According to Dassault Systemes, its ENOVIA MatrixOne PLM products are playing a strategic role in a growing range of industries as companies adapt to fast-moving markets and shrinking windows of profitability. The new market realities are not confined to PLM's traditional stronghold in product data management (PDM) for discrete manufacturing. Consumer product, apparel, high-tech and other industries face the same regulatory environments as their heavy manufacturing counterparts, and even more intense market pressure because of volatile consumer demand. Executives in industries ranging from automotive to food processing, speaking at the recent ENOVIA MatrixOne Global
Autodesk and PTC announced a technology exchange agreement to expand interoperability options. This agreement fosters a common goal of facilitating software interoperability for organizations with multi-CAD environments. This interoperability agreement aims to decrease the overall effort and costs that are commonly associated with supporting these environments. Autodesk and PTC plan to provide customers with out-of-the-box integrations between their solutions that will enable organizations to work more efficiently with the product development strategies currently in place and the flexibility to adopt future strategies. This agreement enables PTC to leverage Autodesk's
PTC announced that it has reached agreement with RAND A Technology Corp. and Rand Technologies Limited to settle all pending litigation between the parties. The parties agreed to settle their disputes to avoid further litigation costs. Neither party admitted liability with respect to any claims made. PTC previously announced that if a settlement were reached before the filing of its 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K, it would be treated as a subsequent event that would impact earnings results for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006. As a result of the agreement to settle and consistent with its earlier guidance, PTC has recorded an operating expense charge during
In the super-competitive world of motor sport, producing quality car parts on demand can mean the difference between losing or winning a race. Nowhere is this more true than in the cut-and-thrust of the Australian V8 Supercar series where Triple Eight Race Engineering Australia (888) has been the driving force behind this year’s historic victory for Ford in the Bathurst 1000 motor race. In 2004, 888 installed EdgeCAM Solid Machinist from Pathtrace as a key element in the expansion and improvement of its in-house machine shop. The team had previously outsourced its machining jobs and was looking to increase productivity in order to be able to respond faster to

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