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11 November 2008

MCCADCafe Interviews SpaceClaim CEO and President Chris Randles - David Heller, MCADCafe

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05 November 2008

SpaceClaim Hires New CEO to Spur Growth Efforts - Ilene Friedland, Mergermarket

"In addition, SpaceClaim's software, which does direct modeling in real time, requires minimal training and has an easy-to-use interface that allows the user to work directly with what is seen on the screen."

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21 October 2008

Will History Be History? - Deelip Menezes

"I believe the smart CAD vendors like Spaceclaim, Siemens and the like know the direction of the wind. The others will watch them and say, "Crap!! That's the direction. OK, now let's play catch up"."

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15 October 2008

Interview with Chris Randles, SpaceClaim CEO - Franco Folini

"We have a product that defines the category: it was built from the ground up for direct modeling, it has a modern easy-to-use interface and, above all, it contains smart capabilities to help our target audience create, edit and share 3D designs."

"The value we bring to our customers are a faster time-to-market, ease-of-use, precise accuracy and about 1/5th the cost of CAD tools."

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15 October 2008

Multiphysics─problem solving tools for engineers - Leslie Langnau

"The software helps individuals work with all the programs that handle various design details, the person who is important to the production of the design but who is not directly involved," said Randles. This "direct modeling" tool makes it easy for personnel in other departments, like manufacturing, to have input on a product design before it's built."

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13 October 2008

Improving your company's bottom line with upfront CFD & FEA - Jeff Waters

"30 hours of grueling defeaturing can easily turn into 1 hour of onion-skinning simpler, representative, analysis-ready models. Alternately, you may want to invest in a history-free modeling solution such as SpaceClaim. That would arm your Engineers with a tool that can read in and easily manipulate complicated geometry from traditional CAD tools."

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07 October 2008

Interview: SpaceClaim's New CEO - Ralph Grabowski

"Despite that, parametric CAD is really over-deployed: many licenses are in the hands of users who do not need all the power. Companies have the packages because they need access to the 3D design data, and getting that data from A to B is hard! We believe we address both points: easy to learn, lower cost, good at manipulation and editing of existing models."

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05 October 2008

TCT Magazine Reviews SpaceClaim - Dr. Charles Clarke, Contributing Editor of TCT Magazine

"SpaceClaim software quickly gets the ideas out of the design engineer's head, in an intuitive fashion, straight into a 3D model."

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02 October 2008

"We Punch Above Our Weight"─Q&A with New SpaceClaim CEO Chris Randles - Randall S. Newton

"This company originally─and correctly─identified that there are many people at many stages in the engineering and manufacturing workflow who need access to 3D design data. They need to manipulate it for a variety of purposes. We have a unique offering for that, one that removes the complexity and the cost when compared to existing 3D CAD tools."

"We are not trying to displace traditional CAD, but instead create something for professionals who need to work with 3D data."

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01 October 2008

SpaceClaim Appoints Software-Industry Veteran Chris Randles as CEO - Editor’s Choice

"Innovation drives new market opportunities and SpaceClaim has created a breakthrough 3D design and modeling tool that shortens development cycles, increases productivity and improves collaboration."

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01 October 2008

3D CAD News and Tips – Special Explicit Modeling Bonus Post - Carl Alviani

"Over the past year, SpaceClaim has become perhaps the clearest signal that a small revolution in 3D design software is on its way, in the form of highly accessible explicit modeling tools, and the interview gives us a good excuse to talk a little more about it."

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30 September 2008

SpaceClaim appoints Randles as chief executive - The Boston Globe

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29 September 2008

Chris Randles is the new CEO of SpaceClaim - Franco Folini

"Innovation drives new market opportunities and SpaceClaim has created a breakthrough 3D design and modeling tool that shortens development cycles, increases productivity and improves collaboration," said Randles.

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04 September 2008

SpaceClaim & Bunkspeed Bridge Design and Marketing - Margaret S. Gurney

The partnership launches 3D designs into HyperShot to create photorealistic results of virtual concepts and prototypes.

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03 September 2008

Editor's Pick: SpaceClaim & Bunkspeed Bridge Design & Marketing - Anthony J. Lockwood

"Both SpaceClaim and HyperShot are designed with the idea that high-performance software does not have to be impossible to use. In fact, people can be more creative when the software gets out of their way. Both as well are designed to bridge disciplines so that users of different stripes across the enterprise can benefit from them."

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01 September 2008

3D Program Aids Design of Custom Iron Work - NASA Tech Briefs

Software allows architectural iron works manufacturer to simplify the design process.

"Implementing 3D design software called SpaceClaim, Keuka Studios was able to use upfront design capabilities to become creative with designs. The firm combines SpaceClaim’s software with hand-forged, thousand-year-old processes."

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30 August 2008

Software: Speedy 3D - Blake Courter

Complementary design tool expedites workflow.
"A new solution to these problems nullifies historical interoperability problems and frees manufacturers to choose the right tools and partners for each project.  Spaceclaim, which takes an entirely different approach to 3D design, frees product development companies from the limitations of history-based CAD, and enables new and old users to work in 3D, which results in higher-quality design and expedites time-to-market."

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04 August 2008

Rhino Plug-In - Dan Bayn - Rhino Forum

"Included with the new service release of SpaceClaim (SP2) is a Rhino plug-in that allows you to export your model (or parts of it) to SpaceClaim with the click of an icon, and return it to Rhino when finished in SpaceClaim.  I've been using it all day, and it takes Rhino to a whole new level.  I've had a number of models that I need to move some faces in some fairly complicated areas and, by using this plug-in, I pulled it off in less than a minute each.  I probably saved a couple of hours of untrimming, extending, retrimming, etc. over the course of the day."

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09 July 2008

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology - Part 4 - Deelip Menezes

"In Part 1 I mentioned that I would try and find answers to a few questions floating around with respect to Synchronous Technology. One of them was, "Is this really new?". Up untill now I have discussed the Steering Wheel and Live Rules, both of which are not new. There is at least one CAD system that has implemented both of them before Siemens did. It's SpaceClaim. SpaceClaim has something known as the "Move Handle" and an advanced face search and selection window (not sure what fancy name they have given it, if at all) which does more or less the same things as the Steering Wheel and Live Rules of Synchronous Technology."

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12 June 2008

Software Review: MCAD Café - David Heller

"It's a new and innovative design tool that hides its mammoth power beneath an uncluttered and easy-to-use interface . . . This feature-packed tool can help virtually any designer increase his or her productivity, and in many cases, can pay for itself the first month out of the box."

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10 June 2008

Intuitive CAD makes it easy to modify models -

"With SpaceClaim Professional 2008, users interact directly with the model just as they like, making even dramatic design edits naturally and independently from how they or anyone else got the model to its current state.""With Spaceclaim Professional 2008, users interact directly with the model just as they like, making even dramatic design edits naturally and independently from how they or anyone else got the model to its current state."

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01 May 2008

ALGOR and SpaceClaim Partner - Design World

"The compatibility of the two systems streamlines the preparation of models for analysis by editing geometry for optimal design.  The SpaceClaim program can import virtually any solid model geometry and create a neutral file format for input to the ALGOR program.  The geometry modification of the SpaceClaim program suits 'what if' conceptual design or modification of existing designs."

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23 April 2008

SpaceClaim Reacts to Synchronous Technology - Deelip Menezes

"As you saw in our latest product release we have taken this simplicity even further with our “3D On-Ramp™” approach which combines the simplicity of 3D modeling pioneered by SpaceClaim, with the familiarity of 2D."

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16 April 2008

Desktop Engineering - Editor's Pick of the Week - Anthony J. Lockwood

"SpaceClaim is a bridge that links engineering disciplines. A full-function 3D MCAD application, SpaceClaim keeps the workflow cooking without having the untrained messing with your parametric modeler or with the recipe used to create the design. For that matter, they don't even mess with your control design. Three vital attributes are the key to understanding SpaceClaim: user interface, interoperability, and explicit modeling. Well, four. Full-function 3D MCAD, but I said that already."

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01 March 2008

"360 Degrees of CAD" - Lawrence S. Gould

"SpaceClaim 2007+ from SpaceClaim Corp. is a CAD-neutral mechanical design system that understands modeling intent simply by recognizing what geometry is selected and in what context. This intelligence eliminates excessive drop-down menus, dialogue boxes, and user clicks. It also lets users import and work on models without having to understand how the model was constructed."

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03 December 2007

SpaceClaim 2007+ - Al Dean

SpaceClaim 2007+:  A new tool in a mature market that offers a fundamentally different way of working with geometry.

"SpaceClaim is an impressive tool; of that there’s little doubt.

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28 October 2007

SpaceClaim 2007 - Al Dean

"With a revolutionary new approach to modelling, and groundbreaking multi-CAD support, Al Dean asks could SpaceClaim be the future of product development?"

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18 October 2007

Checking in on SpaceClaim - Jeffrey Rowe

The young software company is making its own way in the MCAD market.

"Recognizing that 3D mechanical design still largely remains out of reach for most who contribute directly to product development, SpaceClaim is attempting to make 3D modeling accessible to a much broader audience than previously possible with other traditional MCAD products."

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01 October 2007

The modeling pendulum swings - Jeffrey Rowe

"SpaceClaim Professional 2007’s Flexible Modeling technology provides an adaptive design environment that supports unanticipated design directions, making SpaceClaim well suited for conceptual design, detailed design, and modification. Its geometric inferencing works unobtrusively and in real time to highlight design similarities, such as equal radius holes or coplanar surfaces, to assist you during geometry creation and modification. SpaceClaim’s flexible modeling environment provides the freedom to explore design changes without needing to know how the model was built. Helping the cause is SpaceClaim’s Open XML data format that makes all design data accessible for PDM and PLM."

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01 October 2007

Emerging 40 Vendors: Recognizing innovation in the global manufacturing enterprise - Kevin Parker

3D Modeling a novice could love

"With the release of SpaceClaim Professional, there no longer exists a gap between designers and people in the extended product development team—i.e., suppliers, manufacturing engineers, analysis engineers, and engineering management—who lack access to—or the time to master—a designer's 3D CAD system.

The payoff is that engineers are now able to both focus on their core competencies while benefiting from the use of a powerful 3D modeler that speeds their contributions to the product development process. In the end, that means companies are able to bring higher-quality products to market faster."

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28 September 2007

SpaceClaim Teams Up with Ansys - Al Dean

"SpaceClaim's eponymously titled app offers direct read of CAD data, direct history-free modeling and editing and looks set to be the next big thing. its latest announcement sees the company team up with Ansys to provide 'simulation solutions'."

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04 July 2007

SpaceClaim professional 2007 - CAD 2.0 - Deelip Menezes

"I created a sketch, extruded it and went to play with the Pull command. This command rocks. If you need a fillet, select the edge and pull it. If you want to specify a radius, press the space bar while pulling and enter the radius. If you want to change the radius select the fillet (yes, I mean the curved surface) and pull it or specify the radius using the keyboard. The same goes for chamfer and blend. This really is SketchUp on steroids."

"Now I am off to figure out how to make add-ins for SpaceClaim. I want to be a part of this revolution."

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07 June 2007

An interview with Howie Markson - Franco Folini

"SpaceClaim is bringing to the CAD market a new fresh approach that claims to perform similarly to the parametric-feature-based systems, but without the hassles typical of those systems. It's not every day that you see a new company with original ideas trying to shake the CAD world."

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01 June 2007

SpaceClaim 3D solution leverages Microsoft technology to empower development novices - Jim Fulcher

"A new 3D design solution might not call for much fanfare, but when use of that technology doesn't require mastery of a CAD system—and the solution comes from a start-up packed with industry experts—it's a bigger story to tell."

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30 April 2007

SpaceClaim Makes 3D CAD Debut - Beth Stackpole

New tool sports user interface advancements and flexible modeling capabilities

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16 March 2007

SpaceClaim Should Become Adobe Design Editor - Randall S. Newton

"Since writing about SpaceClaim earlier this week for CADCAMNet, I have been thinking more about the product and its role in design environments. I also wrote this week for CADCAMNet about the next release of Acrobat 3D. There isn’t much new for AEC in the next release of Acrobat 3D, but it becomes a much stronger product for manufacturing applications. At some point, the two products were juggling through my brain at the same time when it dawned on me: SpaceClaim shoud be Adobe Design Editor."

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15 March 2007

New Player on the 3D Modeling Scene -

SpaceClaim enters the midrange market with a modeler it says is neither direct nor parametric.

"In SpaceClaim's estimate, roughly five million people worldwide are involved in mechanical product design, but only one-fifth of these people are sophisticated enough to rightfully belong in the parametric camp. The rest, approximately four million people, are engaged in manufacturing, analysis, quality assurance and concept design, but they're not necessarily CAD experts. That's the market that SpaceClaim intends to claim."

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15 March 2007

Spaceclaim Professional 2007 Edition - Martyn Day

"Without a doubt, SpaceClaim looks to be a very clever modelling tool and effortlessly removes many of the burdens that the previous generation of modellers succumb to. For a year and a bits work, there’s load of capability in here and doesn’t appear like a first release. The licensing of so many toolkits from established CAD developers makes SpaceClaim especially interesting as it’s working off non-reverse engineered model data. It would be very interesting to compare similar products from IronCAD or CoCreate to SpaceClaim."

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13 March 2007

SpaceClaim Makes a Claim to Your Space - Jon Banquer

"From the demo that I watched silently, I saw this interesting feature: when the 2D plans are created from views of the 3D model, the "2D" plans are still 3D. The demo jock rotated the 2D sheet, and I could see that it was 3D models sticking out of the 'paper.' The demo jock then did 3D editing of the 3D model in the 2D plan view -- as well as adding dimensions, cut sections with hatching, etc."

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01 March 2007

SpaceClaim Opens 3D MCAD - DE Editors

Industry veterans launch mechanical design for all contributors.

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