Hexagon Metrology Initiates Litigation Against Metris and Mitutoyo
Hexagon Metrology has filed a patent infringement suit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts alleging that Metris N.V. and its U.S. subsidiary Metris U.S.A., Inc., and Mitutoyo Corporation and its U.S. subsidiary Mitutoyo America Corp., have infringed U.S. Patent No. 5,829,148 by importing into the U.S. and offering to sell infringing portable arms. “Hexagon Metrology welcomes fair competition,” says William Gruber, President of Hexagon Metrology, “but we will not stand by if competitors use our protected technology, which our customers recognize and rely upon and which has given us a leading position in the metrology industry.” The suit seeks to
prevent Metris and Mitutoyo from importing, offering for sale or using the infringing portable arms in the U.S. Hexagon Metrology sells articulated arms in the U.S. under the brand name ROMER.
Porsche Selects a PROSTEP Solution
Porsche AG has selected PROSTEP’s OpenDXM GlobalX as its central data exchange platform. Quality and reliability are basic requirements at Porsche, not only for its end products but also on the path leading to these products, namely during product development. What the company was looking for was a modern data exchange solution that could satisfy these requirements in addition to a variety of other requirements. An in-depth test phase and final benchmarking involving a number of different portal providers indicated that PROSTEP was best able to meet Porsche’s demanding specifications with its OpenDXM GlobalX data exchange platform. This Internet-based solution
enables the secure, stable and standardized exchange of files of any size and type. In addition, the extensive rights management facility offered by OpenDXM GlobalX allows the access rights to data to be defined for individual groups of people as necessary and, of course, the solutions is also easy for users to work with. Other requirements dictated that the data exchange solution should be scalable and that it be possible to integrate the solution in the existing infrastructure without investing too much time and effort so that, for example, single sign-on authentication is possible. Another requirement involved easy integration in existing backend systems.
NVIDIA Quadro Processors Propel 3D Design to New Heights for AutoCAD 2010 Users
NVIDIA Corp. announced that the NVIDIA Quadro line of professional solutions is now optimized for Autodesk AutoCAD 2010. Coupling graphics capabilities with specially built AutoCAD performance drivers, Quadro processors enable design professionals to create and interact with more complex 3D product designs. Starting at under $100, NVIDIA Quadro solutions offer AutoCAD users maximum productivity at every price point. In addition to maximizing productivity, the benefits of combining Quadro solutions with AutoCAD 2010 include:
- Best in Class Quality – Quadro processors offer the best price performance for workstation graphics with the optimal blend of quality, precision and performance. Quadro solutions are engineered, built and tested by NVIDIA to achieve premium quality standards.
- Unprecedented Performance – Quadro processors enable up to a 5X performance increase in ‘3D Hidden’ visual style and faster interactive manipulation of models in ‘Conceptual’ and ‘Realistic’ visual styles.
- Easy Interaction with 3D Models – Quadro processors offer the ability to easily manipulate and interact with large scale models while working at the maximum visual quality that is necessary to render high-polygon 3D models precisely.
- Superior Image Quality – Quadro processors offer higher image quality without sacrificing performance with AutoCAD smooth lines display, a Quadro-specific feature available through NVIDIA’s AutoCAD performance driver.
- Advanced Multi-Display Support – NVIDIA nView advanced display software delivers maximum flexibility for single-large display or multi-display options at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 per display.
NVIDIA’s new performance drivers for AutoCAD 2010 are free and available for download from NVIDIA’s Web site: www.nvidia.com.
Jeffrey Rowe is the editor of MCADCaféand MCAD Weekly Review. He can be reached at Email Contact or 408.850.9230.
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