Former Ansys president, CEO, and board member Ajei Gopal and former Ansys board member Ravi Vijayaraghavan are joining Synopsys’ board of directors, effective immediately.

Synopsys aims to support engineers in improving product development by offering tools that enhance performance analysis, cost-efficiency, and development timelines. Following its integration with Ansys, Synopsys now offers broader system design solutions for industries including semiconductors, high-tech, automotive, aerospace, and industrial.

Synopsys plans to introduce its first set of integrated capabilities in early 2026, combining multiphysics across the full EDA stack, including support for multi-die advanced packaging. The roadmap also outlines integrated solutions aimed at improving testing and virtualization of complex systems in automotive and other sectors.

This combination is expected to improve Synopsys’ financial position, with projected margin growth and increased unlevered free cash flow, supporting debt reduction within two years.

^{1 2023 TAM based on Synopsys management estimates}

For more information, visit synopsys.com.

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Highlights include:

• Up to 10x faster performance using GPU-based material removal simulation
• New multiple Boolean APIs enhance performance for in-session Boolean ops
• Improvements to profile preparation including optimisations for saw-tooth profiles
• More targeted and faster pruning of large snapshot trees
• Improved eccentric turning, including support in the Application Framework Library

MachineWorks GPU runs material removal modeling and collision-detection tasks on the GPU instead of the CPU. GPUs typically have significantly more processing cores than CPUs, enabling improved performance for operations that benefit from data parallelization. 

Results from large three-axis and five-axis jobs are now returned more quickly, with mid-sized jobs computed in under a second.

For more information, visit machineworks.com.

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Vectorworks Landmark 2025 is a design and modeling software tailored for landscape architects and designers. It offers tools to support visual communication, improve collaboration, streamline documentation, align with industry standards, and increase workflow efficiency.

Green Industry Pros offers updates on products, trends, technologies, and business practices relevant to landscape contractors and maintenance professionals. It covers topics such as lawn care, installation, irrigation, and power equipment.

View the award recipients on the Green Industry Pros website.

For more information about Vectorworks, Inc., visit vectorworks.net.

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Since joining the Coltala Aerospace platform, Evans Composites has experienced:

• Over 30% reduction in turn times: Streamlined workflows and standardized procedures have improved operational efficiency, allowing for faster delivery while maintaining quality. Customers are receiving their products on time, with quicker turnaround.
• Strategic cross division alignment: Integration under Coltala’s unified approach has improved cross-functional collaboration and clarified strategic priorities across business units. Each division focuses on its core strengths while coordinating effectively on shared activities.
• Data-driven decision making: The implementation of reporting tools supports teams in making timely and informed decisions across all levels.
• Enhanced customer experience: New communication protocols and service tracking methods support more consistent and transparent customer engagement. A 5-point communication process is used to keep customers informed throughout the service.
• Scalable infrastructure investment: Updated systems and tools support long-term growth, compliance, and operational efficiency across the organization. The addition of tablets on the shop floor and redesigned employee workspaces has increased operational capacity to support the current phase of growth in a sustainable way.

These improvements reflect Coltala Aerospace’s core commitment to Precision and Purpose—delivering mission-critical solutions that strengthen America’s aerospace and defense capabilities.

To learn more, please visit coltalaaerospace.com.

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Responding to increased customer demand in the aerospace and defense sectors, the MBSE plug-in to VOLTA enables organizations to enhance traceability between requirements, analysis parameters, and simulation results, all within the SysML environment.

Key features include:

• Direct integration with VOLTA repositories for retrieving, mapping, and linking analysis projects and parameters.
• Bi-directional traceability between Cameo system models and VOLTA-managed simulation results.
• Support for API-based authentication and project metadata search within the plug-in interface.

The plug-in improves verification and validation activities earlier in the system development process, helping teams minimize rework, shorten design cycles, and meet industry regulations.

This launch reinforces ESTECO’s commitment to supporting open, flexible toolchains for digital engineering and advancing the state of MBSE across industries.

For more information, visit engineering.esteco.com.

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The tool is currently being tested in beta by manufacturers including Techtronic Industries (TTI), the parent company of RYOBI, and wind turbine blade manufacturer TPI Composites. Both companies are evaluating its ability to identify design issues early and support more consistent review processes. 

AutoReview scans documents to identify common issues, such as errors in drawings and design for manufacturing (DFM) considerations. For instance, it can detect missing or incorrect countersinks—features that help ensure a screw head fits properly. It also checks molding measurements to verify wall thickness and assess whether molds can be removed effectively during manufacturing.

The software can also automatically surface lessons learned from past programs during reviews of  in-work designs that use similar geometry or the same parts, helping avoid costly mistakes being replicated across different designs. This can create significant savings by reducing scrap rates and warranty claims. In 2024, the US car and cycles industry alone paid over $12 billion in warranty claims, a 17% increase from 2023 according to Warranty Week.

In complex manufacturing industries such as aerospace and MedTech, missing one dimensional check can mean reworking a drawing or delaying a critical product milestone. AutoReview can replace redundant manual checks and deliver greater consistency and adherence to company-specific design rules by validating 2D drawings and 3D models across different programmes including Creo, NX, SolidWorks and CATIA.

Beyond adherence to standards, AutoReview can also automatically identify design for manufacturing (DFM) optimizations. This capability has caught the attention of automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers, who see an opportunity to reduce scrap, prototyping, and tooling costs.

The solution also ensures design IP is protected across manufacturing sectors, as AutoReview runs inside CoLab’s secure environment and works with existing PLM infrastructure. This means teams can move files into review without taking them out of their governed systems.

CoLab’s core Design Engagement System (DES) is already delivering measurable results for engineering teams at Schaeffler, Johnson Controls and Mainspring Energy. These teams have cut BOM costs by up to 50% and accelerated design cycles by 100%, launching products months earlier.

For more information, visit colabsoftware.com.

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The new material meets the need for producing silicone parts in industrial 3D printing, offering precision, durability, and repeatability without relying on injection molding. P3 Silicone 25A provides chemical resistance, thermal stability, and mechanical properties similar to conventional silicones. It allows manufacturers to reduce lead times, eliminate tooling, and support localized, low-volume production. The material has been tested for thermal aging up to 1,000 hours at 150°C and meets biocompatibility and flame retardancy standards.

As manufacturers seek to customize products, streamline inventory, and accelerate time to market, silicone has become essential for applications such as seals, gaskets, vibration dampers, wearables, and soft-touch components. Until now, few 3D printing materials have matched the performance of traditionally molded silicones. P3 Silicone 25A brings together Stratasys’ production-grade P3 DLP technology and Shin-Etsu’s expertise in silicone chemistry to deliver a robust solution for end-use silicone parts.

The launch marks the first in a planned portfolio of silicone materials co-developed by Stratasys and Shin-Etsu, with additional hardness levels and application-specific variants expected in the future.

P3 Silicone 25A is available for order in EMEA and APAC and coming to the Americas later this year.

To learn more about Stratasys, visit stratasys.com.

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iPronics uses Ansys solutions throughout its development process—from optical layout to packaging and thermal simulations—to support the design and validation of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) that account for fabrication variability. These components are intended to support energy-efficient, low-latency data center interconnects for AI workloads.

Through the collaboration, Ansys extends its involvement in the photonics industry by supporting a practical, production-level customer application.

As AI models become more complex and require higher data throughput, traditional electronic interconnects face growing challenges related to latency, power consumption, and scalability. iPronics’ silicon photonics approach, supported by Ansys simulation, provides an alternative with programmable, fabrication-tolerant components designed to scale across large deployments.

For more information, visit ipronics.com.

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The VITA 67.3 standard defines blind-mate RF interfaces at the backplane to support high-frequency signal transmission in aerospace and defense systems. It helps simplify cable management and supports modular, scalable system designs.

HUBER+SUHNER, a member of The Open Group’s SOSA Consortium and the VITA Standards Organization, has provided connectivity solutions for aerospace and defense applications for several decades. The MINIBEND product line offers low-profile, flexible cable assemblies used across various industry applications.

With the launch of the HUBER+SUHNER VITA 67.3 interconnect portfolio, engineers now have access to high performance coaxial cable options featuring the industry’s smallest bend radius immediately behind the RF contact, enabling extremely tight routing without sacrificing durability or performance.

Key features and benefits of VITA 67.3

• Complete VITA 67.3 RF connectivity portfolio featuring SMPM, SMPS, and NanoRF interfaces delivered as drop-in assemblies from a single source, including hybrid RF/fiber optic configurations
• The largest portfolio of cable and connector options for PCB and chassis connectivity, including high frequency D38999 contact options up to 65 GHz, ensures application-tailored interconnect solutions are selected at design-in
• Competitive low loss .047- and .086-size cable options available
• All assemblies manufactured in accordance with IPC/WHMA-A-620 Class 3
• Dedicated express production line provides made-to-order VITA 67.3 assemblies in as little as 4 weeks
• Drop-in VITA 66.5 assemblies available with various termini/ferrule options
• Rugged I/O multiport harnesses (RF, fiber optic, and power/signal) available from a single source for inside- and outside-the-box installation.

The VITA 67.3 portfolio features NanoRF, SMPM, and SMPS contact offerings, and is available as part of the largest portfolio of cable and connector options for PCB and chassis connectivity.

HUBER+SUHNER provides RF and fiber optic interconnect solutions built to perform reliably in demanding environments.

For more information, visit hubersuhner.com.

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Built-in support for tabulated data in coefficients

A new feature in FEATool Multiphysics v1.17.4 adds support for using non-linear tabulated and interpolated equation and boundary coefficients. Coefficients from TXT, CSV, and Microsoft Excel (XLS, XLSX) files can now be used directly in both the toolbox and stand-alone versions, eliminating the need for custom user-defined functions.

Please see the corresponding documentation and simple tutorial example using a tabulated coefficient for the thermal conductivity as a function of temperature.

FEATool Multiphysics toolbox for MATLAB 2025a/online and later

Due to MathWorks’ shift from a Java-based to a web/JavaScript-based UI in MATLAB 2025a and later, the current toolbox UI shows reduced performance in this version. For optimal performance, using the toolbox with MATLAB 2024b or earlier is currently recommended.

A new toolbox user interface (GUI) is in development, and scheduled to be available in a later 2.0 release, including full Python integration allowing users to use either or Python, MATLAB, or GNU Octave.

OpenFOAM and CFD Solver updates

FEATool Multiphysics, the easiest and fastest way to get started with OpenFOAM and CFD simulations!

• Improved Flow Mode Control: A new check-box toggle for automatic pressure constraint in CFD and flow simulation physics modes has been added. This provides users with more direct control over simulation settings, simplifying the setup for fluid dynamics problems.
• Enhanced Error Handling for External Solvers: Users now have the option to save OpenFOAM and SU2 case/config files on error. This vital feature allows for easier debugging and troubleshooting, enabling users to inspect the solver’s state at the point of failure and refine their models more efficiently.
• ESI/OpenCFD OpenFOAM distribution: It is recommended to use ESI/OpenCFD OpenFOAM distribution (openfoam.com) to ensure CFD solver compatibility (instead of using the OpenFOAM Foundation distribution openfoam.org)
• Standardized SU2 Turbulence Model: The SU2 CFD solver has been updated to default to the V2003m SST turbulence model. This standardization ensures a robust and widely validated turbulence model is used by default, contributing to more accurate and reliable turbulent flow simulations.

Miscellaneous updates

• Update OpenCASCADE geometry engine to v7.9.1 with improved stability and handling of geometries with multiple sub-domains (for Windows and Linux systems)
• Added setinf function (to set infinite values to specific number, analog to setnan)
• Added solver troubleshooting section to the toolbox documentation
• New import fea struct from MATLAB File menu option
• Added categories to physics mode selection list, for easier UI selection
• User interface (GUI) consistency improvements
• Minor bug fixes

CFDTool fluid dynamics simulation toolbox

In addition to the updates to the FEATool Multiphysics toolbox described above, the simplified sister toolbox CFDTool has also been updated to version 1.10.4, streamlining the user interface (GUI) to mirror the FEATool UI, making switching between the toolboxes easier and natural.

CFDTool is a streamlined version of the FEATool toolbox, focused on fluid mechanics and heat transfer simulations. For users requiring more advanced multiphysics capabilities and MATLAB m-file scripting, the FEATool Multiphysics toolbox is a more suitable option.

Designed and developed for engineers and researchers

• Accurate and efficient simulations: FEATool Multiphysics provides simulation tools that help engineers analyze designs, streamline development, and support performance evaluation.
• Expanded application areas: The new features and enhancements broaden the range of applications for FEATool, making it suitable for a variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy, and process engineering.
• Increased productivity: The improved user interface and streamlined workflows enhance productivity and allow engineers to focus on their simulations rather than technical complexities.

Availability and download

The physics simulation toolboxes FEATool Multiphysics 1.17.4 and CFDTool 1.10.4 are available right now both as stand-alone desktop apps, and also as MATLAB toolbox Add-Ons, with fully interactive GUI and cross-platform support for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, and MacOS operating systems.

The toolboxes can be downloaded directly from www.featool.com/download or www.cfdtool.com/download (or installed with one-click from the MATLAB Add-Ons Toolbar).

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