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Prinergy Evo 11 is the latest iteration of Kodak’s Prinergy Evo Workflow software, a scalable prepress automation solution designed for small to mid-sized commercial, publication, and packaging printers. Released as part of the broader Prinergy 11.0 platform launch in May 2025, it emphasizes enhanced rules-based automation (RBA), improved security, and seamless integration with tools like COLORFLOW and Virtual Proofing Software Plus (VPS+). This version builds on Evo 10 (from 2024) by optimizing workflows for digital, analog, and hybrid print production, helping users boost efficiency and profitability while addressing modern challenges like variable data and short runs. Key New Features Enhanced Rules-Based Automation (RBA): Streamlined automation for repetitive tasks, including dynamic job routing and error detection, reducing manual intervention and speeding...
Overview of PACKZ 11 PACKZ 11 is the latest dot release of PACKZ, a comprehensive prepress software developed by HYBRID Software for label and packaging printing. It builds on PACKZ 10 (released in June 2025) by introducing interactive tools and automation enhancements to streamline workflows for digital, flexo, and offset printing. This version emphasizes efficient handling of complex shapes, cost-effective layouts, and seamless integration with workstation automation via Pactions. Key New Features Packzimizer for Free Nesting: A new optional tool optimized for cartons, signs, and displays. It efficiently nests complex shapes into compact, practical layouts to maximize substrate utilization and reduce waste. This is particularly useful for optimizing material costs in packaging production. Enhanced Prepress Automation: Includes powerful interactive tools...
Geomagic Freeform Plus 2025.1 is a multi-representation, multi-purpose digital modeling and CAD system for producing manufacturable, highly-detailed objects that are intricate or organically shaped, such as toys, figurines, medical implants, fine art or other sculptural objects. This software offers a fast and cost-effective way for designers and modelers to create original models or modify and stylize scan data, and then output to additive manufacturing systems for prototyping or rapid manufacturing, prepare molds for milling, or send to downstream CAD or CAM systems. Two unique aspects of Freeform are integration with haptic 3D input devices and a robust voxel-based data model. The combination of these provides a unique capability to emulate the physical process of sculpting clay. The haptic 3D input...
Overview of NIS-Elements 5.4 NIS-Elements 5.4 is a legacy version of Nikon’s integrated microscopy software platform, developed by Laboratory Imaging (a Nikon subsidiary), for advanced image acquisition, analysis, and processing in research, clinical, industrial, and documentation applications. Released around 2020–2021 as part of the version 5.x series, it supports control of Nikon microscopes and third-party components, offering scalable packages from basic documentation (NIS-Elements D) to advanced research (NIS-Elements AR) and high-content screening (NIS-Elements HC). This version emphasizes flexible workflows, custom scripting, and compatibility with ND2 file formats, though it has been superseded by version 6.x for newer Windows 11 support and enhanced features like AI-driven analysis. Key Features Acquisition Controls: Supports widefield, confocal, super-resolution, and multiphoton imaging with automated timelapse,...
ORS Dragonfly 2025 (also referred to as Dragonfly 3D World 2025) is the latest iteration of Object Research Systems (ORS)’ flagship scientific image processing and analysis software. Designed for researchers, engineers, and scientists, it provides advanced tools for 2D/3D/4D imaging workflows, including segmentation, visualization, and quantitative analysis of data from sources like X-ray CT, SEM, FIB-SEM, confocal microscopy, and hyperspectral imaging. This release emphasizes AI-powered deep learning enhancements, community collaboration, and streamlined workflows to accelerate discoveries in fields such as materials science, biology, and engineering. Key Features Deep Learning Integration: Commercially supported engine for training and executing custom neural networks, enabling rapid segmentation and feature extraction (e.g., porosity analysis, fiber orientation, or object labeling). Image Processing Tools: Supports import of...
Honeywell UniSim Design Suite R500 is a comprehensive process simulation and modeling software platform designed for engineers in industries such as oil and gas, refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals. It enables the creation of both steady-state and dynamic models for plant design, optimization, safety studies, operations monitoring, debottlenecking, digital twins, and business planning—all within a unified environment. This release (R500) builds on the UniSim EvOlution platform, offering improved performance for on- and offline applications, making it easier to capture process experience, enhance plant profitability, and maximize return on simulation investments. Key Features Steady-State and Dynamic Modeling: Supports rigorous simulations for process design and optimization under the same interface, dramatically improving workflow efficiency. Advanced Solvers: Includes the proprietary NOVA solver via UniSim...
Overview of QPS Qimera v2.7.1 Qimera v2.7.1 is a minor maintenance release in the Qimera 2.7 series from QPS (Quality Positioning Services), a leading hydrographic software for processing, editing, and visualizing multibeam sonar and LiDAR data. This version focuses on bug fixes, performance tweaks, and minor enhancements to improve workflow efficiency for surveyors, oceanographers, and marine engineers. It builds on the core strengths of Qimera, such as its dynamic surface generation, variable-resolution gridding, and seamless integration with QPS’s ecosystem (e.g., QINSy for acquisition and Fledermaus for 4D visualization). Released as part of the ongoing 2.7 updates in 2025, it addresses issues from prior patches while maintaining compatibility with large datasets from systems like Kongsberg EM-series. Qimera excels in real-time data...
Overview of Bladed V4.8 Bladed V4.8 is a major release of DNV’s (formerly DNV GL) Bladed wind turbine design and analysis software, introduced in 2016 as a transformative update to enhance functionality, user experience, and computational efficiency for wind turbine manufacturers, certification agencies, design consultants, and research organizations. This version builds on Bladed’s legacy as the industry-standard tool for onshore and offshore wind turbine modeling, validated against real-world data from diverse turbines. It supports comprehensive aeroelastic simulations, structural dynamics, and certification workflows, enabling users to optimize designs, reduce loads, and ensure compliance with standards like IEC 61400. At the time of release, Bladed was already the primary simulation tool for about half of global utility-scale wind turbines, and V4.8...
Overview of WormLab 2024.1 WormLab 2024.1 is a minor update to the WormLab 2024 software suite from MBF Bioscience, a comprehensive hardware and software solution for imaging, tracking, and quantitative behavioral analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and other nematodes. This version builds on the patented worm-tracking technology to enable fully automated characterization of behaviors like crawling, swimming, thrashing, omega bends, coiling, and self-overlap. It’s designed for neurobiology, genetics, and pharmacology research, allowing researchers to process large datasets efficiently and extract metrics such as speed, direction, distance traveled, posture changes, and sinusoidal movement amplitude. The 2024 release emphasizes improved handling of larger video sequences and enhanced flexibility, particularly for Mac users, making it suitable for high-throughput assays in academic and...
Overview of FARO As-Built 2025 for Revit FARO As-Built for AUTOdesk Revit is a specialized software plugin designed for architects, engineers, and general contractors working with 3D laser scan data in BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflows. It enables quick and precise analysis, modeling, alignment, editing, and extraction of point cloud data directly within the Revit environment, facilitating accurate as-built documentation for building redesign, maintenance, or enhancement projects. This helps reduce rework, cost overruns, and ensures designs align with real-world site conditions. The 2025 version (specifically v2025.0, released on June 27, 2025) integrates seamlessly with the Revit user interface and supports large point cloud datasets, making it ideal for converting scan data into native Revit objects and BIM models. Key Features...
PIX4Dmatic is a desktop photogrammetry software developed by Pix4D, optimized for processing large-scale datasets (e.g., up to 10,000 images at 20 MP each) from drones, terrestrial scanners, or other sources. It enables fast generation of high-quality 3D models, point clouds, orthomosaics, and DSMs for applications in surveying, agriculture, construction, mining, and forensics. Unlike PIX4Dmapper, which is more general-purpose, PIX4Dmatic focuses on efficiency for massive projects with GPU acceleration for key steps like calibration and densification. PiX4Dmatic 1.81 is a minor stable release (likely a patch following 1.8.0, based on the versioning pattern of previous updates like 1.7.3 to 1.8). It includes bug fixes and performance tweaks inherited from recent versions, such as improved DSM speed for corridor projects and better...
LiDAR360 8.2.2 is a comprehensive point cloud post-processing and industry application software developed by GreenValley International, designed for handling large-scale LiDAR data (up to TB-level processing). It includes over 700 tools for visualizing, manipulating, classifying, and analyzing point clouds from various sources like airborne, mobile, terrestrial, and UAV LiDAR systems. The software supports applications in fields such as surveying, forestry, urban planning, mining, powerline inspection, and environmental monitoring. LiDAR360 8.2.2 appears to be a minor update within the LiDAR360 V8 series, building on the foundational framework introduced in V8. This framework provides core functionalities like data management, automatic strip alignment, point cloud classification, and efficient interaction with massive datasets. Minor updates like 8.2.2 are typically free for users with an...
Qimera FMMidwater is a software program designed to rapidly extract relevant water column features from a range of sonar file formats. Raw sonar files are first converted to a Generic Water Column format (GWC) for use in further processing and visualization. A simple graphical user interface is used to perform threshold filtering on a number of key parameters to help with feature extraction. Qimera FMMidwater also provides multiple views of the water column features and finally allows for easy export to a variety of Qimera Fledermaus visualization objects and text files.
FARO As-Built 2025 for AutoCAD software enables efficient conversion of real-world captured data into CAD and BIM parametric models. The As-Built solution streamlines project cost control and quality assurance by significantly reducing model extraction time, minimizing rework, and enhancing delivery standards. This software provides a rapid, user-friendly, and seamlessly integrated pathway for creating as-built CAD and BIM models. Capable of modeling infrastructure designs, 2D architectural plans, industrial and MEP facilities, and mining operations, it processes point cloud data to generate orthophoto imagery. It also supports flexible modeling and documentation of building components, inventory management, piping systems, steel structures, terrain, and civil engineering projects (including tunnels, bridges, or highways). As-Built for Autodesk Revit utilizes laser-scanned data to extract BIM models with...
PressSIGN 12 Printing Quality Control Software is a comprehensive system integrating density and chromaticity detection for printing quality assurance. It accurately measures color performance data, displays color expression metrics, and uses a simplified scoring system to determine compliance with target color standards. Through systematic step-by-step guidance, the software assists printers in precisely adjusting printing press performance, ensuring high-quality prints that meet international printing standards.
UK-based PDM Analysis launched its SCORG product, which specializes in helical gear profile analysis, thermodynamic calculations, and CFD rotor structure mesh generation. By integrating 3D and 1D simulation software, it enables engineers to efficiently perform fluid dynamics and thermodynamic analyses for screw machinery, facilitating rapid performance optimization. The rotor features a spiral gear configuration with unique contours that allow male and female rotors to mesh, creating a sealed space between rotor and housing. The flow field in twin-screw systems comprises three distinct zones: a stationary low-pressure area, a deformation compression zone, and a stationary high-pressure area. Fluid flows from the suction zone through the compression zone to the discharge zone, with leakage occurring through inter-screw gaps (rotor clearance, radial clearance,...
