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May. 17 | Strong performance by suites drives results. Media and Entertainment revenue was down 5%.
The interior of Autodesk's AEC headquarters in Waltham, Mass. (Source: Autodesk)
Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) today reported a solid first quarter of fiscal year 2013....
May. 17 | Software is transforming every stage of the manufacturing process. Small companies with niche technologies are being gobbled up.
By Kathleen Maher
May Day is over and the workers of the world are still pretty much wearing their chains. Ironically, the...
May. 15 | Nvidia says previously unobtainable performance opens the door to a variety of possibilities including streaming games like movies or doing sophisticated simulations from the cloud. Power efficiency gains are as important as the graphics gains.
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May. 15 | The information comes from The Wohlers Report. Now in its 17th year, it has become the authoritative guide to additive manufacturing and related technologies.
The 3D printing products for manufacturing market grew at a 29.4% rate in 2011, says the new...
May. 14 | Now known as the Mainstream Engineering group, the Siemens PLM division responsible for Solid Edge says business is booming. A reference customer says SolidWorks should be worried.
Last week at the Siemens PLM Software annual customer conference the company...
May. 14 | The maker of laser sintering 3D printing devices is sponsoring a user day at the annual additive manufacturing event.
The parts for this prosthetic arm were created using direct metal laser sintering on an EOS 3D printer. (Source: EOS).
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May. 11 | The company has hired and trained 90 new sales reps for its expanding line of desktop 3D printers. Revenue guidance for the rest of 2012 is raised, due to the Objet acquisition.
Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) reported first quarter record revenue of $45.0...
May. 10 | When customers wanted simple simulation and animation in Factory Design Suite, Autodesk raided the Media and Entertainment cookie jar for technology.
When Autodesk released Factory Design Suite a year ago, it was to many people an unexpected addition...
May. 9 | Plug-in allows designers to start in Modo and pass a model to 3D CAD.
Making good on a promise from earlier this year, Luxology has released a plug-in for Modo 601 that converts models into Nurbs-based CAD models. The new plug-in will interest product...
May. 7 | FreshFiber makes custom cases for smartphones, selling them online and in high-end retail stores.
3D Systems has acquired another vendor of custom 3D printed consumer products. FreshFiber BV, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is best known for selling...