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2008: Wide-Ranging Autodesk lawsuit boils down to three letters: D-W-G
Aug. 3 | In 2008 Autodesk filed a federal lawsuit against Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks, opening another front on its DWG litigation war. While several grievances were cited, the suit was really about Autodesk trying once again to gain legal control over those...
2008: Northwest small manufactures plan to invest in PLM
Aug. 2 | A new survey of SMB manufactures in Washington State and Oregon reveals a positive outlook about regional and national economic conditions and a perceived need to more completely implement PLM and ERP systems. If SMB manufactures in other regions have...
2008: CAD Society Award Recipients All Have Historic Ties to Autodesk
Aug. 1 | The three recipients of the 2008 CAD Society awards all have a historic connection to Autodesk, but in very different ways. Current Autodesk CEO Carl Bass is honored for industry leadership; former Open Design Alliance Executive Director Evan Yares is...
2008: Replicating the head of Emperor Constantine
Aug. 1 | An international team of experts in 3D scanning, five-axis milling, and archaeological reconstruction worked together to recreate a giant bust. An article from the CADCAMNET archives. CADCAMNET, February 7, 2008—When antiquities experts decided that...
2007: Oracle acquires Agile in $495 million bid to become PLM leader
Jul. 29 | In hindsight, this acquisition was just one of many; Oracle assimilated Agile and moved on. Here’s what it looked like in 2007, from the archives of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research. By Randall S. Newton Engineering...
2007: New 30-inch HP LP3065 LCD monitor is simply the best
Jul. 28 | 2007 was the year monitors got big, flat, and dense. David Cohn goes gaga for HP’s entry in the bigger-is-better sweepstakes, from the June 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research. By David Cohn The...
2007: ‘We push the vision’: An interview with Dassault Systèmes CEO Bernard Charlès
Jul. 26 | Charlès makes a strong case for Dassault as the innovation leader in PLM in this interview, which includes jabs at his competition. From the July 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research. By Randall S. Newton Engineering...
2007: Driving product development with critical parameters management
Jul. 25 | Tracking critical design parameters with precision is a challenge in the face of rising product complexity.PLM analyst Michel Vrinat examines how products from Cognition Corporation can help. From the July 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report,...
2008: Dassault sees simulation lifecycle management as silver bullet for complexity
Jul. 22 | In 2008 Dassault Systèmes announced plans for Simulia SLM, a new product suite for performing and managing simulation processes; SLM = Simulation Lifecycle Management. It was to be an expansion of the former Abaqus product line leveraging Dassault’s...
