Year-end surge pushes Autodesk to record fourth quarter

Feb. 26 | Suites are now 33% of total revenue. Regional performance was hit and miss. A late sales surge lifted Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) to record fourth-quarter revenue to close its fiscal year 2013. For the full year Autodesk revenue has roughly returned to where...

Graebert to offer “convert to DraftSight” services

Jan. 20 | Dassault’s development partner in 2D CAD offers another way to help companies wean themselves off AutoCAD. It will be an uphill climb. The co-creator of DraftSight 2D drafting software from Dassault Systèmes is offering a new service to help companies...

AutoCAD worm sends drawings to China

Jun. 27 | Thousands of drawings were sent via email from a large project in Peru before the attack was identified and stopped. Internet security firm ESET recently detected a spike in activity from a known AutoCAD worm. ACAD/Medre.A was found to be sending thousands...

Autodesk increasing prices in August

Jun. 14 | Discounts for upgrading older software are going away, and the price of upgrading recent releases is going up. Autodesk dealers are telling their customers about significant changes in the price structure for most Autodesk products. While it is typical...

Autodesk Labs Factory.Modz() brings gameware physics to factory layout.

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...

Autodesk 2012 by the numbers

Mar. 29 | Autodesk made its annual pitch to the media this week in San Francisco, and threw out a lot of numbers. When we parse the numbers, the picture emerges of a company happily running as fast as it can to transform digital art and design. There is a shift...

EdgeWise Plant 3.0 runs up to 12x faster with multicore processing

Mar. 14 | Other new features include enhanced pipe extraction, QA tools to verify accuracy, and real-time finishing tools. ClearEdge3D this week released EdgeWise Plant 3.0 with six major new features to optimize and accelerate 3D modeling workflows. The software...

SolidWorks 2013 will launch as legacy software

Feb. 22 | Dassault Systèmes is committed to building a next-generation 3D design platform to replace SolidWorks. Getting it out the door is proving hard; convincing SolidWorks customers to upgrade will be harder. By Randall S. Newton On the final day of SolidWorks...

Autodesk revenue up 15% in third quarter

Nov. 16 | R&D spending is up as a percentage of sales, as Autodesk prepares to launch a new PLM product at the end of the month. Autodesk spent $90 million on 10 acquisitions during the quarter. Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) has reported a strong third quarter,...

Bricsys delivers viable alternative universe for DWG-based CAD development

Oct. 26 | From its early days of hoping for a “black zero” at the end of the year, Bricsys has become an important supplier of CAD technology in Europe and Asia. Most companies competing against Autodesk realized years ago there’s no money in going against...