Month: February 2014

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Airbus study finds significant advantage in 3D printing for standardized parts

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Randall Newton

Working with laser sintering specialist EOS, an initial benchmarking for further research found cost savings and sustainability advantages across the ...

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Ansys net income rises 35% in fourth quarter

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Randall Newton

Unlike its CAD/PLM colleagues, Ansys continues to set revenue records every quarter. By Randall S. Newton Ansys today reported fourth ...

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Autodesk revenue transition leads to down quarter and fiscal year

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Randall Newton

Fourth-quarter revenue down 3%; fiscal year revenue down 1.6%. PLM 360 has best quarter ever as cloud products become popular ...

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President Obama unveils initiatives for renewed growth of manufacturing jobs in the U.S.

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Kathleen Maher

Government investments in digital technologies—including direct manufacture, PLM, visualization, digital prototyping, and new materials development—will spawn innovation centers across the ...

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Pinocchio comes out to play as Character Generator

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Kathleen Maher

Autodesk introduces Autodesk Character Generator as a cloud based resource. Character Generator is the latest evolution of Evolver software acquired by Autodesk in 2011. It has been available in Autodesk Labs as Project Pinocchio.

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Add-in board market up in Q4, Nvidia gains market share

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GfxS staff

Quarter-to-quarter AIBs shipments increased 3%, and grew 3% year-to-year. Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for ...

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New benchmark from SPEC promises to become influential

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Kathleen Maher

SPECwpc is likely to find wide use testing workstations. By Kathleen Maher There is no more contentious battle­field in the ...

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Graphic chip shipments show small rise in fourth quarter

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GfxS staff

New JPR report says desktop graphics sales up 3% second quarter in a row.  There was a small rise in ...

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How Whiskytree runs its “Work Smart” CG pipeline

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Randall Newton

Successful VFX for films including Elysium, Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are among the projects ...

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KeyShot and IronCAD release visualization integration

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Randall Newton

Single-click transfer of data with instant updates improve visualization without changing the IronCAD workflow. Luxion and IronCAD have released an ...

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