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SolidThinking Rethinks Industrial Design

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Kathleen Maher

SolidThinking, Inc. shook up MacWorld in 2009 with their product for industrial design that ran on both Mac and Windows. ...

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Adobe Has Record-Breaking Quarter — Shares Drop

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Kathleen Maher

Adobe announced a revenue boost for the third quarter of 2010 as a result of the company’s successful release of ...

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Meet the New Boss: Chuck Grindstaff to Become President of Siemens PLM

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Kathleen Maher

Chuck Grindstaff, the CTO and EVP of Products for Siemens PLM will take over as president of the group on October 1. He will replace Helmuth Ludwig who will handle corporate communications for Siemens Industry Automation. With this announcement, Siemens signals that the transition of the former Unigraphics company into the considerably larger Siemens AG is complete.

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E-on Expands Its World-Building Capabilities

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Kathleen Maher

Software from natural image digital content specialist E-on is used just about everywhere digital greenery is required. This summer E-on ...

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ZWSoft Acquires VX and Targets the 3D Market

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Kathleen Maher

Chinese developer ZWSoft hopes to displace AutoCAD in China. Now,  ZWSoft has acquired VX Corporation and plans to take advantage ...

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The P&P Industry Shows the Others How

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Kathleen Maher

CAD competitors have been struggling with the co-op-ompetition model. Meanwhile, the Process & Power industries are working out data exchange and collaboration because the customers demand it.

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Mental Images Teams with Penguin for Cloud Computing

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Kathleen Maher

If you haven't gotten around to building a server farm, you might want to look into Penguin's new POD (Penguin on Demand). As a hint of how customers might use POD, Nvidia's RealityServer 3D is now available on POD for remote rendering, visualization, and collaboration.

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Project Butterfly Gets an Update

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Kathleen Maher

Autodesk's Project Butterfly is flapping its wings. Project Butterfly is Autodesk's work on extending AutoCAD the cloud. The company is also working on Project Dragonfly, a 2D and 2.5D project for interior designers, and there is the much higher profile Project Twitch work that puts Inventor, Revit, and Maya in the Cloud for customers.

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Dental implant market soars, thanks to specialized CAD/CAM tools

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Kathleen Maher

The hot new market for CAD these days is teeth, apparently. According to iData Research (www.idataresearch.net), analysts specializing in medical ...

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Marketing 101 — Score 2 for Autodesk

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Kathleen Maher

Hey, the battle is on. Autodesk has been commissioning studies lately. They’ve hired long time journalist, writer, and hardware/software reviewer ...