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Partnership offers two free viewers for Kubotek users

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Randall Newton

Kubotek KeyView Lite offers viewing while KeyView Free offers additional mark-up capabilities. Interoperability expert Kubotek has teamed up with K2D ...

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Lumatix Atrium Designer 2012 offers global illumination previews in milliseconds

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Randall Newton

As 3D modeling software has matured, most of the emphasis on visualization quality has gone to the final rendering. But ...

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The godfather of pixels prepares for bankruptcy

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Randall Newton

Kodak tried and tried to reinvent itself in the digital age, but continues to slide into irrelevance. Selling off the ...

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GrabCAD nabs $4 million in Series A funding round

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The same investors who participated in the 2011 seed round are back. Downloads have topped 1 million. Engineering collaboration community ...

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IMSI/Design updates free TurboViewer

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Randall Newton

The only iPad CAD viewer that supported 3D DWG now adds SHX and TrueType font support.  IMSI/Design has released version ...

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Lenovo hiring to beef up workstation segment

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Lenovo built its workstation business from scratch after taking over IBM’s PC business, and is now taking market share from ...

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Mashup 2.0: A new paradigm for professional graphics in 2012

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Randall Newton

It is time to rethink how we think about the future of graphics-based technologies. We are in transition from the ...

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Zwsoft licenses Lightworks technology

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The leading Chinese CAD vendor will use Lightworks Artisan to add 3D photorealistic rendering to its software in 2012. Chinese ...

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Autodesk acquires T-Splines modeling technology

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The first major advancement in CAD geometry since NURBS has become popular in industrial, commercial, and architectural design. The fate ...

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Luxion releases updated plug-ins for SolidWorks, Rhino, Creo, Pro/Engineer, SketchUp

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Randall Newton

The KeyShot plug-in allows CAD data to be directly transferred from a modeling session into high-resolution rendering. Luxion has updated ...