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CAD Society honors Neujahr, Riff, and Day at COFES 2001

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The annual CAD Society awards for Industry Leadership, Lifetime Achievement, and Community Service are being given out tonight at COFES ...

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John Gage at COFES 2011: the network is next

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In a wide-ranging, thought-provoking speech, former Sun Microsystems researcher John Gage opened COFES 2011 by pointing out the path of ...

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T-Splines updates Rhino add-on

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The 3.0 upgrade brings pipe shaping, faster operation, and support for 64-bit Rhino 5.0. T-Splines, Inc. has released an update ...

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Environments for designers, eyes for robots

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OPTIS Group acquires SimplySim to extend physics-based simulation into new realms both real and virtual. For the first time light ...

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Autodesk Brings AutoCAD WS Mobile App to Android

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Hinted at for months, the Android version of the popular AutoCAD-based app will be available before the end of the ...

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Cisco takes the ax to the Flip

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The cute little video cameras were all the rage a few years ago, until Cisco bought the company and put ...

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Plume digs deeper to add quality haze to Rango

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Industrial Light and Magic’s first full animation needed a retooling of their famed fluid solver/renderer and faster GPUs. Tools from ...

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PTC extends mechatronic reach with MKS acquisition

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Managing embedded software as part of product development continues to be a major trend in PLM. When John Deere became ...

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Excellent new white paper compares four neutral 3D formats

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If you don’t understand the differences between STEP, 3D XML, JT, and 3D PDF, this free white paper from interoperability ...

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CUDA 4.0 Toolkit now publicly available

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The latest release-candidate version enables software developers to port their applications to Nvidia Graphic Processor Units. NVIDIA today announced the ...