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Smartgeometry heads to Hong Kong

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The annual conference at the nexus of architecture and algorithms takes on the complexities of urban density.   Smartgeometry, the ...

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Dassault Systèmes revenue up 5% for quarter and year

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With 16 acquisitions in two years, the French PLM company seeks to double the addressable market for an expanding array ...

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Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max

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A refined user interface and support for several open visualization technologies highlight this major update. [Editor’s Note: Full-size versions of ...

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Autodesk wind simulation to enhance Fox Sports Super Bowl coverage

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Swirling winter winds can affect a football game. For the first time, viewers can see exactly what the wind is ...

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Faceware, Vicon form mocap partnership

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Faceware software and Vicon hardware will be cross-compatible. Two leaders in the emerging motion capture market have decided to form ...

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Finally, the big debut for SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual

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Dassault Systèmes says SWMC opens the door to all its applications for SolidWorks users. [Editor’s Note: Since this article was ...

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PTC looks past flat Q1 results

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China is slow, the Yen is falling. What Wall Street really wants to hear about is PTC’s play in the ...

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GrabCAD Workbench Pro exits beta as a Collaborative Product Data solution

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What started as “GitHub for 3D” and a community of designers has become a legitimate SaaS collaborative product data tool ...

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GrabCAD and SpaceClaim offer Lagoa cloud visualization

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Users of both products can offer browser-based photorealistic 3D product views to their users.   When cloud-based 3D product visualization ...

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D-Wave brings quantum computing co-processing to supercomputing

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Some scoff at the Schrödinger’s Box nature of it, but some serious supercomputing users and investors are onboard with D-Wave’s ...