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Autodesk and GrabCAD partnership extends CAD’s reach in the cloud

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Both AutoCAD 360 and the new Fusion 360 3D modeler will be available for real-time drawing and editing of drawings ...

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Solid Edge ST 6 brings social media into mainstream engineering

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With built-in links to YouTube and GrabCAD, and a new online community to replace online help, Siemens is making Solid ...

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Autodesk formally unveils Fusion 360

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The next-generation industrial design and mechanical modeling tool runs from the cloud. T-Spline technology gives it the curvy capabilities of ...

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IMSI/Design to port TurboSite to Google Glass

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Development plan announced at AIA Conference.  Retail CAD vendor IMSI/Design, which lately has been leading the move to mobile devices ...

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Nvidia drops price on upcoming Shield mobile game device to $299

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The Android device doesn’t ship until June 27 but Nvidia is already responding to customer pressure. Nvidia today announced its ...

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GrabCAD launches Android app for CAD collaboration

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Both the GrabCAD public library and a user’s private workbench projects are accessible.  GrabCAD today announced the release of the ...

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Stratasys to acquire MakerBot for $403 million

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Stratasys needed a better retail product line; MakerBot needed to grow. Industrial 3D printing manufacturer Stratasys will acquire desktop 3D ...

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Latest Dassault Systèmes dashboard targets aerospace and defense

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“Co-Design to Target” tracks a variety of criteria and provides functional mock-up visualization. Eliminating “point solutions” is part of the ...

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Nvidia adds ARM platform support to CUDA GPU programming

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ARM-based devices are growing at a 10x rate compared to x86 devices. Nvidia continues its expansion of the CUDA parallel ...

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Aras brings first 3D PDF conversion to PLM platforms

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By using 3D PDF Aras avoids the need to work with competing proprietary 3D data formats, making an open visualization ...