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New releases tumble out of the ODA

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Kathleen Maher

The Open Design Alliance has shipped new releases of its software at the opening of 2019 including updates for Visualize, Drawings, Civil 2019.2, which now has clash detection. Clash detection is especially used in piping applications, but also for AEC and any engineering process. It can be set to run on a static model to find all clashes and it can be associated with objects to detect clashes as objects are moved.

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Autodesk improves customer access to SketchBook

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Kathleen Maher

New update adds fixes and serves as reassurance to customers. Is it good news or bad news that Autodesk has ...

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Big year for graphics in the Academy’s Science and Technical Awards

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Kathleen Maher

Maxon gets its first award, Adobe stacks up a few more; motion graphics gets the spotlight. The Academy Awards have been announced ...

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Adobe acquires Allegorithmic

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Kathleen Maher

French company’s clever technology has the potential to significantly enhance Adobe’s tools for 3D, AR, and VFX. Allegorithmic, one of ...

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Cool cube render machine from Azultec

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Jon Peddie

Compact, quiet design with high-powered processors manages eco-friendliness. Back in 2015 when the crypto-mining boom was taking off, one of ...

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Autodesk Maya 2019 arrives

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Kathleen Maher

The new release features stability, bug fixes, and animation updates. Autodesk has released Maya 2019, Maya LT 2019, MotionBuilder 2019, ...

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Foundry introduces Flix 6.0 to improve workflows, traceability, and communication

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Kathleen Maher

The Foundry is making collaboration an important feature in their portfolio of projects. The company’s pre-production tool Flix is an ...

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Blender celebrates its 25th birthday

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Kathleen Maher

New versions, new members, new enthusiasm The path of Blender as a company and an organization has never been straight. ...

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Graebert updates its Ares line of products

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Kathleen Maher

New features including 3D tools and customizable blocks. Graebert introduced its latest CAD engine at the end of 2018 and ...

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Autodesk expands its construction project management portfolio

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Kathleen Maher

End of the year acquisitions of BuildingConnected and PlanGrid give the company modern, cloud-based tools for construction. Just before Christmas ...