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First impressions, Adobe Max

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Kathleen Maher

Adobe Max is probably the most glittery tech conference of them all. Every year, Adobe showcases new tools, new technology, and highlights the creativity of its customers.

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Bentley Systems takes infrastructure engineering to the cloud

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Randall Newton

Partnerships with Microsoft and Topcon strengthen connected data environments. A variety of new products and technologies were also announced this ...

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“Simulate This!”

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Randall Newton

A story of rising to the challenge when a spouse doubts your CAE prowess extends to flipping open a banana.  ...

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Too much of a good thing ends PTC year on a loss

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Randall Newton

Customers switching to subscriptions at a faster rate than predicted means lots of revenue that can’t be booked in the ...

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Graebert finds a welcome home for 2D CAD in Japan

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Randall Newton

2D remains popular in the world’s second largest CAD market. Only Graebert offers the same CAD technology on desktop, mobile, and ...

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Dassault Systemès reports 9% revenue growth in third quarter

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Randall Newton

Net income was up 7%; no specific trends marked the quarter. [Editor’s Note: Unless noted, all Euro amounts are in ...

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New Pantone file format stores complex appearance data for 3D design

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Randall Newton

Autodesk, Luxion, and Nvidia are supporting the new AxF format in selected products.   A name synonymous with professional use ...

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Dassault Systemès tries again in AEC

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Randall Newton

Design for Fabrication is yet another attempt by the maker of Catia and SolidWorks to crack the risk-averse, penny-pinching construction ...

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Trimble releases SketchUp cloud version beta

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Randall Newton

For now My.SketchUp is a small subset of the desktop product. Trimble has just released an open beta of a ...

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SolidWorks 2017 comes with new tricks and new options

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Kathleen Maher

The latest SolidWorks has a little something for everybody, but mostly CEO Gian Paolo Bassi works hard to keep everyone happy.