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Blender stuffs the toy box in new release

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Randall Newton

Everybody’s favorite free 3D creation suite adds spherical stereo, improves the rendering, rewrites the Grease Pencil feature and more. The ...

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Workstation vendors set sales record in second quarter

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GfxS staff

Dell and HP continue their battle for market leadership.   The workstation market continues to be the shining start of ...

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Survey: CAD software upgrades worth the investment

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Randall Newton

Upgraders see 16% productivity gain within 2 months. A recent international survey of design and engineering specialists shows the average ...

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Changes at the top: Tony Hemmelgarn appointed Siemens PLM CEO

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Kathleen Maher

Siemens PLM has played a growing role in Siemens Digital Factory division as software and hardware become further intertwined. Immediately ...

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Chaos Group gives Phoenix FD fluid dynamics solver a GPU boost

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Randall Newton

Chaos has more going on than rendering. It's latest version of Phoenix FD is a GPU accelerated fluid dynamics tool that plugs into the leading 3D modeling and animation tools.

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New Bentley ConceptStation offers faster path to conceptual civil engineering models

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Randall Newton

An iterative approach to concept modeling that can send 3D data on for final work. Civil engineers have an abundance ...

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3D PDF Consortium adds academic membership

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Randall Newton

Purdue University seeks to help its students as well as the technical graphics industry. The 3D PDF Consortium has launched ...

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Autodesk to launch new stock repurchase plan; why?

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Randall Newton

The answer may be about next year’s earnings per share. Autodesk has announced a new program to repurchase up to ...

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Flame extension improves interoperability, adds physically based rendering

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Randall Newton

FBX export has also been improved, along with workflows with Maya and Lustre. The most recent update to Autodesk Flame ...

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Boris FX acquires GenArts for Sapphire video effects

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GfxS staff

Boris Yamnitsky is building a VFX plug-in conglomerate using close partnerships and strategic acquisitions. Two leaders in plug-in technology for ...