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Taking the pain out of CAD translation at Millbrook Group

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Randall Newton

ITI CADfix turns a job that took days into one that takes minutes. Some engineering companies work with multiple CAD ...

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Autodesk rolls out first major release of Netfabb since acquisition

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Randall Newton

The 3D printing software toolkit includes new features for prepping models, print build optimization, and material optimization. Autodesk has just ...

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Qube render farm manager adds cloud support

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Randall Newton

New support for Katana and Redshift also in latest version. The latest update to Qube render farm management software from ...

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Autodesk opens second BUILD center in Boston

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Randall Newton

New Maker space offers tools and space for construction innovation. Autodesk has been reaching out to the Maker market with ...

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Thinkbox updates Frost for meshing in 3ds Max

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Randall Newton

Enhancements to Frost particle/fluid simulation include support for V-Ray. Thinkbox Software has released an update to Frost MX, its plug-in ...

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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.