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Vero Software releases major updates for CAM line

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GfxS staff

New PartXplore can share machining data with mobile devices. By Tom Lansford CADplace The CAM experts at Vero Software delivered ...

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Kung Fury rocks the 80s action movie genre with heavy CG

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Randall Newton

David Sandberg scooped up $630,000 on Kickstarter and put together a hilarious short film in Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max. ...

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SPEC extends workstation benchmark to virtualization

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Randall Newton

More than 30 potential workload scenarios are tested, including CPU, graphics, and memory bandwidth. The SPEC Workstation Performance Characterization Group ...

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Adobe acquires Mixamo as one more building block to 3D

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Kathleen Maher

Adobe announced the acquisition of Mixamo on June 1. The company sells rigged characters and mo-cap moves through a hybrid mix of product and service deasl and a combination of cloud and client approaches. Adobe says it will use the Mixamo technology to enable easy 3D character creation in Photoshop.

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Aveva adds to steel fabrication portfolio

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Randall Newton

FabTrol provides automated estimating and bid preparation for steel design. Plant design software specialist Aveva has agreed to acquire FabTrol Systems, Inc. ...

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Apple acquires Metaio

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Kathleen Maher

Leading AR tools and app developer Metaio of Germany has been acquired by Apple. The company is now cloaked in darkness but we're waiting for a cloud of AR butterflies to emerge from Apple.

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Hoops Exchange adds Parasolid integration

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Randall Newton

Native support allows software using Exchange to import models without translation. Tech Soft 3D has added low-level integration of the ...

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Siemens PLM teases Catchbook

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Kathleen Maher

Siemens is reaching out: PLM group showed off Catchbook, a tablet based drawing and drafting tool for a wide range of applications from professional to consumer.

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The Archipelago of Things

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Kathleen Maher

We tend to think of the Internet of Things as a vast network that is knitting itself together as devices ...

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AMD GPU powers new 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro

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Jon Peddie

Apple Watch haptic feedback, big fast SSD, and a real GPU. If you do video editing in Final Cut Pro X, ...