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Autodesk has plenty to talk about away from the Siggraph show floor

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Randall Newton

New management is guiding the M&E into acting more like the rest of the company. A consistent topic of conversation ...

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Autodesk throws a party and skips the booth at Siggraph

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Kathleen Maher

The user group party celebrated CG heroes and new technology. Naiad fluid simulation was shown running in Maya.  Autodesk disappointed ...

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Dassault Systèmes acquires German engineering company SFE

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Kathleen Maher

Dassault adds on to its automotive design capabilities for Catia and Simulia.  Dassault Systèmes announced the acquisition of SFE GmbH, ...

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Ambitious Thinkbox expands its range

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Kathleen Maher

At Siggraph Thinkbox introduced a new add-on for Maya and new particle capabilities.   Thinkbox has a wide range of ...

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LightWave releases new modules

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Kathleen Maher

More to come is the promise, as LightWave prepares for a geometry engine update.  The tools market for content creation ...

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Southpaw is making money by giving away digital asset management

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Randall Newton

The multi-purpose open source Tactic for M&E asset management is finding its market one free download at a time. A year has ...

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Ansys records 10.5% growth in second quarter

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Randall Newton

The leader in engineering simulation bought back 988,000 shares of its stock during the quarter. Revenue guidance for the year ...

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Five M&E software makers team up to compete

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Kathleen Maher

Shotgun, Tweak, Zync Render, Fabric Engine, and Thinkbox sell multimedia solutions that work with each other. By Kathleen Maher The ...

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Migenius gets Bloom Unit back on track in SketchUp

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Randall Newton

The Australian visualization group also now controls the destiny of RealityServer and iRay. Migenius and its SketchUp add-in Bloom Unit ...

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The Foundry makes new friends, announces new initiatives

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Kathleen Maher

Deals with Sony Imageworks and Pixar will give their users access to tools. The Foundry is expanding out of its ...