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Building a clock to run for 10,000 years

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GfxS staff

Engineers at The Long Now Foundation are using PTC’s Mathcad and Creo to design the first of several 300-foot clocks ...

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Khronos updates OpenCL specification

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Randall Newton

New extensions include support for heterogeneous parallel computation in a web browser. The Khronos Group has released an update to the ...

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Big and bigger 3D printers at Euromold

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Randall Newton

Printing a bicycle frame at full scale is now possible. The Mcor Iris attracted considerable interest with photorealistic 3D printing ...

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Tracking the untrackable 007 in Skyfall-themed commercial

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GfxS staff

Bradley Munkowitz and Navarro Parker talk about the digital effects they created for a Sony ad campaign. By Meleah Maynard ...

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Ares Commander update causes ripple effect

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Randall Newton

CorelCAD is also updated today and DraftSight will be shortly; both use Graebert’s Ares technology. A consistent market remains for ...

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Geomagic Spark unites 3D scan data with MCAD geometry

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Randall Newton

The product combines Geomagic point cloud and mesh editing expertise with SpaceClaim’s direct modeling technology. New technologies had to be ...

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Autodesk Fusion 360 takes MCAD into the cloud

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Randall Newton

Autodesk offered a preview of its new cloud-based 3D modeling software at Autodesk University. It is the most ambitious extension ...

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Nuke 7 update focuses on power tools

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Randall Newton

A variety of GPU-accelerated modes are now at the compositer’s fingertips. The Foundry has released an update of its popular ...

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Three big trends impacting designers today

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GfxS staff

Chris Bradshaw walked attendees of Autodesk University Germany through the challenges and opportunities facing design professionals today in digital fabrication, ...

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Siemens releases Solid Edge edition for high school teachers

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Randall Newton

The new software complements an existing version for students. Siemens sees the short-term revenue cost as inconsequential compared to the ...