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Plastics contractor Lakowa builds business around ZW3D

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GfxS staff

Custom automotive interiors for business and medicine are among the many products Lakowa designs or modifies in ZW3D. Lakowa is ...

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VTS wins patent for 3D PDF geospatial reporting

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Randall Newton

New technology makes it easier to distribute large 3D maps. UK software house Visual Technology Services (VTS) has been awarded ...

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Student engineers design, build and fly 3D printed airplane

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GfxS staff

Two third-year students successfully built only the third 3D printed aircraft to successfully fly. By Fariss Samarrai When University of ...

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MEA Mobile makes engineering apps free this week

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Randall Newton

A chance to test the iOS tools written by retired GE engineer Raymond Seymour. When Raymond Seymour worked as an ...

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French researchers combines laser-based 3D printing with milling

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GfxS staff

Competitive selection of Delcam software gives it an important French ally in the competitive plastics industry. Additive manufacturing processes—such as ...

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New Battlestar Galactica is completely greenscreen and CG

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GfxS staff

The NBC Universal production team used LightWave 3D software to create almost all sets and background for the new sci-fi ...

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Twenty petaflops of supercomputer power from off-the-shelf parts

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Randall Newton

Cray built the Oak Ridge Laboratories Titan supercomputer from AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. Power consumption is becoming as big ...

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Autodesk net income drops 59% on flat third quarter sales

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Randall Newton

A good quarter for AEC in a few markets could not offset weaker demand in most of the world. Autodesk ...

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Customers were waiting for Teamcenter on the cloud

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Randall Newton

PLM Software? Check. Integration Partner? Check. Cloud Platform? Check. When PTC announced it would provide its Windchill enterprise PLM software ...

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon: Thin, light, stylish, strong

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GfxS staff

This new Ultrabook exceeds Intel standards with a carbon fiber chassis and extra durability.   By the Mt. Tiburon Testing ...