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2007: Surprise! Siemens to acquire UGS
The $3.5 billion deal cashed out investors and paved the way for the Siemens PLM Software of today. From the ...
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Open Design Alliance adds raster library, Android support to Teigha update
The raster support comes from an open source library used by 90 products. The Android support is an API in ...
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Book Review: In “Shaping Things” the Spime’s the Thing
Bruce Sterling has drawn the roadmap to the future of manufacturing, where digital modeling and 3D printing morph into Arfid ...
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2007: A scorecard on simulation trends
In 2007 Collaborative Product Development Associates completed an in-depth study of how enterprise manufacturers were taking advantage of virtual product ...
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Race car brake maker Alcon thrives on SolidCAM + SolidWorks
The growing British company can respond quickly to demanding clients. From its headquarters in Tamworth, UK, Alcon Components Ltd has ...
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Ansys to buy Apache Design Solutions
The $310 million deal will give Ansys a more comprehensive portfolio of engineering solvers in electronics for product design. Ansys ...
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2007: All the Geeks agree quad core is hard core
The 2007 launch of HP workstations using Intel quad core CPUs was a milestone for technical graphics. Processes that previously ...
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Dassault Systèmes to deliver Amazon Web Services for V6 users
All Dassault brands with Version 6 technology will be able to take advantage of cloud deployment. High-performance simulation is still ...
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2007: ATI, NVIDIA Reach for High Performance Computing Status
2007 was a pivotal year in the advancement of computer graphics. Both AMD and Nvidia introduced new technologies for general-purpose ...
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3DVIA.com enters partnership with Sculpteo for a ‘3D print’ button
Dassault joins the list of CAD vendors with relationships to 3D printing services companies. Success of the crowdsourcing community model ...
