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GrabCAD lands $1.1 million investment

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Randall Newton

The group of venture capitalists and angel investors includes several with CAD industry experience. GrabCAD, the CAD services marketplace, this ...

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Open source Aras PLM attracts advanced search solution

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Randall Newton

Based on the Apache Lucene search library, Discover Innovator from Northridge Software brings Google-like queries to the growing PLM suite. ...

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Why are there so few stock image collections for Photoshop 3D?

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Randall Newton

Tutorials on how to create Adobe Photoshop 3D imagery abound, but professional stock markets specializing in Photoshop 3D are still ...

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RevUp Render introduces RevUpVCS

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Kathleen Maher

RevUp Render, based in Alexandria, VA is offering cloud-based rendering services using Nvidia’s RealityServer and Mental Images iRay GPU-based rendering ...

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The potential for growth in stereoscopic 3D

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Randall Newton

The recent Dimension3 stereovision conference in Paris was a meeting of doers and market makers, not hobbyists or fans. Jon ...

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AVEVA reports record annual revenue of $286 million for FY 2011

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Randall Newton

The BRIC economies continue to be hot for the global vendor of plant design and operations software; North America is ...

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Vuuch product development social network migrates to Amazon web services

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Randall Newton

The move allows for new security and scalability features. Too many manufacturers don’t understand Vuuch because they expect yet another ...

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PTC Creo 1.0: Breakthrough technology?

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Randall Newton

PTC revenue from desktop products, primarily Pro/Engineer, have been slow for almost a decade. Will Creo turn things around? By ...

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Just how many Windows are coming?

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Jon Peddie

Intel is wasting no time in talking about the future of its CPUs and Microsoft Windows. Microsoft wishes Intel would ...

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MecSoft releases VisualXPORT for Autodesk Inventor

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Randall Newton

New plug-in allows direct transfer of Inventor data to VisualMILL for computer-aided-manufacturing. Competing solutions work as CAM add-ins to Inventor. ...