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Excellent new white paper compares four neutral 3D formats

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Randall Newton

If you don’t understand the differences between STEP, 3D XML, JT, and 3D PDF, this free white paper from interoperability ...

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CUDA 4.0 Toolkit now publicly available

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Randall Newton

The latest release-candidate version enables software developers to port their applications to Nvidia Graphic Processor Units. NVIDIA today announced the ...

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Autodesk rides the manufacturing rebound

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Randall Newton

Business trend lines show industrial growth, and Autodesk sees itself beating its peer group for the new business. A year ...

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Siemens PLM launches Teamcenter Mobility for iPad

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Randall Newton

Five million Teamcenter PLM users are today adding the Apple iPad to their requisition lists. This is the first PLM ...

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US Air Force civil engineering to buy $26 million in Autodesk software

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Randall Newton

The five-year deal was the work of reseller DLT Solution. Autodesk today announced the United States Air Force Office of ...

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The SmartGeometry Conference explores new approaches to design

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Kathleen Maher

Copenhagen was the site of this year’s SmartGeometry Conference, a heady blend of theory and practice that lets participants unplug ...

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NEi Software releases FEA iPhone app

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Randall Newton

NEi Stratus uses cloud technology to provide basic finite element analysis and viewing. FEA on demand, anyone? NEi Software has ...

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Image Metrics looks for new opportunities

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Kathleen Maher

Image Metrics, best known for its facial animation technology used in leading games, surprised the industry with a reverse merger ...

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Hair today … Cebas and Cyber Radiance team up

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Kathleen Maher

Rendering companies make alliances and field new products. Cebas Visual Technology, yet another up and coming rendering company, has announced ...

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Researchers discover ‘pruned’ microchips are faster, smaller, more energy-efficient

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Randall Newton

A research consortium have discovered a techique to make average computer chips better by trimming away rarely used circuits. Error ...