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Race car brake maker Alcon thrives on SolidCAM + SolidWorks

BY
Randall Newton

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

BY
Randall Newton

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

BY
Randall Newton

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

BY
Randall Newton

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

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GfxS staff

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

BY
Randall Newton

Dassault joins the list of CAD vendors with relationships to 3D printing services companies. Success of the crowdsourcing community model ...

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2007: Autodesk licenses ImpactXoft technologies

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GfxS staff

ImpactXoft played an important role in the development of feature modeling in mechanical CAD. Their work has influenced the current ...

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Autodesk updates DWG to Google Earth utility

BY
Randall Newton

The most popular Autodesk Labs add-on is now compatible with  AutoCAD 2012. Autodesk has updated its utility for posting DWG ...

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Mass Customization, the 3D-literate consumer and the future of engineering software

BY
Randall Newton

What happens when everyone is a maker? By Randall S. Newton For years, those of us who are paid to ...

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2007: Doing Your Own Online 3D Parts Catalogs

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GfxS staff

3D online part catalogs are proliferating, rapidly. An overview originally published in the January 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, ...