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2010-2011 in CAD technology, the illustrated version, part 1

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Randall Newton

Not your usual article of reflection and prediction. It is December, the traditional time in journalism to take a look ...

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Apollo 13 heroes keynote speakers at SolidWorks World 2011

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Randall Newton

Two of the men who helped save the Apollo 13 crew 40 years ago by finding ingenious solutions to catastrophic ...

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Dassault, Siemens PLM play PR tug-of-war with Ford as the rope

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Randall Newton

Dueling Banjos would be a good song to play in the background as you read about the latest skirmish in ...

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HP ePrint & Share brings cloud collaboration to printing

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Randall Newton

HP came to Autodesk University to show off its latest wide-format printer. Editor-in-Chief Kathleen Maher gets up close and personal. ...

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ODA ships cross-platform DWG/DGN viewer

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Randall Newton

A new free CAD file viewer doubles as a test platform for Open Design Alliance members. The Open Design Alliance ...

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Busy Autodesk looks wistfully to the clouds

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Kathleen Maher

A variety of new and novel technologies were on display at Autodesk University 2010 last week. Autodesk is the first ...

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Workstation market in third quarter up 31%

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Randall Newton

Jon Peddie Research reports continued strength in the workstation market but sees cautionary signs as well. The workstation market continued ...

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Daimler comments on switch from Catia to NX

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Randall Newton

A German IT magazine has gotten comment from Daimler AG regarding its switch of 3D CAD from Dassault Systemes’ Catia ...

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AutoCAD WS iOS app adds offline editing

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Randall Newton

Downloads of Autodesk’s popular iOS app have topped 500,000. Offline access to drawings has been added to the popular AutoCAD ...

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The Foundry introduces Mari, 3D paint for large models

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Kathleen Maher

The Foundry makes content creation software and it’s taking the movie business by storm. It’s latest tool, Mari, is a ...