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KeyShot at SWW19

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Kathleen Maher

Improved integration with SolidWorks and other CAD programs; support for motion studies. Revisiting KeyShot, a dedicated rendering tool for CAD ...

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AMD at SolidWorks World

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Kathleen Maher

The new graphics engine for SolidWorks demands professional graphics. Rendering and VR are strong messages for graphics vendors at SolidWorks ...

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Nvidia showcases VR, AR, and rendering at SolidWorks World 2019

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Kathleen Maher

Offers new features to lure 3D CAD users to the Turing generation. At SolidWorks World 2019, Nvidia was selling the ...

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Ray tracing is everywhere—you might not have known that

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Jon Peddie

The latest ray racing report by Jon Peddie Research discusses the suppliers, the programs, and includes marketing data to help ...

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New releases tumble out of the ODA

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Kathleen Maher

The Open Design Alliance has shipped new releases of its software at the opening of 2019 including updates for Visualize, Drawings, Civil 2019.2, which now has clash detection. Clash detection is especially used in piping applications, but also for AEC and any engineering process. It can be set to run on a static model to find all clashes and it can be associated with objects to detect clashes as objects are moved.

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Big year for graphics in the Academy’s Science and Technical Awards

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Kathleen Maher

Maxon gets its first award, Adobe stacks up a few more; motion graphics gets the spotlight. The Academy Awards have been announced ...

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Cool cube render machine from Azultec

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Jon Peddie

Compact, quiet design with high-powered processors manages eco-friendliness. Back in 2015 when the crypto-mining boom was taking off, one of ...

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Foundry introduces Flix 6.0 to improve workflows, traceability, and communication

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Kathleen Maher

The Foundry is making collaboration an important feature in their portfolio of projects. The company’s pre-production tool Flix is an ...

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Blender celebrates its 25th birthday

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Kathleen Maher

New versions, new members, new enthusiasm The path of Blender as a company and an organization has never been straight. ...

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Graebert updates its Ares line of products

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Kathleen Maher

New features including 3D tools and customizable blocks. Graebert introduced its latest CAD engine at the end of 2018 and ...