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Autodesk Inventor Mobile Viewer for iOS Brings 3D to Shop Floor

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Randall Newton

The new viewer allows 3D animations and related documentation to reach the shop floor on an iPod or iPhone. I’ve ...

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Open Source 3D Animation Dragon Tale Gets 1 Million Hits in First Week Online

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Randall Newton

Sintel is the third short film created using the open source 3D content creation suite Blender. The free open source ...

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AutoCAD WS for iPhone & iPad Now Available

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Randall Newton

A new iPhone/iPad application for viewing AutoCAD DWG files is now available for download at the Apple iTunes App Store. ...

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Jay Leno’s Garage Plays with ‘Cool Stuff’ from Autodesk, Geomagic, Faro

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Randall Newton

The current episode of  “Jay Leno’s Garage” introduces car rebuilding enthusiasts to using additive manufacturing to replace rare parts. You’d ...

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Anark and Lattice Team Up for Interactive Publishing in 3D PDF

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Kathleen Maher

One of the challenges of 3D CAD modeling can be that there’s too much information for some tasks including rendering, ...

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SolidThinking Rethinks Industrial Design

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Kathleen Maher

SolidThinking, Inc. shook up MacWorld in 2009 with their product for industrial design that ran on both Mac and Windows. ...

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Adobe Has Record-Breaking Quarter — Shares Drop

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Kathleen Maher

Adobe announced a revenue boost for the third quarter of 2010 as a result of the company’s successful release of ...

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Meet the New Boss: Chuck Grindstaff to Become President of Siemens PLM

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Kathleen Maher

Chuck Grindstaff, the CTO and EVP of Products for Siemens PLM will take over as president of the group on October 1. He will replace Helmuth Ludwig who will handle corporate communications for Siemens Industry Automation. With this announcement, Siemens signals that the transition of the former Unigraphics company into the considerably larger Siemens AG is complete.

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Dassault Systémes to Consolidate North American Headquarters

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Randall Newton

Employees from the Solidworks, ENOVIA, and 3DVIA divisions will be the initial occupants of the new building. This is the ...

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The Era of Democratized Visualization Has Begun

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Randall Newton

The cost of professional visualization has plummeted and the value skyrocketed. Jon Peddie predicts a resurgence in the visualization market, ...