Collaborative workspaces are the new frontier for CAD. 3D Systems now has all the fundamental pieces for its fifth growth initiative. 3D Systems has acquired TeamPlatform, a cloud-based, collaborative design and project management platform. 3D Systems plans to immediately integrate the TeamPlatform technology into both its professional and consumer offerings, including Geomagic Solutions and Cubify.com. TeamPlatform allows product design, … Read more
As the inventor of a key texture process for plastics, Mold-Tech cosmetics are in high demand. KeyShot now provides these textures for drag-and-drop visualization. Luxion has expanded the number of proprietary textures available for product visualization in KeyShot with a new partnership that brings Mold-Tech textures into the mix. Mold-Tech invented the texturization process now … Read more
With built-in links to YouTube and GrabCAD, and a new online community to replace online help, Siemens is making Solid Edge a leader in using social tools for design. For the past five years updates to Solid Edge 3D CAD have mostly been about Synchronous Technology, the logic engine Siemens PLM uses to allow both … Read more
Solid Edge University 2012 showcases the new Solid Edge ST6 with productivity enhancements, sheet metal tools, surfacing improvements, and collaboration.
Along with engineering community GrabCAD and social innovation platform Nine Sigma, GE intends to push the boundaries of advanced manufacturing by tapping the wisdom of crowds. General Electric is teaming up with engineering community website GrabCAD and social innovation site Nine Sigma to use crowdsourcing as a design strategy. Two design challenges—one for a jet … Read more
Lagoa MultiOptics is an unbiased physical rendering solution that allows multiple users to share real-time rendering and viewing. When we first reported on Lagoa in GraphicSpeak back in 2010, the essentially one-man company had just licensed multi-physics simulation technology to Autodesk for use inside Softimage. The Lagoa framework helps animators create realistic simulations of the … Read more
The founders are pivoting their work to Airstone Labs to create a cloud-based simulation platform for manufacturing. Today Tinkercad announced it is phasing out its cloud-based 3D CAD software. Users have until June 30, 2014 to finish their use of the service. Effective today the Tinkercad.com home page shows a letter from the company announcing … Read more
Sunglass adds management tools to its existing 3D viewing and collaboration in an effort to enhance the ability to collaborate in the design process. Models can slide back and forth between desktop CAD and web viewing. The company claims to be the first to enable cross format access. Browser-based 3D design collaboration software Sunglass opens … Read more
To demonstrate the capabilities of the API, Sunglass programmers have released connectors for several popular products including SolidWorks, SketchUp, and Rhino. Today cloud-based CAD collaboration site Sunglass releases an application programming interface (API) for direct integration with existing CAD products. To introduce the capabilities of the new API, Sunglass is releasing connectors based on the … Read more
The KeyShot plug-in allows CAD data to be directly transferred from a modeling session into high-resolution rendering. Luxion has updated its 3D CAD plug-ins for direct import into KeyShot, its real-time ray tracing and global illumination software. The updated plugins link PTC Creo 1.0; PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3, 4 and 5; McNeel and Associates Rhinoceros … Read more
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