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Good-bye Pro/Engineer: PTC launches the Creo era

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Randall Newton

The company that invented contemporary mechanical CAD looks to re-invent itself with a suite of apps that solve “the lingering, ...

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Autodesk Announces AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD WS App for iPad and iPhone

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Randall Newton

The worst-kept secret in software is out; Autodesk returns to the Macintosh platform with a new version of AutoCAD, and ...

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2008: “3D Manufacturing Innovation” Explains the Japanese Quest for an Alternative to PLM

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Randall Newton

The Japanese are ready to embrace 3D in manufacturing. But they have little interest in the Western top-down, design-driven linear ...

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Dassault Systemes Joins the FreeCAD Fight

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Kathleen Maher

DraftSight is the latest free 2D DWG CAD product from an AutoCAD competitor. It comes as both a software product ...