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Tinkercad celebrates its 10th birthday

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Kathleen Maher

Free 3D CAD tool claims 35 million users. Tinkercad was born of a desire to extend 3D CAD and along ...

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Autodesk finds an edge in generative design

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Kathleen Maher

It starts with a simple design: the chair. Autodesk has numerous small projects for its generative design program, including its ...

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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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High-end CAD features have migrated to low-price CAD

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GfxS staff

TurboCAD and BricsCAD are rewriting the notion that it takes a $5,000 CAD program to do specialized tasks.   By ...

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Onshape extends its 3D cloud CAD with sheet metal design

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Randall Newton

“Simultaneous Sheet Metal” technology lets users work concurrently on flat, folded and bend table representations. Onshape today released new sheet ...

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Survey finds BIM use tops 38% across AEC disciplines

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Randall Newton

A majority of potential users have not yet migrated to building information modeling. The most recent CAD market survey from ...

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Shapr3D offers iPad Pro-only 3D CAD

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Amina Saeed

Intended for early design work, Shapr3D supports common 3D export formats. Don’t expect Android anytime soon. Shapr3D is gaining attention ...

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SPECapc releases new benchmark for Siemens NX

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Randall Newton

A complete redesign offers new models, latest graphics display modes and a fresh GUI. The non-profit group SPEC has released ...

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PTC immerses its users in the Internet of Things

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Randall Newton

From introducing recent acquisition ThingWorx to buying a systems engineering specialist, PTC wants its users to think big about making ...

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Siemens NX 9 beefs up synchronous technology, adds freeform design tools

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Randall Newton

From editing 2D drafting files to working with monstrous 3D assemblies, NX continues to be a force in CAD. Siemens ...

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