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Autodesk buys into Frank Gehry’s Catia-powered think tank

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The “strategic relationship” with Gehry Technologies provides Autodesk with world-class consulting and GT with money and training to expand the ...

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Autodesk scoops up 3D point cloud innovator Alice Labs

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Studio Clouds edits point clouds for use in 3ds Max and Maya and displays with game engine speed. Everyone is ...

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Another disruptive Autodesk cloud: Moldflow Insight WS for on-call injection molding simulation

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The former Autodesk Labs Project Cumulus moves sophisticated injection molding simulation from the desktop to an on-call cloud. Autodesk is ...

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Rand Worldwide says fiscal 2011 ended with “excellent” results

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Because of its 2010 merger with Avatech Solutions and the juggling of its fiscal calendar, comparions with prior periods are ...

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Autodesk takes a big step into The Cloud

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A new portfolio of web services will focus on file sharing, rendering, and simulation. The goal is to extend the ...

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Project Falcon puts a wind tunnel simulator inside Alias

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Autodesk is exploring a new simulation meshing technology for real time results, by trying it out inside industrial design. For ...

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Exocortex updates Momentum multi-physics engine for Softimage

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A fracture engine tops the list of new features. This update makes heavy use of the popular ICE programming technology ...

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Autodesk releases Revit IFC Exporter as open source

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Revit users who rely on IFCs now have more flexibility in coding objects and models. Autodesk today released its Industry ...

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Autodesk Motion FX transforms movement into special effects

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New free app for Mac OS Lion users creates smoke, fire, and other effects in real time using the FaceTime ...

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Nvidia Iray and GPUs supercharge Mercedes Benz visualizations

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Freelance CG artist Jeff Patton went from one hour per rendering to eight minutes inside Autodesk 3ds Max. Jeff Patton ...