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2007: Doing Your Own Online 3D Parts Catalogs

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GfxS staff

3D online part catalogs are proliferating, rapidly. An overview originally published in the January 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, ...

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SMBs and the rise of global product development

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GfxS staff

For several years debate has raged in product development over the benefits vs. drawbacks of outsourcing and/or offshoring. This article ...

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2007: SAP PLM Road Map: High-Speed Rail Line or Head-On Train Wreck?

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GfxS staff

In detailed plans that read more like an internal memo than a press release, SAP announced a four-year road map ...

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2007: A Primer on MCAD modeling technology, part 1: It’s all about the trees

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GfxS staff

Either a CAD modeler uses a structure tree, or it doesn’t; Paul Hamilton explains all. Originally published August 2007 in ...

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2007: PLM products for hazardous substance compliance management

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GfxS staff

RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) compliance issues have taken center stage for many ...

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2007: Anark Core offers new approach to sharing CAD data while protecting intellectual property

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Randall Newton

Core uses a ‘recipe’ methodology to transform 3D data so that a user can select exactly what information—no more and ...

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2007: ATI, NVIDIA Reach for High Performance Computing Status

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Randall Newton

An early introduction to general purpose computing on graphics processing units, as envisioned in 2007 by Nvidia and AMD. Originally ...

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The Way of Rhino Part 2: Behold the CAD Whisperer

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Randall Newton

Second in a four-part series, originally published in 2007 in CADCAMNET and Engineering Automation Report By Randall S. Newton Money ...

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2001: RAND Worldwide Overview

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Randall Newton

From the April 2001 edition of Engineering Automation Report, engineering business analyst Evan Yares takes a close look at RAND ...