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Free NGrain Producer creates 3D animations from existing 3D models

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Randall Newton

Animations can be exported to PowerPoint, PDF, Word, or HTML. A paid version provides advanced authoring capabilities. NGrain makes software ...

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Bentley keeps pace; weathers 2012

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Kathleen Maher

Bentley Systems is a private company, but they annually release selected revenue figures. The company announced $523 million in revenue ...

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Bentley comes together in Amsterdam

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Kathleen Maher

Bentley Systems has wider interests in the field of infrastructure design and construction.

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Ares Commander update causes ripple effect

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Randall Newton

CorelCAD is also updated today and DraftSight will be shortly; both use Graebert’s Ares technology. A consistent market remains for ...

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PTC releases shake-and-break Creo View Mobile for iOS

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Randall Newton

18 months after its first preview, Creo users have a way to use and share models in the iPad/iPhone environment. ...

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GstarCAD release free version of tablet CAD viewer

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Randall Newton

The viewer can now read DWG drawings directly, eliminating need for a desktop conversion. Beijing-based CAD developer GstarCAD has release ...

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Perfect Shelf brings 3D to retail planning

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Randall Newton

Procter & Gamble has been working closely with Dassault Systèmes in developing ways to use 3D and PLM methods in ...

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Eye-tracking poised to become a standard computer-graphics feature

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Steve Wolfe

SolidWorks is only one of many companies looking to incorporate eye tracking into future updates to the user interface.   ...

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Video: Jon Peddie on GPUs and CAD industry

BY
Randall Newton

When CPUs went from faster to wider and GPUs became parallel processors, CAD vendors were caught in a bind. At ...

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Autodesk increasing prices in August

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Randall Newton

Discounts for upgrading older software are going away, and the price of upgrading recent releases is going up. Autodesk dealers ...