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2008: Wide-Ranging Autodesk lawsuit boils down to three letters: D-W-G

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GfxS staff

In 2008 Autodesk filed a federal lawsuit against Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks, opening another front on its DWG litigation war. While ...

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2007: Oracle acquires Agile in $495 million bid to become PLM leader

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GfxS staff

In hindsight, this acquisition was just one of many; Oracle assimilated Agile and moved on. Here’s what it looked like ...

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AEC startups Horizontal and Ziggurat launch cloud BIM partnership

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Randall Newton

The two plan to carve out a niche as the ‘best of breed’ in 3D BIM project collaboration for existing ...

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Open Design Alliance adds raster library, Android support to Teigha update

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Randall Newton

The raster support comes from an open source library used by 90 products. The Android support is an API in ...

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Autodesk introduces AutoCAD 2012 App Store

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Kathleen Maher

Not content with selling Sketchbook or the occasional quirky app on the Apple iStore, Autodesk takes the initiative, and a ...

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3Dconnexion passes 1 million 3D mouse milestone

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Randall Newton

The Logitech subsidiary got its start creating a 3D controller for Space Shuttle Columbia. 3D mice are now the must-have ...

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Upstart vendor Eurocom offers heavy, powerful mobile workstation

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Randall Newton

Deskside workstations continue to outnumber mobile units by a wide margin. Alex Herrera explains why this won’t change anytime soon. ...

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2011 is a year of transition for the CAD industry

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Randall Newton

Our Editor-in-Chief reviews the year in CAD and looks ahead to 2011. At least it wasn’t 2009. By Kathleen Maher ...

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Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman Planning Second Interoperability Summit

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Randall Newton

This second “Global Product Data Interoperability Summit” promises to be another excellent open and product-agnostic forum. The Boeing Company and ...

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CAD Moves to New Platforms, Expands Its Territory

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Randall Newton

We are moving into a new era of computing. But exactly how Cloud-based computing will affect CAD and related technologies ...