A private beta begins today for its app store and API, as Onshape seeks to build a complete ecosystem around its cloud CAD product. Cloud-based mechanical CAD startup Onshape went from open beta to commercial release today, having logged 400,000 user hours since its March 2015 debut. Now the challenge for the team lead by SolidWorks founders is to build a business and an … [Read more...] about Onshape moves to commercial release
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Startup Figma takes on Adobe in UI design
With $14 million in venture capital, Figma wants to be the Onshape of interface design. San Francisco startup Figma has gone live with a free preview version of its cloud-based design product for user interface. Founder Dylan Field believes dominant player Adobe “doesn’t understand collaboration” and is leading an effort to make cloud-based collaboration the norm for interface … [Read more...] about Startup Figma takes on Adobe in UI design
Simulation of real-world forces in latest Autodesk Fusion 360 update
New collaboration tools are not a free-for all, but eliminate lag time from review cycles by enabling review and comment in real time from any computer. Autodesk continues meeting its almost-a-promise to deliver meaningful updates every six weeks to its hybrid cloud-client MCAD Fusion 360, this time with its first move into simulation and collaboration. A new workspace … [Read more...] about Simulation of real-world forces in latest Autodesk Fusion 360 update
Two 3D development platforms on one license
TechSoft 3D offers HOOPS as complementary Cloud and Desktop development kits. Tech Soft 3D, a leading developer of 3D software development toolkits, has streamlined its HOOPS platform into two complementary platforms. Today the company releases HOOPS Cloud Platform and HOOPS Desktop Platform, which software developers can use to provide 3D CAD data exchange, visualization, and … [Read more...] about Two 3D development platforms on one license
Latest Bentley acquisition offers construction management in the cloud
The myriad details of construction are organized into dashboards charts that update in real time. Bentley’s most recent acquisition is a cloud-based approach to construction management. EADOC, based in Oakland, California, provides software to systematically track construction project documentation including design clarifications, inspectors’ daily reports, special … [Read more...] about Latest Bentley acquisition offers construction management in the cloud
Cloud simulation specialist SimScale reaches 10,000 customers
Two rounds of venture funding are propelling this spin-out from Technical University Munich. A new web-based (cloud) platform for engineering simulation has reached a milestone with the recent signup of its 10,00th paying customer. SimScale provides a broad range of simulation tools from fluid mechanics, structural mechanics and thermodynamics in a single user interface, … [Read more...] about Cloud simulation specialist SimScale reaches 10,000 customers
ODA releases Teigha Cloud beta
Adding support for browser-based rendering and drawing editing is a major goal for the alliance. The Open Design Alliance (ODA) has released its first beta of a cloud framework for use by the developers of design software compatible with the .dwg format. The goal is to provide a framework for member companies to add browser-based features to their software products. The … [Read more...] about ODA releases Teigha Cloud beta
Thinkbox Deadline 7 offers flexible cloud support
Render local, in the cloud, or both using the new Cloud Wizard. Thinkbox Software has released an update to Deadline, its compute management solution for digital media assets that includes new virtual machine capabilities to extend compute resources on demand. Other enhancements including spot rendering of selected regions, support for more products, sharding out of the box, … [Read more...] about Thinkbox Deadline 7 offers flexible cloud support
Google acquires cloud rendering service Zync
Zync offers an on-demand render farm service that scales from one core to thousands of CPUs. Amazon loses a small but influential cloud services reseller. Google has acquired Zync, which offers a cloud-based rendering service for special effects. The small firm has previously provided render farm services for recent films including Flight, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Star … [Read more...] about Google acquires cloud rendering service Zync
ODA adds cloud technology to Teigha CAD engine
The new client will allow developers to create mobile versions with a variety of standard rendering features. The Open Design Alliance has updated its Teigha software development platform with a new cloud-based framework for rendering. ODA members may use the Teigha 4.0 to write mobile or desktop CAD applications which use Teigha Cloud to provide WebGL-based graphics … [Read more...] about ODA adds cloud technology to Teigha CAD engine