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Aveva teases customers with new plant design product vision

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Randall Newton

Details are slim but the track record suggests a bold initiative that will blend engineering data with point clouds, with ...

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Autodesk extends ForceEffect to Android

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Randall Newton

The free engineering app so popular with students and pros alike is now in the Android store. When Autodesk launched ...

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Ansys buys Estrel Technologies for embedded systems engineering

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Randall Newton

Acquisition strengthens Ansys in simulation for mechatronics. ANSYS is acquiring Esterel Technologies, a provider of embedded software simulation solutions for ...

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Cyon Research opens 2012 engineering software user survey

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Randall Newton

Annual survey explores the business outlook and technology plans of firms that use CAD, CAE, PDM, PLM, and BIM software. ...

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Nvidia updates CUDA programming platform for GPUs

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Randall Newton

New features aim to make better use of GPUs for scientific and engineering simulation. Nvidia today released a major update ...

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Annual interoperability survey opens for participation

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Randall Newton

The seventh annual survey from Longview Advisors will examine trends and best practices in collaboration, data exchange and related issues. ...

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2007: Is 3DLive the start of the next big thing?

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Steve Wolfe

In 2007 Dassault Systèmes introduced 3DLive, a revolutionary approach to creating and viewing digital mock-ups. From the archives of Engineering ...

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Will engineers be creators or facilitators in the mass customization era?

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GfxS staff

Futurist Brian Seitz wonders; will the democratization of design fundamentally change the role of engineering? By Brian Seitz The engineering ...

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Guntert & Zimmerman Streamline Product Development with SolidWorks and Synergis Adept

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Randall Newton

When G&Z upgraded from AutoCAD to SolidWorks, its old Windows Explorer-based document management system could not keep up, and high-end ...

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Survey: Integrated Project Delivery Simultaneously Scary but Intriguing

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Randall Newton

A new ZweigWhite survey on attitudes toward IPD show both fear and longing. The results of a new AEC survey ...