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Proficiency Collaboration Gateway adds Autodesk Inventor translator

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Randall Newton

Inventor is the first mid-range MCAD product to be supported by Collaboration Gateway. All parts, assemblies, and related data can ...

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Inventor of the Year nominees read like a small manufacturer’s hall of fame

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Randall Newton

Autodesk asks its users to select a winner from 12 nominees. All have used engineering software to competitive advantage. For ...

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Manufacture comes home

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Kathleen Maher

The future is always different than we think it will be. There are people working to completely revamp the process ...

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Aras PLM joins Autodesk Partner Program

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Randall Newton

In enterprise PLM only Aras is built on a 100% Microsoft stack, matching the IT of Autodesk Inventor users. Autodesk ...

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Autodesk releases 123D Sculpt for iPad

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Randall Newton

The child of Inventor Fusion and Sketchbook Pro technologies, we speculate the ability to 3D print iPad digital sculptures can’t ...

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Autodesk buys a DIY online recipe book

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Randall Newton

Autodesk acquires Instructables, extending its reach into the growing Maker Movement. The CAD industry is arming in a new war ...

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2008: RIP Autodesk Mechanical Desktop

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GfxS staff

When Autodesk Inventor was initially launched, Autodesk said it would keep Mechanical Desktop alive for three more releases. When it ...

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2007: Autodesk licenses ImpactXoft technologies

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GfxS staff

ImpactXoft played an important role in the development of feature modeling in mechanical CAD. Their work has influenced the current ...

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Siemens PLM’s Newbury sees bright future for Solid Edge and mainstream PLM

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Randall Newton

Solid Edge was a hidden nugget when Siemens acquired the former UGS; under Newbury’s leadership the nugget is getting polished. ...

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MecSoft releases VisualXPORT for Autodesk Inventor

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Randall Newton

New plug-in allows direct transfer of Inventor data to VisualMILL for computer-aided-manufacturing. Competing solutions work as CAM add-ins to Inventor. ...