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Southpaw releases Tactic production asset management as open source

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Randall Newton

Southpaw follows in the footsteps of Blender, Acquia, and Aras by giving away the software and making money on support ...

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Customers are driving the next round of innovation

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Kathleen Maher

3D graphics have hit a tipping point. Vendors are reaching out to users to help drive innovation. By Kathleen Maher ...

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Open source Aras releases commercial PLM solution for SolidWorks

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Randall Newton

“Aras Enterprise PLM for SolidWorks Enterprise PDM” fills a hole in the SolidWorks marketplace as big as its name is ...

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Autodesk releases Revit IFC Exporter as open source

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Randall Newton

Revit users who rely on IFCs now have more flexibility in coding objects and models. Autodesk today released its Industry ...

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Blender keeps churning out free top-quality 3D modeling and animation

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Kathleen Maher

The lines were long and the buzz was good around the Blender booth at Siggraph 2011. Blender has come a ...

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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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Open source Aras PLM attracts advanced search solution

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Randall Newton

Based on the Apache Lucene search library, Discover Innovator from Northridge Software brings Google-like queries to the growing PLM suite. ...

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ShapeSpace brings 3D geometric search to open source Aras PLM

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Randall Newton

Aras scores its best partnership yet by linking up with this cutting-edge 3D tool. Aras has landed another technology partnership ...

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Open Source 3D Animation Dragon Tale Gets 1 Million Hits in First Week Online

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Randall Newton

Sintel is the third short film created using the open source 3D content creation suite Blender. The free open source ...

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How Aras Makes Money by Giving Away PLM Software

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Randall Newton

Aras Corporation is the small but successful publisher of Aras Innovator, an open source enterprise PLM suite. “Open source” means ...