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Luxion releases updated plug-ins for SolidWorks, Rhino, Creo, Pro/Engineer, SketchUp

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Randall Newton

The KeyShot plug-in allows CAD data to be directly transferred from a modeling session into high-resolution rendering. Luxion has updated ...

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Autodesk’s year of living acquisitively

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Kathleen Maher

All divisions—including their new consumer products group—went shopping in 2011. Here’s our list of companies and technologies now part of ...

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Quantum dot filter displays are the next big thing

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Jon Peddie

Color purity and range have plateaued; new technology from Nanosys promises improvements. By Jon Peddie When LCD displays took over ...

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Mobile makes CAD industry submit to Joy’s Law in 2011

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Randall Newton

Most CAD vendors released at least one mobile app in 2011, but some felt pressured to do it.  Joy’s Law ...

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ArtRage realistic painting comes to iPhone 4

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Randall Newton

Ambient Design extends its “natural painting” iPad app to the smaller screen. Ambient Design has released ArtRage for iPhone 4, ...

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Study: Rich storytelling as important online as for TV, movies, or games

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Randall Newton

Forrester Research study shows leading advertisers are seeking out agencies with media design capabilities. Firms with rich digital media capabilities can ...

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Infinite Z launches zSpace virtual holographic 3D display for designers

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Randall Newton

Five years in the making, zSpace delivers a highly realistic 3D experience. zSpace will initially ship with support for Autodesk ...

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Dassault Systèmes ships new Catia Natural Sketch

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Randall Newton

The product is targeted to counter recent Autodesk gains in Catia shops with Alias Sketch and the growth of iPad ...

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Khronos Group updates OpenCL

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Randall Newton

OpenCL is designed to empower graphics processing units for non-graphical computing. The additions to the consortium-driven Open Computing Language include ...

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Adobe rolls out Android apps

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Kathleen Maher

The six new products are $9.95 each and designed with professionals in mind. Adobe has unveiled a set of new ...