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Modo 701 is coming. Here’s a Preview of What to Expect.
Luxology announced earlier this week their new modo 701, and as expected there are a host of improvements including expanded animation features like audio playback and sound support. For those of you...
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How Rescale is Revamping the Idea of Cloud-based Simulation
You’re sitting at the computer waiting for an analysis to run. Suddenly a three-armed garden gnome with a smug look and a Garfield “Compute this” t-shirt offers to take your analysis pains away. He...
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BrickItUp Plans Real-time 3D Environment Creation and Collaboration
Are there not enough 3D creation, development and collaboration apps on the web? No sir, no there are not. Especially apps that take an approach that combines both the block-addicting fun of Minecraft...
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TeamPlatform Just Launched This Microsoft Project Killer
If the site of a Gantt chart makes you run through the plate glass window it’s taped to, you’re not alone. Often the faux project management appearance of multiple tasks, color-coded by personnel and...
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Sketchfab Launches Online Portfolio Site for 3D Professionals
Cracking your knuckles after a cup of Starbuck’s strongest may shoot vibes of professionalism across the coffee shop, but there’s one thing all 3D pros need more than a 6am caffeine fix… a decent...
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modo 701 is out! Here’s some new features to get excited about [video]
It’s no longer a secret–modo 701 is going to kick butt in major ways. Luxology’s Brad Peebler gave an online presentation this morning where he showed off the best of what’s new for those of us eager...
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Autodesk Drops the Design Beat with Updates to Design Suites
Tapping your fingers on the edge of your desk in rapid, chaotic motions may typically annoy your cube mates, but if you’re all users of one of the two Autodesk Design Suites or Simulation tools, it may...
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Autodesk Gamifies Science and Tech, Rolls Out Digital STEAM Apps [for kids]
I know you’ve had all you can take of the magical background music and gentle voice-overs coming from that Disney fairy app. It’s time to delete the horror that is dressing baby Tinkerbell (don’t ask...
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Autodesk Reveals Fusion 360 Pricing for Cloud-based 3D CAD
Wondering how the future of cloud-based 3D CAD is developing? More and more services are coming online with cloud-based offerings and Autodesk is certainly leading the way in both offloading processing...
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Alibre and Geomagic Combined. 3D Systems Releases Geomagic Design.
Remember Alibre? That’s what people will be saying after today (or may have already been saying.) Alibre is the company and makers of Alibre Design 3D modeling software that was acquired by 3D Systems...
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GrabCAD Workbench Launches. CAD File Viewing & Versioning For Engineers and...
Two weeks ago, GrabCAD launched Workbench. It’s not the worn countertop in your Grandpa’s garage. Rather, it lives on the internet surrounded by the warmth of Amazon’s S3 secure server architecture....
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Sunglass.io Updates Collaboration Platform, Announces $20 PDM
Your choices for web-based collaboration are ever-growing towers of storage, sharing and data-viewing options that are turning into quite the trend in the 3D software space. Sunglass was one of the...
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SolidWorks Model: 2500 CC’s of Porsche Carrera GT Surfacing for Your Gourd
Some would rather drive down Route 1 in a Porsche Carrera listening to Tiesto instead of modeling the exotic convertible in SolidWorks. If, however, you desire the later, you’ll want to pause your...
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Ultimaker Design Challenge: Design a 3D Printed Toy, Win a 3D Printer
Toys. What crotchety old man is the only person in the world who doesn’t like’em? That guy? Well, he can gum his pudding in shame, because GrabCAD is putting on a challenge to 3D print a toy and...
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Tinkercad is Back. Autodesk Acquires Site, Tech and Plans 123D Integration
Shouts of hooray and songs of delight are going out among fans of Tinkercad this morning. My kids are ecstatic and honestly, I am too. Tinkercad is back. Over the weekend, Tinkercad announced a deal...
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Sunglass.io Launches Library, Brings 400+ Suppliers to the Collaboration...
Here’s a quandry. How many supplier-certified parts and assemblies do you need to make your 3D viewing experience via the web worth it? What if you could not only view those models, but integrate them...
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SketchUp 2013 Launches: Extension Warehouse, LayOut Updates, Changes Name to...
Low and behold, the newest version of SketchUp has arrived. Come hither you geometry shaping device of delight. Since being acquired from Google by Trimble Navigation last April, the only update has...
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Autodesk Project M3D: View, Mark-up and Edit 3D Models on Your iPad.
Ya know, I was just looking at the letter ‘M’ this morning, thinking, you need an iPad app named after you, a 3D iPad app. There’s just something that goes together with M’s and apps… or, at least,...
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On Location: PTC Live Global 2013
There’s a crowd gathered in Anaheim, California. A crowd of engineers, designers, data administrators and others involved in the product development process who are interested in what’s to come in 3D...
View ArticleEngineerVsDesigner: E71 – PTC Live Global 2013 Special Edition
Well folks, this week we’ve been in Anaheim, California for this year’s 2013 PTC Live Global event. We had a chance to sit down with Brian Thompson, VP Product Management, CAD Segment and talked with...
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