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Autodesk Fusion 360 Launches Today: CAD in the Cloud Free for 90 Days
After months of hype and speculation, the first Cloud-based CAD platform is here from Autodesk in the form of Fusion 360. At $25/month per license, a user can purchase their seat in the Cloud for less...
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Both Autodesk and GrabCAD have made some exciting announcements this week with Autodesk’s Fusion 360 launch on Tuesday and GrabCAD’s new Workbench which will allow even more powerful sharing features...
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Ask the Reader: SolidWorks 2014 Last to Support 32-Bit. Do You Care?
Looks as if 32-bit computing has one pudgy, incompatible leg in the ground. It’s been on it’s way out for years, but if you look in your computer’s Local Disk drive, you’ll still see a majority of...
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SimScale Shifts Loads of Simulation to the Web Browser
That’s right. Loads of simulation. Loads and loads of it. Pun totally intended. Engineering simulation is a beast. It can chew up your time and computing power like it’s binging on a massive mix of...
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Droid Fans Rejoice. SolidWorks eDrawings for Android Now Available.
Believe it folks. SolidWorks eDrawings for Android is real, living in a small bungalow at the corner of Google Play and awesome. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I’m not sure I would have believed...
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SketchFab Gets Their Sculpt On, Launches SculptFab
In a not too distant future, you’ll absorb your coffee through the air, control your home thermostat with third eyelash from your left eye and sculpt crazy alien faces in your browser. Actually, that...
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Elon Musk on the Future of Design: Motion Gestures, 3D Viewing and 3D Printing
In last week’s Cool Tools of Doom n’ Stuff, we mentioned Elon’s upcoming reveal for a gestured-controlled rocket design. Sure enough he shared the video yesterday via Twitter. This is Elon riding the...
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Autodesk Announces New Subscription ‘Pay As You Go’ Pricing on All Suites and...
Perhaps you were enjoying some light budgeting of software expenses over the weekend, following thoughts of monthly pricing with icy swigs of Portland’s best pale ale. Would paying monthly work better?...
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3-Sweep: Create 3D-Editable Objects from a Single 2D Photo or Sketch
As we all know, getting from 2D to 3D in various CAD packages has typically involved importing multiple sketches, centering at the origin of the XYZ, and building out from there. At the recent SIGGRAPH...
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Must Have App: Flatter Files Bakes Up SolidWorks and EPDM Integration for...
It wasn’t too long ago that Flatter Files was putting SolidWorks and AutoCAD files in your pocket. Ouch! Pardon your reach! Now they’ve churned out an update aimed at access to a wider array of content...
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It’s Official, the Free CAM Solution for Autodesk Inventor Is Here
Lo and behold, a wee update popped up on the Autodesk CAM page today. An update with a shiny ‘NEW’ badge to share that Autodesk has actually finished development of their very own native CAM app for...
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Keyshot Plugin Brings Eye-Melting Rendering Power to Autodesk Fusion 360
For those who have had the time to get their feet wet in Autodesk’s Cloud-based CAD platform Fusion 360, you might have been missing a few ingredients from your previous workflow in another CAD...
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SpaceClaim Doin’ It: Cloud Enabled 3D Model Collaboration
Lookout. SpaceClaim is doin’ it, doin’ the thing. I think we could have called this one. In fact, I think we did at some point. We knew SpaceClaim was pushing (and pulling) geometry-filled envelopes...
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Cubify Design: 3D Systems Adds a Third Member to 3D Design Software Family
Yesterday, 3D systems quietly unveiled a new member to their small family of modeling apps including Cubify Invent and Cubify Sculpt with their latest, Cubify Design. While Cubify Invent is their most...
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Autodesk Weaves Larger Acquisition Web. Announces Plan to Acquire Delcam.
Looks like Autodesk is celebrating their 2012 acquisition of a CAM software company… with the acquisition of another CAM software company. Out of the press, fresh this morning, comes the news that...
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3D Systems Has Packaging Party, Launches Geomagic Capture Scan n’ CAD Bundles
Why, just the other day, 3D Systems announce the Geomagic Sense scanner aimed at the home user and hobbyist with a few millimeters of accuracy and handheld coolness for $400 bones. Just think though,...
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Project Shapeshifter: Autodesk’s Easy-to-Use (and Free) Generative 3D Modeler...
Autodesk has been making headway with various announcements leading up to next week’s Autodesk University in Las Vegas. A little over a month ago we saw the release of their Project Miller preview,...
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‘Hatch Live’ Championship Weekend: Which Rhino Modeling Warrior Reigned...
Last month we reported on the opening weekend of the new Hatch Live tournament—a sort of Cut+Paste-like competition with the end goal of having a unique, manufacturable design. Well, after a month’s...
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Autodesk Slaps Manufacturing with Collaboration, Puts CAM in the Cloud
Autodesk is blowing off the metal shavings of static shop-side subtractive manufacturing, delivering the first of its kind collaborative CAM solution. Today, the software product/service company kicked...
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SpaceClaim Introduces First Live 3D CAD Collaboration (Cloud Not Required)
Hike up your pantlegs and show off that multilingual ‘I collaborate’ tattoo you mistakenly got on your calf last summer, SpaceClaim is providing good reason to get behind the possibilities of...
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