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Thursday, April 11th, 2013
In a press release issued today, Luxion announced that Delcam will use KeyShot as its rendering solution, initially for their Shoemaker Pro and Designer products, and then later for their other CAD/CAM products. Click to enlarge Delcam Shoemaker Pro is the company’s design solution for the footwear industry. Whereas Delcam Designer is a 3D modeling [...]
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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
IMSI/Design has release version 20 of TurboCAD Pro ($1,495) and TurboCAD Pro Platinum ($1,695). You can read all about the new features from this press release. The one that impressed me was the realistic rendering features thanks to the new RedSDK Rendering Engine from Redway3D. Here are a few examples. Another nice feature is the [...]
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Friday, February 8th, 2013
Autodesk has an “Inventor of the Month” award which recognizes the innovative use of their Digital Prototyping tools. Every year the manufacturing community votes for one of these twelve Inventor of the month winners to become the Inventor of the Year. Voting has begun for the 2012 Inventor of the Year. You can learn about [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2013
Cyon Research has announced its annual survey of engineering software users. The survey takes about 40 minutes to complete, which I think is a bit much. However, if you manage to complete it you will be rewarded with the report created from the results of the survey for which CAD software vendors and resellers end [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Today ZWSoft issued a press release announcing that ZW3D 2013 is scheduled to be released in March 2013. However anyone purchasing a license from today onwards will get a free upgrade to ZWCAD 2013 when it releases. Click to enlarge
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
Today IronCAD released the 2013 version of their Design Collaboration Suite comprising of IRONCAD, INOVATE, IRONCAD DRAFT and IRONCAD TRANS and IRONCAD COMPOSE. IRONCAD COMPOSE is the new addition to the suite (see “Free Product Configuration With IRONCAD COMPOSE“). An exhaustive list of what’s new in IronCAD DCS 2013 can be found here. Here are [...]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Today seems to be a day of acquisitions. First there was this Autodesk press release announcing the acquisition of certain assets of Inforbix, the company co-founded by my good friend Oleg Shilovitsky. The Inforbix web site has this interesting notice on it today. Autodesk has acquired the technology of Inforbix. More information is available on [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Yesterday Chinese CAD software vendor ZWSoft released ZWCAD Mechanical, its ZWCAD vertical for manufacturing. The press release highlights “functional features in drawing setting, BOM filling and editing, flexible dimensioning and symbol marking“. ZWSoft has an interesting comparison between ZWCAD Mechanical 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2013 (not 2013). You can download a 30 day trial of [...]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Today Spatial released the twenty third version of 3D InterOp, its 3D data exchange libraries, and 3D ACIS Modeler, its 3D modeling kernel. From the release notes of this version I see that are some pretty neat enhancements. One of them made me say to myself, “At last!”. The 3D InterOp SolidWorks Reader is being [...]
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