The trouble with PDM Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2008 Making the decision to deploy a Product Document Management (PDM) system seems easy enough. To actually pick the correct system,…
Beyond the mouse and keyboard Posted by Greg Corke - August 7, 2008 Recent research shows that dedicated 3D control devices can have a major impact on design, but should we look to…
AMD rebrands while Nvidia gears up for extravaganza Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 14, 2008 AMD’s legendary ATI Fire GL brand, which was made famous by Diamond Multimedia ten years ago, is no more. AMD…
NVIDIA launches GPU based ray tracing at Siggraph Posted by Al Dean - August 14, 2008 NVIDIA has announced that it can calculate ray traced imagery on the fly using its GPUs, claiming an industry first.…
Plastic fantastic Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 18, 2008 A nifty preview of Inventor’s Plastic Features Technology has been offered up on Autodesk Labs, giving users the chance to…
‘Flexible Software Delivery’ becomes Autodesk’s buzzword of the week Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 21, 2008 Cleverly upgrading their subscriber services in the same week that Solidworks have managed to anger some of their customers, AutoCAD’s…
Joining the dots Posted by DEVELOP3D - August 25, 2008 Ping Fu is CEO of Geomagic, one of the leading Digital Shape Sampling and Processing (DSSP) companies. Its software enables…
What’s stopping users from exploring new functionality in their product development environment? Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 12, 2008 What is it that is stopping users from exploring new functionality in their workhorse product development environment? Al Dean wonders…
Rob Jamieson reports from SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 23, 2008 SIGGRAPH is becoming increasingly focussed on CAD with plenty of new graphics-centric technologies on show. Finding time to see them,…
Dassault Systemes: Beyond Catia Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 24, 2008 Over the past few years, Dassault Systemes' has seemingly been constantly reshaping and innovating its business and product lines in…