GrabCAD + Stratasys acquisition – A background and a few thoughts. Posted by Al Dean - September 16, 2014 3D printing giants Stratasys has acquired GrabCAD, adding to it a seriously experienced team If there’s something that’s a source…
GrabCAD hit the movies helping to realise Terry Gilliam’s sic-fi designs Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 11, 2014 Terry Gilliam’s latest Sci-Fi epic was assisted in the prop-building stage by GrabCAD’s Workbench collaboration tool Fans of the batshit-crazy…
NaviSite introduces Desktop-as-a-Service solution for 3D CAD Posted by Greg Corke - September 9, 2014 NaviSite’s Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution is optimised for 3D graphical workloads by using Nvidia GRID technology. NaviSite is…
CAD News: Tech Soft 3D to Sell MachineWorks Polygonica Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 8, 2014 Mesh-modelling toolkit Polygonica is now available from Tech Soft Increasing its toolkit offerings, Tech Soft 3D is now offering Polygonica…
3D Coat – for making your SubD CAD models dance Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 28, 2014 Retopology tools like 3D Coat reduce the number of polygons of SubD models, making them ready for animation As more…
Theorem releases Multi-CAD ‘CADverter’ for PTC Creo Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 19, 2014 Theorem’s Multi-CAD plug-in allows PTC Creo data to work interactively within Catia Theorem Solutions has launched Multi-CAD, a new ‘smart…
DST SimWise 4D expands its offerings to include FEA, Optimisation and CAD integration Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 18, 2014 Despite calling itself a ‘value proposition’ DST SimWise 9.5 crams a lot into one package Billing itself as the ‘affordable…
SPEC pushes forward with new CAD-focused 3D benchmarks Posted by Greg Corke - August 15, 2014 Fulmine Concept car from the SPECapc benchmark for SolidWorks 2013 SPEC’s application performance characterization (SPECapc) group, the non-profit organisation that…
OTOY to put CAD in the cloud with X.IO app streaming service Posted by Greg Corke - August 14, 2014 OTOY’s OctaneRender software running via X.IO App Streaming OTOY is hoping to establish itself as a key component supplier for…
AMD unveils new FirePro GPUs and seeks professional CAD apps for its Mantle graphics API Posted by Greg Corke - August 12, 2014 Today at Siggraph, AMD unveiled four new cards to complete its next generation family of professional FirePro GPUs based on…