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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…

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And then there were three: Autodesk boosts its simulation powers by bringing NASTRAN into the fold

Posted by Al Dean - August 20, 2014

The 3D design giant, Autodesk, has had a history in simulation (for the purposes of design and manufacturing) for nearly…

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SolidWorks Education revamped in time for new school year

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 21, 2014

SolidWorks Education Edition teaching guides and lessons have been updated with new content, with additional support for STEM subjects The…

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Passage to India – SolidWorks to open 50 training centres in the country

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 26, 2014

Dassault Systèmes is taking direct action to increase authorised SolidWorks training in India Dassault Systèmes has opened its first SolidWorks…

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SolidWorks, 3ds Max or any other 3D tool coming to your Chromebook soon?

Posted by Greg Corke - August 26, 2014

SolidWorks running with VMware on a Chromebook. VMware, NVIDIA and Google are working together to deliver high-performance virtual desktops and…

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SolidProfessor now offering online 3ds Max training

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 29, 2014

New online courses for 3ds Max are now available from the former SolidWorks-focused site SolidProfessor An Autodesk 3ds Max professional…

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Nvidia Quadro professional 3D graphics review extended with hands on testing of K4200 and K5200

Posted by Greg Corke - September 1, 2014

The double height Nvidia Quadro K5200 nestled inside our Scan 3XS GW-HT10 test machine Last month we put the Nvidia…

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Lenovo ThinkStation P Series application performance figures with new Haswell Xeon E5 v3 CPUs

Posted by Greg Corke - September 9, 2014

One of the questions we get asked most often at DEVELOP3D is how does my three year-old workstation compare to…

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SolidWorks 2015 announced: 90% of updates ‘customer requests’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 10, 2014

An automatic flatten feature in SolidWorks 2015 can help improve manufacturability of products with compound curvature Dassault Systèmes’ widely used…