Award-winning Substance Painter exits beta
The 1.0 release adds an updated user interface and new shaders. Substance Painter, the award-winning particle painter for game asset creation, exits beta today with new features to help users more...
View ArticleReview: Digging into the Dell Precision M2800 mobile workstation
Dell now has three 15-inch mobile workstations. Tom Lansford takes a close look at the newest in the line, the Precision M2800. Today, Dell offers three models of 15-inch mobile workstations. At first...
View ArticleAutoCAD Mac update brings feature set closer to Windows
Barely more than half of AutoCAD key features can now be found in the Mac version. Autodesk has updated AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD LT for Mac, bringing the Mac versions of the leading drafting...
View ArticleCorelCAD 2015 adds parametrics, Windows Ribbon UI
Corel and Dassault Systèmes both use the Ares CAD platform from Graebert Software as their foundational technology, enhancing it for their respective user bases. CorelCAD, one of two drafting products...
View Article3D printing forms basis of cougar stop-motion animation
Maya 3D, Adobe After Effects, and a Stratasys Fortus 360mc printer were the tools to create the short film. Recently graduated from Northumbria University (UK) with a degree in filmmaking, Fin Crowther...
View ArticleAdobe bets big on mobile, casts a bigger net
The recent Adobe Max conference drew 6,000 Creatives who are rapidly moving from buyers to subscribers. By Kathleen Maher Adobe Max is a celebration—our creative heritage, says CEO Shantanu Narayen—and...
View ArticleReview: Nvidia Shield tablet
Thin, light, and remarkably powerful—what’s not to like? By Robert Dow The K1 processor in the Shield tablet far outperforms any mobile processor that we have tested. The K1 is a 192-core Kepler GPU...
View ArticleReview: Microsoft Surface Pro 3
Jon Peddie says “I love it—why did I wait?” By Jon Peddie Opening the boxes of the new Surface Pro 3 is a delight. The designer packages have thick, solid sides, and the design elements of the...
View ArticleTaking virtual prototyping beyond visualization
Virtence helps its automotive clients including Audi and Volkswagen integrate high-quality visualization into engineering and design. Today, virtual prototyping is fundamental to the design and...
View ArticleHP sets sights on 3D printing again with homegrown technology
Reselling a Stratasys printer went nowhere; this time HP will come to market with a truly innovative platform. HP has introduced new 3D printing technology which it will bring to market over the next...
View ArticleImmersive technology innovators to gather in Toronto
A new conference aims to be the meeting ground for the nascent immersive technology industry. A new conference in late November aims to gather the professionals building new business with the tools of...
View ArticleXsens redesigns motion capture line, drops price
Tougher wearable products and updated software, yet price drops 75%. Fairchild Semiconductor’s Xsens division today releases a new version of its motion capture line for professional animation which...
View ArticleBentley MicroStation update is all about the connections
The design platform favored by the enterprise-class design-build and infrastructure firms will use the cloud without living on it. This week in London Bentley Systems is introducing the next...
View ArticleDassault Systemes reports third quarter results
Dassault’s third quarter results are better than they look say CEO Bernard Charlès and he’s got a point. Europe continues to suffer economic aftershocks and the company is going through several major...
View ArticlePTC says the plan is working; Q4 and FY ’14 inline with expectations
PTC puts 2014 in the win column and sees good growth in the future as the industry enters next wave of product design and manufacture technology.
View ArticleDassault and FDA collaborate on The Living Heart Project
Dassault’s Living Heart Project achieves significant milestone with collaborative research agreement between the FDA and Dassault on the use of the heart model for planning pacemaker surgery.
View ArticleDell Precision Tower 5810 offers affordable CAD power
Combining a next-generation Intel Xeon with an AMD FirePro GPU makes it suitable for 3D, CAD, and rendering. By Tom Lansford CADplace.co.uk With the introduction of the 3rd generation Intel Xeon CPUs,...
View ArticleReviewing the Thinkstation P300
New design, new brand, same value. By Alex Herrera Lenovo has become an outstanding supplier of workstations, with a recent, sharpened focus on the market that makes it a serious contender for market...
View ArticleNew Inspection Xpert On Demand for CAD creates inspection documents from 2D...
IXOD reads all major file formats, allowing inspection editors to standardize on one workflow even if multiple CAD formats are involved. CAD tools specialist KeyToData introduces a new tool for...
View ArticleNew 3D Systems ProX 400 offers high-capacity metal printing
Sometimes, you just gotta have metal; the ProX 400 should debut to high demand. 3D Systems is introducing its latest industrial direct metal printing (DMP) system, the ProX 400. Designed for creating...
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