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Autodesk's Discreet Inferno Visual Effects System for Linux |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Friday, 21 April 2006 20:37 |
Hardwarezone.com just writes:
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Apr. 18 -- Autodesk launched its Academy Award-winning* Discreet Inferno visual effects system running on the Linux operating system. The Discreet Inferno system enables the world's top digital artists in broadcast facilities, post-production houses and film studios to deliver extraordinary moving imagery. This system contains a robust creative toolset for high-speed compositing, advanced graphics and interactive design. It has shaped blockbuster feature films and television programming -- such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, as well as numerous Super Bowl commercials and premium television channel branding.
"Autodesk's Discreet Inferno system on a blazingly fast dual-core Linux workstation allows our artists more time and opportunity to do what they love best -- be creative," commented Wilaiwan Leelachart, Managing Director, Fame Post.
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 April 2006 20:39 |
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CollabNet Introduces CollabNet Subversion On Demand for the Enterprise |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Friday, 21 April 2006 05:22 |
CRM Today writes:
Subversion Open Source Project Founder Brings Enterprise Functionality to Leading Version Control System To Enable Global Software Development and Collaboration
CollabNet, a provider of on demand distributed software development solutions, announced its new offering, CollabNet(R) Subversion(TM) On Demand for the enterprise. The solution provides the infrastructure and services large enterprises need to reliably and easily deploy the Subversion open source, version control system to hundreds of users within global, software development teams.
With the cost and service benefits of an on demand model, CollabNet Subversion On Demand allows Global 2000 companies to safely apply open source practices in the enterprise for more effective distributed software development.
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 April 2006 05:23 |
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Car manufacturers are using CGI to replace traditional photography |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:17 |
DCCCafe writes:
For marketing departments of automobile manufacturers, car photography is plain expensive. First they have to create a prototype, a process that usually costs around ten times more than producing a vehicle already in production. Then the car has to be shipped out to an exotic location for photography. If you want your car to be in the snow, and it happens to be summer in Northern America, then the car, along with a team of photographers are transported far below the equator. After all this, you often still have to pay licensing fees every time you use the photographs.
Luckily, there is another way: using advanced CGI. Engineers at car manufacturers employ Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools to create advanced 3D models of automobiles during the design process. These are already highly detailed and exactly to scale. After being changed into formats usable by digital content creators, these CAD models can be made into very powerful – and cheap – marketing images. At the forefront of supplanting photography with DCC is Right Hemisphere, a leading producer of Product Graphics Management (PGM) software.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:18 |
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Dimension Introduces 768 Series 3D Printers |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Monday, 17 April 2006 02:37 |
BUSINESS WIRE writes:
Dimension(R) BST and SST 768 Series Feature New Catalyst(R) Software, Newly Designed Exterior
The Dimension 3D Printing Group, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSYS), today introduced the Dimension(R) 768 Series 3D Printers, the industry's first 3D printers to break the $20,000 price barrier.
Based on the same reliable platform as Dimension's previous offering, but with a newly designed exterior, the Dimension 768 Series utilizes new Catalyst(R) EX software, providing designers an even easier-to-use toolset for efficiently processing 3D models. The Dimension BST 768 and SST 768 are priced $18,900 and $24,900, respectively, and are available immediately through Dimension resellers worldwide.
"We've given a whole new look and feel to our previous 3D printer offering with the new 768 Series," said Jon Cobb, vice president and general manager of 3D printing for Stratasys. "Our 3D printing technology, enhanced by the new Catalyst software, gives designers and engineers worldwide the ability to shorten design and development cycles and ultimately get products to market more quickly by enabling users to easily fine tune designs and explore multiple design iterations."
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Last Updated on Monday, 17 April 2006 02:38 |
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Cadopolis.com Launches New AutoCAD Blog And Feed Channels For Autodesk Community |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:29 |
MCADCafe writes:
For Immediate Release
Toronto, Ontario
April 2006
Cadopolis.com launches new AutoCAD Blog and Feed Channels for the Autodesk community.
Cadopolis.com has developed a central meeting place within Cadopolis.com dedicated to learning about the AutoCAD community on the web. Cadopolis.com has introduced five new Feed Channels to lead visitors into five distinct areas of interest within the community. These new Feed Channels allows visitors to stay informed of the latest AutoCAD news both inside and outside of Cadopolis.com.
The most active Feed Channel is the Selected Web Feeds (also called the Cadopolis.com aggregator). All articles and blog entries from featured AutoCAD Blogs from around the world are feed into this area, LIVE! This allows visitors to read and visit all the Autodesk related blogs from one central location. Also if visitors have a RSS reader they can subscribe to them and have all the blogs feed directly to your desktop or online aggregator.
To visit Cadopolis.com or for more information visit www.Cadopolis.com
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:30 |
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Forma 3D to be bundled with VersaCAD |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:51 |
Peter Cohen writes on macworld.com:
Archway Systems on Tuesday announced a partnership with EVOQE srl to bundle Archway’s VersaCAD 2005 software with EVOQE’s SolidThinking FORMA 6.5 3D modeling software. This applies to both Mac and Windows versions of the software.
VersaCAD is a 2D Computer Aided Design (CAD) software package, while FORMA provides Non-Uniform Rational B-spline (NURBS)-based 3D modeling capabilities. It’s this functionality, that made the two software applications a good fit, said Archway President Mike Lazear.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:51 |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:00 |
Jeff Rowe writes on MCADCafe:
UGS Corp. announced the shipment of its NX 4 digital product development software on the popular Linux open source operating system. UGS is the world's first PLM software and services provider to offer a complete solution for the Linux environment.
"This is a landmark step in the PLM industry and creates significant advantages for UGS customers," said Chuck Grindstaff, executive vice president, Products, UGS. "We announced our Linux plans last year and are now the first among our competitors to provide a complete world-class PLM solution for this popular operating environment. UGS' ability to bring this solution to the market first is consistent with our PLM Open strategy that promotes enhanced collaboration through open, standards-based offerings. As a result, our customers can immediately take advantage of the low cost of ownership and excellent performance of the Linux environment."
As the world's leading open source operating system, Linux offers customers an enterprise class operating environment at a low cost of ownership. Linux and x64 are two of the technologies most requested by UGS customers. As part of its Linux strategy and commitment to open standards, UGS now offers its NX flagship product on the latest 64-bit technology from AMD and Intel. UGS will also offer Teamcenter on Linux later in the year.
"We already have migrated our whole CAE environment to Linux," said Erwin Pignitter, senior vice president, Information Management, MTU Aero Engines. "Now we are strongly looking at UGS to provide us with their products on Linux so that we can migrate the CAD and PLM environments as well. We have been beta testing NX 4 on Linux and are very pleased with its performance and stability. Now we are working closely with UGS to migrate 400 NX seats and all our Teamcenter components to Linux. We are very happy that UGS made clear commitments for Linux product releases. We expect to save 20 percent in total costs with our Linux initiative."
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:01 |
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Design and Drafting Releases Visual Library 'CAD Content' |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Friday, 07 April 2006 14:18 |
Works with AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT or LD Assistant
tenlinks.com writes:
OAK LAWN, Illinois, April 7, 2006 - Building upon the success of its Theatrical & Entertainment Lighting Design Software, Chicago Stage Equipment, Inc., DBA Design and Drafting, the world's leading entertainment lighting design software manufacturer today released CAD Content the first ever Visual Shareable Library.
Using Autodesk’s advanced i-drop technology CAD Content delivers unbelievable power in an easy to use Visual Library. CAD Content’s Visual Library can be shared over a local server or on-line. This advanced power library comes with Predefined Content, User Defined Content and Online Content capabilities. CAD Content’s on-line path can be modified to control the location that a designer can browse.
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Last Updated on Friday, 07 April 2006 14:19 |
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Highly Productive Oce TCS500 Color CAD Printer |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Friday, 07 April 2006 07:30 |
New, Highly Productive Oce TCS500 Color CAD Printer Provides Uncompromising Speed and Quality
Large Format Color System Leverages the Power of Fully Concurrent Processing, Printing, Copying and Scanning
PRNewswire.com writes:
CHICAGO, April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oce (Nasdaq: OCENY), a global leader in digital document management and delivery solutions, today unveiled the Oce TCS500 large format integrated print/copy/scan system for color CAD and GIS users in the AEC, government, utilities, manufacturing and reprographic industries. Its revolutionary, new Dynamic Switching Technology automatically optimizes print speed and print quality when printing lines, text, and images in the same document. The Oce TCS500 harnesses the power of concurrent processing, printing, copying and scanning to make it the most productive large format, color CAD print system on the market and a top choice for producing quantities of large format technical documents such as detailed CAD line drawings and complex GIS files.
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Last Updated on Friday, 07 April 2006 07:32 |
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Fully functional sheet metal CAD/CAM system |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Saturday, 01 April 2006 01:37 |
ferret.com.au writes:
EXPERT CAD/CAM is the only fully functional sheet metal CAD/CAM system that offers its users seamless integration between automated CNC programming and a full suite of production control modules all within the one user interface.
Available from Shera Bonnet and Associates, Version 25 makes use of Microsoft's SQL Server database technologies to combine all of your production control information with your Nesting, Materials, and sub operation requirements, all in a multi-user environment.
Solid Works, Solid Edge & Inventor 3D Models
Lantek Expert Punch and Cut allows transparent data transfer between these three popular 3D Modelling systems and your CNC Programming environment. Forget about DXf file transfers, just add one custom button in your 3D modelling system and our Intelligent Expert system will do the rest.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 01 April 2006 01:38 |
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Autodesk Launches AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007 |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Monday, 27 March 2006 20:02 |
Made it easier for architects, engineers and designers
DigitalCAD.com presents this Press Release:
Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) today made it easier for architects, engineers and designers to more fully realize their ideas with the release of AutoCAD 2007 software.
The new AutoCAD 2007 software allows users the flexibility to work in an integrated environment for conceptual and detailed design, as well as create, manage and share in one environment. The conceptual design features make it fast and easy to explore design alternatives and then reuse that information as a basis for the documentation drawings needed to build the design. AutoCAD 2007 is ideal for professionals who are doing conceptual design manually, or when used with external software tools, speeding up the design process and enabling more effective presentations. See link for a full list of AutoCAD 2007 features and benefits, www.autodesk.com/autocad.
The new AutoCAD 2007 software is sophisticated enough for the most complex of projects, and yet approachable for beginners. The AutoCAD 2007 platform delivers a powerful and intuitive interface for quick and easy shape creation and modification, as well as new features that enable customers across multiple industries to fully explore their design during early project phases, providing faster feedback and more opportunities for design exploration. More than 1,000 beta customers around the world have tested and helped shape this latest version.
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Last Updated on Monday, 27 March 2006 20:03 |
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Autodesk Delivers Best-in-Class Manufacturing Solution to Accelerate and Simplify Design |
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Written by Georg Gules
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Saturday, 25 March 2006 21:12 |
tmcnet.com writes:
Solution Includes Autodesk Inventor 11 – Latest Version of World’s Best Selling 3D Mechanical Design Software
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., March 23, 2006 —Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced its solution for the manufacturing industry, including the next release of Autodesk Inventor, the world’s best selling 3D mechanical design software. Available as part of Autodesk Inventor Series or Autodesk Inventor Professional, Autodesk Inventor is the best choice for AutoCAD software users moving from 2D to 3D. With best-in-class offerings for industrial machinery, building and plant equipment, transportation and consumer products companies, Autodesk’s solutions enable global manufacturers to design more innovative, higher quality products by creating, managing and sharing data to realize ideas across the design to manufacturing process, ultimately enabling them to get to market faster than ever before.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 25 March 2006 21:19 |
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