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Dassault announces year end results for 2021
As this is being written, Dassault is spelling out its plans for the future during 3DExperience World 2022. The company says it is poised for a new period of growth as it aligns its major product lines including Industrial Innovation (such as Catia and Enovia), Mainstream Innovation (Solidworks and Centric), and Life Sciences (Medidata and Biovia). Dassault has had its … Read more
Shaper updates round out modeling front end
Shapr3D as added new features for documentation, lofting, text, and Windows support. (Source: Shapr3D) Shapr3D, an ambitious company based in Budapest, Hungary, and founded in 2015 by István Csanády. The company and its 3D modeling tool have ground rapidly, relentlessly adding on features to enable their product to compete head-to-head with the established leaders who have been rapidly iterating … Read more
Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine goes open source
New Open 3D Foundation is launching with over 20 founding members, including Adobe, AWS, Huawei, Niantic, and Red Hat, to accelerate developer collaboration on 3D engine development for AAA games and high-fidelity simulations.
Kubotek offers CAD viewer for MBD
Kubotek’s version of MBE crosses the divide between 2D and 3D. It enables users to add dimensions and PMI (product manufacturing information) to create 3D models that combine the best of 2D and 3D. It’s been a while since we wrote about Kubotek, makers of KeyCreator and utilities for manufacturing. It’s a venerable company with long experience in 2D … Read more
Adobe unveils new 3D content creation tools
Adobe has been stockpiling 3D software technology and tricks for a long time—forever almost if you count the 3D capabilities that are gradually but continuously integrated into the company’s bread and butter products— like Photoshop and Illustrator. In recent years the pace of the stockpiling picked up with the acquisition of Mixamo in 2015, a cloud-based character rigger, which is … Read more
Shapr3D continues breakneck pace of innovation
Shapr3D is a capable 3D modeler for engineers, designers, and hobbyists. The company has debuted its news version for the M1 Macs. (Source: Shapr3D) Shapr3D started out as a mobile-first product for CAD design and, inevitably enough, it is moving up to M1 powered Macs. Winner of the Apple Design Award, Shapr3D has been featured in Apple’s recent keynotes … Read more
Unreal elaborates on its automotive ambitions—they’re big
Unreal is staking out more ground in the Metaverse as they see it during their Unreal Build Automotive Event, which, of course, this year was virtual. Unreal has been pitching the automotive industry with Build conferences in Munich and Detroit. The Munich events have been held in 2018, 2019, and in 2021, this virtual event brings in the world to … Read more
Dassault comes out of 2020 stronger than ever
Dassault is enjoying the benefits of its diversification strategy and its unbounded optimism. The company has had complete faith in its decades-long vision of a cloud-based integrated set of tools that reach all the way down to the consumer and up to corporate leaders and government agencies. They’re a long way towards realizing that vision, but the world is coming … Read more
Dassault advances Solidworks capabilities with cloud-based 3DExperience Works
Everyone is a creator: The 3DExperience Grand Challenge this year enlisted the Solidworks employee community to pick 3DExperience Works tools and participate in the design of a space station with teams given the responsibility to design a 100 m × 72 m × 68 m module using 3D Creator, 3D Sculptor for whatever they wanted—life support, recreation, food support, waste … Read more
Lightmap introduces the Xenon Drop 2 update for HDR Light Studio
The HDR Light Studio interface offers multiple controls for adding, adjusting, and finetuning a variety of lights in a scene. (Source: Lightmap) Rendering is one thing, but lighting can be another. Lightmap, based in Nottingham, England has been helping artists, engineers, and designers fine-tune their lighting since 2009. The company’s product HDR Light Studio works with the leading 3D modeling … Read more
KeyShot and Stratasys shorten the trip to print
In July 2020, Stratasys added the J55 compact to its line of J series multijet printers, which can now print multiple colors, textures, and materials, all in the same run. Stratasys has been actively building a pipeline for its printers through the 3MF consortium which will enable designers to create a prototype in less time with more realism. Stratasys has … Read more