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Epic’s Unreal team acquires Abvent for Twinmotion

Game engines are becoming powerful tools for a variety of work beyond the game industry. Of the largest areas of opportunity is the CAD market, but game engines are still difficult for people to use especially if their real job has nothing to do with learning game engines. Unreal has been working on this problem with tools for working with ...

Kathleen Maher

Game engines are becoming powerful tools for a variety of work beyond the game industry. Of the largest areas of opportunity is the CAD market, but game engines are still difficult for people to use especially if their real job has nothing to do with learning game engines. Unreal has been working on this problem with tools for working with a variety of data, including heavyweight CAD files. The company developed Datasmith and built Unreal Studio to make it easier to get data from CAD and other apps into game engines, but says Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit, there is
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