Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), announced its next-generation FloTHERM® product featuring a new native Windows graphical user interface (GUI) to handle pre-processing and large models with ease, targeting today’s most advanced electronic designs. The latest release continues the product line’s 25 year history of technical product innovation and was developed based on extensive user feedback. […]
Maple IDE dramatically reduces development time
Maplesoft announced a new member of the Maple product family, the Maple IDE. The Maple IDE, powered by DigiArea, Inc., is an integrated development environment for the Maple programming language that improves productivity by providing advanced tools for writing and managing Maple projects. The Maple IDE, which is based on the Eclipse platform, offers a […]
NVIDIA Kepler GPUs are finally here
It’s taken awhile, but the new generation of NVIDIA GPU graphics cards are out. Why does it matter? Well, short of performance issues—and these cards are fast indeed—the Kepler GPU represents a product inflection point for NVIDIA. It’s the “new model” – the presumptive choice among NVIDIA graphics cards for CAD workstations. Up until now, […]
Geomagic acquires Sensable. 3D just got even cooler.
CAD isn’t the only way to create 3D models. More and more, 3D models start out as 3D scans of real objects. Geomagic has been a leader in software to convert 3D scanned data into useable 3D models. Their software is used widely used for design, reverse engineering and inspection. Last week, Geomagic acquired Sensable’s […]
The one peripheral 3D CAD users need
A 3d controller. If you do production 3D CAD work, and you don’t have one, you’re running with one hand tied behind your back. So to speak. Here’s an amateurish video I shot at SolidWorks World with Mark Driscoll, of 3Dconnexion, showing their new SpaceMouse Pro. 3Dconnexion
Hot rod engineering workstations
When I was barely a teenager, in the early ’70s. I became interested in car magazines. In the back of some of those magazines, I’d often see ads for a company called Baldwin/Motion Performance. They sold brand new hot-rodded Camaros that were guaranteed to run 11.50 second or faster quarter miles at the drag strip. […]
Should you buy an expensive graphics card?
You already know the answer to this question. If you’re perfectly happy with the graphics performance of your CAD system, then the answer is “no.” If you’d like faster, smoother, or more realistic graphics on your system, then the answer is “yes.” The term “expensive graphics card” might be troubling to GPU suppliers such as […]
getReal3D for Unity released
Mechdyne released getReal3D for Unity, a software plug-in to the Unity toolkit that brings 3D and viewer-based perspective to a variety of immersive 3D displays. According to the company, getReal3D brings a greater sense of immersion to Unity applications for training and simulations. By integrating with head and hand tracking devices, the software provides more […]
Power supply circuit design
It is becoming increasingly easier to design circuit boards thanks to software and hardware tools from integrate circuit (IT) manufacturers. Texas Instrument (TI), for instance, offers evaluation modules (EVM), a software design evaluation program called SwitcherPro, and SPICE software circuit simulation program TINA-TI for numerous power supply chips. You can use these tools to evaluate […]
Autodesk Brings AutoCAD WS Mobile App to Android
AutoCAD WS for Android enables an expanded group of users to enjoy the benefits of collaboration with architects, designers, and engineers from anywhere in the world and experience the freedom of taking designs with them. Product users will experience a simplified, intuitive set of viewing, editing, and markup tools to work on designs while on […]
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