While today’s sleek skyscrapers filling urban landscapes seem to embody modern and cutting-edge design, it’s often not until after these mammoth structures are built that hidden design flaws rear their ugly heads, sometimes with rather dire consequences. In one particular case, these consequences included a building that was quite literally melting nearby cars. London’s year-old […]
NVIDIA Introduces Shared Visual Computing Appliance
As CAD software becomes more and more powerful and resulting models become more complex and large in size, it requires more and more horsepower under the hood of engineering workstations to run effectively. Enter NVIDIA, the somewhat undisputed leader in the 3D graphic cards market. You could find NVIDIA cards working quietly behind the scenes […]
No more CAD workstations?
Imagine you worked in IT, in a large company, and had to put up with CAD users acting all special, because they needed big computers with lots of memory, and fancy graphics cards. Pretty irritating, eh? But what if you could stop buying those machines, and instead give CAD users regular-old PCs? That’s the promise […]
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, […]
CAD at a distance: Using Citrix for workstation virtualization
Sometimes the conversations you have in the hallway are the most interesting. Earlier in the year, I was at the Collaboration and Interoperability Conference in Denver, and was chatting with a man who works for Boeing. He mentioned that the company’s main CATIA infrastructure for the 787 Dreamliner is located in Everett, Washington, where their […]
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 […]
Designing Formula One sophistication with Bunkspeed SHOT Pro
Cosmic Motors’ Daniel Simon is an internationally acclaimed concept designer and automotive futurist who’s worked with some of the world’s most prestigious automobile makers including Bugatti and Lamborghini. Simon is also the concept vehicle designer behind Disney’s 2010 blockbuster sci-fi flick, “Tron: Legacy,” and lead vehicle designer of Marvel’s highly anticipated 2011 summer release “Captain […]
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