Autodesk Fusion 360 – it’s here!
A couple of weeks ago, Autodesk formally released Fusion 360, the not-at-all secret CAD product the company has worked on for the last couple of years. If you remember, the company showed off a pre-Beta version of the product at a Design Slam contest at AU about 6...
AVEVA kicks off earnings in high style
AVEVA announced yesterday that the June quarter was a "good start" to its fiscal 2014; happy investors sent its share price up 14% for the day. These interim announcements don't include many actual numbers, so AVEVA uses qualifiers to describe progress. The company...
CD-adapco brings HEEDS in-house
CD-adapco today announced that it has acquired Red Cedar Technology, maker of HEEDS Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) software and SHERPA, a search method to find optimum designs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is big, in that it takes CD-adapco...
#SEU13: YouTube, GrabCAD, 1300 enhancements — oh my
Solid Edge University is a treat. These are serious, hardcore CAD guys who don't have time for a lot of the other stuff that's crept in around the edges of CAD for the last 20 years. Give them surfacing enhancements, and they're happy. Give them ways to make drawings...
MakerBot + Stratasys = Mainstream to Industrial
Back on June 19, Stratasys ended weeks of speculation and announced that it was acquiring MakerBot, merging the business and DIY/maker markets for 3D printing. We all could see this coming, right? The only question was when and how and who. MakerBot was founded in...
Hey – Google Readers, listen up!
It's almost time to say goodbye to Google Reader, that oh-so-modern equivalent of a local, town newspaper. As you may know, it’s shutting down on July 1st, and when it goes, it’s taking your subscriptions with it! If you read this blog via Google Reader, you have a...
Hot guitar riffs & cool announcements from PTC Live
PTC has spent the last, well, decade redefining itself. For a long time, it was the feature-based modeling powerhouse in a direct-modeling CAD world. Then it decided CAD was passé and devoted itself to building a PLM platform. Most recently, PTC entered the brave new...
Trimble adds more automation to the job site
Have you ever wondered how a construction site works? It's much more complicated -- and way higher-tech -- than most people realize. Trimble has been on a mission over the last 5 years or so to bring technology to the job site, since that's often the part of the...
ESI Q1: buoyed by BRIC and OpenCFD
Still working to catch up on what happened while you were at PTC Live? Me too! Honestly, it would be so much simpler if everything just went on hold while we're these things, right?! Not gonna happen, so catch-up it is. In addition to 3D Systems trying to acquire...
3D Systems moves into metal, snaps up Phenix
Not surprisingly, while a lot of us were at PTC's Live Global user conference in Anaheim this week, everyone else was doing ... whatever they were doing. And that, it turns out was quite a bit. 3D Systems Acquires (Most of) Phenix Systems 3D Systems makes what are...