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Aug. 3 | In 2008 Autodesk filed a federal lawsuit against Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks, opening another front on its DWG litigation war. While several grievances were cited, the suit was really about Autodesk trying once again to gain legal control over those...
Aug. 2 | A new survey of SMB manufactures in Washington State and Oregon reveals a positive outlook about regional and national economic conditions and a perceived need to more completely implement PLM and ERP systems. If SMB manufactures in other regions have...
Aug. 1 | The three recipients of the 2008 CAD Society awards all have a historic connection to Autodesk, but in very different ways. Current Autodesk CEO Carl Bass is honored for industry leadership; former Open Design Alliance Executive Director Evan Yares is...
Aug. 1 | An international team of experts in 3D scanning, five-axis milling, and archaeological reconstruction worked together to recreate a giant bust. An article from the CADCAMNET archives.
CADCAMNET, February 7, 2008—When antiquities experts decided that...
Jul. 29 | In hindsight, this acquisition was just one of many; Oracle assimilated Agile and moved on. Here’s what it looked like in 2007, from the archives of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research.
By Randall S. Newton
Engineering...
Jul. 28 | 2007 was the year monitors got big, flat, and dense. David Cohn goes gaga for HP’s entry in the bigger-is-better sweepstakes, from the June 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research.
By David Cohn
The...
Jul. 26 | Charlès makes a strong case for Dassault as the innovation leader in PLM in this interview, which includes jabs at his competition. From the July 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research.
By Randall S. Newton
Engineering...
Jul. 25 | Tracking critical design parameters with precision is a challenge in the face of rising product complexity.PLM analyst Michel Vrinat examines how products from Cognition Corporation can help. From the July 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report,...
Jul. 22 | In 2008 Dassault Systèmes announced plans for Simulia SLM, a new product suite for performing and managing simulation processes; SLM = Simulation Lifecycle Management. It was to be an expansion of the former Abaqus product line leveraging Dassault’s...
Jul. 21 | When Autodesk Inventor was initially launched, Autodesk said it would keep Mechanical Desktop alive for three more releases. When it finally announced an end-of-life for the venerable product based on AutoCAD, three more releases had turned to 12. From...