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Geometric launches JT-based mobile viewer
Feb. 2 | Glovius runs on Windows, iOS, and Android; requires use of online conversion service. Small vendors are continuing to beat the big CAD vendors in mobile. Engineering software and services vendor Geometric Limited is launching a new set of products for...
Inventor of the Year nominees read like a small manufacturer’s hall of fame
Jan. 31 | Autodesk asks its users to select a winner from 12 nominees. All have used engineering software to competitive advantage. For the past few years Autodesk has named an Inventor of the Month as a way of celebrating the achievements of its users and score...
Adding a pipeline improves LMU visual effects lab workflow
Jan. 30 | Loyola Marymount students now create animations in a professional rendering workflow; their creative output has doubled. Students in the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television now have a professional rendering pipeline in place to...
Manufacture comes home
Jan. 26 | The future is always different than we think it will be. There are people working to completely revamp the process of manufacture and they’re not thinking about some distant time. They’re looking at what happens now. On January 24, the earth...
3D PDF Consortium begins formal operations
Jan. 25 | The new industry group will manage the future of 3D PDF and advocate for its increased use in engineering. The evolution of 3D PDF as a standard for technical graphics took another step this week with the formal incorporation of the 3D PDF Consortium....
Automated render farm power management saves studios money
Jan. 24 | Straightface Studios reduces idle time to less than 1%; Duber Studios saves 60% on power costs in a year with Deadline’s Power Management feature. Render farms, those large banks of networked computers dedicated to image rendering, consume an awful...
Processing air traffic pattern predictions in real time
Jan. 23 | Optimal Synthesis got a 250x speed improvement by turning to Nvidia graphics processing units. Air traffic patterns generated by a NASA program now run 250x faster on an Nvidia GPU. (Source: Optimal Synthesis) A research firm in Silicon Valley is using...
Software tools unfold the strange world of Bunraku
Jan. 20 | CG studio Origami Digital turns to LightWave, Maya, and Eyeon Fusion to bring director Guy Moshe’s vision to the big screen. The village setting of Bunraku. (Source: New Tek) By Kelly Dove Bunraku, the second film from acclaimed director Guy Moshe,...
New browser-based animation service enters free public beta
Jan. 18 | WebAnimate offers free production-level tools for mocap rework and animation retargeting. Referring to their new browser-based product as “animation on the go,” UK-based IKinema has released a free public beta of WebAnimate, an all-in-one platform...
