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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...
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...
National University of Singapore selects Autodesk for design curriculum partnership
Jan. 18 | The establishment of a professorship and use of Autodesk suites are included in the agreement. NAU offers a design-centric curriculum as an alternative in its engineering program. National University of Singapore National University of Singapore (NUS)...
Hyundai and Kia follow through with Windchill
Jan. 10 | The goal is the total integration of Kia and Hyundai into one organization, to create the world’s fourth largest auto manufacturer. PTC has successfully completed the first phase of deployment for its enterprise product life cycle management (PLM)...
Santa rides a Norelco again
Dec. 15 | Re:think Studio re-creates classic TV ad in Modo. People of a certain age can likely recall the Norelco electric razor that aired for many years around the Christmas holiday season. A happy Santa Clause sledded through the snow atop a new Norelco razor....
Nikon adopts Dassault Systèmes V6 to upgrade Catia, add Enovia
Nov. 22 | The legendary optics and camera manufacturer is upgrading its imaging division from Catia V5 and standardizing on the Enovia PLM V6 platform. Nikon says it is looking for “idea-generation support” from its design tools. [Editor's note:...
Abiogenesis: One man’s filmmaking labor of love
Nov. 14 | Artist Richard Mans embraces LightWave as he embarks on his filmmaking career. “Abiogenesis was a labor of love. A doodle taken to the nth degree,” says artist Richard Mans, describing his first animated short film. After spending several years as...
EOS celebrates 1,000-unit milestone for direct metal laser sintering systems
Nov. 4 | The users of EOS 3D printers have gone way beyond prototyping test parts, producing custom products on the cutting edge of 21st Century manufacturing. A complex bone rasp is one of hundreds of medical devices now manufactured directly from EOS laser...
