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News: Visualization
Trimble Launches SketchUp AI—New AI-Powered Modeling
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BOXX Intros 'BOXX Cloud Services' (BCS) Virtual Cloud Workstations
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Apple's WebGPU Standard Proposal—Aiming at Common Access to Explicit Graphics
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News: CAID
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IMSI Design Releases TurboCAD Mac 15
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Luxion Releases KeyShot 11
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News: MCAD
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IMSI Design Releases TurboCAD Mac 15
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News: Animation & VFX
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Maxon releases new Red Giant Update—Enhanced Unreal Support
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SPEC Releases SPECapc for Maya 2024 Benchmark, Adds SPEC Workload Development Kit
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News: Apple
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Apple Intros Apple Silicon-based Mac Pro
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Gurman says Apple Reality One Headset will have iOS-like Interface
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