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News: Visualization
Trimble Launches SketchUp AI—New AI-Powered Modeling
Trimble intros new SketchUp AI with AI-assisted geometry model creation capabilities, text prompt to model, image to model generation, AI rendering features and more.
Chaos brings Mac support and AI tools to V-Ray for Blender
V-Ray for Blender now supports macOS natively and addresses the demands of the Blender community in Update 2.0
Chaos Launches Corona 14 With AI Material Tools and Gaussian Splat Support
Chaos unveils Corona 14 with advanced AI tools, new procedural effects, and Gaussian splats, delivering higher realism and efficiency in arch-viz.
Industry Commentary and Analysis
Autodesk Updates AutoCAD for Mac—Touch Bar Support
Autodesk joins the club becoming second major CAD developer with Touch Bar support in latest point dot release of Autodesk AutoCAD 2017 for Mac product line. Other UX and customization improvements round out this mid-release free update which users will surely appreciate.
Thoughts on Apple's M1 Pro, Max and MacBook Pros
The Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max completely address the M1 chip’s solid but not great multicore performance, giving pros a huge reason to upgrade.
AAD software company TestFit Raises $2M for new breed of AEC software
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News: CAID
AU25: All About Autodesk's AI Neural CAD Engines
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IMSI Design Releases TurboCAD Mac 15
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Luxion Releases KeyShot 11
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News: MCAD
ProgeSOFT releases DWG-native iCADMac 2025
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Product Watch: BOXX APEXX S3 and S4 with Intel Core Ultra CPUs
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IMSI Design Releases TurboCAD Mac 15
TurboCAD Mac 15 product line features AI-powered TurboCAD Mac Copilot features to leverage AI technologies in AEC and MCAD CAD workflows.
News: Animation & VFX
Chaos releases Vantage 3—real-time visualization platform
Chaos Vantage 3 boasts major new features in its biggest update in years, including Gaussian splat and USD file support, Night Sky system, AI tech, and a whole lot more.
Maxon releases new Red Giant Update—Enhanced Unreal Support
This January update to Maxon’s Red Giant includes enhanced support for Unreal Engine in Magic Mullet Looks, Maxon Cloud Capsule support in Trapcode and more.
SPEC Releases SPECapc for Maya 2024 Benchmark, Adds SPEC Workload Development Kit
SPEC Releases new SPECapc for Maya 2024 Benchmark for the creative industries to help measure workstation performance.
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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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- Oct 26, 16 – A Day Away from New Macs—One Reader’s View (And Design) of A New Pro Desktop [01:00 am] 20 responses
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- Oct 17, 16 – In German EU Countries—Nemetschek Jumps Ahead of Autodesk Says Poll [01:00 am] 32 responses
- Oct 13, 16 – Graebert and CST Announe Japanese Joint-Venture [10:00 am] 1 response
- Oct 13, 16 – Graebert to introduce Cloud-based CAD Solution and Visualization with ARES Kudo [09:38 am] 4 responses
- Oct 12, 16 – Graebert Announces ARES Touch for iOS [08:59 am] 12 responses
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- Oct 07, 16 – CAD / 3D News: Nvidia, Rhino, Boxx and Trimble News [08:37 am] 1 response
- Oct 05, 16 – Samsung Gear and HTC Vive Lead VR Survey But Magic Leap? [10:21 pm] 4 responses
- Oct 05, 16 – Matterport Launches World’s Largest Virtual Reality (VR) Library of Real World Places [01:39 pm] 1 response
- Sep 30, 16 – BIMobject launches new BIMsupply—A Cloud-Based Supply Solution for AEC Industry [04:40 pm] 1 response
- Sep 30, 16 – Open Design Alliance Announces Teigha BIM for Autodesk Revit [09:08 am] 5 responses
- Sep 26, 16 – Maxon Announces CINEMA 4D R18 ‘North American Road Show’ [01:03 pm] 1 response
- Sep 24, 16 – Nvidia Job Posting for Mac Software Engineer Points To GPU Return and OpenCL Push for Apple [02:40 pm] 1 response
- Sep 23, 16 – Desktop and Workstation Computers In Decline—Says Latest Industry Report [04:31 pm] 15 responses
- Sep 22, 16 – London and Australia Investment Firm Inject Strata with ‘First Round’ Funding for VR/AR Enterprise Push [01:40 pm] 1 response
- Sep 22, 16 – Autodesk Finalists for 2016 AEC Excellence Awards Competition—Announced! [07:52 am] 7 responses
- Sep 22, 16 – Does Mac 3D Program formZ Work with Sierra? You Bet—But! [07:10 am] 1 response
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- Sep 15, 16 – Phil Bernstein Steps Down From Role as Vice President at Autodesk [01:19 pm] 10 responses
- Sep 14, 16 – Vectorworks, Inc. Announces English Version of New Vectorworks 2017 BIM Software Product Line [10:10 am] 2 responses
- Sep 13, 16 – ODA Accelerates BIM Interoperability With Native Revit File Support [05:00 pm] 9 responses
- Sep 13, 16 – 3D News: The Future Group Demos First Mixed Reality (MR) Based on Unreal Engine [08:39 am] 3 responses
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- Sep 09, 16 – Apple Involvement in IoT/Connected Home Limited in Short Run, Says Analyst [08:56 am] 5 responses
- Sep 07, 16 – Apple Sep Event—Don’t Be Surprised by Big Mac Update Today [08:40 am] 2 responses
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- Sep 01, 16 – IMAGINiT Technologies Partners with Canadian Centre for Product Validation [10:18 pm] 1 response
- Sep 01, 16 – MAXON Announces Immediate Availability of new CINEMA 4D R18 [10:32 am] 0 responses
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- Aug 29, 16 – Dubai Future Foundation and Asite to Host International Competition on the Future Transportation Sector [08:20 am] 1 response
- Aug 25, 16 – Dassault’s Spatial’s New 2017 version of its 3D ACIS Modeling Kernel [01:30 pm] 1 response
- Aug 23, 16 – MAXON wins Computer Graphics World Magazine ‘Silver Edge Award’ [08:12 am] 4 responses
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- Aug 11, 16 – Webinar: Visualizing Success with Rendering Software [09:01 am] 3 responses
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- Aug 10, 16 – High Growth Dynamics Continue for Nemetschek Group in 2016 [08:26 am] 3 responses
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- Aug 08, 16 – VRLA Summer Expo — Apple Essentially Missing in Action from VR Market [01:14 pm] 9 responses
