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IMSI Design Releases TurboCAD Mac 15
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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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- Aug 16, 11 – Updated: CAD giant Autodesk debuts AutoCAD LT for Mac [02:05 pm] 2 responses
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- Aug 09, 11 – SIG: Luxion unveils KeyShot 3 at Siggraph [09:09 pm] 0 responses
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- Jul 27, 11 – 3Dconnexion publishes Case Study – BIM and 3D mice [08:56 am] 0 responses
- Jul 26, 11 – Tidbits: Nemetschek, AEC Software and More news [08:41 am] 0 responses
- Jul 22, 11 – Apple prepping 3D user interface for OS X [04:24 pm] 1 response
- Jul 22, 11 – SIG: Nvidia to showcase latest graphics in Vancouver [04:01 pm] 0 responses
- Jul 22, 11 – Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Partnership with NCS Colour AB [02:45 pm] 0 responses
- Jul 21, 11 – E-on Software announces LumenRT Review Release 1.2 [08:49 am] 0 responses
- Jul 21, 11 – OrthoGraph 3.0 has now been released [08:45 am] 0 responses
- Jul 18, 11 – E-on Software releases Carbon Scatter, a plugin for Maya and Cinema 4D [08:31 am] 1 response
- Jul 18, 11 – How the Industry Will Streamline BIM?- NBIMS-US takes more steps [08:26 am] 0 responses
- Jul 14, 11 – Corel’s new CorelCAD – Mid-level entry into Mac CAD market [12:23 pm] 1 response
- Jul 12, 11 – Autodesk working to support Mac OS X Lion for AutoCAD [08:16 am] 0 responses
- Jul 12, 11 – LearnVirtual intros DESIGN [realized] event series [07:21 am] 0 responses
- Jul 11, 11 – Parallels releases Desktop 6 for Mac Enterprise Edition [01:43 pm] 0 responses
- Jul 11, 11 – E-on Software Announces ‘3D Environment Competition 2011’ [08:37 am] 1 response
- Jul 11, 11 – Nemetschek Vectorworks has released its fourth Service Pack [08:31 am] 0 responses
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- Jul 01, 11 – Dassault Systèmes’ DraftSight Supersedes One Million Downloads [10:13 am] 1 response
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- Jun 24, 11 – Stalled project ‘never would have gotten done’ without ArchiCAD BIM software [11:34 am] 0 responses
- Jun 24, 11 – Announcing the Immediate availability of the Studio Environment Set 2 (SES 2) Kit [11:25 am] 0 responses
- Jun 23, 11 – Pixologic intros Sculptris modeling program for Mac and Windows [08:26 am] 0 responses
- Jun 22, 11 – In-Brief: NCS Version 5 CAD Standards released [06:49 am] 0 responses
- Jun 22, 11 – Luxology’s Modo, Brings Tripod Driving Force [06:46 am] 0 responses
- Jun 20, 11 – Stalwart CAD developer IMSI offers first 3D DWG viewer for iPad [09:09 pm] 0 responses
- Jun 16, 11 – Tidbits: SketchUp, T-Splines and SIGGRAPH News [08:49 am] 0 responses
- Jun 15, 11 – ArchiCAD 15 Ship Is In full Sail [07:40 pm] 0 responses
- Jun 15, 11 – Apple’s mobile graphics partner, Imagination, announces PowerVR Series 6 [08:08 am] 0 responses
- Jun 15, 11 – Luxion unleashes KeyShot2 for PTC Creo 1.0 as Planned [07:22 am] 0 responses
- Jun 14, 11 – Autodesks seeks beta users, can win iPad [08:58 am] 0 responses
- Jun 10, 11 – IMAGINiT Technologies has iPad 2 and PS3 “giveaway” competition [01:06 pm] 1 response
- Jun 10, 11 – AutoCAD WS to gain layers in version 1.3 release [12:51 pm] 0 responses
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