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Bentley Systems to acquire Seequent for $1.05 Billion

The company says the deal will advance environmental resilience by “deepening” Infrastructure Digital Twins. Bentley Systems has announced plans to acquire Seequent, a well-known provider of geospatial tools, geophysical modeling, and geotechnical stability mining based in Christchurch, New Zealand. The company’s clients are heavily represented in the mining industry, and in civil engineering. Bentley will pay $1.05 billion and plans … Read more

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Autodesk knitting together the Construction Cloud

Since its debut in 2019, the Autodesk Construction Cloud has been growing and a structure has been developing. The company has been adding on to its Construction portfolio with small affordable basic capabilities and complex management tools. This month, the company announces the availability of several new tools and services after last month’s rollout of BIM Collaborate and BIM Build … Read more

Assimilate strengthens its onset and remote reviews tools

Realtime has come to post. Now, what do we call it? Assimilate has added new capabilities that enable more extensive onset work and also easier, more spontaneous reviews. This is not at all shaping up to be a pandemic thing, but a logical progression for software as new hardware and software combinations enable real-time visualization. The film and video industries … Read more

Maxon acquires Forger 3D sculpting tool

Maxon made me spit my coffee this morning. The company announced the acquisition of Forger, a digital 3D sculpting and texture painting application developed by Javier Edo Meseguer. Did not see that coming, at all. Maxon announced the acquisition of Forger, a 3D sculpting tool developed by Javier Edo Meseguer. Forger was developed by Javier Edo. The Maxon people … Read more

Unreal’s MetaHumans are ready to meet you

Epic has revealed the ongoing work it has been doing on digital humans. It released a video to show off the MetaHuman Creator tools for creating and animating digital humans and it looks like almost anyone can create anyone! Of course, that’s the demo, but the MetaHuman toolset does deliver people with all their controls included and ready to be … Read more

Forces gather to ensure to protect the integrity of images

There’s new information on the Content Authenticity Initiative. If you’ll remember, Adobe, Microsoft, The New York Times, and Twitter announced the formation of the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe Max in 2019. Obviously, they’re tackling a complex problem that along the way seeks to build a pipeline from content capture to content consumption with documentation that attests to the authenticity … Read more

Dassault comes out of 2020 stronger than ever

Dassault is enjoying the benefits of its diversification strategy and its unbounded optimism. The company has had complete faith in its decades-long vision of a cloud-based integrated set of tools that reach all the way down to the consumer and up to corporate leaders and government agencies. They’re a long way towards realizing that vision, but the world is coming … Read more

Painter Essentials 8 gets updated features from parent product Painter 2021

Painter Essentials 8, the latest addition to Corel’s Painter family, has arrived. Painter Essentials is essentially a slimmed-down version of Corel’s high-end painting tool Painter for digital artists which sells for $429 on the Corel site. The Painter Essentials tool is $49.99. Slimming down Painter isn’t a bad idea for artists and hobbyists who like the idea of using photos … Read more

Dassault advances Solidworks capabilities with cloud-based 3DExperience Works

Everyone is a creator: The 3DExperience Grand Challenge this year enlisted the Solidworks employee community to pick 3DExperience Works tools and participate in the design of a space station with teams given the responsibility to design a 100 m × 72 m × 68 m module using 3D Creator, 3D Sculptor for whatever they wanted—life support, recreation, food support, waste … Read more

Lightmap introduces the Xenon Drop 2 update for HDR Light Studio

The HDR Light Studio interface offers multiple controls for adding, adjusting, and finetuning a variety of lights in a scene. (Source: Lightmap) Rendering is one thing, but lighting can be another. Lightmap, based in Nottingham, England has been helping artists, engineers, and designers fine-tune their lighting since 2009. The company’s product HDR Light Studio works with the leading 3D modeling … Read more

Pushing processors to the limit: Siemens NX incorporates new design paradigms

Siemens has achieved some milestones with their latest release of NX. The company has gone to a continuous release in which changes are rolled out regularly. The company expects a cadence of every 6 months or so. The company is taking more advantage of AI/ML with every release and says it has further defined its interpretation of the model-based definition. … Read more