Business Advantage (BA) has been measuring the CAD market since 1992. The company conducts surveys worldwide on a custom basis. The group also conducts a regular trends survey to help them keep an eye on the interests of CAD users and promote their services. BA’s trend surveys have also proved to be a valuable weathervane about CAD users real requirements … Read more
With its latest version of 3ds Max, Autodesk says it is revamping the user experience. In this case, that means some new tools and plenty of improvements on tools and features that were already there. As in the case of the Maya 2019, Autodesk says this is house cleaning release to improve on what’s already been done. Improvements to the … Read more
Motion graphics can be an invisible art. The animated graphical elements that are used to tell a story can do such a good job that the audience accepts them and the art disappears into the content so no one thinks about the signs in the sky, or the interface in their game, or the hero’s computer screen. On the other hand, … Read more
Graebert introduced its latest CAD engine at the end of 2018 and new products based on it are rolling out now in 2019. The highlights of the new version include the company's Trinity strategy to make mobile and cloud versions available to users as well. Graebert sells its own products as Ares Commander and it offers its APIs to … Read more
Turning 30 is a time to reassess, to think about the future and maybe have a little bit too much to drink because you’re disappointed in your life so far. That’s for humans. When software turns 30 the response can be mixed but the celebration is almost always in order. It’s hard to survive for 30 years in the digital … Read more
The game engine giants, Unreal and Unity are gathering in capabilities to make their platforms more powerful and attractive for users. Epic, having grown fat on Fortnite, has made several significant purchases for its Unreal Engine over the last 12 months or so. The company kicked off 2018 with the acquisition of Cloudgine, a powerful tool to boost the capabilities … Read more
Is there a game, aside from Monopoly that is, that celebrates the cutthroat nature of capitalism pitting competitors against each other in a fight to bankruptcy and turning allies against each other? Probably. The game is being played out in full force by Unity Technologies and Epic as both companies fight to build their technology portfolios to enable them to … Read more
The year is 1995, the world was full of promise, opposing political parties were civil to each other and a new idea called virtual reality was being introduced for PCs and other devices. The internet bubble hadn’t popped yet, the 2000 bug hadn’t been thought of yet, and Annie Lennox sang about No More I love You’s, while Van Halen … Read more
Glassbox is debuting their new cross-platform virtual camera and real-time collaboration tools. Glassbox began as Opaque media, was founded by Norman Wang in 2012 to develop content for VR. Opaque Media created Earthlight: Spacewalk, a VR experience developed with the help of NASA to communicate the experience of space via VR. In the process of developing content, the team developed … Read more
As a CAD program based on the ODA DWG format and the Graebert Ares CAD engine, CorelCAD come late on to the scene. The Ares engine was introduced in 2005 and today Graebert is a leading provider of a CAD engine for development. The company got a major endorsement when Dassault chose Ares as the base for its Draftsight CAD … Read more
Bentley teams with Microsoft’s upcoming HoloLens 2 to introduce Synchro XR; brings Mixed reality for AEC and specifically construction analysis and visualization. Bentley Systems and Microsoft have been collaborating since at least 2016 when the company announced its commitment to Microsoft Azure for its AssetWise CONNECT Edition and ProjectWise CONNECT Edition tools. Since then, Bentley has expanded the list of … Read more
MakerBot is back, and they mean business. In 2012, Bre Pettis made a very big splash on the 3D printer scene with his Replicator, which he was pitching as a household gadget. It came around right about the same time as 3D Systems Cube printer for consumers and for a short time, both devices broke the 3D printer market causing … Read more
