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February 17, 2012


Website just for CAD

Finding the best workstations for CAD just got easier. At www.bestforcad.com you can compare specs, calculate the ROI and even enter to win a Dell Precision™ Workstation with NVIDIA® Maximus™ Technology, or a Tour-class racing bike from Trek.
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ROI Calculator

Use this ROI calculator to determine how GPUs with up to 3x performance gains help translate hours saved into dollars earned. Get customized results based on how and what you design. Run the numbers.
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Case Study

Designers at Trek face many of the same challenges you do—make it faster, lighter and stronger—using less. Trek accelerated the process from initial sketch to final product, spotted design defects earlier and more. Read to discover how their approaches can help you too.
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Announcing NVIDIA® Maximus™

Tired of waiting for photorealistic renders? Ready to perform CAE simulation while still working in your CAD application? With NVIDIA Maximus, perform simulations up to 4x faster and create renders up to 9x faster — while still working in other applications.
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Win a Dell Prevision™ Workstation with NVIDIA® Maximus™

Enter to win a Dell Precision T7500 Workstation with NVIDIA Maximus technology (Quadro® 6000 + Tesla™ C2075), 48GB RAM, Dual Six Core Intel® Xeon® Processor, Blu-Ray optical drive, solid state drive and 2 Dell HD 30" monitors.
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The Solidworks World Communities

 

This week, over 5,500 people converged on San Diego for the largest MCAD conference in the world: SolidWorks World.

With around 1.7 million people using SolidWorks, it would be surprising if SolidWorks World wasn’t a large conference. Yet, the secret to its success is not just mere user count. It’s community building.
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PTC Shipping Mobile Apps With 10.1 Release Of Windchill

It’s a foregone conclusion that mobile computing is changing the way people work. If CAD and PLM vendors want to be relevant in the future, they need to address the mobile market.
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Should You Buy Your Cad Software—Or Rent?

CAD software isn’t cheap. A mainstream 3D CAD program will set you back thousands of dollars upfront, and a bunch more in annual maintenance charges.

The cost can be daunting. But what if there was a way to spread it out, and pay as you go?
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Can open source 3D printing be more than a hobby?

Back in the 1960s, when Gene Roddenberry was developing his ideas for the Star Trek series, one of his thoughts was that we would live in a society without money. His vision was that we would be more focused on self-actualization, which would drive our decisions on occupation, education, and contribution to humanity rather than on the accumulation of money...
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The 3D printer home market takes shape

It looks like the big players in the additive manufacturing market are taking the potential of the 3D printing home market seriously with the introduction of a new 3D printer from 3D Systems specifically geared to the home market, and rumors of a possible entry into this market by Stratasys. Research firm IBISWorld forecasts that by 2016, 3D printing sales could reach $3 Billion. The idea that toys could be a huge market for 3D printing (some suggest as much as $10 Billion a year) is also causing many to pay attention to the home market.
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EngineeringWatch™


Evan Yares at SolidWorks World 2012

Evan speaks with Chris Driscoll of 3dconnexion and gets a demo of their new product SpaceMouse™ Pro


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