Archives for 2008 November
McNeel Explains Leopard and 64-bit Rhino for Mac Users
Marlin Prowell of Robert McNeel & Associates explains the purpose behind the Leopard requirements for the latest Wanatchee build for Rhino Mac beta
US Architects Increasingly Adopting Green Building
Study index shows US architects adopting Green Design - Architects cite clients as driving demand.
Smith Micro to publish GroBoto 3D for Mac/Win
Smith Micro Software to publish and sell GroBoto - 3D software for Mac and Windows - Consumer Graphics Group Grows Mac 3D Software Library
Punch offers Shark LT Attack on CAD market
Punch Software goes after niche market for high-end MCAD Team Support with Shark LT and CATIA-based technology.
Commentary: Snow Leopard Endangers Vista
Forbes says Snow Leopard Endangers Windows Vista — Reader Chime In and Say Think Alternatives to Windows for the Sake of Your Business and Clients
Microsoft’s lack of OpenCL support unfortunate
According to a report on Macworld and Electronista, OpenCL has been defined as a standard in a record six months, with key contributions from Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Apple, and others. But one key tech giant is missing from adopting and supporting that standard and that is Microsoft.
Tidbits: Mathematica 7 and VM Fusion 2.0.1
Mac CAD and 3D Tidbits: Wolfram updates Mathematica to version 7 with over 500 new features and VMware updates Fusion to 2.0.1 - adds performance update
Mac version of CADspan for SketchUp 7 announced
LGM Architectural Visualization introduces Mac beta version of CADspan plugin for Google SketchUp 7
3Dconnexion’s 3D mice support new SketchUp 7
3Dconnexion announces support for Google’s new SketchUp 7 applications with its 3D mice including the SpaceNavigator
Vectorworks 2009 SP1 now released from Nemetschek NA
Nemetschek North America releases Vectorworks 2009 SP-1 (Service Pack 1) - release focuses on stability with viewports
Fixing GM and the Big Three: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
What would Steve Jobs do to save GM? And why isn’t the US government asking the man that totally turned around a company that literally everyone thought was dead and turned it into an American icon of global corporate success?
Vray for Cinema 4D updated, adds 75 features
LAUBLab releases VRAY for C4D - New update features over 75 new capabilities and latest V-ray rendering engine from Chaosgroup
Google announces new SketchUp 7 and Layout 2
Google announces SketchUp 7 and LayOut 2 - Big Update includes new Dynamic Components and Live Linking of Model Data to LayOut 2
MacFive: Nov 16: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For November 16 we see that Obama can’t take his MacBook Pro and Blackberry to the White for security reasons (though he can use Apple’s everywhere he works — he just can’t keep one) and we see the iPhone reach number one handset in the United States for Quarter 3.
Parallels 4 - Offers More for Mac CAD/3D Users
Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac Opens Up More Windows and Linux CAD and 3D Applications to Mac Users
Killer SmartPhone Apps: ShopSavvy and Shazam
So NPR has a new program which I caught last evening on the drive home called All Tech Considered. It was a nice, short 5-minute program that was a delight to catch right before my normal financial day wrap-up program Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal.
Anyway, what was cool about All Tech Considered was the discussion about [...]
Tidbits: Nvidia, Cheetah 3D, Dosch and Vectorworks
Mac CAD and 3D News Tidbits: Nvidia redefines highend Quadro GPUs for small form factors, Cheetah 3D launches contest, Shook Kelley wins AIA North Carolina and Dosch releases new 3D content
Renowned Creative Agency Taps Luxology’s modo
Luxology’s modo is tapped by renowned creative agency ROKKAN
ArchiCAD 12 now supports 3Dconnexion 3D Mice
3Dconnexion annnounces 3D mice support for Graphisoft’s Award-winning ArchiCAD 12 BIM application
Maxon releases SDK for CINEMA 4D R11
Maxon, a part of the German Nemetschek Group, a global leader in AEC and Entertainment industry software, has released a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for Third-Party Developers
MacFive: Nov 9: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For November 9 we look at everything from Plasmonic Lithography and Air Bearings to Apeer for the Mac to a new article by Roughly Drafted that expands the ideas of technology disruption, first brought to critical light by Clayton Christensen.
McNeel: new Wenatchee build of Rhino for Mac
McNeel Updates Rhino for Mac with latest Wanatchee builds - now requires Mac OS X Leopard
Electric Image Sonica v.1.0 Public Beta
Electric Image Technology Group’s Sonica v.1.0 Adds Coordinated Sound to Autodesk Maya Animations - First Plugin in Series of Plugins for Maya from EITG
Mac Rendering News: Silo, AC3D, Electric Image
Get a Free Electric Image Animation System with a new Mac Pro - News from the world of Silo and Clothing your Second Life Avatar with AC3D 6.4
form.Z Joint Study Student Awards Announced
auto-des-sys, Inc. announces winners of the 16th Annual Joint Study Student Awards Competition at ACADIA Conference
3Dconnexion 3D mice now support SolidWorks 2009
SolidWorks 2009 Now Works with 3D Mice from 3Dconnexion
e-on Software ships Vue 7 xStream, Infinite
e-on Software announces that Vue 7 xStream and Vue 7 Infinite are now shipping out to customers - new Vue 7 xStream brings environmental content creation tools inside leading 3D software packages
IBM Symphony for Mac - And with Aqua GUI Goodness
IBM Launches New Mac version of IBM Lotus Symphony - Lays Roadmap for Future Symphony at OpenOffice.org Conference in China
Tidbits: Softimage, Autodesk, LightWave and SketchUp news
Mac CAD and 3D News Tidbits: Autodesk buys Softimage from Avid, LightWave 3D wins MacUser Magazine’s 3D Product of the Year and SketchUp news
Nemetschek AG Quarter 3 Revenue up 8%
Nemetschek AG reports 8% Year over Year Revenue Gains for its Third Quarter 2008 - Profit Margin Reaches 20.6%
MacFive: Nov 2: Top News of the Week
MacFive™ — Top News Stories of the Week: For November 2 we look at Microsoft’s Windows 7, Apple Indicators that spook Redmond, 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard, MobileMe gets fixed right and IBM’s Mark Papermaster headline.
Apple working to trademark OpenCL
Apple seeks to trademark OpenCL as new industry standard for parallelization of software across both CPU and GPU hardware.