Archives for 2009 December
Tidbits: Vectorworks UG and SketchUp News
Mac CAD and 3D News: We have brief news items on a Vectorworks User Group startup movement going on in Boston and some Google Earth and related SketchUp news
Apple’s 3D Head-Tracking and BIM – Looks Promising
Apple’s recent patent involving 3D Head-Tracking technology has lit up the blogosphere. In this report we talk about a video posted on Houston Neal’s blog site which demonstrates how this 3D Head-Tracking technology could function within BIM and 3D software
Tidbits: Shark FX v7, modo and solidThinking news
Mac CAD and 3D News: We have brief news today on Luxology’s Chinese version of modo 401, solidThinking news items from its latest newsletter and blog and availability news on Shark FX v7
Tidbits: Apple 3D Head-Tracking, Live Interiors and more news
Mac CAD and 3D News: We have brief but very interesting news on an exciting new Apple 3D patent; news on Live Interiors’ latest update and a reference article on Ars that delves deeply into 3D on the Mac
solidThinking expands in Asia
solidThinking expands in Asia with strategic partnership with SiliconStudio Korea
Maxon partners with Py4D
Maxon partners with Tuningchannel over Python Development Resource Py4D
Service Pack 2 for Vectorworks 2010 released
Nemetschek North America has released the second service pack for Vectorworks 2010 — new update addresses key wall and joining component technology
Autodesk releases Smoke for Mac
Autodesk has released Smoke 2010 for Mac to the professional film community — new release runs on 64-bit Snow Leopard Mac operating system for optimal performance
V-Ray for SketchUp Mac Edition – Pre-order
Google’s SketchUp for Mac to gain V-Ray — one of the world’s premier rendering engines
Test drive Vue 8 Personal Learning Editions
e-on software releases Personal Learning Editions (PLE) of their top software packages for computer-graphics (CG) professionals
Architosh Talks to Viktor Varkonyi, CEO Graphisoft
At Build Boston 2009 Viktor Varkonyi, CEO of Graphisoft, sat down with Architosh to talk about ArchiCAD 13. The keynote speaker that morning at a Boston area architects BIM forum, Varkonyi explained that his company’s latest Building Information Modeling (BIM) software has changed the game in terms of what is possible with collaboration in architectural practice.
Vectorworks news: New Planet Vectorworks
Vectorworks News: New Planet Vectorworks for users of this popular Mac CAD software
Tidbits: Apple OpenCL, future GPU/CPU shared memory pools
Mac CAD and 3D News: We have a brief tidbit on a post on CPU to GPU shared memory pooling and work that Intel is undertaking. There is also a note about Apple’s progress with OpenCL and specifically FFT lib (library) producing very high performance
Tidbits: Autodesk University, Nvidia Quadro and next Mac Pros
Mac CAD and 3D News: In Tidbits today we have news on Apple’s next Mac Pros getting exclusive use of Intel’s new six-core Xeons; we also cover a report out on the Web about Nvidia Quadros at Autodesk University and a link to a Parallels vs Fusion article
Cheetah 3D 5.1 has new animation features
Cheetah 3D version 5.1 update adds improvements to animation, skinning, and other updates in addition to bug fixes