Archives for CAID Archives - Architosh
Luxion Releases KeyShot 11
KeyShot 11 is a pivotal release that expands Luxion’s continued advancements with users to solve their most pressing product development needs in the areas of material design, information management, motion, automation, and presentation.
MultiPipe and new Apple Silicon Support in Rhino 7
Rhino 7 is now available for Apple Silicon Macs, plus adds a new powerful modeling command called MultiPipe.
Luxion Releases KeyShot 10.2
KeyShot 10.2 is a major new update from Luxion offering a completely new Materials Library, faster caustics and a lot more.
Onshape Takes MCAD to Era of Design Data Management 2.0
Cloud-based CAD innovator Onshape introduces pivotal new features taking design data management to a new level.
Why Shapr3D Changes the iPad Pro Story From Toy to Tool
Early personal computers were called “toys” by the mainframe and minicomputer people. In the end, the so-called toys ruled the day.
McNeel Ships New Rhino 6—Grasshopper Now Built-In
The long-awaited Rhino 6 with integrated Grasshopper is now shipping worldwide. New flexible cloud licensing make using Rhino 6 wherever you are easy.
Luxion Announces KeyShot for SOLIDWORKS
Luxion advances KeyShot for SOLIDWORKS add-in software to accelerate product design and engineering workflows.
Altair Releases Inspire 2018—Simulation-Driven Design Software
solidThinking Inspire 2018 accelerates the pace of product innovation through advanced PolyBURBS fit tools, 3d lattice and solid-lattice structures and tools for additive manufacturing.
Autodesk BUILD Space in Boston Celebrates One Year Anniversary
Autodesk celebrates one year of “future of making things” in its innovative Autodesk BUILD Space in Boston.
New Content Pack for KeyShot 7—Foretells of Larger Role for KeyShot Cloud
Luxion announces new content pack for KeyShot 7—partners with Poliigon and Aversis.
solidThinking Brings Generative Design to the Cloud
solidThinking Inc. wasn’t really dropping support for macOS in their latest Inspire release, they were merely gearing up for solidThinking Inspire Unlimited their full-featured cloud-based generative design platform.
ToolTalk—The New solidThinking Inspire 2017.2
Architosh discusses the latest solidThinking Inspire version 2017.2—with its innovative motion simulation tools among other improvements.
Unveiled—Autodesk Generative Design Brings Power of Machine Intelligence to Manufacturing
The technology formerly known as Project Dreamcatcher is now unveiled as Autodesk Generative Design.
V-Ray 3 Arrives for McNeel’s Rhino Modeler—Adds V-Ray Swarm and More
The new easy to use V-Ray 3.0 has arrived on the Rhino 3D modeler application, giving powerful photorealistic rendering workflows to users of one of the most popular modeler apps.
In-Brief: Vectorworks and solidThinking Upcoming Webinars
Next week both solidThinking, Inc. and Vectorworks, Inc, have some excellent webinar opportunities.
MCAD News: Onshape Takes Lead On ‘In-Context’ Design
Onshape’s new In-Context design features take a leading position within the MCAD industry with respect to top-down design in complex multi-part and multi-assembly design. The latest update brings these to users in addition to other enhancements.
MIT Professional Education Launches New CAD Course for Manufacturing
Scientists, researchers, engineers, innovators and managers can brush up on the latest innovations driving CAD in the manufacturing world with this new course coming to MIT Professional Education next summer.
New Motion and Visualization Features Headline 2017 Release of solidThinking Inspire and Evolve
Engineers and industrial designers gain great new features in latest releases of solidThinking Inspire 2017 and solidThinking Evolve 2017.
Luxion Releases Keyshot 6.3—Advanced Rendering Tool
Luxion continues to expand support for the widest array of 3D product development software packages serving MCAD industries.
MCAD News: PTC Releases Creo 4.0—Focuses on IoT
PTC releases new Creo 4.0 3D CAD for manufacturing and product design markets. The entire Creo system is optimized as a system of applications that work together to streamline design and engineering workflows, improve collaboration and optimize superior product designs.
Rhino for Mac Price Goes Up Jan 1—Mac Version Nearly Complete
Rhino 5 for Mac goes up in price in January so readers who have wanted to add this tool to their arsenal should probably grab this app now. This, plus we have additional notes on Rhino Mac development in general below.
CAD/3D News Tidbits: Autodesk, ThinkParametric, solidThinking news
We have news tidbits from Autodesk, ThinkParametric online learning school and the upcoming solidThinking CONVERGE conference.
solidThinking Inc., announces solidThinking Inspire 2016
Additive manufacturing accelerated with introduction of PolyNURBS; cost-saving benefits for broad range of production processes.
Event: solidThinking to host CONVERGE 2016 Conference
Exploring the intersection of design and technology, the solidThinking company, a subsidiary of Altair, will host its first confab focused on more than its users but broader themes involved in the convergence in design and technology.
solidThinking intros new Evolve 2016 for Mac and Windows
solidThinking has quietly introduced solidThinking Evolve 2016 for Mac and Windows, a global leading product design CAID system.
Cloud-based Onshape introduces Onshape Drawings
Cloud-based, Onshape, the platform agnostic MCAD company, is thrilled to announce this latest update has the ability to create professional 2D drawings, which, according to Onshape has been by far the most requested feature.
Rhino 5 for Mac special pricing ends mid-September
A quick reminder that the introductory price of Rhino 5 offer is only on until 15 September 2015.
Event News: solidThinking 20 Minute Tips for Evolve
Quick reminder for solidThinking 20 Minute Tips for Evolve have started today and will continue to run throughout September 2015.
IMSI/Design intros new TurboCAD Mac PowerPack
Global CAD software developer IMSI/Design has announced a new plugin toolset for TurboCAD Mac product line.
Autodesk’s July update to Fusion 360 adds many new features
Autodesk just rolled out their July product update for Fusion 360 that demonstrates how rapidly Autodesk is innovating in the cloud-based CAD space. The notable improvement is in their team collaboration and they also added a new “Make” pane in the toolbar, providing access to new fabrication tools, including a new integration with Protolabs’ quoting service.
Event: Refine Inspire Results in solidThinking Evolve
A free webinar shows participants how to work between solidThinking applications Inspire and Evolve.
Webinar Event: Get Started with solidThinking Evolve 2015!
solidThinking is aiming to give the tools you that are needed to make the most of their programs. These sessions provide a quick and easy to understand tips that will enable faster work in Evolve.
solidThinking Evolve 2015 ships—offers ultimate Hybrid Modeling and rendering for industrial designers
Evolve 2015 is out and an upcoming webinar series will show you how to work with all the new features, including the new PolyNURBS toolset plus new rendering engine evoRender.
solidThinking Inc. introduces new solidThinking Evolve 2015
Altair’s solidThinking, Inc. is calling Evolve 2015 the ultimate hybrid modeling and rendering software and the program features brand new PolyNURBS tools, cutting edge rendering and lots more.
Looking at solidThinking Inspire 2014 for Architectural Design
In this companion feature article to our latest product review on Inspire 2014, Architosh looks at the specific nature of using solidThinking Inspire for architectural design.
Autodesk CEO Carl Bass Talks Shop: Design Differently with Fusion 360
Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, lays out how to Design Differently in a blog posts about Fusion 360 and the How and Why of where Autodesk sees product design.
Product Review: solidThinking Inspire 2014
In this product review, Architosh looks at the unique solidThinking Inspire 2014 CAE-based industrial design and architecture design tool for optimizing parts and structures for weight and strength. Using the company’s unrivaled “morphogenesis” technology designers see inspiration in unique responses to forces and stress that minimize mass while retaining strength responses to loads and forces.
Mac 3D News: Siemens releases new Parasolid v27.1 geometry modeling kernel
Siemens PLM Software has updated the geometry modeling kernel known as Parasolid to version 27.1, adding numerous enhancements which will aid delivery of key feature improvements to CAD application developers.
Luxion and 3D Systems Partner to Enhance Visual Quality in Product Development
Luxion and 3D Systems partner to help bring KeyShot’s power in visualization to the product design and development market merging with its 3D printing systems
Autodesk reportedly acquires cloud-based 3D design platform Lagoa for $60 Million
Autodesk is reported to have acquired innovative cloud-design and 3D rendering app provider Lagoa—potentially overlapping and complimenting its existent Autodesk Fusion 360 product line up.
Autodesk Fusion 360 Ultimate gets first update
Autodesk provides first update for Fusion 360 Ultimate — new features include Animations and Explosions workflow
What’s new in Luxion’s new KeyShot 5.1—Creo 3.0 and Cinema 4D and more…
Luxion’s latest KeyShot 5.1 adds new support for Cinema 4D and PTC Creo 3, and many new features…
Altair launches HyperWorks Unlimited for AWS bringing CAE to the cloud
Like OTOY Altair uses re:Invent conference this week to announced cloud-based distribution of application services with HyperWorks Unlimited for Amazon Web Services
Firm Profile: Nick Hardman—Hardmarque Re-Imagines Australia’s Future Manufacturing
We continue our Firm Profile series this November with a feature on solidThinking export Nick Hardman of HardMarque Future Factories, which specializes in a wide range of industrial design focused on the ‘additive manufacturing’ sector, serving diverse clients in the areas of industrial and product design.
Autodesk to introduce Autodesk ‘Fusion 360 Ultimate’ for Product Design
Autodesk to introduce Autodesk Fusion 360 Ultimate with new capabilities, including 2D drawings, exploded views and animations and much more….
Autodesk announces Autodesk Fusion 360 for Mac App Store – Says ‘Our Global Community Loves the Mac’
Autodesk notes that its users are increasingly using Apple’s Mac platform and that it was time for Autodesk Fusion 360 to get on the Mac App Store
Mac users clamoring for SolidWorks may finally have an answer in OnShape
New OnShape MCAD and product design and engineering solutions aim to rival leading SolidWorks and get this—they are created by the original SolidWorks team!
solidThinking INSPIRE 2014 is officially released for Mac and Windows
solidThinking has announced that solidThinking Inspire 2014 is now available worldwide through dealers. The award-winning engineering 3D CAD tool is available on both Mac OS X and Windows
Luxion releases KeyShot 5—Fast and Streamlined 3D Rendering and Animation
Many new features including NURBS based raytracing complete a new update in Luxion KeyShot 5—available immediately
solidThinking Inspire 2014 Web Event Scheduled for June
solidThinking Inspire 2014 is new and the company has several webinars coming up to showcase its latest new features
3D Systems showed leading edge technology at 3D Printing Conference
At NYC’s recent 3D Printing Conference 3D Systems not only keynoted the conference but showed off upcoming and current leading edge solutions for 3D printers and their associated technology
Luxion’s KeyShot gets new Integration with solidThinking Evolve 2014
Luxion’s KeyShot is now integrated into solidThinking Evolve 2014 via LiveLinking technology–offering product designers best-in-class real-time rendering in tandem with a leading iterative surfaces and solids modeling CAID tool
Event: solidThinking Evolve 2014 – Learn about this exciting new update
solidThinking Evolve 2014 free webinars showcase the latest new features…including new isolate mode, KeyShot Living Linking, new UI and UX improvements for product design on Mac or Windows
solidThinking, Inc., releases new solidThinking Evolve 2014 for Mac and Windows
solidThinking Evolve 2014 offers numerous new features and incremental improvements which address its current new and veteran customers’ biggest demands
Events: solidThinking Inspire webinars demonstrate Mass Reduction in Product Design
New solidThinking Inspire webinars show product design engineers how to dramatically reduce mass and weight in their new products
The new Mac Pro – A Buyer’s Guide Through the Best Test Results
This guide-oriented feature article explores the details surrounding the new Mac Pro and its performance benchmarking found throughout the web, with summary reference to particular industries and their common applications
MeshFusion for The Foundry’s modo now available from Cadsoft Solutions
MeshFusion plugin for the Foundry’s modo 701 offers powerful and time saving boolean operations to subdivision surface (SDS0 objects
Lagoa and GrabCAD partner to bring integrated Lagoa rendering to GrabCAD
GrabCAD and Lagoa–two cloud-based innovators in the world of CAD and 3D–have partnered to deliver advanced Lagoa-powered rendering directly within GrabCAD
Siemens releases new NX 9 PLM software for Mac, Windows and Linux
Siemens NX 9 now available for PLM customers worldwide for OS X, Windows and Linux 64-bit environments
Luxion and Autodesk Partner to Transform Product Design
Autodesk and Luxion partner to make product and industrial designer cooler and easier to visualize
