Which CAD Will Run First on Tesla?

nVidia is turning their CUDA GPU architecture into a desktop computer of the supercomputing variety. ASUS, Dell, and Lenovo are apparently shipping boxes based on nVidia's Tesla C1060 GPU — "the power of a traditional supercomputer cluster at 1/100th of the price." So which mainstream CAD package will be the first? 'Course, it... [Read more]

Linux Powers Billion-Cell Analysis

An Italian supercomputer running ANSYS performed a one-billion-cell analysis of an unnamed America's Cup yacht, breaking the previous record for largest finite element analysis.  The super computer: an HP Cluster Platform 3000BL running Linux, consisting of 208 server blades, each with an Intel Xeon quad-core CPU. Total peak performance was... [Read more]

3D. Future. Interface. Oblong’s G-Speak User Environment

There is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well as Minority Report, Hulk and Aeon Flux. He is now the chief... [Read more]

SolidWorks On Edge Relations: Avoid Them Like Teething Zombie Babies

They’re a little bit easier to handle than the teething undead, but all the relations in a SolidWorks sketch can make modeling, and specifically concept modeling, a relation re-defining nightmare that is way less interesting than cleaning up after a zombie child. One of the biggest problems you’ll have with relations automatically added... [Read more]

3D. Future. Interface. Oblong’s G-Speak User Environment

There is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well as Minority Report, Hulk and Aeon Flux. He is now the chief... [Read more]

SolidWorks On Edge Relations: Avoid Them Like Teething Zombie Babies

They’re a little bit easier to handle than the teething undead, but all the relations in a SolidWorks sketch can make modeling, and specifically concept modeling, a relation re-defining nightmare that is way less interesting than cleaning up after a zombie child. One of the biggest problems you’ll have with relations automatically added... [Read more]

DS Doesn’t "Get" Blogging

Dassault Systemes launches a new blog, "3D Perspectives: A casual talk about 3D & innovation out of the cloud."  Official Blogger Kate Bourdet writes casually enough in her early postings, describing Dassault's philosophy, design, and so on. DS tends to be one of the more secretive CAD companies, and so I looked forward to reading... [Read more]

STOP Strumming. Start Rockin’. Blackbird Guitars Designed in SolidWorks

You can strum all day long and wear down the clearcoat on the wooden body of your regular old guitar, or you can be awesome and check out the humidity-proof, carbon fiber Blackbird Rider from Blackbird Guitars. Picking out tunes can be done in either Steel or Nylon String flavors and you’ll have the added cool factor that it was completely designed... [Read more]

STOP Strumming. Start Rockin’. Blackbird Guitars Designed in SolidWorks

You can strum all day long and wear down the clearcoat on the wooden body of your regular old guitar, or you can be awesome and check out the humidity-proof, carbon fiber Blackbird Rider from Blackbird Guitars. Picking out tunes can be done in either Steel or Nylon String flavors and you’ll have the added cool factor that it was completely designed... [Read more]

Halting the Share Buybacks

Public CAD vendors commonly spent millions repurchasing their own shares. Daniel Gross explains the two reasons for doing so: 1. Repurchases would compensate for the dilution created when executives and employees exercised stock options. 2. By reducing the number of shares outstanding, repurchases would make profits look more impressive. (One dollar... [Read more]

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