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How Engineers Celebrate Halloween

As Halloween approaches, engineers begin sculpting and carving digital pumpkins in their favorite CAD programs, and simulation specialists start running aerodynamic analysis of flying witches and headless horsemen. Some dug up old projects, put a new shine on it in the latest rendering program, and resurrected their 3D ghosts. Patrick Hanley, Founder at Hanley…
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Design & Simulation Software Guide 2025

In this Special Issue, Digital Engineering presents its second annual guide to design and simulation software vendors.
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How Engineers Celebrate Halloween

October 29, 2025 · Engineers join Halloween fun with CAD-sculpted jack-o-lanterns, aerodynamic analysis of headless horsemen and witches, and more.

Design & Simulation Summit: Can AI Be Trusted for Engineering Workflows?

October 29, 2025 · Virtual event will kick off Oct. 30 with a keynote focused on AI for design and simulation, as well as case studies from UL Research Institutes, Weber Food, and more.

Chaos Debuts Several AI Tools

September 25, 2025 · Veras 3.0 is an AI-powered visualization tool that transforms static renderings into dynamic animations.

Design & Simulation Software Guide 2025

September 25, 2025 · In this Special Issue, Digital Engineering presents its second annual guide to design and simulation software vendors.

CADviz 3D Visualization Tool Launches

September 16, 2024 · CADviz introduces semantic rendering technology, enabling users to create visualizations with a single click, company says.

NVIDIA Releases OpenUSD and Generative AI Microservices to Attract Omniverse Developers

July 30, 2024 · NVIDIA Promotes Omniverse APIs for Generative AI and OpenUSD at SIGGRAPH

A Call to the Jedis of the Fusion and Maya Universe: The Droid Factory Needs You

May 6, 2024 · To promote the release of a new TV series, Autodesk and Disney launch a droid design contest

Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max 2025 Released

April 16, 2024 · Updates offer support for open standards and improved modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering capabilities. 

IMSI Design Unveils TurboCAD 2024

April 9, 2024 · The TurboCAD 2024 release is highlighted by the inclusion of a new physical-based rendering (PBR) engine, TurboLux.

Lumion 2024 Enables Design in the Moment

March 26, 2024 · Discover real-time ray tracing, faster video renders and more.

NVIDIA Released RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU

February 12, 2024 · This new small compact GPU that delivers performance, versatility and AI capabilities for professionals, the company reports.

Tech Soft 3D Releases HOOPS Visualize 2024

January 19, 2024 · HOOPS Visualize 2024 includes improvements to better handle massive point cloud data sets through its out-of-core engine.

Tech Soft 3D Debuts HOOPS Luminate

January 3, 2024 · HOOPS Luminate is a new graphics SDK for photorealistic and advanced real-time rendering.

Playful Visualization

October 23, 2023 · From texture to packaging, toy designers rely on rendering programs to bring ideas to life.

Depix Launches AI-driven Software for 3D Rendering

August 22, 2023 · Depix’s new software enables users to create high dynamic range (HDR) panoramic images and backplates using simple text prompts to enhance 3D design.

Luxion Releases KeyShot v2023.2

August 1, 2023 · This release brings workflow improvements and feature updates.

DiffuseLogic Bella Render Plugin for Rhino WIP

April 20, 2023 · Highlights include performance improvements and features such as grass, volumetrics, subdivision, displacement, render-time corner rounding, 2D and 3D textures and more.

Intel, NVIDIA Launch New Workstations for AI Workloads

February 15, 2023 · Intel Xeon W CPUs, Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, and NVIDIA RTX 6000 GPUs are at the core of the new AI Workload-targeted Machines

Epic Games to Use HOOPS Exchange for CAD Import

December 6, 2022 · Epic Games switches to HOOPS Exchange for handling CAD model import

What’s New in Arnold?

December 2, 2022 · Autodesk product enables optimization of rendering and much more.


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