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Listen to a brief roundup of this week's top digital engineering news featuring Siemens closing its acquisition of Mendix and its plans to acquire Iray renderer Lightworks; Luxion's release of KeyShot 8, Onshape's preview of an AR CAD-editing app at Leap...

3D printing applications push rendering developers to match new material properties.

Atheer's recently debuted AR Management Platform category marks the first step in realizing the AR Management Platform vision with broader gesture support, contextualization, deeper hardware integration and improved voice transcription, the company reports.

New partnership with Eagle Point enhances ProductivityNOW eLearning Platform for Autodesk software users.

MatWorks releases 5G Toolbox to let designers simulate and test 5G communication-based products and devices; MathWorks' Ken Karnofsky discusses 5G impact on IoT.

Cloud CAD firm Onshape is developing a mixed reality app to let designers edit CAD models in real time on the Magic LEAP AR system.

In this live roundtable, panelists will discuss the evolving role of the design engineer in the era of machine learning; benefits and pitfalls of working with generative design; and what humans can learn from AI-proposed solutions.

Pointwise Version 18.2 also accelerates the generation of surface meshes (named spacing constraints, a mesh spacing synchronization command, and a quick way to split curves into pieces of equal arclength), enhances the generation of hybrid meshes with the T-Rex technique, and...

Ashlar-Vellum announces the development and upcoming release of Graphite version 12, its 3D wireframe CAD software on Mac and Windows. Company also releases Cobalt, Xenon and Argon version 12, its 3D solid and surface modeling products on Mac and Windows.

This CAD to CAE solution from DfR Solutions offers physics predictions and much more.

Autodesk is committed to responding quickly to 3ds Max user feedback. This release includes over 70 fixes, many of which were submitted by the 3ds Max user community.

CADWorx and Analysis Solutions release solution for model visualization and publishing.

Luxion releases new version of its CAD-friendly rendering program KeyShot

Everybody favors their CAD solution and that means interoperability havoc in multi-CAD environments. Here's an idea for how to manage the chaos.

Altair's new design platforms provide access to simulation at every phase of product development.