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MAXON Computer , a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, today announced that Big Machine Design (BMD), an award winning visual production company specializing in visuals for film titles, advertising, TV shows, games, and more, relied heavily on MAXON CINEMA 4D to create the stunning, fully CGI trailer for Square Enix’s highly-anticipated game title, Front Mission Evolved. The teaser trailer premiered at E3 2009 and is currently experiencing broad pick-up on popular Internet game trailer and video sharing websites worldwide
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Friday 3 July, 2009 09:38 PM |
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French carmaker, Renault has selected Dassault Systèmes’ V6 PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) as its new global product development solution, in order to improve productivity, and product quality.
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Friday 3 July, 2009 07:37 PM |
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3am Solutions announces the latest major release of their civil engineering visualization solution for Autodesk 3ds Max Design, Dynamite VSP Version 4.0 – which has the potential to revolutionize the role of design visualization throughout the civil design process.
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Friday 3 July, 2009 03:36 PM |
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Robotics researcher Hod Lipson is learning a lot about consciousness and creativity by teaching robots to work.
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Friday 3 July, 2009 01:34 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Over 450 alternative energy developers, scientists and policymakers from around the world were in Rockport from June 16-18 to talk about wind and tide power as part of the sixth annual EnergyOcean Conference. This was the first time the national event has been held in Maine, underscoring recent moves state officials have taken to get offshore wind energy development going.
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Friday 3 July, 2009 12:42 PM |
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On the surface , designing a parking deck seems a simple business: four walls, some ramps, painted spaces and tons of concrete and steel.
But structural engineers say the design specifications of a parking garage are just as exacting and important as those for a 100-story signature building. Even using the wrong size bolt on support beams or changing the angle of a joint can one day reduce a parking deck to concrete pancakes.
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Friday 3 July, 2009 11:33 AM |
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The phones are ringing off the hook at Captain Steve Wirsching’s office. Building contractors are calling and e-mailing him about the bonanza of construction projects slated for Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base and Coronado Navy Base.
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Friday 3 July, 2009 10:41 AM |
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India's second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland is looking to spin off its design engineering unit Defiance Technologies into a group company, Defiance Tech Ltd, an official has said.
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Friday 3 July, 2009 09:31 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Tier 4 and Euro VI regulations are topics that are currently weighing on the minds of design engineers in the heavy equipment industry. As the core number of deadlines begin to arrive over the next 3 to 4 years for reaching new strict regulations to significantly reduce NOx, particulate Matter (PM), and carbon monoxide (CM), companies globally are scrambling to find ways to adapt existing designs or redesign diesel engine systems of off-highway vehicles. Achieving these extremely reduced emissions is not just a nice to have on a list of objectives, it is a matter of staying in business.
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Wednesday 1 July, 2009 09:26 AM |
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Luxury carmaker Aston Martin has forged an alliance with Toyota to develop what could be the world's first luxury city car.
Aston Martin today released a photo of the Cygnet concept, which is a Toyota iQ with restyled front sheet metal
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Tuesday 30 June, 2009 04:13 PM |
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Dassault Systèmes embraces sustainable development, its vision is to enable companies to create better products for people and the environment. Amid the economic downturn, it is even more critical to avoid unnecessary waste of natural resources and energy in the manufacturing process and in the final products themselves. The following is what DS is providing to support our customers in terms of going “green”.
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Tuesday 30 June, 2009 02:10 PM |
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Gulf of Mexico oil production is forecast to increase substantially over the next few years, possibly reaching 1.9 MMb/d in 2013 which would be a record high, according to Richie Baud, MMS deputy regional supervisor for the Office of Production and Development. This is MMS’ best-case scenario, which factors in industry-announced discoveries and undiscovered resources
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Tuesday 30 June, 2009 12:08 PM |
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After nearly a decade of mighty labor and no little expense, he has built a hydrogen-fuel cell car --albeit one so tiny it's more like a buggy. If the money holds out, he intends to make 50 more of them and then test market the Riversimple Urban Car by leasing it out to residents in a British city center in just three years.
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Tuesday 30 June, 2009 11:17 AM |
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The mechanical mandible allows experts to study the wear-and-tear on dental fittings like crowns and bridges without using costly human subjects.
Fittings are made from well-known metals, polymers and ceramics – but their dental wear properties are often poorly understood.
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Tuesday 30 June, 2009 10:06 AM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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When visiting your next hotel this summer, check to see if energy efficiency is on the amenities list. If it’s not, it should be.
Recommendations on achieving 30 percent energy savings over minimum code requirements are contained in the newly published Advanced Energy Design Guide for Highway Lodging . The energy savings guidance for design of new hotels provides a first step toward achieving a net-zero-energy building.
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Monday 29 June, 2009 06:32 PM |
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Autodesk Inc. has introduced the latest release of its Moldflow software suite for plastics injection molding simulation and optimization. Scheduled for next month, Autodesk Moldflow 2010, second release, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, offers enhanced performance, accuracy and interoperability with mainstream computer-aided design (CAD) applications.
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Monday 29 June, 2009 04:31 PM |
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Linc Energy Limited announces that it has made further significant progress in demonstrating the combination of its Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) and Gas to Liquids (GTL) technologies.
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Monday 29 June, 2009 02:29 PM |
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Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has completed the Neihu Line, an extension of the existing Muzha Line, in Taipei, Taiwan. This unique, large-scale project involved the design and supply of the 15-km Neihu Line and fleet of 202 vehicles, as well as the simultaneous retrofit of the Muzha Line. Ultimately, the new and existing vehicles, operating as married pairs, will run compatibly on both lines.
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Monday 29 June, 2009 01:40 PM |
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Plans for a new international space hotel have been unveiled by students this month as part of a project for their Masters degree in Innovation Design Engineering (IDE).
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Monday 29 June, 2009 12:28 PM |
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The sector is pinning many of its hopes for the future on the development of electric/petrol and electric/diesel hybrid engines integrated with known performance enhancing technologies such as fuel injectors and superchargers. Other projects are looking at marrying other ‘green’ options such as regenerative braking and kinetic energy storage with hybrid engines.
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Monday 29 June, 2009 11:35 AM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) is investing S$16 million into a new initiative to encourage postgraduate students to specialize in integrated circuit (IC) design. The Integrated Circuit Design Postgraduate Scholarship (ICPS) aims to train 150 IC designers for the semiconductor industry. IC design has been identified by the EDB as a key enabler for existing electronics applications as well as for newer areas, such as green electronics and bioelectronics
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Monday 29 June, 2009 10:26 AM |
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