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Second Life: A Virtual Universe for Real Engineering

All part of the development and evolution process

First there was the drafting table and the pencil. Then there was 2-D CAD; next came 3-D drafting utilities like SolidWorks and ProEngineer. Now, San Francisco-based Linden Lab has evolved computer-aided design to its next plateau, offering free access to a computer-generated alternative universe called Second Life (SL) where users can build anything

Thursday 18 October, 2007 06:02 AM

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