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Industry News
Dell Precision Workstations go to the extremes : the extremely powerful Precision R7610 rack workstation & the extremely small Precision T1700
Today Dell revealed details of their newest additions to the Precision professional workstations. The Dell Precision R7610 is destined for the server room and should prove popular in the growing market for remote workstations. The Dell Precision T1700 is the newest generation, Intel E3-1200 and Core family of workstations based on the Intel “Haswell” processor and Dell's first small form-factor, SFF, workstation design. CADplace met Dell's workstation team in London and captured the latest news for you in these exclusive videos.
Dell Precision T1700 Small Form-Factor (SFF) workstation to arrive soon
Hiding in plain sight is often an excellent tactic. CADplace may have been the only visitor at the recent Hannover Fair to do a double-take on seeing the Precision T1700 at the Dell booth.
Autodesk 2014 Launch Video : Autodesk launches new design software, the 2014 product release gives customers more capabilities with suites and cloud services
Autodesk, always nine months ahead, will roll out the Autodesk 2014 products. The company wants to leverage their suites and cloud applications to provide more effective solutions for customers. Having perhaps the broadest product range for desktops, mobile devices and cloud computing, the 2014 release marks the second year of this Autodesk strategy.
NVIDIA has good financial results, but professional graphics revenues were down
Quadro and Tesla professional graphics sales were down 6%. The economy and the delay in the new Kepler generation of professional GPUs seem to have been the main obstacles.
AMD FirePro graphics sales record a highlight in the AMD financial report
In the midst of a multi-quarter restructuring program, the professional graphics business hit record sales.
2D CAD Software
Professional 2D CAD : Solid Edge 2D Drafting
Solid Edge 2D drafting is not an Open Source CAD program but rather a robust, professionally supported tool from Siemens PLM Software. As such it is particularly well-suited to users needing 2D mechanical CAD tools.
DraftSight : professional 2D CAD software from Dassault Systèmes
The makers of CATIA & SolidWorks created DraftSight for 2D CAD which provides great value like AutoCAD DWG editing compatibility. This is a free product for individual use, and at the same time, it also has telephone & email support options, enterprise network installation options and more which can be purchased in a DraftSight Premium Pack product.
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