Siemens plans to acquire Lightworks Design, set to add visualization and VR support to its portfolio. The purchase reflects CAD vendors' trajectory seen in PTC and Dassault's past acquisitions.

SolidWorks 2019 launches with improved assembly performance, file export for AR and VR, tablet sketching tools, and more.

In NVIDIA's keynote at SIGGRAPH 2018, GPU maker reveals RTX lineup for GeForce and Quadro GPUs. Chaos Group launches V-Ray for cloud, Epic Games highlights Unreal Studio, and Gravity Sketch offers sketching for AR-VR.

Worldviz launches Vizard 6 before Siggraph 2018, adds supports for glTF and new hardware.

Standalone rendering programs like Keyshot and CAD-embedded renderers like SolidWorks PhotoView 360 usually come preloaded with a library that includes standard manufacturing materials, such as steel, titanium, and plastic. By applying these on your 3D part or assembly model, you ...