UGS acquired the Geolus 3D shape search technology late last year. Al Dean takes a look at what this huge breakthrough in the 3D centric world means.

Nvidia on Vista in OpenGL and Visual Computing - HP's breathtaking 30inch display - and the latest desktop and mobile workstations from Sun, Fujitsu Siemens, Rock and Lenovo.

From AMD Opteron to Intel Core2 Duo and lightweight notebook to desktop replacement, this month's workstation reviews offers something for everyone.

Workstations can be fragile machines, so what can you do to help ease the pain if you have to rebuild an entire system? Rob Jamieson reports.

HP’s new 30-inch LP3065 flat panel has to be seen to be believed. Its giant screen and exceptional image quality give designers an unrivalled viewing experience says Greg Corke.

UGS has just launched the latest release of its next generation platform for product definition, so Al Dean sat down with the NX technical team and went through the highlights for this fifth release.

Ansys is a name synonymous with FEA, but the last few years have seen acquisitions expand its offering to market - Al Dean explores the current state of its CAD-integrated simulation offerings.

CoCreate was a pioneer of dynamic modelling. With other vendors now offering similar tools, how is CoCreate differentiating itself with it history-less modelling approach? Al Dean reports.

With PTC retiring support for Intralink 3.4, many Pro/Engineer-based organisations are facing critical choices about the future of their data management strategy. Al Dean explores one option.