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ALLPLAN of Munich acquires Manufacton of Alpharetta, Georgia, USA for its real-time visibility of offsite production and prefabrication processes. Price was not announced. https://www.manufacton.com/

“Over-confidence in the capabilities of AI is a high status opinion (like climate change). You will be rapidly become a pariah in the policy world if you are even remotely skeptical.”

-Andrew Orlowski

Autodesk is penciling in Sept 15-18 as the dates for its AU 2025 use conference in Nashville TN this year. https://conferences.autodesk.com/flow/autodesk/au2025/web/page/overview

Siemens Software makes its cloud-based PAVE360 for Software Defined Vehicle development available on AMD Radeo GPUs and CPUs, running on Microsoft Azure. Learn more from https://eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/pave360.

NAFEMS posts the next six months of courses at https://www.nafems.org, including titles like “Simulation of Lubricated Contacts.” Prices vary according to the number of days, roughly $250/8-hour day.

VSC is a portable 3D real-time rendering engine written in C++, with “portable” meaning it is software-only; no hardware. The code is at https://github.com/WW92030-STORAGE/VSC.