What will “the future of making things” deliver?

The future of making things - including in architecture, manufacturing and multimedia - was up for discussion at the recent AUx event. Brent Balinski spoke to Autodesk's Pat Williams and Scott Reese about some of the current disruptive forces in play and where they might lead us.
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SolidWorks 2014 launches in Australia

Being close to and understanding customers are important to any business. SolidWorks - owned by French software giant Dassault Systemes - takes this to the extreme, and claims that nine tenths of the changes made for its 2014 suite of products have come from users’ suggestions.
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Designing for sustainability with Autodesk

“The message that I like to get across is we as a company really see sustainability as a design challenge; as a matter of fact when I spoke yesterday at the conference I sort of challenged everyone in the audience to consider themselves as being a designer,” explained Jake Layes, Autodesk’s head of sustainability and clean technology for Asia Pacific.
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What the cloud holds for manufacturers

The rising popularity of and potential offered by cloud computing is nothing new. In areas like ERP and CAD, the benefits of cloud – quick rollout, a saving on IT capital expenditure, boosted computing muscle – have been known by industrial users and those offering them solutions for some time.
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