Axialis has finally released the long awaited update to their famous IconWorkshop application. • New interface - New look, more dynamic. • Full Macintosh® icon support - Now you can create icons for the Macintosh®. You're able to make, read, convert icons and save them as ICNS, RSC and BIN (MacBinary). All icon formats are supported up to OSX 10.4 Tiger. The new 256x256 image format is also supported. This is not an export-to-mac feature but a full implementation of the Macintosh® icon f...

Some time ago Adobe announced that they were going to embrace the new 3D CAD format called U3D, and integrate it into products like Acrobat. Now that the latest version of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader is released things are finally starting to look very promising for people wanting to be able to showcase 3D files in their presentations. Here's what Hitachi Consulting have to say on the new stuff; That's 2: Hitachi Expresses Support for U3D: Link More information can be fou...

Some time ago Adobe annoounced that they were going to embrace the new 3D CAD format called U3D, and intergrate it into products like Acrobat. Now that the latest version of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader is released things are finally starting to look very promising for people wanting to be able to showcase 3D files into their presentations. Here more information can be found: The Impact of U3D on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Link In this whitepaper from Hitachi Consultin...

According to this article on znet; Microsoft previews Avalon graphics engine Link , "Microsoft on Friday offered a public preview of Avalon, its all-new graphics and presentation engine for Windows." "Avalon was originally a key pillar of Longhorn--the next version of Windows--but the company decided last year to also make it available as an add-on to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003." It sounds very interesting. Warning(!), the article also says; "The company recommended t...