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An entire year has passed since Revizto was introduced at 2012 Autodesk University. Now, at the 2013 AU, Revzto 2.0 was introduced. Most of the improvements came from feedback from users who work on large, complex projects, and they emphasized the need to be able to collaborate across different locations, especially using iPads. This wasn’t always easy before, and to address this need developers have greatly increased Revizto’s Editor and Viewer performance.

It's competition time so get your Christmas thinking caps on! There's some great prizes on offer for the 3 lucky winners.

The theme of the competition is 'Christmas' so we will leave the rest up to your imagination!

Read on to see what's on offer and how to enter.

Congratulations to the lucky winners in our monthly 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Prize Draw. The winning raffle numbers were 7985 and 1251.

Winners will be contacted via email to organise delivery./

The December draw will commence 14th December.

To enter the monthly raffle you must be a Premium member.

There's no better way to start the week than to give our wonderful members a new toy to play with. Over the years we have seen requests for Facebook like buttons, G+, Twitter etc., but these come with page load disadvantages. No one likes a slow loading site!

Instead, we went ahead and developed our own little voting addon for the forums. Now you can like or dislike any post you wish. Voting for popular posts means you'll improve the user experience for everyone!

This is the first step in a long journey to reveal something very special in the new year. But first we need YOUR help.

Bonnie Roskes has just added SketchUp 2013 Hands On: LayOut eBook to the SketchUcation Shop. With over 183 pages of excellently delivered and illustrated exercises there's no better time to dive into LayOut!

Indigo 3.6 brings several new, production-oriented features to the table, while improving on the core features that make Indigo great.

New compositing features have been introduced which are particularly valuable for architectural and product visualisation, and represent a continuing dedication to improving Indigo for existing customers: these upgrades, along with bug fixes and usability improvements, are free for all Indigo 3.x customers.

Last but not least, for a limited time we will be offering a 25% to 33% off sale!

JPEGmini is a patent-pending photo recompression technology, which significantly reduces the size of photographs without affecting their perceptual quality. The technology works in the domain of baseline JPEG, resulting in files that are fully compatible with any browser, photo software or device that support the standard JPEG format. JPEGmini was developed by Beamr, an imaging technology company that powers some of the world's top web publishers, social networks and media companies. Beamr's goal is to improve the user experience and reduce the costs associated with storing and transmitting media files but for 3D artists, smaller image sizes may also be an important factor.

The kind folks over at iMaterialise have quite an offer at the moment with 10% off the price of any item ordered through their iMaterialise 3D Print plugin for SketchUp.

This new plugin makes it incredibly easy to upload, scale, and order a 3D print directly from within your favourite modeling software. Use the code SKETCHUP2013 when ordering your print and get 10% off the price!

You can grab their new plugin from the PluginStore

Your favourite SketchUp event is back for 2014 with the big shindig happening in Vail, Colorado. If you are interested in attending you can opt in from the button below.

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You can read the full brief here

E-on software have announced the availability of LumenRT 4.3. Available as a free upgrade for all LumenRT 4 users, this update includes a new content library containing 80 new, real-time optimized plants.

Built using e-on’s groundbreaking Plant Factory technology, these plants offer exceptional real-time performance allowing large populations of thousands of instances to be created. Included in the library are a variety of new Hardwood, Evergreen and Broadleaf trees along with an extended set of bushes, shrubs and flowers.