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Solidworks and Inventor receive a lot of attention, and so we tend to forget the surprising number of other MCAD programs that exist. They are not fly-by-nighters – many have been around for more than ...

The Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy remaster from 2017 (originally released in 2003) has seen a big upgrade arrive for the ...