Al Dean

Al Dean is formerly DEVELOP3D’s editor in chief and has been writing and talking about product development technology for the last 20 years. With a technical background in product design and engineering, he still gets excited about new ways to apply a fillet.

Think3 are back – YAY!

Posted by - May 12, 2008
Its with no certain amount of shear, unadulterated joy that I can announce that think3 are back. For those that aren’t aware, think3 has been one of the most entertaining…
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Mike Hudspeth on ID for all

Posted by - May 13, 2008
Desktop Engineering is a magazine I’ve written a lot for over the past few years and its odd that I never actually get to read the paper version. But anyway,…
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STL for Revit

Posted by - May 13, 2008
I found the recent addition to the Autodesk Labs web-site pretty interesting. There’s a new download for an STL exporter for Revit. According to the web-site you can “Create 3D…
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Microsoft Touch Screen TouchWall

Posted by - May 15, 2008
Seems like Josh over at SolidSmack.com got to it first, but this looks sweet. Its a hacked together rear projection unit with some fancy bits and bobs running on Vista.…
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CoCreate is back with 2008

Posted by - May 20, 2008
Things all went a little quiet on the CoCreate front while the PTC acquisition worked its way out and through the system, but that’s done with and the company is…
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DWG editing goes Web

Posted by - May 21, 2008
It seems that the battle over the DWG format is still raging – Autodesk claim it’s theirs, others protest. Autodesk tries to copyright and protect it, others protest and to…
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Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology

Posted by - May 23, 2008
You’ll no doubt have read about the launch of Synchronous Technology from Siemens PLM software. What really matters is how it’s implemented within the company’s products and more specifically how…
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