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.

Autodesk to buy Flomerics… maybe?

Posted by - June 9, 2008
It seems that Autodesk is looking to acquire Flomerics and its range of CFD-based simulation technologies. According to a statement released by Flomerics, this comes after Mentor Graphics tried to…
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Blue Ridge launches CFdesign v10

Posted by - July 1, 2008
The image above shows simulation results from a Quick Natural Convection on LED light design shown with CFdesign v10 new user interface – nifty looking eh? Blue Ridge Numerics (at…
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HyperShot V 1.5 is ready to rock

Posted by - July 1, 2008
Sextant Navigation Eye2It Media Console courtesy of Pixelmathematics Bunkspeed has launched HyperShot V 1.5 with new key enhancements being interaction with all major 3D solid and surface modelling products, as…
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PTC execs cash out if acquired

Posted by - July 2, 2008
Roopinder at tenlinks.com dug out an interesting article in the Boston Business Journal. Apparently, PTC has been through a “change-in-control policy” that stumps up serious cash to the executives running…
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Flomerics goes to Mentor

Posted by - July 4, 2008
It seems that raising its bid by 17% (to around $60 million) got Mentor Graphics got Flomerics after all. In one of the most public attempts to sell an organisation…
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Tormach brings mill/turn

Posted by - July 15, 2008
I don’t know how familiar these guys are to our readers, but Tormach has some pretty nifty prototyping kit. they’ve got a range of CNC machines aimed at the higher-end…
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Where’s the Future of 3D interaction?

Posted by - July 28, 2008
3Dconnexion has just released details of research they’ve been doing into the return on investment, commercial pay back that can be gained from using its 3d motion control devices. According…
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