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.

The Ribbon of Doom

Posted by - May 30, 2008
Solid Edge is now fully Ribbon’ed up I’ve spent the last ten years or so writing about the technology we use day-in-day-out. What’s interesting is that as my career transitioned…
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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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