Al Dean, Author at DEVELOP3D

COFES 2009: Putting the Social into Social Networking

Posted by Al Dean - April 18, 2009

For those that don’t know, COFES, or to give its full title, the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software has been running over the last few days in a…

LG, CROWDspring and Autodesk partner for the future of personal mobile communication competition

Posted by Al Dean - April 21, 2009

LG Mobile Phones, crowdSPRING and Autodesk have announced a new competition to define the future of personal mobile communication. While it’s just for US residents (18 and over), you can…

Proto Labs add the fourth axis to its plans for domination

Posted by Al Dean - April 27, 2009

Ever heard of Proto Labs? What about Protomold or First Cut? Well, if you have, you probably know all about their service, if you don’t let me explain. Proto Labs,…

Coming up: Live Events

Posted by Al Dean - April 28, 2009

So, I don’t know if you heard, but there’s supposed to be some sort of global economic apocalypse happening. Would someone please tell my travel agent, because it seems that…

“Eye tracking technology to revolutionise the design process” says research team… we think.

Posted by Al Dean - May 6, 2009

It took me a couple of goes to read this through and understand it, so I’m going to pretty much replicate the complete press release verbatim: Researchers from The Open…

Words, sometimes, fail me…

Posted by Al Dean - May 13, 2009

Notes from the Simulia Customer Conference, London

Posted by Al Dean - May 19, 2009

Dassault Systemes‘ Simulia group is running its Simulia Customer Conference event in central London over the next few days and I’ve been sitting in on the presentations for the first…

New book targets Inventor Simulation users

Posted by Al Dean - June 2, 2009

‘Up and Running with Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2010: A Step-by-Step Guide to Engineering Design Solution’ from simulation consultant and Experience Manufacturing columnist, Wasim Younis, is published by Elsevier and features…

PTC/User World Event – Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5.0 + Direct Edit sneak peak

Posted by Al Dean - June 8, 2009

#1: It’s June, it’s the annual PTC/User event and this year it’s in a swelteringly hot Orlando. PTC are making a huge noise about its Social Product Development initiative, intended…

PTC/User World Event – Direct editing in Pro/Engineer update

Posted by Al Dean - June 8, 2009

#2: Looks like a screwed up a little on the previous post, so after a brief chat with Brian Shephard, Executive Vice President, Product Development at PTC, let’s get a…