Al Dean, Author at DEVELOP3D

Behind the curtain: Joe Walsh forms IntrinSIM

Posted by Al Dean - February 8, 2010

The product development technology industry is an intriguing one. Like many industries there are various levels of user, various levels of developer and various levels of component technology providers. While…

Vero VISI 17: Manufacturing

Posted by Al Dean - February 10, 2010

Last month Al Dean took a look at the design-related updates to Vero Software's VISI product. Now, he tackles the manufacturing updates, including CAM and tool design, concluding in March…

The HyperShot saga continues..

Posted by Al Dean - February 11, 2010

This last week has seen some resolution for those users involved with Bunkspeed’s HyperShot product as their rendering tool of choice. As we discussed a few weeks ago, disagreements between…

Electrolux launch Global Design Lab 2010 competition for industrial design students

Posted by Al Dean - February 12, 2010

“Cocoon” – winner of Electrolux Design Lab 2009, by Rickard Hederstierna, Sweden Electrolux, always keen to foster greater interest in industrial design, has just launched it’s design competition for this…

PTC take off the gloves on the Product Lifecycle Management battlefield

Posted by Al Dean - February 12, 2010

Jim Heppelmann, President & COO PTC just held their Annual Media and Analyst day in a rather chilly Boston. It’s something I’ve been hopping over the pond for, for a…

SolidWorks World 2010 – Next generation picture starts to clear

Posted by Al Dean - February 15, 2010

Right. This is late. Very late. My apologies. The reason for my tardiness is that I’ve been gallivanting about the place the last week or so, but more that that,…

James Dyson Award for 2010 goes live

Posted by Al Dean - February 23, 2010

News just in courtest of the Core77.com RSS feed, the James Dyson Award for this year has just launched. The Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and…

DEVELOP3D is nearly done – what’s in store for March?

Posted by Al Dean - February 24, 2010

As I write this, the final touches are being put to the March edition of DEVELOP3D. The layouts are being tweaked, “it’s” is being changed to “its” and vice versa…

Inventor used to build WoodWave roof structure at Olympic speed skating venue

Posted by Al Dean - February 24, 2010

I remember back in the day before Alias was acquired by Autodesk, the toronto-based company had a tradition of issuing a press release every four years regarding the design of…

Carestream Health dumps highly customised MatrixOne in favour of Aras’ Open Source PLM

Posted by Al Dean - February 25, 2010

Carestream Health, a medical and dental imaging, molecular imaging and non-destructive testing product specialist, has selected Aras Innovator suite to replace an “outdated and highly customized implementation of Dassault’s Enovia…