Al Dean, Author at DEVELOP3D

FormLovesFunction Forum goes live

Posted by Al Dean - March 5, 2010

Occasional DEVELOP3D contributor, Joe Moak, also runs a rather wonderful blog called FormLovesFunction. It’s worth a visit. Joe’s been discussing all manner of things that relate to design, to engineering…

BMW signs up for 5 year Catia & Simulia deal for Sustainability and the V6 shift

Posted by Al Dean - March 9, 2010

Dassault Systemes has announced that BMW has signed a strategic 5-year global agreement to “pave the way to meet the automotive market’s new challenges.” According to the press release, “Through…

David Burgess delivers the goods for Ford with KeyShot

Posted by Al Dean - March 9, 2010

In a slightly misleadingly entitled release, Luxion, developers of KeyShot (one of the replacements for HyperShot) has just sent out a press release about how “Ford relies on KeyShot Technology…

Why granularity is going to rock your future…

Posted by Al Dean - March 11, 2010

Image courtesy of the Lego Group. Granularity. There’s a word I love. It just sounds nice and rolls off the tongue nicely, even with my dodgy mid-british accent – unlike…

Vuuch – Taking collaboration to the next level

Posted by Al Dean - March 11, 2010

It’s been a while since I caught up with what Vuuch has been upto since it launched its social-media-collaborative-informal- tool last year and things are progressing nicely. As Josh Mings…

COFES: Alpha CAD-geeks assemble for the Future + Survey Fun

Posted by Al Dean - March 16, 2010

Martyn opens his magic box for our favourite Italian gentleman (Dr. Sandro Sozzi) – causing obvious delight. The contents of the box, however, remains a mystery. We’re just past the…

LG, crowdSPRING and Autodesk launch Design Competition for 2010

Posted by Al Dean - March 16, 2010

Sample of entry for this year’s competiton LG Mobile Phones has again partnered up with crowdSPRING and Autodesk to hold its competition to define the future of mobile communication. Starting…

Autodesk launches Clean Tech programme in Europe

Posted by Al Dean - March 18, 2010

We covered this a little while ago, but Autodesk is expanding its Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program to European “clean technology companies working to address some of the world’s most…

Learning the Shaolin Buddha Bounce – optimising your render settings

Posted by Al Dean - March 23, 2010

Rendering is something that many designers and engineers are adopting. The benefits are pretty well established, if you can show your non-technical peers an image that represents a concept, a…

Designing and Engineering with the iPhone – there’s an app for that. etc.

Posted by Al Dean - March 24, 2010

There’s been a lot of excitement around the iPhone since it was released, but its not until 2009 that the device started to find a home in the world of…