Jim Heppelmann takes over as CEO at PTC
News just in late last night that Jim Heppelmann, current COO (that’s Chief Operating Officer to you) will take over the role of top dog at PTC, replacing long time…
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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 launches Project Centaur and Cumulus
Myself and the legendary Greg Corke had a conference call and web demo with the Autodesk team yesterday to look at the first iteration of its cloud-based computation tools for…
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Z Corporation launch ZBuilder – Plastics. Not powder
Z Corporation has just launched the latest product in its range. While the traditional products include 3D scanning devices as well as its now legendary Z Printer products, this sees…
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DEVELOP3D: A source of moral turpitude?
When we started DEVELOP3D, we took some decisions early on that have guided the course of the publications’ development and progress over the last two years. From the feedback, readers…
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NX 7.5 #1 : Core Synchronous Technology updates
Today is the launch of the latest release in Siemens PLM Software’s NX product line and I’m sure the online world will be aflutter with all manner of content and…
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Granta bring Materials intelligence to the Engineering Desktop
This, I love, in all the right ways. I’ve always been of the opinion that perhaps the one missing piece in the 3D design toolkit is a set of decent…
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Autodesk launched Project Krypton: Is the search for simplification a good thing?
A couple of weeks ago, Autodesk launched its latest labs experiment for the Inventor community, entitled Project Krypton with the goal of giving “Get real-time feedback on a plastic part…
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Siemens PLM Software NX 7.5
Al Dean takes a whirlwind tour of the latest release of the flagship product development software from Siemens PLM Software and finds a product maturing in all areas of design,…
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Autodesk Inventor 2011
Al Dean gets his hands on Autodesk Inventor 2011 and finds a system that is blossoming at both ends of the product development workflow, from concept to manufacture
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HDR – the key to quick, dirty and effective lighting
Ok – so I wasn’t all that quick with the update to this series (first part is here) – magazine deadlines and trips to Legoland got in the way, along…
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