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.
Al Dean looks at the latest updates to Abaqus, the Finite Element Analysis software from Simulia, and finds enhancements to existing tools and some exciting new additions
Quirky: The UK PR team sent us this little beauty – no use for drawing CAD models, but part of our five-a-day nonetheless As most have pointed out, AutoCAD for…
We’ve been talking Inventor Publisher for sometime, since getting a quick look at it at Autodesk University last year. Providing a system for taking 3D data and creating work instructions,…
The LG SV770 Waffle. Not to be confused with real waffles. Or indeed, strawberries. Word to the wise. Don’t leave your phone in your dinner. Korean manufacturing giant LG Electronics…
Stephen Lambert holding one of the laser-sintered plastic battery box modules that has helped to cut the 0 – 60 mph acceleration of the Westfield racing car from 5.5 to…
KeyShot, as regular readers of DEVELOP3D will be aware has been through some of a tumultuous history of late. I don’t think it’s worth dragging up the past, facts are…
Al Dean takes a look at what's coming in the next release of Solid Edge and finds that Synchronous Technology has finally started to deliver on its promise
This appeared originally on maestros of 3D printing, Z Corporation’s blog a while ago and I’ve been wanting to repost it for a while and finally got hold of some…
This is new territory for Delcam, who has always concentrate on its own tools and ensuring they work together in a pretty nice manner where appropriate and fleshing out various…