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.

Abaqus 6.10

Posted by - August 12, 2010
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
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Taking a rip through KeyShot 2.1

Posted by - October 6, 2010
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…
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Solid Edge ST3

Posted by - October 13, 2010
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
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