Laser Scanning: Back to basics part 1
3D Scanning can be daunting but our man Stuart Brown gives us the low-down in the first of a series of articlesAs a newcomer to the world of scanning, the…
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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.
PTC to retire SharePoint-based Windchill ProductPoint by 2012
It was with some fanfare and a great deal of hubbub that PTC launched its SharePoint-based Windchill ProductPoint a couple of years ago (it shipped in April of 2009). Now,…
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Smoke, Mirrors, Creo, Ninjas: All good things
Creo Direct – all modelling, no rules Vegas. Never the best place for sitting down and writing something that both makes sense and is valuable for anything other than a…
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Laser Scanning: back to basics part 2
Stuart Brown of 3DEngineers looks at best practices when laser scanning your first projectWith modern equipment and the present cost of scanning, it is still surprising that there is a…
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Luxology Announces New Studio Environment Set 2 Kit
modo SES 2 image by Jan Ove Rust Luxology is rocking it like they mean it this year and the team has just announced the Studio Environment Set 2 (SES…
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Bespoke Innovations puts personal into design
Scott Summit’s Bespoke Innovations brings new levels of customisation to prosthetic device In 2009, Scott Summit was intrigued by a proposition that was put to him: while prosthetic limbs had…
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Inventor 2012: Form Edit with Inventor Fusion
I’ve spent the last few months since it shipped working with Inventor on a wee modelling project to dig into the latest release of Autodesk‘s flagship product. While our role…
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Prime Cuts: Crowdfunding, developing for the iPhone and the BubbleScope
According to our analytics, the iPhone user base accounts for a massive majority of our readership. There’s something about designers and engineers that love themselves a bit of Appley-rectangle stroking,…
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SharePoint, Social and the Enterprise
Microsoft’s SharePoint seems pretty innocuous on first consideration. But then you consider how its become a standard, how it’s available, for free, to everyone that’s in a Windows Server environment…
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Autodesk teams with Too to release SketchBook Pro Copic Edition
If there’s something that connects those of us that have even the slightest of inklings of interest and practice in the world of product and industrial design, its the smell…
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