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 to acquire NetFabb

Posted by - September 24, 2015
If you’ve ever done anything with an STL file, chances are you’ve come across NetFabb, a German company that has long since specialised in doing interesting things relating to tessellated…
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Autodesk pushes Inventor 2016 R2 update

Posted by - October 12, 2015
Autodesk is integrating its browser-based ForceEffect (also on the iPad) directly into Inventor Looks like Autodesk is making a bit of a splash about its flagship product, Inventor. It’s only…
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How is design software changing?

Posted by - November 20, 2015
Last month, Al Dean gave a talk to an assembled group of software industry folks in Munich. He looked at the current state of the design software and proposed that…
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