Al Dean, Author at DEVELOP3D

Siemens to acquire CD-Adapco for close to $1 billion

Posted by Al Dean - January 26, 2016

News in late last night took us by surprise – Siemens is intent on acquiring CD-Adapco for just a shade under $1 billion. According to the press release, “Siemens and…

SimScale launch Drone Design competition

Posted by Al Dean - February 5, 2016

We took a look at SimScale’s cloud-based offering in the last issue of DEVELOP3D (the February issue – it’ll be online soon) and came away impressed with the simulation tools…

Delcam to follow Autodesk’s lead with move to subscription

Posted by Al Dean - February 29, 2016

Delcam sales are moving to a subscription only model For the last few years Autodesk has been moving its product sales to a subscription only model, and news has emerged…

Want big parts? 3D Platform have got you covered

Posted by Al Dean - February 29, 2016

If there’s one thing that’s annoying for those looking to take on 3D printing as part of their workflow, it’s got to be size. However you cut it, most ‘desktop’…

Formlabs launches biocompatible resin, updated formulas and new materials manager

Posted by Al Dean - April 19, 2016

Formlabs has just announced an interesting new resin to add into the existing set of engineering focused resins for it’s Form 2 desktop SLAs. Unlike the most recent additions (which…

Review: Markforged Mark Two

Posted by Al Dean - July 26, 2016

In the first of a two part review, Al Dean gets hands on and looks at the basics of how the 3D printer works

Virtual reality – the future’s amazing!

Posted by Al Dean - August 1, 2016

After a couple of weeks immersed (pun intended) in the world of VR, Al Dean has been thinking about the future of interaction when it comes to complex 3D designOver…

Review: SpaceMouse Enterprise Kit

Posted by Al Dean - August 2, 2016

3Dconnexion has been providing its range of devices for 3D model control and manipulation for over twenty years. Al Dean gets to grips with the latest bundle to find out…

EOS traceability tool for metals AM gains first customer

Posted by Al Dean - September 6, 2016

Last month, sintering specialist, EOS (that’s Electro Optical Systems) launched EOSTATE MeltPool for it’s Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) hardware. For those that are tracking the advancement of the use…

Markforged take it to the next level with the Mark X

Posted by Al Dean - October 4, 2016

If you’ve developed a kick ass 3D printer that not only builds in killer nylon mixed with chopped carbon fibre, but also lets you add in layers of single strand…