CATIA on steroids: pt 2
To find out which graphics card vendor offers the best 3D performance in Catia,AMD and Nvidia agreed to battle it out in a room together. Greg Corke reports
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SpaceClaim 2009
DEVELOP3D's editor, Al Dean, looks at the latest release of SpaceClaim, the system that brought Direct Modelling back to the fore after decades of anonymity. What has the vendor got…
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Delcam FeatureCAM 2009
Production Machining is about one thing - speed. Getting your tool-paths created, verified and on to the machine cutting metal is the name of the game. Al Dean reports on…
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Who cares about Autocad?
Autodesk is about to release a new version of AutoCAD. In these days of dedicated design and manufacturing systems, why should we give a damn about the perennial 2D CAD…
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Careful with those fillets
There is one, often over used, 3D design feature that can have a huge knock on effect on Design for Manufacture. John Tumelty asks that we think before we go…
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Pedal Power
Frances Corbet talks to Richard Thorpe, founder of Karbon Kinetics about how he went from a one-man band with a revolutionary idea, to building a breakthrough product with more than…
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L’Easy Rider
A new design engineering consulting firm, Velo Science, is applying the same software used by Formula 1 racing teams to the design of racing bikes for teams in the Tour…
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Look at the design process from a new perspective
In the competitive world of design it often pays to look at things from a different perspective. Turning the development process on its head so you start with a following…
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Choosing a new monitor
LCD monitors have advanced greatly in recent years and capabilities vary from model to model. But choosing your new screen by comparing specifications like for like is easier said than…
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