Ruffling the established ways
Take an established industry, throw in some outsiders with big ideas and you can expect some tension, says Sarah Krasley, as she looks back on the first few months of…
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Review: Ansys AIM R17
With the launch of AIM last year, Ansys brought its wealth of experience in simulation to a system targeted at mainstream designers and engineers. One year on, Al Dean takes…
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Family values
NBM, a family-run business, is bringing its mastery of Formula 1 machining and design to the world of high-end downhill bicycles
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Every day is a school day
“Every day is a school day” is a common refrain among the DEVELOP3D team. Back in the workshop with some new hardware, Al Dean ponders the joy of learning and…
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Simple is hard
When it comes to the Sonos Play:5 looks can most certainly be deceiving as Tanya Weaver finds out when talking to the design and engineering team behind its creation and…
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Talking design
It’s not often you get to spend the best part of a month talking design with large groups. At DEVELOP3D Live and during a trip to Milan Design Week Al…
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Lenovo ThinkPad P70
After several years focusing exclusively on the volume 15-inch market, Lenovo returns with a well-built 17-inch mobile workstation for more demanding 3D users
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Review: Siemens PLM NX 11
Despite a 30 year heritage, Siemens NX is still finding room for innovation. Al Dean looks at what's coming in NX 11 and finds topology optimisation, a new visualisation backbone…
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DEVELOP3D LIVE 2016 perspectives
Following DEVELOP3D LIVE, this year we asked Grant Riley of product design consultancy ThinkRefine, and David Land, Rory Christian and Christine Easterfield of market research, industry analysis and consulting firm,…
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