Greg Corke is DEVELOP3D’s Managing Editor and resident workstation specialist. There’s nothing he likes more than putting the latest kit through its paces in 3D design, visualisation and simulation tools… well, there’s always travel, cooking, music and Arsenal as well.
This post is not to do with product development technology per se, but a press release I found in my inbox this morning really quite disturbed me. Spector 360 Corporate…
Alongside the Synchronous Technology launch, Siemens PLM also updated its two product development applications, Solid Edge and NX. This month we look through what's new in the legend that is…
Getting IT systems to work together is a major hurdle but managing the global design teams and process is the biggest challenge writes Rob Jamieson Over the last few months…
Gordon Murray, the Formula 1 and McLaren SLR design legend, is abandoning horsepower for sustainability with the highly secret Type 25 project. Al Dean met up with him at his…
In May HP rolled out its long awaited MCAD-focussed Blade Workstation solution. Drawing inspiration from traditional client/server models HP’s Blades are housed in a densely populated rack locked away in…
To most, CAD model translation appears to be either a black art or a task requiring unlimited trial and error, patience and some luck. DEVELOP3D asked Theorem Solutions to explain…
There aren't many professional-standard, low-cost 3D modelling tools on the market today. Rhino from McNeel & Associates is probably the most popular generic modelling application and used across many vertical…
Making the decision to deploy a Product Document Management (PDM) system seems easy enough. To actually pick the correct system, deploy it and maintain it, in a mixed environment, without…
Recent research shows that dedicated 3D control devices can have a major impact on design, but should we look to the consumer sector for a future beyond traditonal mouse/keyboard derivatives…
Al Dean takes a look at the new kid on the computational fluid dynamics block and finds a system that uses technology from the FEA world to great effect in…