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.
Time to market was critical when Playmobil decided to bring the prehistoric Brachiosaurus back to life in the shape of a toy. But with the help of VISI software,the toolmaker…
A collaborative concurrent engineering environment at Bentley Motors has helped the legendary car producer deliver new levels of design-to-manufacturing efficiency
Back in 2005 the workstation sector was all about AMDand its Opteron CPU. At that time the Opteron wiped the floor with anything Intel could throw at it and all…
The big news at the tail end of last year was the launch of Intel’s brand new Core i7 chip. Codenamed Nehalem, the Quad Core chip features a brand new…
Despite the emergence of multiple CPU cores in individual workstations (the standard is now 4 cores) most CAE applications still can’t harness all the available power, probably never will until…
This week Apple lifted the lid on Intel’s new Xeon processor, way in advance of the other major workstation vendors, and, much to our amazement, even in advance of Intel…
Today Lenovo became the first of the dedicated workstation manufacturers to announce its new generation Intel Xeon (Nehalem) based workstation range. Pipping Dell and HP to the post, Lenovo’s new…
Multi-Touch screens running applications such as Autodesk Mudbox, as demonstrated at Autodesk University last December, may be more for show than practical use due to concerns over ergonomics. #1: Ergonomics…
I’ve just spent an incredibly interesting few hours with BMW DesignWorks in its headquarters in Los Angeles. Owned by BMW, the design consultancy has a hand in the development of…
Dell officially unveiled its new range of workstation-class systems today with the launch of the Precision T3500, T5500 and T7500. Like all new workstations being announced this week, the new…