Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

LightWave 2015 offers alternative for artistic rendering and animation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 18, 2015

Lightwave 2015 has new updates for more control over product design renders With a mantra of ‘created by artists for artists’, LightWave 3D has launched its 2015 edition of its…

Pointwise 17.3 release for CFD Meshing with overset grids

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 18, 2015

Integrated overs rigging and CFD within the latest Pointwise release should make the simulation process more efficient Pointwise has announced its version 17.3 R1 release, with new updates for Computational…

SolidWorks World 2015 – What we learned about the new generation of SolidWorks products

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 18, 2015

In front of 5,500 attendees at its SolidWorks World user event in Phoenix, new CEO Gian Paolo Bassi heralded the arrival of SolidWorks Industrial Design (SW-ID). Representing the next generation…

Teach Yourself: Intro to Autodesk Fusion 360 CAM

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 19, 2015

The CAM aspect of Autodesk’s cloud-based Fusion 360 is one of the most intriguing, including both 2D and 3D machining with a pretty extensive set of operations from the HSMWorks…

Lenovo Thinkstation P900

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 19, 2015

This dual CPU powerhouse may come with a serious price tag, but for CAE specialists who seek true design optimisation it should be money well spent

Natural History Museum’s new Stegosaurus gets scanned and 3D printed

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 19, 2015

Sophie the Stegosaurus, working it for the cameras The Stegosaurus – six metres and several tonnes of belching, farting lizard meat – last roamed the earth 155 million years ago,…

3D Scanning + 3D Printing UK roadshow – see the tech working together up close

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 19, 2015

The tour will be hitting 9 venues over 2015 The savvy 3D Scanning folks at Central Scanning Limited have teamed up with the crack 3D printing team Tri-Tech 3D to…

EXOne gets super tough with launch of six new materials for industrial 3D printing technology

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 23, 2015

The new materials properties offer exciting new possibilities for companies looking to use industrial scale 3D printing Fast on the tracks of launching its Innovent set-up for customers interested in…

Wearables to benefit from process adding integrated electronics into injection moulded parts

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 25, 2015

Greater design freedoms will become available with lighter, curved and flexible structural shapes now containing the devices electronics Finnish electronic devices manufacturer, TactoTek, has unveiled details of its new manufacturing…

KeyShot 5.2 released with SolidWorks 2015 improvements

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 25, 2015

The final point-release of KeyShot 5 includes boosters and stabilisers for SolidWorks 2015 performance Luxion’s realtime ray tracing rendering software KeyShot 5 has received its final boost in the form…