Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Experiencing the season’s fashion trends through technology

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 26, 2015

‘Fashion avatars’ bring the season’s key trends to life with motion tracking technology, then try to flog you a dress To celebrate the launch of spring/summer fashion collections, shopping mall…

Canon join the 3D printing carousel, acting as a 3D Systems reseller

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 26, 2015

Holding hands and skipping off into the night together, 3D Systems has partnered up with a new European reseller in the form of Canon Canon Europe has announced its distribution…

Altair Optistruct offers topology optimisation for 3D Printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 27, 2015

Optistruct is aiming at the high-end 3D printing market with its topology and optimisation tools With new solver capabilities, Altair’s OptiStruct topology optimisation software is aiming at the high-end 3D…

What’s the use of a SolidWorks User Group? It turns out: rather a lot

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 27, 2015

At SolidWorks World, this was a literal ‘badge of honour’ While covering SolidWorks World (SWW) this year, we were once again fixated on the tribes of loyal users coming together…

Folding electric bikes to beat our cities’ future gridlock?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 2, 2015

Ford’s new foldable electric bicycle collection, designed to compliment and fit within its more typical four-door range Two new foldable electric bikes have been launched by automotive giant Ford as…

BenQ sets sights on 3D CAD users with latest 34″ 4k UHD monitor

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 3, 2015

The latest BenQ monitor is SolidWorks certified and boasts a UHD display Designed to meet the rising demands for large-sized viewing and ultra-high definition, BenQ’s latest BL3201PT monitor boasts a…

Desktop Factory: What’s out there and what’s coming

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 3, 2015

As well as the Roland MonoFab ARM-10 3D Printer and SRM-20 CNC Mill, what else is out there to transform your desktop into space of real world prototyping and manufacturing?

Esteco collaborative optimisation tools at work for Ford

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 4, 2015

The latest generation of Ford cars looks set to benefit from optimisation enabled by Esteco’s software Ford has adopted Esteco’s collaboration environment based on Somo – enterprise collaboration and distributed…

Renishaw collaborates with Materialise on new metals 3D printing software

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 4, 2015

Renishaw’s AM250 laser melting system has its 3D printing capabilities boosted by the new software collaboration with Materialise Materialise and Renishaw have joined their considerable 3D printing knowhow to further…

New UK university looks to give boost to engineering skills

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 6, 2015

A rather dull rendering of how the new campus is expected to look. Nobody is checking their phones, which makes is what makes us doubtful A new UK university is…