Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

V-Ray 3.2 for 3ds Max embraces virtual reality

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 25, 2015

V-Ray now includes VR rendering capabilities for putting your products in situ. Image courtesy of Steelblue VR rendering capabilities and multiple V-Ray RT GPU enhancements have been added to Chaos…

Scott Sports takes designs to marketing and back again with visualisation performance

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 25, 2015

Close ups of materials, interesting angles, all add value to the design process for Scott Sports and its customers Seeing as everyone is seemingly glued to a digital device, marketing…

Formlabs announce new ‘tough resin’ for 3D printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 26, 2015

The new Formlabs resin should deliver a superior combination of yield strength, elongation, and impact resistance A new ‘tough resin’, designed for applications in engineering and prototyping, has been announced…

Vicon sets up framework for future Aircraft engineering inspection using drones

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 26, 2015

The test set up in Easyjet’s Luton engineering hangar, with Vicon T-Series cameras tracking the UAVs Recently, airline operator Easyjet made the headlines for its plans to have drones actively…

D3D x LDN – first of our evening events

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 1, 2015

We’re bringing our own particular style of networking to London for our first ever evening event on 10 September. There’ll be amazing stories from top designers, the chance to get…

Major 3D printing players join push for new 3MF file

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 6, 2015

Further support for the 3D printing file format 3MF means the STL’s days could be numbered At the start of May we brought you the news of the new 3D…

Airbus flies with Aras Innovator for its PLM requirements

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 7, 2015

Airbus has adopted Aras Innovator as its PLM tool of choice – an act that could disrupt the PLM market Airbus and Aras have signed a ‘Strategic Partner Agreement to…

First Look: Netfabb Professional 6 – early version of 3MF file format already in place

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 7, 2015

Because a man in a tie means business – Netfabb Professional 6 has new features for making mass production less of a nightmare The latest release of Netfabb’s professional 3D…

Altair adds geometry healing with Elysium’s CADoctor

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 8, 2015

CADdoctor understands multiple CAD formats and can simplify geometry, to midpoints for example, for more efficient CAE analysis The Altair Partner Alliance has grown once more, with Elysium’s 3D geometry…

Rio 2016 Olympic Torch – colourful expanding design for the games

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 9, 2015

With Rio 2016 just around the corner, the new Olympic Torch has been unveiled – with moving coloured segments It seems like only yesterday we made a fanfare of London…