Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Stratasys J750 takes colour multi-material 3D printing to new level

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 27, 2016

The new Stratasys J750 technology is set to allow customers to add more than 360,000 different colour shades, plus multiple material properties, to a single 3D print build model. The…

Battery designers creating always-on, self-charging and efficient energy cells to enable IoT

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 27, 2016

The Ilika battery solution is an always-on, self-charging and efficient solution, here pictured in a perpetual beacon demonstrator With designers and engineers hooked on the possibilities of connected, sensor-enhanced, realtime-feedback-producing…

Esteco aids fine-tuning of Americas Cup yachts

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 3, 2016

Groupama Team France winning its first race of the season in Oman The level of simulation and CFD analysis in Americas Cup yacht racing is unsurpassed by any other sport,…

Canon latest to form partnership with Materialise for 3D printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 3, 2016

Canon 3D printing customers will now have access to Magics Canon Europe has announced a new strategic partnership with Materialise to give ‘existing and prospective’ customers across Europe access to…

Mayku FormBox launches on Kickstarter for desktop manufacturing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 3, 2016

Ready for rapid prototyping and mould making, the FormBox is available on Kickstarter for $349 Mayku has finally launched its FormBox vacuum former – unveiled at DEVELOP3D LIVE – on…

Polygonica expands platform support to Linux and Mac

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 4, 2016

Polygonica is well suited to cloud based mesh processing tasks for 3D printing and CAE Future versions of cloud based mesh tool for 3D pruning and CAE, Polygonica, will soon…

LulzBot launches its latest desktop FDM 3D printer, maintains open source ethic

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 4, 2016

The Taz 6 is set to continue LulzBot’s standing as one of the leading open source desktop 3D printers on the market when it launches on 17 May. New and…

Ravensbourne launches new materials library for design students

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 5, 2016

The materials library at Ravensbourne will grow to include some 1,500 materials used in product development and manufacturing Ravensbourne University has launched its library of over 500 selected materials, designed…

3D Systems adds accelerated programming speed and enhanced visualisation to GibbsCAM 2016

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 6, 2016

GibbsCAM 2016 is designed to help users eliminate scrap and reduce cycle times The latest version of GibbsCAM CNC machining platform introduces a range of new speed and simulation improvements…

BobCAD-CAM releases two new intelligent CNC nesting tools

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 11, 2016

//giphy.com/embed/hl4cHG8ht4rcs via GIPHY Potentially increasing material usage by 15 per cent, BobCAD-CAM has released two new CAD-CAM software modules, Nesting Standard and Nesting Pro. The new software packages offer nesting…