Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

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…

PTC ThingWorx 7 launches with enhanced tools for connected products and public cloud support

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 12, 2016

ThingWorx 7 sees PTC evolving the tools, and allowing integration with public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services PTC’s latest version of its Internet of Things (IoT) platform, ThingWorx 7,…

University submarine racing team buoyant thanks to 3D printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 12, 2016

The Godiva 2 human powered submarine, showing its internal components, many of which are 3D printed The University of Warwick’s ‘Godiva 2’ submarine is set for the European International Submarine…

Stratasys looks to cut design-to-3D print times with GrabCAD Print

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 17, 2016

A preview shot of the GrabCAD Print file preparation While the majority of us still recognise GrabCAD for its community of more than 3 million designers, engineers and students, Stratasys…