Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Weekender // The Brits Who Designed The Modern World

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 2, 2016

El Tel settles in to watch the documentary he features in. Cigars are optional. With December meaning dark nights, wet weather and present-buying poverty we’ve turned to the telly to…

Cloud Bill of Materials tool OpenBoM receives updates for 2017

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 5, 2016

OpenBoM has received updates for 2017 including more intuitive CAD integration and design changes reflected in the BoM The latest release of OpenBoM’s cloud-based tool ‘significantly expands’ openBoM’s existing feature…

Thermal vision smartphone add-on gives user ‘Predator vision’ for product design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 5, 2016

//giphy.com/embed/eWnoHIIadQtaM The FLIR One gives its users the handy power of thermal vision, through detailed infrared images that can show where a heat escapement might be needed in a product…

German brewers adopt metals 3D printing for assembly line spares

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 6, 2016

Metals 3D printing keeps the beers flowing off the production line In the world of German beverage packaging the production 40,000 – 80,000 bottles or cans per hour are not…

WATCH // 10 minute history of design tech innovation in New England

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 7, 2016

Despite the wider media focus on Silicon Valley, Boston and the greater New England area has had a huge impact on the way we all design and innovate – from…

KeyShot 6.3 adds support and libraries for latest CAD releases

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 7, 2016

New libraries and support make up this release for KeyShot users as they wait for the launch of KeyShot 7 Lexicon has announced the release of KeyShot 6.3 with new…

New release of Renishaw’s QuantAM software gets input from Dassault Systèmes subsidiary, S

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 7, 2016

//giphy.com/embed/PSS6XQBpduHCw Spatial Corp has announced its latest input to Renishaw’s 3D printing build preparation software, QuantAM, used to generate laser scan paths that fuse the powder layers to additively form…

ESI signs partnership with Xerox-owned PARC for modelling system solutions

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 8, 2016

ESI has signed an interesting partnership with Parc surrounding its hybrid virtual prototyping and data-driven analytics solutions A partnership between virtual prototyping software company ESI Group and PARC, a Xerox…

Motion and visualisation capabilities headline 2017 release of SolidThinking Inspire and Evolve

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 8, 2016

SolidThinking’s Inspire and Evolve 2017 releases feature a wide range of new tools and features New tools for motion analysis, topography optimisation, symmetry, and depth of field look to increase…

Theorem release V19.3 for JT to SolidWorks Composer

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 8, 2016

SolidWorks Composer users can now open JT data including geometry and assemblies Theorem’s V19.3 JT to SolidWorks Composer is now available with new product features and enhancements for the SolidWorks…