Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Procter & Gamble wraps up product packaging design with new ‘Perfect Package’ workflow

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 11, 2017

Taking CAD design data straight through to becoming marketing material Consumer packaged goods is a fast-paced, competitive marketplace in which most purchase decisions are made in a matter of seconds,…

The value in IP

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 11, 2017

While much of the conversation surrounding Intellectual Property (IP) has been about its use to protect your design from others, it also has an important role in building the value…

3D Hubs wants to make metal parts 5x cheaper with new Polycast 3D printing materials

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 11, 2017

3D Hubs has partnered with castable materials producer Polycast and localised foundries to produce parts at low cost 3D Hubs has announced it is bringing low cost metal parts to…

New EOSPrint 2.0 built around data prep workflow for industrial 3D printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 15, 2017

A new plane segmentation allows the use of different layer thicknesses in one part, optimising it more easily for production Selective sintering expert EOS has unveiled its latest software for…

Autonomous vehicle software acquired by Hexagon

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 15, 2017

Vires has been building automotive simulation environments for over 20 years MSC Software, now part of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, has announced that it is to acquire Vires Simulationstechnologie GmbH,…

This cassette player transform’s your favourite hits into a badge of identity

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 16, 2017

Forget the hipster vinyl takeover, its time to get up in the loft, down to the charity shops, and dig around anywhere you might have left your old cassettes. Elbow…

First step of a transport revamp? 3D scanning the beat-up existing rolling stock

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 17, 2017

https://giphy.com/embed/ufNitihVjVGo0 Nothing sums up the grim reality of a British commute than the images of tired, knackered old train carriages, its seats having seen thousands of arses, feet, buckets of…

Axalta unveils new real-time colour configurator, powered by KeyShot 3D

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 17, 2017

Powered by an 88-core machine, customers can immediately see in real time the the Axalta paint colours Axalta Coating Systems has announced its new Color [sic] Configurator for its paint…

Rhino UK user meeting 2017 announced

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 18, 2017

The Rhino UK User Group Meeting 2017 has been announced, taking place on 14 June, at The Crypt On The Green, London. Organised with the help of CAD reseller Simply…

Vest for safer water transport wins DuPont packaging awards

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 22, 2017

DuPont has announced its 2017 winners of the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, with the highest honor awarded to the Fritz Water Vest, which allows people in developing countries to…