Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Desktop CNC makers Other Machine Company acquired by former Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 25, 2017

Former Makerbot head honcho and Maker Movement poster boy Are Pettis has re-entered the desktop fabrication market as the new owner of the Other Machine Company. “I believe that supporting…

Kickstarter offers manufacturing help with new partnerships

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 25, 2017

Assistance for product designers using crowdfunding for their ideas is here with the Kickstarter Hardware Toolkit Crowdfunding site Kickstarter is teaming up with hardware manufacturing experts, Dragon Innovation, who bring…

WATCH // Jewellery manufacturing process, broken down from all angles

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 26, 2017

Weston Beamor has been casting jewellery for over 70 years The jewellery design and production process is one of the most beguiling for us here in D3D Towers – so…

ExpressMarine for Rhino mixes parametric and non-parametric elements for ship structural design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 6, 2017

https://giphy.com/embed/JVczxHhNgaOJ2 A new version of ExpressMarine, a parametric ship structural design plug-in for Rhino 3D CAD, is now available for download. It’s an interesting product, offering structural definition methods: a…

Modo gets V-Ray 3.5 update with ‘supercharged rendering’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 6, 2017

https://giphy.com/embed/g3nqKbI2IYqTC Chaos Group has announced what it calls a huge update to its Iray-based rendering software for Modo, with version 3.5 updating its engine to support CPU or GPU acceleration,…

WATCH // Land Rover BAR talks simulation for Americas Cup success

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 6, 2017

As the Americas Cup gets underway, we’ve turned towards the amazing amount of simulation and optimisation that goes into building one of the craft. In this case it’s the British…

Global demand for custom jewellery sees Solidscape S300 push limits of wax 3D printing technology

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 7, 2017

The new S300 range from Solidscape is targeting the custom jewellery industry Solidscape has unveiled its new S300 series wax 3D printer, designed with the focus of enabling more efficient…

Oxidation resistant nano-copper particle process to improve 3D printed circuitry

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 7, 2017

The oxidation resistant copper nanoparticles are packed into a unique spherical cluster Nano Dimension Technologies has announced its development of novel copper nanoparticles resistant to oxidation that can be printed…

Automotive sheet metal software AutoFormplus R7 integrates with MS Excel

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 9, 2017

AutoForm Engineering’s latest software solution for the sheet metal forming industry has integrated the generation of reports in Excel format within its latest version, AutoFormplus R7. As a result, this…

Nvidia aims to tackle complex 3D printing with GPU power

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 13, 2017

GVDB Voxels printed a 3D statue (L) of a complex image (R) with structural support and minimal material As 3D printing charges towards its goal of complex multi-material, coloured, differing…