Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Lexus Design Award returns with togetherness

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 21, 2017

The 2018 Lexus Design Award has opened for entries, announcing the theme of ‘Co-‘, a Latin prefix that means together with, or in harmony, as well as its line-up of…

HP and Deloitte announce alliance to transform manufacturing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 24, 2017

HP and Deloitte have joined forces to go after the $12 trillion global manufacturing industry via digital reinvention focussed on HP’s Jet Fusion 3D Printing solutions and tools. The two…

Old VW gets a future facelift with 3D printed front-end by Altair and EOS

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 30, 2017

In its bid to convince the automotive world to stop bashing out bits of steel and to do something altogether more modern, the 3i-PRINT project has updated an old Volkswagen…

Royal Navy’s future concepts competition trawls the world of biomimicry

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 30, 2017

The Nautilus 100 mothership is designed to stay underwater for extended periods, moving between underwater docks 20 young engineers and scientists have submitted their concepts for the future of marine…

Textures for 3D printed surfaces shows intent of Carbon to bridge design and manufacture workflow

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 30, 2017

With an aim goal of killing off prototyping and jumping straight into production-quality parts, Carbon has made fast progress not only with its hardware, but also with a new range…

Manufacturing Advisory Service launched to help direct UK manufacturing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 31, 2017

Manufacturing and engineering membership body, Made in the Midlands has launched the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) as a dedicated online help desk and signposting service to support Britain’s manufacturing industry…

Envisiontec’s sand casting 3D printer utilises robotic automation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 1, 2017

Automation for 3D printing has taken another step with EnvisionTec getting in on the act with its Viridis3D robotic system for sand casting. Using a patent-pending technology, a proprietary print…

EOS sets out to tackle industry standards for metals 3D printing with IndustryLine Stainless Steel

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 5, 2017

Stainless Steel 17-4PH is hardly the stuff to get pulses racing, but EOS has identified this metal alloy powder as a key component in forming industry standards for metals 3D…

‘Full colour’ desktop FDM printing unveiled by XYZprinting

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 5, 2017

https://giphy.com/embed/wR0FVagbB6oIU XYZprinting has announced its 3D Color Jet technology which enables its Da Vinci Color 3D printer to mix and fire CMYK colour droplets onto PLA filament to produce full…

HP launches new footwear solution and ties with Siemens NX

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 7, 2017

A Fit Station foot scanner HP is driving its Multi Jet Fusion technology hard as a production-ready commercial 3D printing system, and today it has made further announcements, on top…