Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Local Brownies group earns badge of engineering honour

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 13, 2017

A Brownies group from Miskin in South Wales has tackled CAD, 3D printing and fabrication to earn their badges of Engineering Honour. Global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, recently hosted its…

Circuits might never be the same again as Nano Dimension unveils DragonFly 2020 3D Printer

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 13, 2017

Nano Dimension has finally launched its larger form factor 3D printer for the rapid prototyping of electronics, which is great news for the fight against the the Printed Circuit Board…

Automatic 2D drawing generation leads Kisters’ 2017 3DViewStation product line

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 18, 2017

Version 2017 of Kisters 3DViewStation Desktop has added ‘advanced’ automatic 2D drawing generation to tackle the legal hurdles still faced by many companies. According to Kisters, 3DViewStation helps to automatically…

Geomagic Control and GibbsCAM get 2017 industrial updates from 3D Systems

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 19, 2017

https://giphy.com/embed/GHbYTgtrtNIBO Parent company 3D Systems has continued its own industrial revolution with updates to two of its tools from the manufacturing-end of the spectrum – GibbsCAM 12 and Geomagic Control…

LimitState:Form v3.1 adds plugin to Ansys Discovery Live real-time simulation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 21, 2017

LimitState:Form can also be used as a plugin to Ansys Discovery Live In the upcoming release of its design optimisation tool, LimitState is targeting the time and effort needed to…

New materials increase Stratasys J750 3D printing functionalities

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 27, 2017

The latest release of materials for the Stratasys J750 include Vero Flex, specifically formulated for eyewear Stratasys has announced three new materials for its flagship Stratasys J750 full colour, multi-material 3D…

Ultimaker Cura software adds 3rd-party CAD integration and 3D print farm management

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 27, 2017

https://giphy.com/embed/l378aALMdMdkQhDJ6 Ultimaker has announced it is to put software at the heart of its strategy by releasing regular software upgrades that continuously enhance the existing hardware over time, making for…

ThingWorx Studio adds creation of fast, scalable MR experiences for HoloLens

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 27, 2017

PTC is allowing users to create and publish MR experiences for HoloLens PTC has announced from Microsoft’s Ignite user event that it is working to create enterprise Mixed Reality (MR)…

Link3D Digital Factory SaaS to manage 3D printing processes

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 2, 2017

Link3D, an additive manufacturing software company focused on software advancements for the 3D printing industry, has announced its flagship product for the real-time manufacturing of industrial 3D projects. Digital Factory…

CRL launches new business support programme for entrepreneurs

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 4, 2017

London’s Central Research Laboratory (CRL) has launched Boost, a brand new business support offer funded by the European Regional Development Fund – meaning no cost to registered companies. Consisting of…