Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

All the key 3D Printing news from Formnext 2017

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 20, 2017

Should you have been unable to attend Europe’s largest 3D Printing event last week, don’t panic, we’ve picked among the mass of news and launches from the event to bring…

Laminates and composites FEA analysis targeted by MSC Nastran 2018

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 20, 2017

Simulating pre-stressing and fan blade out of a jet engine in Nastran 2018 Nastran 2018.0 will bring ‘new assembly modeling techniques’ according to MSC, which will allow for the creation,…

Toyota launch $4M challenge to transform lives of people with lower-limb paralysis

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 20, 2017

The Toyota Mobility Foundation has joined with Nesta’s Challenge Prize Centre to launch a multi-million dollar challenge to expand mobility across the globe for people with lower-limb paralysis. The Mobility…

Dassault Systèmes’ Fashion Lab uses cloud tools for Ecco footwear designs

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 21, 2017

Dassault Systèmes has partnered with footwear designers ECCO on new project, Project Quant-U The FashionLab by Dassault Systèmes has been collaborating with ECCO Innovation Lab on a 3D print footwear…

Boom Supersonic: Redesigning Supersonic Commercial Flight

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 21, 2017

How Boom Aerospace is vying to return supersonic commercial flight to the skies

Antycip Simulation opens new VR centre in UK for engineering solutions

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 4, 2017

Virtual Reality and 3D immersive solutions integrator, Antycip Simulation, has announced its new UK demo centre in its Adderbury office, to help support its UK and international customers by adding…

Vero launches new direct modelling CAD system

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 12, 2017

Vero Software has launched a new product with which it aims to ‘fill the gap between CAD and CAM’, a direct modelling tool focusing on the specific needs of machinist…

Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council 2018 awards open for entries

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 3, 2018

Tom Rucker was awarded five Gold Awards at the 2017 Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship and Design Awards for his piece the GEO.NIOT Brooch The prestigious annual jewellery design competition from the Goldsmiths’…

Project Geode solid modelling kernel targets fast engineering simulation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 4, 2018

Pointwise’s Project Geode kernel is being used for node insertion in research code for degree elevation and curving of high-order meshes, such as this quadratic mesh Pointwise’s Project Geode has…

Blueprint product design competition packs in a whole raft of prizes to make an idea a reality

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 5, 2018

LUMA Blueprint 2018 is looking for entries to its product design ideas contest, which has packaged up a prize that should help take the winning concept through to realisation. The…