Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

WATCH // Cycling or design genius?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 22, 2018

https://giphy.com/embed/23dSohy7T7yBCpLcmJ With sports increasingly about the equipment used and the levels of performance they can help attain, it’s nice to reflect on some designs that were so radical they had…

Is your design office providing the right setting for productivity?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 22, 2018

Google’s new London HQ should offer the cutting edge in working environments A report looking at the UK working environments has shown that employees and facilities managers are moving away…

Renishaw encourages uptake of STEM with Fabrication Development Centre launch

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 27, 2018

At its new site in South Wales, engineering technologies company Renishaw will officially launch its Fabrication Development Centre (FDC), a unique educational resource for hands-on learning. It aims to inspire…

OnScale Cloud HPC available for CAE

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 3, 2018

Fresh out of secretive development, the OnScale Solver-as-a-Service platform has emerged for general availability, posing a new option for those looking to use High Power Computing (HPC) to solve CAE…

Stratasys ‘spin-off’ company looks to replace injection moulding with STEP

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 4, 2018

https://giphy.com/embed/2Ylk5M5m9AT55X1FNF Evolve Additive Solutions, a spin-off of Stratasys’ Selective Toner Electrophotographic Process (STEP) technology, is looking to challenge injection moulding’s place in the manufacturing pipeline. The STEP process combines time-tested…

Post processing of 3D printed parts gets smart with new Connect3D software

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 5, 2018

PostProcess Technologies, a pioneer of automated post-print solutions for industrial 3D printing, announced today its Connect3D software platform, an expansion of its Automat3D software offering. Where Automat3D powers the intelligent…

QR codes built into 3D printed parts adds extra AR dimension

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 10, 2018

A combination of Rize’s voxel-level ink jetting 3D printing capability and the usage of the new 3MF format means that significant intelligence on the additive part can now be carried…

Link3D introduces blockchain to connect the digital thread for Additive Manufacturing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 10, 2018

Digital Factory, the flagship SaaS product from Link3D, has added Blockchain technology, enabling enhanced data governance, provenance, audibility and validation – helping to link the start-to-finish data strand. Link3D suggest…

New hardcore PEEK 3D printing material from Stratasys

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 12, 2018

A new PEKK-based high-performance thermoplastic, Antero 800NA, has been released by Stratasys for 3D printed components needing to be exposed to hydrocarbons, such as fuels and lubricants, as well as…

Creaform’s CMM alternative – Cube-R – gets debut

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 16, 2018

https://giphy.com/embed/5qFBXUtWtp8HWzsGPd Billed as an off-the-shelf, fully integrated automated inspection solution as an alternative to CMMs in sheet metal, casting and composites, Creaform’s Cube-R should get some attention from big part…