Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Tailored Fibre Placement poses new options for designers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 2, 2018

ZSK expects its new Tailored Fibre Placement to increase the use of composites in industry verticals such as automotive German supplier ZSK has launched a series of innovations for Tailored…

Yxlon adds newly developed line detector to its CT scanner range

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 6, 2018

The Yxlon CT Compact computer tomography system will now be equipped with a newly developed line detector Yxlon CTScan 3 as a standard component. The CT Compact system is a…

Boeing investment adds to interest in Digital Alloys metals 3D Printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 9, 2018

https://giphy.com/embed/11Bz1MjAJr4mfUGzPr Branding itself as ‘the fastest way to make the hardest parts’, Digital Alloys has stepped into the spotlight with its metals Joule Printing technology, backed by Boeing HorizonX Ventures.…

WATCH // Record breaking ‘Great Ball Contraption’ build

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 9, 2018

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8TlNdNuyQ38%3Frel%3D0%26controls%3D0%26showinfo%3D0 This record-breaking ball contraption, made up of a staggering 259 individual modules, is so big it takes 40 minutes for a ball to pass all the way through –…

Upgraded WorldViz VR dev platform adds support for new peripherals, Windows MR headsets and avatars

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 9, 2018

https://giphy.com/embed/j0P0AbyukgDsSN5uUy Vizard 6, WorldViz’s latest version of its Python-based VR development platform has launched with a focus on three key areas for enterprise uses. New third-party VR headset and peripheral…

AMD introduces sub-$1,000 Radeon Pro WX 8200 at SIGGRAPH

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 13, 2018

AMD has announced the latest high-performance addition to its Radeon Pro workstation graphics lineup with the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 graphics card, packing heavy workstation graphics punch for under…

AMD expands Pro Render plug-ins to include PTC Creo

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 13, 2018

Previously available for SolidWorks, AMD has now released a ProRender plug-in for PTC Creo AMD has introduced new plug-ins for Radeon ProRender, its high-performance physically-based rendering engine – adding PTC…

Renderers for Rhino

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 13, 2018

Rhino has its own built in renderer, but anyone that's tried it will know that it has its own limitations. McNeel's decision to include the ray-tracing Cycles engine from Blender…

New Chaos Group real-time ray tracing tech causes an avalanche of interest

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 14, 2018

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New Nvidia Quadro ‘Turing’ GPUs will arrive Q4 2018

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 14, 2018

The new Turing GPU architecture from Nvidia has been announced, and will be available to boost your graphics power before the end of the year, according to the launch at…