Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

PTC acquire ThingWorx – an internet of things, and stuff…

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 6, 2014

While the rest of us were hunkering down, preparing for a storm of New Year’s Eve festivities/horrible seasonal weather, PTC was figuratively popping to the shops, clearly having forgot it’s…

Horrendous car = not necessarily bad design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 7, 2014

Our favourite news piece today is about the design and manufacturing history behind the Reliant Robin, a three-wheeled vehicle, weighing 400kg that could seat four, and be driven with a…

Nissan redesigns its London Taxi – City braces for ugly

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 8, 2014

As if listening to our baffled confusion between good design producing a horrible vehicle earlier this week, Nissan has given its London Taxi a facelift to “better reflect the iconic…

‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’ is back picking up a technology paycheck – this time 3D Systems is paying

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 9, 2014

Having eagerly followed the coverage from CES this week, amongst the 3D printing and electrical goods magic on show, we were taken aback by one unveiling in particular. The Technology…

New compact qFlash 3D scanner from Hexagon Metrology with STL file ability

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 15, 2014

The WLS qFLASH, wrapped in a carbon fiber optical housing and employing advanced blue LED high power illumination, is set to become one of the most versatile, portable, medium-sized machines…

Modularity to master complexity: ModeFrontier event to tackle issues facing engineers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 15, 2014

Esteco has announced its tenth ModeFrontier International Users Meeting to be held in Trieste, Italy, on 12-13 May, 2014. The theme chosen for the event – “modularity mastering complexity” –…

Zuken bringing electrical engineering closer to mechanical design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 21, 2014

Put simply, electrical design can be some fear inducing stuff, usually split off from the design and engineering sectors for a specialist job; but now Zuken is attempting to simplify…

New Tradition Exhibition: Sheffield bringing back t’old timers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 22, 2014

Made North has announced its latest exhibition at the Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, celebrating the North of England’s reputation for its exceptional craft and manufacturing heritage over the last 250 years.…

Stratasys launches multi-material colour 3D printer

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 27, 2014

It’s been the worst-kept secret in the 3D printing industry, but Stratasys has finally launched its full colour Connex printer – the Objet500 Connex3. Similar to a standard 2D CMYK…

MeshFusion launched for Modo 701

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 27, 2014

The Foundry has announced its new modelling tool plug-in for Modo 701, MeshFusion, integrating 3D modelling, animation, sculpting, effects and rendering tools for asset creation. Forming part of the Modo…