Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Materials, IP and collaboration: International Conference for Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 25, 2014

The three key topics this year were IP, collaboration and materials The 9th International Conference for Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing was a hotbed of future technology, business models, medical…

TIME for some action – The Foundry launches time machine competition

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 28, 2014

The Foundry has revealed that it has cracked time travel and plans to launch a new product, codenamed ‘TIME’, later this year. Yup, that’s right. Piece of cake. After years…

VIDEO: How do you decorate mass produced fishing lures?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 28, 2014

The vector images can be taken straight into CAM using ArtCAM I know it’s been on your mind all day, niggling away at you for hours: ‘how do they decorate…

NAFEMS World Congress – biennial global event to be held in San Diego

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 29, 2014

NAFEMS’ 2015 event will cover all the major changes in software, hardware, and techniques for simulation and analysis in engineering The biannual NAFEMS World Congress (WC) has announced San Diego…

Jaguar buys back its legacy – classic designs returning home to inspire a new generation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 29, 2014

Put up for sale for £100million, Jaguar has bought this collection of rare and antique cars Jaguar Land Rover has purchased the largest-known privately owned collection of British classic cars…

Direct editing STL files for engineering models enhanced by Materialise 3-maticSTL 9.0

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 6, 2014

Using 3-matic, 3D texturing can be applied directly to the STL file, giving flexibility to quickly change and preview 3D textured components without having to go back to traditional 3D…

Dell provides the hardware for 2014 Commonwealth Games glory

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 6, 2014

Powering to victory: Dell supplied all the computer hardware for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Now the dust has finally settled on the rip-roaring success of Glasgow 2014, Dell will…

Baking cakes is for old ladies – schools should get involved with The Great British Make Off

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 7, 2014

A new schools competition, the Great British Make Off is setting a design challenge around cycling The Design & Technology Association is teaming up with leading UK designers to get…

Got the horn – Swedish university 3D prints a nylon saxophone

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 8, 2014

Printed using an SLS 3D printer, this saxophone weighs only 25 per cent of a standard instrument Our favourite musically-tinged professor, Olaf Diegel, has been 3D printing yet more musical…

Swatch strips back time – 51 components, five modules, one hermetically sealed case

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 11, 2014

Reducing the usual 130-plus mechanical watch components, the Sistem51 has got that number down to a mere 51 Swatch has always been associated with fun wristwear design, but the Swiss…