Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

PTC continues its charge towards Internet of Things, acquires connectivity provider Axeda

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 24, 2014

PTC’s second big IoT acquisition sees it pushing to lead the sector PTC has announced its forthcoming acquisition of Axeda, an Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity provider that offers companies…

Internet search engine for 3D shapes launched

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 25, 2014

3Dshap.es allows users to search using shape as the query 3Dindustri.es (3DI) has launched 3Dshap.es, a search engine that navigates 3D content on the Web by shape and sourcing of…

Kingston University top Formula Student 2014 UK electric rankings with new designs

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 25, 2014

The Kingston University electric race team at Silverstone Last summer we popped over to Kingston University’s Roehampton campus and had a nose around its automotive engineering department with a view…

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…