Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

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…

3D scan kiosk – GOM’s automated solution-in-a-box might have uses other than sprocket measuring

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 11, 2014

The ATOS ScanBox allows for highly detailed scanning with a simple interface Automation in the everyday working world is a beautiful thing – let a robot take the strain while…

Design + Engineering Software Reviews – 2014 so far

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 12, 2014

Check out our 2014 software reviews – including the latest updates to Autodesk Fusion 360 Here at DEVELOP3D we pride ourselves on our independent reviews – and boy do we…

Modo gets V-Ray rendering ability

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 12, 2014

Vray integration is available for The Foundry’s products for the first time In response to what The Foundry is billing as “artist and designer demands”, Chaos Group and The Foundry…

Consumer 3D printing filament no longer a specialist consumable

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 13, 2014

From data storage to spools of plastic, Verbatim is looking to become a consumables provider for the 3D printing market If you’ve a little desktop 3D printer chugging away nearby,…

What you’d rather be designing: Car makers and wristwatches

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 13, 2014

Ford’s timepiece is a sporty yet understated number, with design input from the European design team Even designers at top tier companies long to try their hand at another industry,…

Hyve-3D provides a new immersive interface for 3D content creation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 13, 2014

A new world of immersive 3D sketching and collaboration in the Hyve-3D Hyve-3D is an interesting new project to come out of the University of Montreal, allowing 3D content creation…

3D printing pens – CreoPop offers an SLA printer in your pocket with range of functional ‘inks’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 14, 2014

The CreoPop 3D pen ‘draws’ in photo curable resin, allowing you to sketch in 3D much quicker than the previous generation of ABS-melting pens Till now 3D printing ‘pens’ have…