Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Teach Yourself: Autodesk Inventor Surfacing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 3, 2014

Teach yourself surface modelling in Autodesk Inventor with this video tutorial Surface modelling is usually done in Rhino or Alias, but if you’re stuck simply with access to Autodesk Inventor,…

Registration for Autodesk University now open

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 3, 2014

Registration for Autodesk’s Las Vegas event is now open – with over 770 classes and 695 speakers lined-up ready Autodesk has flung open its registration for the showpiece coming together…

Greenpeace: Apple shows glimpse of greener future

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 3, 2014

Apple products are now classed by Greenpeace as being some of the greenest around… pun intended It’s not the Apple news the world is waiting with baited breath to hear,…

ARM-10: Roland launches its first 3D Printer

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 3, 2014

The first 3D printer from Roland DG forms part of a series of desktop friendly machines Roland DG has announced its desktop manufacturing monoFab series, including the Japanese company’s first…

Faro ScanArm HD: extra wide scan stripe and faster frame rate to boost 3D scanning

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 5, 2014

2,000 actual points per scanline and a new blue laser should help produce accurate scan data Combining Faro’s Laser Line Probe HD with its Faro Edge measuring arm creates a…

Layerwise, and its proprietary metal 3D printing process, acquired by 3D Systems

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 5, 2014

LayerWise’s metal 3D printing technology produced this complex pure tungsten collimator with 20 loft holes for an MRI scanner 3D Systems has announced that it has acquired Belgium-based LayerWise, a…

MakerBot loses a figurehead, Stratasys gain an ‘Innovation Lab’

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 5, 2014

Bre’s moving to the boardroom, and a secretive new project Bre Pettis is giving up the day-to-day running of 3D printer company MakerBot, taking a place on the board and…

The Weekender: When art becomes part of the landscape

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 5, 2014

‘Uphoarding’ was an artwork influenced by architecture and the materials – namely offcuts from the building work being done around the Olympic Park East London has more artists living in…

CAD News: Tech Soft 3D to Sell MachineWorks Polygonica

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 8, 2014

Mesh-modelling toolkit Polygonica is now available from Tech Soft Increasing its toolkit offerings, Tech Soft 3D is now offering Polygonica solid modelling software for processing polygon meshes. The new agreement…

Autodesk: From Birmingham to the ‘Bay, Pier 9 gets machining with Delcam

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 8, 2014

27,000 square feet of manufacturing magic: Autodesk’s Pier 9 facility is the workshop of your dreams Sat on San Francisco’s bay, there are few facilities quite as desirable in our…