Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

Young designers battle to create Queen Elizabeth Prize trophy

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 11, 2014

17-year-old Joseph Waggott’s entry makes the shortlist for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering’s ‘Create the Trophy’ Competition Nine young designers and engineers are on the shortlist for The Queen…

Heavyweight machining advice up on the Cloud

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 11, 2014

Spring Technologies has partnered with Machining Cloud to get cutting-tool manufacturer data and knowledge straight to the CAM user Users of CNC machining simulation and cutting-tool management software NCSIMUL might…

Aerospace: Boeing upgrade with MSC for simulation demands

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 11, 2014

The new contract will mean Boeing has been using MSC software for 40 years Boeing’s use of simulation tools from MSC has been extended and upgraded as the aerospace giant…

GrabCAD hit the movies helping to realise Terry Gilliam’s sic-fi designs

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 11, 2014

Terry Gilliam’s latest Sci-Fi epic was assisted in the prop-building stage by GrabCAD’s Workbench collaboration tool Fans of the batshit-crazy otherworldliness Sci-Fi of Terry Gilliam films will already know that…

Competition: Win FUJITSU CELSIUS Mobile Workstations

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 11, 2014

Your chance to win big: first prize is the powerful FUJITSU CELSIUS H730 mobile workstation, powered by NVIDIA Quadro K1100M graphics DEVELOP3D and AEC Magazine have teamed up with FUJITSU…

Power of heritage: Goodwood Revival a showcase of the design and engineering prowess of yesteryear

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 15, 2014

One of only 7 in the world, this road version of the legendary Ford GT40 Le Mans car was our ride for a lap of the Goodwood track The power…

Missler joins the European project FibreChain for automating carbon fibre production

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 16, 2014

Missler is now involved in a European-wide effort to automate the production of complex composite materials Missler, producer of TopSolid CAM software, has joined European-wide initiative FibreChain to optimise the…

New micro radio-chip could see all kinds of products connected to IoT

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 16, 2014

At only a few millimetres, radio-on-a-chip technology like this Stanford University prototype could enable trillions of devices to connect to the Internet of Things The creation of a prototype radio-on-a-chip…

Makers: Piccolo to Portugal as UK team heads to Lisbon MakerFaire

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 16, 2014

The tiny Piccolo CNC robot will be journeying to the first Portuguese MakerFaire A UK-based team is heading out to Portugal with its open-sourced, pocket-sized, CNC robot – Piccolo –…

Materialise expands, brings scanning and measurement in-house

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 18, 2014

Materialise has added 3D scanning to its long list of in-house services Belgium’s giant 3D printing software and bureau service provider Materialise is adding scanning and measurement services to its…