Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

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…

Dremel’s 3D printer sadly doesn’t come with a 165-piece accessory kit

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 18, 2014

Dremel has entered the 3D printing market with this $999 desktop FDM machine Dremel, the producer of the much beloved Multitool drill/polisher/whizzing thing, is now selling its first 3D printer…

BobCAD-CAM gets better CAD tools to help drive efficiency

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 18, 2014

A new CAD Solid Action Tree in BobCAD-CAM allows users to modify any step of their solid creation Lesser known on UK shores, BobCAD-CAM is, as the name suggests, a…

Workspace: SME friendly ‘ContainerVille’ in the heart of London

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 19, 2014

A new office in the heart of the city, but by the canal? It’s not often that we delve into the murky world of real estate, but having stumbled across…