Visualisation

Chaos releases V-Ray for Blender

Posted by DEVELOP3D - July 1, 2025

Production renderer arrives natively in open-source 3D modeller

3D Scanning

Hexagon unveils Autonomous Metrology Suite for quality control

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 17, 2025

Removes 'all coding' from CMM workflows

3D Printing

On-demand colour resins land for Formlabs Form 4

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 17, 2025

Colour options joined by new casting material and Preform software updates

VR/MR

Spatial Entities Extensions released by Khronos and OpenXR

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 14, 2025

Provides support for spatial anchors, plane and marker tracking across XR platforms

3D Scanning

ReverseEngineering.com adds ScanToCAD Add-In for Autodesk Inventor

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 11, 2025

3D scan data to be edited directly in Inventor's parametric feature tree

Simulation

Heat exchanger simulation gets ‘unprecedented speed’ with new SimScale and nTop import

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 4, 2025

Eliminates traditional bottlenecks of CAD conversion and surface meshing

Manufacturing

Alloy Enterprises adds copper to its Stack Forging process for DLC parts

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 23, 2025

Much cheaper way to build copper AM parts with conformal cooling channels

Collaborate

Partful announces Workful software for automated work instructions

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 6, 2025

Automates turning existing CAD data into digital 3D work instructions

Simulation

Flexcompute and GridPro partner for high speed CFD

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 3, 2025

Enables compatibility between mesh generation tools and CFD solver

Collaborate

Siemens launches new Expedite industry credential

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 3, 2025

A four-course, fully online microcredential to prepare students for industry