Surphaser and Rapidform team up for reverse engineering Posted by Greg Corke - July 4, 2012 C2 wing hinge scanned with a Surphaser 25HSX and reverse engineered in Rapidform XOR Surphaser is to offer a complete…
New Designers 2012 – Top Five – No.1: Richard Burrow, Plymouth Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 25, 2012 Products come and go – today’s iPhone could soon be yesterday’s Bakelite dial phone – so taking the time to…
How safe is your CAD data? Posted by DEVELOP3D - July 31, 2012 With an increase in ‘state-sponsored espionage’ and with the move to the cloud, Martyn Day looks at the issue of…
SIGGRAPH 2012 #6: report from the show floor – part 1 Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 8, 2012 InfiniteZ’s zSpace holographic design system Some people who attend the SIGGRAPH computer graphics trade show year after year complain that…
SIGGRAPH 2012 #8: report from the show floor – part 2 Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 9, 2012 TeamUp’s Multi-Optics software uses real time physics-based rendering to enable teams to collaborate in a web-based interface. For some designers…
Sunglass collaborative 3D environment Posted by DEVELOP3D - August 14, 2012 We rarely get new software companies come in to our space but 'Sunglass' aims to provide disruptive cloud-based tools for…
GPU compute for workstations Posted by Greg Corke - September 5, 2012 Thinking about buying a new workstation? It may be time to consider GPU compute. With the ability to accelerate simulation…
PowerShape Pro 2013 Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 11, 2012 Al Dean looks at Delcam's mighty PowerShape which sees an extension of its direct modelling tools as well as greater…
SolidWorks 2013: Raising the spectre of backwards compatibility Posted by Al Dean - September 12, 2012 This has been the holy grail for CAD users since time immemorial. The ability to take data from a current…
Solid Edge ST5 third party apps Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 13, 2012 With the launch of Siemens PLM's latest release we look at seven of the best add-on products for Solid Edge.