The hard side Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 28, 2012 Ford's latest model, the B-Max, eschews the traditional 'B' pillar that provides side impact support and rigidity, getting around this…
Boosting 3D graphics in Creo 2.0 Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 12, 2012 To help bring Creo Parametric's graphics engine up to date, PTC turned to AMD for some help. Transparency will never…
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…
Boston introduces dual Xeon Nvidia Maximus workstation Posted by Greg Corke - July 9, 2012 Boston’s new midi-tower workstation, The Boston Venom 2300-7T, features up to two 8-core Xeon E5-2600 series processors, an Nvidia Quadro…
The Wacom Cintiq 24 is back, and all touchy-feely with multi-gesture capabilities Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 10, 2012 Tom Cruise might be a little too preoccupied at the minute to reprise his Minority Report hand-swooshing finesse, but you…
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…
Workstation Specialists WS1850 Nvidia Maximus 3D workstation Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 5, 2012 Featuring the Quadro 4000 and Tesla C2075 GPUs, the WS1850 Nvidia Maximus enables engineers to multi-task with minimal reduction in…
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…
SolidWorks 2013 & what constitutes a good release? Posted by Al Dean - September 11, 2012 I spent a day last week in the company of the SolidWorks folks at their rather spiffy new campus just…
Autodesk gets into the CAM game with HSMWorks acquisition Posted by Al Dean - October 1, 2012 Imagine this, but with Inventor. Nice CAM. As Jimmy Greaves used to say “It’s a funny old game.” The world…