Data management related tools Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 15, 2017 After a couple of weeks spent looking at data management related tools, Al Dean has a little rethink. It might…
Fusion 360 gets TraceParts integration Posted by Al Dean - May 18, 2017 While there’s already a number of standard parts integrations built directly into the Fusion 360 interface (perhaps most notably the…
Alibre 3D CAD to make a return following its divestiture from 3D Systems Posted by Al Dean - June 5, 2017 It looks like the low-cost parametric modelling system Alibre is about to make a return to the market and active…
Review: Autodesk Inventor 2018 Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 21, 2017 With Autodesk going all guns blazing in moving its customers to subscription, the perception of value in that recurring fee…
Autodesk’s Generative Design tools to be built into NetFabb Posted by Al Dean - June 22, 2017 Stanley Black & Decker’s newly-formed Breakthrough Innovation group has been running a pilot program for generative design with NetFabb Autodesk…
Prosthetic arms Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 30, 2017 Tanya Weaver looks at three very different prosthetic arm projects from an inventor, a team of academics and a design…
Garage bandits Posted by DEVELOP3D - July 31, 2017 The co-founders of digital industrial design company Hackrod left their successful careers to follow a dream that has taken them…
Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection launches for ‘integrated workflow’ Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 9, 2017 Autodesk Industry Collections have been launched, with the Inventor-focussed Product Design and Manufacturing variant adding key manufacturing tools in the…
Review: solidThinking Inspire Unlimited – beta Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 12, 2017 With growing interest in topology optimisation, solidThinking has launched an initiative to make its tools more accessible. Al Dean takes…
Review: Fusion 360 Q3 2017 Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 19, 2017 Fusion 360 has been growing since we last looked at it. Sheet metal, PCB interaction tools and browser-based modelling have…