Shifting heavy loads Posted by DEVELOP3D - October 8, 2013 Al Dean and Tanya Weaver visit the UK headquarters of the world's third largest manufacturer of construction equipment where the…
Military precision Posted by DEVELOP3D - December 10, 2013 Tanya Weaver recently took a trip to Supacat, a manufacturer of high mobility vehicles, where she not only learnt how…
Siemens PLM NX 9 Posted by DEVELOP3D - December 17, 2013 When Siemens PLM introduced Synchronous Technology into NX five years ago, it not only rewrote how the system worked but…
New reach for SPECviewperf 12, the professional 3D benchmarking tool Posted by Greg Corke - December 19, 2013 The new Autodesk Showcase viewset SPECviewperf 12, the 3D graphics benchmark based on professional applications, includes fully updated viewsets representing…
Is Elon Musk’s hands-on design tool a glimpse into the future? Posted by DEVELOP3D - December 19, 2013 Considering the complex nature of digital design, it seems odd that there isn’t more 3D input hardware. Al Dean looks…
Virtual take off Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 20, 2014 In order to support a growing number of engineers and their fluctuating demands for 3D graphics power Turkish aerospace firm,…
Dell teams up with CAD software developers to deliver certified virtual workstation solution Posted by Greg Corke - March 26, 2014 With the new Dell Wyse Datacenter for Virtual Workstations solution powerful 3D CAD tools can be run on virtually any…
OpenCL support added to NX Nastran – simulation with a GPU Posted by Greg Corke - June 20, 2014 Performance benefits of a GPU over 24 CPU cores can be significant Siemens has added OpenCL (Open Compute Language) support…
AMD FirePro W8100: 3D graphics and compute in one card Posted by Greg Corke - June 23, 2014 The AMD FirePro W8100, which features 8GB GDDR5 memory, can be used for high-end 3D graphics and GPU compute. AMD…
A peek inside Dell’s Precision Workstation labs Posted by Greg Corke - August 4, 2014 In an eye-opening visit to Dell's headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, Greg Corke discovers some of the hidden lengths the…