COFES Agenda: Clash of the Titans (or my agenda) Posted by Al Dean - March 27, 2009 It’s only a couple of weeks away (I’ve got a short trip to Portland before hand to see Autodesk’s 2010…
Live from LA: Behind the scenes at BMW DesignWorks Posted by Greg Corke - March 26, 2009 I’ve just spent an incredibly interesting few hours with BMW DesignWorks in its headquarters in Los Angeles. Owned by BMW,…
HP Workstation Event: touch screens could have health implications Posted by Greg Corke - March 25, 2009 Multi-Touch screens running applications such as Autodesk Mudbox, as demonstrated at Autodesk University last December, may be more for show…
Inventor 2010 partner bandwagon starts a rolling Posted by Al Dean - March 25, 2009 Things have started gearing in the add-on application space this week, following Autodesk’s launch of Inventor 2010, with several partner…
SolidWorks World 2009 Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 18, 2009 February's annual SolidWorks user jamboree in Orlando achieved a surprising mass of attendees considering the economic environment. SolidWorks fan boy,…
Design tools on the Apple Mac Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 12, 2009 It’s been brewing for years, but finally a platform long dormant in the 3D design world is making a break…
Apple first out of the blocks with new generation Xeon (Nehalem) processor Posted by Greg Corke - March 5, 2009 This week Apple lifted the lid on Intel’s new Xeon processor, way in advance of the other major workstation vendors,…
HyperShot 1.8: Decals A Go Go Posted by Al Dean - March 5, 2009 Rendered in HyperShot, using HDR environment from HDRLighting.com A little late, but HyperShot 1.8 is out and perhaps the one…
Who cares about Autocad? Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 2, 2009 Autodesk is about to release a new version of AutoCAD. In these days of dedicated design and manufacturing systems, why…
Teaching old dogs new tricks Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 20, 2009 Recession, depression, whatever you want to call it, it’s upon us. Skilling up on the latest CAD software can help…