First Look: CompoSide 2.8.2 – materials and more for composite parts design Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 17, 2016 CompoSide v2.8.2 supports all composites material types including adhesives, cores, fibres, matrix and plies Composites design can be slow going,…
DEVELOP3D Live 2016 Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 23, 2016 With CAD finally getting truly 'Aided' by the computer, Fabrication tools empowering the desktop and immersive VR becoming affordable, DEVELOP3D…
DEVELOP3D Live 2016 preview Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 19, 2016 With more exhibitors than ever before and a stellar conference programme, DEVELOP3D LIVE on 31 March 2016 looks set to…
Robot revolution Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 18, 2016 Martyn Day evaluates the latest projects and technologies that focus on getting robots and 3D printing working in the construction…
Formnext – 4 things we learned from Europe’s big 3D printing event Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 25, 2015 The show floor of Formnext bristling with activity Among the towering stands at the Frankfurt Messe there was a lot…
A beginner’s guide to workstation virtualisation Posted by DEVELOP3D - November 13, 2015 By putting workstations and CAD models in the data centre, design and engineering firms can transform collaborative workflows and run…
Review: Autodesk Fusion 360 Q2 Posted by Al Dean - September 4, 2015 Recent updates to Fusion 360 are bang on schedule — and bring users a wealth of new capabilities at a…
Review: Autodesk Inventor 2016 Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 15, 2015 While its Fusion product may be grabbing all the cloud-based headlines, Autodesk has also been hard at work on its…
Look the other way Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 30, 2015 Tanya Weaver tracks the design and manufacture of the Othermill — a San Francisco-born desktop CNC milling machine — from…
DEVELOP3D Live 2015 report Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 27, 2015 Our yearly celebration of all things product design had its fourth outing on 26 March at Warwick Arts Centre. Featuring…