Turbocharging design and manufacturing Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 24, 2009 Al Dean visits Napier Turbochargers, a company that has recently undergone a management buyout and is currently rethinking its product…
Intel Xeon 5500 processor Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 15, 2009 While Core i7 brought CAD/CAM/CAE and design visualisation users a first glimpse of Intel's revolutionary new Nehalem CPU architecture, it…
Efficiency in product development – horses for courses Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 10, 2009 A variety of tools are needed to drive efficiency in product development but while technology often gets in the way…
Autodesk 2010 product preview Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 10, 2009 Just as we were going to press, Al Dean shot off to Portland, home of Autodesk's Manufacturing Solutions division, to…
NEi Fusion Posted by DEVELOP3D - April 9, 2009 Al Dean reports on NEi's standalone simulation package, which uses the foundation of SolidWorks, one of the leading modelling packages,…
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…
HDR Light Studio 1.0 Review Posted by Greg Corke - February 8, 2009 Modern rendering tools use HDR images to create realistic lighting and scenery. But what if you want to adapt HDR…
PTC Media & Analyst Event 2009 Posted by Greg Corke - February 8, 2009 Every year, PTC invites a handful of media and a whole lot of analysts to its headquarters in Needham, just…
European Catia Forum report Posted by Stuart Wilkes - January 26, 2009 With an updated vision for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) together with a new generation of Catia, Dassault Systèmes has revamped…
Bridging the gap between design and engineering Posted by Greg Corke - January 25, 2009 The non-creative engineer is useless and the non-analytical designer is incapable, you hear them argue. But as 3D bridges the…