News

Student tackles beehive design with a unique concept

Posted by Tanya Weaver - July 27, 2012

There has been a lot of coverage on our blog in the last couple of weeks about New Designers however,…

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Autodesk acquires Inforbix

Posted by Al Dean - August 28, 2012

This came as a bit of a surprise as the news came in (as usual, via twitter rather than the…

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SolidWorks 2013 & what constitutes a good release?

Posted by Al Dean - September 11, 2012

I spent a day last week in the company of the SolidWorks folks at their rather spiffy new campus just…

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SolidWorks 2013: Raising the spectre of backwards compatibility

Posted by Al Dean - September 12, 2012

This has been the holy grail for CAD users since time immemorial. The ability to take data from a current…

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Autodesk gets into the CAM game with HSMWorks acquisition

Posted by Al Dean - October 1, 2012

Imagine this, but with Inventor. Nice CAM. As Jimmy Greaves used to say “It’s a funny old game.” The world…

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Product Design

Into the fold

Posted by DEVELOP3D - October 9, 2012

Twenty five years after designing his first folding bicycle, Mark Sanders has worked with Korean company Mando to develop the…

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Product Design

SolidWorks 2013

Posted by DEVELOP3D - October 14, 2012

Al Dean and Jeff Mirisola track the continued evolution of SolidWorks' powerful tools

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Collaborate

CAD on the cloud

Posted by DEVELOP3D - January 11, 2013

Martyn Day looks at the benefits for cloud-based software for developers as well as for those who’ll be using these…

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Live blog from SolidWorks World 2013

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 23, 2013

Good morning from SolidWorks World – one of those massive user-centric events that you’ve always found the idea of highly…

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Hardware

Advertorial: AMD FirePro™ for simultaneous engineering

Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 26, 2013

The AMD FirePro W-Series delivers optimised graphics performance and advanced effects in SolidWorks 2013, PTC Creo 2.0 and many other…

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