News

What’s stopping users from exploring new functionality in their product development environment?

Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 12, 2008

What is it that is stopping users from exploring new functionality in their workhorse product development environment? Al Dean wonders…

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CAD

A less sluggish SolidWorks for 2009

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 19, 2008

Speed was the key selling point at the release of Solidworks 2009, as Dassault Systems were keen to point out…

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Visualisation

Tricks of the trade

Posted by DEVELOP3D - October 27, 2008

Rob Rodriguez, co-author of the PhotoWorks Step By Step Guide, gives us his top tips for achieving rendering perfection using…

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News

Chair made from WEEE

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 5, 2008

A chair made the recycled plastics of redundant video game consoles is helping reduce the amount of Waste Electrical and…

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Product Design

Discoverability & DriveWorksXpress

Posted by Al Dean - November 11, 2008

One thing that is a constant source of puzzlement is how the average user finds out about all the new…

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Product Design

How to launch a product: Render its ass off

Posted by Al Dean - November 13, 2008

I know so little about cameras and cinematography equipment I’m not qualified to even comment about this product’s capabilities, but…

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Product Design

Software Trends in ID jobs

Posted by Al Dean - November 21, 2008

Found this via Core77.com, Jason Morris has been researching the most requested software in Industrial Design jobs and the results…

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Product Design

How DS could learn from SolidWorks

Posted by Al Dean - November 25, 2008

The comparison between the post below and this one couldn’t be greater. I was just looking to see if the…

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News

SolidJott.com: SolidWorks Social Support Mechanism

Posted by Al Dean - December 14, 2008

A couple of issues ago, I talked about how the death of the printed manual perhaps stifles the learning process…

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3D Printing

Z Corp 650: Test build

Posted by Al Dean - December 15, 2008

One of the best things about this job is that we get to test drive all of the latest bits…

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