Occasionally I write for design and engineering publications. This week Desktop Engineering published my article Rise of the Simulation Stack. I checked Google just a second ago; the only instance online of “simulation stack” is in this article. Perhaps I’ve coined a useful term. The introduction to the article follows. Use the link to read the […]

The takeaway You knew there had to be more to 3D printing that what we’ve seen so far. You were right. The details Yesterday the CEO of a stealth mode start-up stepped into the spotlight to introduce a new approach to 3D printing. Instead of laying down layer after layer, the new Continuous Liquid Interface […]

The Takeaway How would you like to watch Carl Bass, Jon Hirschtick, and Gian Paolo Bassi go head-to-head-to-head on stage? The Details This year’s edition of Develop3D Live, March 26 in Warwick, UK, is shaping up to be quite an event if you follow the CAD industry. Video of key meetings will be streamed over the […]

The takeaway Social media has forever changed the nature of communications. People know they can be connected to their friends all the time, and they want the same flexibility and freedom in their work relationships. With integrated team messaging in BIMcloud, Graphisoft is providing it for design-build teams. Our opinion Graphisoft started thinking out of […]

The takeaway More than one-third of the 3D printing market is now engaged in printing parts for final products. The details In its research for Wohlers Report 2014,  Terry Wohlers and his team found that revenues from the production of parts for final products represents 34.7% of the entire market for additive manufacturing (AM) and […]

A raw slide from my keynote presentation next week at the Graebert Software Developers Conference in Berlin.  

The takeaway The team of Russian developers Bricsys acquired in 2011 keeps cranking out incredible software. Bricsys owns a powerful constraint solving technology now available to other software developers. The details CAD developer Bricsys says version 9 of its LGS component technology makes a “significant breakthrough” in constraint solving techniques. Constraints are geometric design intentions […]

TED Talks has released a video of the presentation recently given by 3D Systems CEO Avi Reichental. Instead of the usual presentation filled with buzzwords like “disruptive” and “paradigm shift” Reichental talks about the return of craft to average people. Here’s a link to the video (we normally embed videos, but TED does not supply embed […]