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The beauty of not being a public company is that you don’t need to disclose your numbers. And the beauty of being a start-up is that your numbers start from zero which makes your percentage increase numbers look very good. However as years go by, history starts  [more...]

I know exactly what Cubify is. But I need to shut my trap for now. What I can do as a blogger is quote from the 3D Systems press release: “3D Systems Corporation (NYSE: DDD) announced today that its Cubify.com 3D @home create-and-make online experience will go  [more...]

Looks like the folks at Siemens PLM didn’t quite appreciate my last post titled “Solid Edge Design1 And Local Motors” because they scheduled another call with me to better explain Design1. This time I spoke to VP of Product Development Bill McLure  [more...]

Browsing around the Quickparts site today I came across this page advertising a kit containing 15 SLA, SLS, FDM, PolyJet and Cast Urethene samples for $60 plus shipping. It also includes an injection molding design guide. Quickparts is a 3D Systems brand. So I asked  [more...]

Autodesk has a program called Inventor of the Month designed to recognize the achievements of its Inventor users. The winners of each month quality to win the Inventor of the Year. Last year RND Automation bagged that award. Voting has started for 2011′s Inventor  [more...]

IMSI/Design has announced the release of a free DWG viewer for Android called TurboViewer. The software is ad supported and can display both 2D and 3D data in a DWG file. The viewer can pull files from HTTP, FTP and DropBox as well apart from local storage. They also  [more...]

About a year and a half ago I did a series of 3D graphics performance tests on my Dell Precision M6400 and compared various CAD systems. Today as I was playing around with ZW3D 2012 (previously known as VX before VX Corp was acquired by Chinese CAD software developer  [more...]

The 3D Systems blog is a typical corporate blog which serves to give out information in a formal and peaceful manner. At least that’s what I thought until I read this post titled “3DTouch Prints ‘Bigger’“. Looks like the folks at Marketing  [more...]

Today I attended the Autodesk DevDays event in Bangalore. DevDays is a series of events across the world that Autodesk holds once a year where they invite members of the ADN (Autodesk Developer Network) and show them the new stuff in the upcoming releases. Under NDA  [more...]

<< Part 15 By David Lewis A Solution to Warping As we have approached building the woofer boxes for The Herd’s elective class we have been plagued with warping issues. The box is 4.25 inches long, 2.75 inches wide and 2.75 inches deep with a 2mm solid  [more...]

By Riley Lewis Earlier last week, I received the latest model Space Explorer 3D from 3D Connexion. These 3D mice are specifically designed for use with CAD systems like SolidWorks and are a huge benefit to designers as they let you work faster, more fluidly and with  [more...]

It’s not often that you get to be a part of something so big that it gets the highlighted by the global media. On 10th of January 3D Systems launched Cubify.com and announced the Cube 3D printer at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas. Next day I had an all-hands meeting  [more...]

This news is a little belated. In a press release issued late last month, the Italian Think3 took the 2011.1 version of its ThinkDesign Suite out of beta and officially released it. The press release mentions a list of improvements and new features. I found this paragraph  [more...]

Yesterday 3D Systems unveiled Cubify.com, something that we have been working on for some time now. In my earlier post “What Is Cubify?” I really could say much. Not any more. Cubify.com is not an ordinary content and e-commerce web site. We have designed  [more...]

An article on PC World titled “3D Printing Draws Closer to Mainstream with Cubify” gives more information about the Cube 3D printer that 3D Systems will display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tomorrow. The article says: “Sometime in  [more...]

A reader sent me a link to a post on the ZW3D forum titled “Important Notice about ZW3D Telephone Support in USA and Canada“. It reads: Dear ZW3D/VX Customer, Kindly inform you that the telephone support for ZW3D in USA and Canada will be no longer available  [more...]

GrabCAD has announced on their blog that they crossed the 1 million download marks this earlier week. I used to be an advisor to the company in its early days untill I had to recluse myself due to a conflict of interest. Nevertheless, I’m happy to see the GrabCAD  [more...]

This evening I spent some time speaking to my good friend Rob Cohee about Autodesk 360 Nexus, Autodesk’s new PLM offering. Rob has a new title at Autodesk. He now goes by “Manager, PLM Field Product Managers”, which I guess makes him a manager of  [more...]

<< Part 13 A New Challenge As the kids learned to use SolidWorks and the Rapman Printer, we looked for a class project for our intrepid learners. Thanks to my co-teacher for the elective, we had a supply of components to build miniature speaker kits for an  [more...]

Of the two companies I sold to 3D Systems, one of them was Print3D, a company I co-founded with Ron Barranco, a pioneer in the 3D printing industry. Print3D offers a bunch of free plug-ins to CAD systems which allow users to quote and order 3D prints of their models.  [more...]

Paul Mackin, CATIA Marketing leader of Dassault Systemes, left a comment on my blog post “Round Tripping Between CATIA V5 And V6 With Features” which had a video I took at DSCC 2011, letting me know that DS has posted a video on YouTube on the subject.

The overall impression that I got about PTC during the two day Creo launch event in Dubai organized by WorkLogix Middle East was that the company is on a roll. Here is a slide from one of the presentations that pretty much sums it up. Click to enlarge There are some  [more...]

Today was the official launch of Creo in the Middle East. I am here in Dubai to attend a two day event organized by WorkLogix Middle East. WorkLogix ME is the exclusive reseller of Creo, Windchill and MathCAD in the Middle East. The company is based in Dubai and has  [more...]

Today was the official launch of Creo in the Middle East. I am here in Dubai to attend a two day event organized by WorkLogix Middle East. WorkLogix ME is the exclusive reseller of Creo, Windchill and MathCAD in the Middle East. The company is based in Dubai and has  [more...]

This evening I spent some time talking to Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk VP of Suites, Web Services and Subscription and Noah Cole from PR about Autodesk’s strategy for the cloud. Andrew wanted to let me know about where Autodesk is today with cloud computing and  [more...]

The TurboCAD web site  has a new tab called called “3D Printers”. Today I got a marketing email from IMSI/Design with this image in it. Click to enlarge IMSI/Design has begun selling 3D Systems 3D printers and bundling their TurboCAD software along with  [more...]

I just got off a web meeting with the folks at Siemens PLM and an engineer from Local Motors regarding Solid Edge Design1, the dumbed down version of Solid Edge that Siemens PLM is making available to members of Local Motors at $20 a month. I usually don’t write  [more...]

What is Kenesto? I don’t know. But they have a whitepaper that aims to answer that very question and the COFES 2012 list of participants has Mike Payne as the CEO of a company called Kenesto.

Today was the first day of the Dassault Systemes Customer Conference 2011 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. I found the speech by Dassault Systemes CEO Bernard Charles during the general session quite interesting. He spoke on a variety of topics, although the main focus  [more...]