Novedge Pulse™ of Jonathan Corney

As the credit crunch sends engineering companies to the wall, the forced sale of their assets looks likely to be a regular feature of 2009. The obvious value is in the manufacturing hardware (eg. raw materials, presses, machine tools, painting booths, robots etc) but  [more...]

One of the best bits of academic life are the conferences, not just for the intellectual stuff and the meeting people, but also the shear randomness of the locations and the situations. So just after mid-night, a few Tuesdays back, saw me standing under a lamp post  [more...]

3Dvia’s iPhone App for viewing CAD models is impressively responsive, but its just the first of many touch screen CAD interfaces that will appear in 2010.

Impressions from October’s Joint ACM/SIAM ‘Geometric and Physical Modeling’ Conference (GPM'09) in San Francisco. Some personal highlights from this annual meeting of leading CAD/CAM researchers …including, rumours of a “Grand Unified Theory” of geometric representations  [more...]

Last week saw the release of the annual league table of academic research journals. Although the competition for prestige publishing is less intense in CAD/CAM research than say Physics, it is still interesting to check out the performance of one’s favorites. But beyond  [more...]

3D interfaces are becoming ever more sophisticated with immersive, haptic systems giving users the opportunity to interact with complex shapes and assemblies like never before. But how can you measure if one system is better than another? How can you tell if stereo  [more...]

First email, then calendars, photographs, word processing and spreadsheets moved off the PC and onto the vast, networks of parallel computers that support the Internet. Now a small UK start-up has recently announced several million dollars of investment to make the  [more...]