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Autodesk Buys TinkerCAD To Expand It’s 123D Porfolio

Deelip Menezes — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:33:48 PDT

On March 26th, in a blog post titled “Announcing Airstone and the closure of Tinkercad“, Kai Backman, founder and CEO of Tinkercad, announced an “updated roadmap” for his company involving two things: (1) development of a new simulation environment called Airstone, and (2) shutting down of Tinkercad, their browser-based easy to use 3D geometry creation [...]

Lagoa Offers Cloud Based Collaborative 3D Rendering

Deelip Menezes — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:40:49 PDT

Back in 2010 Thiago Costa wrote the Lagoa multiphysics simulator, something that is best explained by this video. He licensed it to Autodesk and Ubisoft Digital Arts, the company he worked before left to found Lagoa Technologies in September 2010. Thiago is well known in the media and entertainment industry and has received screen credits [...]

How To Create iPhone And iPad “Apps” Using 3DVIA

Deelip Menezes — Wed, 01 May 2013 05:48:30 PDT

According to Dassault Systemes 3DVIA is a cloud-based service that provides web and mobile marketing apps for you to share your work in 3D. It is meant for anyone who wants to present their ideas and products in a variety of engaging and interactive 3D formats. 3DVIA lets you offer your 3D content in three [...]

Delcam Rewrites PowerMILL Robot Interface

Deelip Menezes — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:01:06 PDT

Delcam had a piece off software written in Visual Basic which could drive a robot to machine parts. Today the company announced that they have completely rewritten it and made it available as a plug-in to its flagship PowerMILL CAM product. The advantage of the Robot Interface being a plug-in is that it makes it [...]

McNeel Releases Neon For Rhinoceros

Deelip Menezes — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:39:09 PDT

McNeel has released Neon 1.0, a plug-in for Rhino 5.0. Neon is a real-time fully ray-traced viewport plug-in developed in collaboration with Caustic. Existing Rhino 5.0 users can download it free of cost from here. Neon adds a new viewport mode to Rhino called “Raytraced with Neon”. There is no other UI to it. Neon [...]

3DMe – The Epitome Of Personalization

Deelip Menezes — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:02:57 PDT

One of the nice things about 3D printing is that it gives you the power to personalize something, make it one of a kind and special. See my earlier blog post titled “The Joys Of Personalized 3D Printing” where I designed a personalized stand for my iPhone. To do something like this you need to [...]

Cubes Conquer Stanford

Deelip Menezes — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:18:55 PDT

By David Lewis A year after their commercial debut at Stanford, the Cube Printers were back at “The Farm” and inspired an entirely new group of students with the possibilities of 3D Printing. Last year we were at Stanford for the Cool Product Expo and the MIT/Stanford VLAB event on 3D Printing. The Cube was [...]

GrabCAD Workbench First Impressions

Deelip Menezes — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:17:55 PDT

Today GrabCAD announced a beta of GrabCAD Workbench, an online secure 3D collaboration platform targeted to CAD users. Think of it as Dropbox in a browser with a WebGL viewer to 3D preview your files. You can create projects and invite others to collaborate with you. I signed up for the beta, created a project [...]

What’s New In Geomagic Design 2013

Deelip Menezes — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:40:28 PDT

I mentioned in my previous post on Geomagic Design 2013 that a great deal of time and resources were spent on fixing the product. For example, previously while dragging the Dog Bone in the Design Explorer if it involved scrolling the explorer pane as well, the result would be unpredictable. You would need to move [...]

Geomagic Design 2013 Released

Deelip Menezes — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:08:42 PDT

3D Systems has been acquiring companies left, right and center for the past few years, which has resulted in a large number of brands coming under the parent 3D Systems brand. Too much of a good thing is bad and the same holds true with brands as well, unless you know how to manage them [...]