Siemens has announced the acquisition of Lightwork Design of Sheffield, England. Lightwork began life as an OEM provider of rendering software to many CAD companies including Autodesk, PTC, Siemens, and Dassault at one time or another. The company did not make products that sold directly to customers. Lightwork Design supplied rendering technology to Siemens for over twenty years. The company … Read more
The Local Motors concept has borne fruit with several vehicles and a very active community of inventors, and designers. The founding idea of Local Motors when it started in 2007 was to break the mold of the automotive industry, which relies on long design cycles, standardized models for mass manufacture. The idea was to bring production closer to the customer, … Read more
Now that the technology industry has survived the great 3D printing hype cycle, the real changes coming from additive manufacturing are coming into focus. The major CAD manufacturers are all en-thusiastic about the potential and most have made changes to their software to accommodate 3D printing, but Siemens PLM has signaled its intention to make AM a major business in … Read more
