Great Reads – Graphics & Engineering

Whitepapers

• TEAMRGE – Graphics smackdown – an overview of multiple vendors and technoliges for remoting 3D graphics: http://www.teamrge.com/teamrge/
• AEC Magazine (Architecture/BIM) – special edition on virtualisation for AEC (choose Sept/Oct 2015 edition http://www.aecmag.com/pdf/ )

Analysts

• Jon Peddie Research http://jonpeddie.com/

CAD/CAE/Design

• AEC Magazine – Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Architecture, Engineering and Construction – http://aecmag.com/
• Ansys Blogs – http://www.ansys-blog.com/
• CADalyst http://www.cadalyst.com/
• CAD Notes http://www.cad-notes.com/
• CAD Panacea http://cadpanacea.com/wp/
• Dassault
  • 3D Perspectives Blog: http://perspectives.3ds.com/
  • Spatial Developers’ Blog http://www.spatial.com/blog
• Design World – http://www.designworldonline.com/
• Develop3D Magazine – http://www.develop3d.com/
• Paul Munford (@CADSetterOut): Real Designer and CAD User: http://cadsetterout.com/weekly-cad-tips/
• SolidSmack http://www.solidsmack.com/
• Tenlinks – Ultimate List of CAD blogs – http://www.tenlinks.com/CAD/reference/blogs.htm

Engineering / Manufacturing

• Ian Visits – I think this is supposed to be a general day trip advise site for London, but Ian seems to like Trains, Crossrail and engineering projects an awful lot!!! – http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/
• IET – Great UK Magazine / Professional Body http://www.theiet.org/
• SAE (Society Automotive Engineers) – Great USA Magazines / Professional Body http://www.sae.org/magazines/
• The Engineer – Great UK Magazine – http://www.theengineer.co.uk/

Gaming (Computer games I like)

• Colossal Cave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

Graphics

• Lewpen Kinross-Skeels – A friend doing cool graphics coding – http://lewpen.com/
• SIGGRAPH community of researchers, artists, developers, filmmakers, scientists, and business professionals who share an interest in computer graphics and interactive techniques – http://www.siggraph.org/
  • SIGGRAPH 2014 papers on the web by Ke-sen Huang

Makers / Designers / IoT

• Curiosity Collective – The Curiosity Collective is a group of enthusiasts, designers and artists working in Ipswich, UK – http://curiositycollective.org/
• David Chatting – ex-colleague combining art, graphics and tech http://www.davidchatting.com/
• Dorkbot Anglia – Regular evening of talks and conversations with “people doing strange things with electricity” in the East Anglian area – Local UK Branch of International organisation – http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotanglia/
  • twitter

PDM/PLM

• CIMdata – PLM industry trends and information – http://www.cimdata.com/en/
• Beyond PLM (Oleg Shilovitsky) – http://beyondplm.com/

Miscellaneous

• My list of 12 books those in Cloud/virtualisation should read to understand CAD/Graphics: http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/10/23/a-beginners-bookshelf-for-virtualising-cadcaeplm-from-the-graphics-up-a-dirty-dozen/