News

Changes to our web site are listed below in reverse chronological order.

9th December 2009

Added some notes for Roger's presentation to the Next Generation User Group (NxtgenUG) on starting and running a software company.

29th April 2009

Added brief details of SpaceClaim which is a system that appears to represent a significant step forward in the 3D CAD world, especially in terms of ease of use.

5th June 2008

Added details of the 3D IGES file export option which we recently added to HarnVis which we develop and support for Tyco Electronics.

4th June 2008

Added details of Ken Wallington who has now joined ADE.

28th May 2008

Removed the Search page and updated the links to the OpenHSF site in the two pages sample HSF file 1 and sample HSF file 2.

17th April 2008

The 17th April 2008 marked the 30th anniversary of the formation of ADE Ltd. We celebrated the occasion with lunch and a beer at David's local pub.

28th March 2007

Added an article written by Pete back in the late 1970's while he was working at the CAD Centre.

26th March 2007

Added brief details of a project we undertook for Caradon Mira back in the early 1990's.

6th December 2006

Added some of the articles and papers I've had published. Although these are all rather old (up to 22 years), they contain some simple common sense advice and comments which remain relevant today.

4th October 2006

Added notes regarding David's retirement and the change to the address of our registered office.

4th May 2006

Added a Tyco Electronics' HarnWare advert.

27th April 2006

Click here for the resources to Roger's "Developing Visio Solutions with VB" talk he presented to the Visual Basic Users Group on 24th April 2006.

20th February 2006

Roger will be giving a talk to the Visual Basic Users Group on Monday 24th April entitled "Developing Visio Solutions with VB".

23rd August 2005

Updated the Technologies and Raychem pages.

6th July 2005

I eventually got around to taking a new photograph for my 'about us' page. The subject might not be wonderful and the photographic technique leaves a little to be desired, but at least it's better than the previous photograph. Apart from removing a little red-eye, I resisted the temptation to remove any other imperfections with PaintShop Pro!

12th May 2005

Updated our logo and added a note about screen capture and recording systems in the Technologies page.

25th April 2005

Updated our sample OpenHSF files to suit version 12 of the OpenHSF viewer. Now the OpenHSF control no longer recognises relative path names!

6th August 2004

Updated our sample OpenHSF files to suit version 11 of the OpenHSF viewer. Unfortunately it seems that backwards file compatibility is often not maintained in updates to the OpenHSF Viewer.

4th February 2004

Updated our sample OpenHSF files to suit version 10 of the OpenHSF viewer.

19th January 2004

Re-worded the 'How we Work' page.

7th January 2004

Some general updates including an improved Contents page.

23rd October 2003

Added a Tyco Electronics' press release on version 5.2 of our HarnWare and HarnVis wiring harness design software.

2nd January 2003

With the kind permission of the Institution of Electrical Engineers www.theiet.org. we've added an article from the 'Computing & Control Engineering Journal'. This article, 'Wiring Harness Design - Can a Computer Help?', describes the HarnWare wiring harness design software we design and develop for Tyco Electronics. This five page article is in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format (282 Kbytes).

5th December 2002

We've updated our 3D HarnVis system to output OpenHSF files to the version 8 file format. The new version of the OpenHSF viewer is also referenced. This contains significant improvements in rendering quality, especially of hidden line views, and options to control background window colour(s) and shadows have also been added.

7th November 2002

Added details on our work for Airbus UK.

31st October 2002

Added details on our work for Babcock Woodall-Duckham and changed the ADE logo to avoid layout problems when user has selected a larger text size.

12th September 2002

We've added some details on:

• The CADCAM Clinics we organised for The Daily Telegraph and the information papers we wrote for them.
• The work we did for Williams Fairey Engineering helping them to select and implement their CAE system.

9th September 2002

We've made a few changes to the style and structure of the web site.

20th August 2002

At last we've got around to creating our own web site - better late than never!