You suppress one feature and everything underneath it gets suppressed. You cringe, a volcano erupts under the sea and five babies are born, slapped and all at once and named Llyod. Don’t you wish those ornery SolidWorks Features would just behave sometimes? Well there just so happens to be, not one, but two single ways…

Oh, well, now that strawberry jam and smiles have been spread all over it’s exterior, we’re never gonna full resale value. It does however make me feel like dancing, fist punching the air and checking out these snazzy lookin’ links. Almacan 3D Surreal (fer real) – You’ll be scared for just a few minutes, then…

The last time I saw something this lovable and all together creepy, Sigourney Weaver was watching mama Alien get sucked through a quarter-size hull breach. Shown at the D3 in New York as part of the FUTURE.city exhibit earlier this month, the ‘Autonomous Living Unit’ by Eduardo McIntosh, is the all-in-one The idea? That this…

If you’re an old hat at using public transit, or someone trying frantically to go site-seeing, in the bustling, historic cities of Europe, you’ll know how important bus information can be. Bus stops, as we know them, are about to get a makeover. They’re not just for use as a goal for small dogs anymore.…

Cover your hair. We are firing up the burners on the Feature furnace of SolidWorks about to drop some gas-drenched geometry into the flames. There’s a slew of Features that thrive on 3D geometry alone, but I’m not gonna say, “You, go learn about Features!” eight times. Post like that are useless and annoying. This…

Oh, It starts innocent enough. First, it’s, “Let’s turn this desk into liquid-cooled, quad crankin’ beast!,” then suddenly it’s, “Papa, can I replace my spleen with hybridized nitrogen cooling units?” Nonetheless, we’ll gladly accept this experiment into liquid-cooled awesomeness from the guys at Popular Mechanics. Yes, choke another one up to excess, the elimination of…

So what do ya think, is SolidWorks ‘old lady CAD’ out for a stroll only to trip over a small grain of feature-based modeling, tumbling face-first into a small ditch mumbling, “hebber, hebber..” Hmmmm. I see some CAD vendors lookin’ on in anticipation. They may not be tumbling, but some people are probably wondering what…

Simply smashing I say! A small child climbing backwards up a river of chocolate with two poodles and a baby penguin dancing atop his head? Amazing! Have you finished your tea dear? Yes! On to… the links! iunwind – Classy and elegant design. not a bit too early in the day for it either. Celebration…

I know your brainpan is sore from beating it against the wall of deadlines you have looming, but if you have a website in one hand and some 3d models in the other, you can smash those together right now to splatter everyone with your 3D genius. Good ol’ Cliff from 3DVia shows you how,…

Yep, SolidSmack is starting to reek of greasy touch-screen bliss. Let’s pummel this iPhone stuff even further into the ground. You remember that eDrawings on iPhone poll last week? The one where over 50% of the people would use it if they could? Well there’s hope for you and it’s all wrapped up in a…

It’s not directly CAD related, but it says 3D and has ‘Graphics’ is the headline, so it’s gotta be kinda interesting. It’s the History of 3D Graphics from MaximumPC and it’s 10 pages choke full of specs and insight to the GPU evolution. Have you ever wondered how much graphics cards have change over the…

Five days and five version later the original iPhone 3G model has been slapped around and optimized to use some of those best practices we all tuck away in our back pockets from time to time. On top of that, we have a image-rich “here’s how you go about doing this”, some important SolidWorks and…

The excessive amount of arm motion and flared eyelids was just too much to bear. So, Iwhat do you do? Detached some of the arms and installed these links instead. That’s what ya do. Daniel Widrig – If you’ve ever wondered how strangly odd and complicated 3D can be, check out these structures. Creately -…

Since we’ve been talking about viewing SolidWorks files on an iPhone, how about we talk a little about viewing an iPhone in SolidWorks. Better yet, how about we model up the back of one to see how we can get those continuous smooth shapes in SolidWorks. We’ll be using surfacing, and the fine art of…

So, here we are. the iPhone market is growing like genetically modified corn and SolidWorks ships a million licenses. Seems something should be going on here. Some people I’ve heard from recently think an eDrawings App for the iPhone is in order. They travel, they need access to drawing info, models and yes, even AutoCAD…

Are you tired of people going on about Twitter? Well, it’s not going to ends anytime soon with talk about them being bought out and the value their search provides. One outfit, TwitterJobSearch.com, is bringing value to people, even those that don’t use Twitter, by compiling all the data about jobs on Twitter. What’s even…

There’s hope for your carpal tunnel syndrome, worn out wrist supports and squeaky chair. In the future, they may be replaced by the joy of getting into your work… literally. Lauren Argo put pen to paper to churn out the idea of pen to air on 3D canvas. The idea uses “iGPS”(?) to capture a…

They’re about as tall as muffin tin and sound like eight monkeys drinking whiskey in a hailstorm. But ya know waht, they gave me these links and everything was just fine. Glennz Concepts – it’s apparent that these are awesome illustrations. it’s also apparent I ate something with garlic. Sweet Optimization – and free too.…

Nice. Just look at that. Your LinkedIn profile looks sizzlin’ with all that professional info, a nice smiling photo of your mug and a catchy headline. However, you just lost out on a dream job to that anal guy that knows a little about ‘web obtimization’ – ARRRGH! How did he do it?, you think.…

This is how it all ends, my friends. They pull us in with their human-like emotions and then crush our wills to live… and also maybe our faces. The mechanical and overly productive counterparts of society, many are anxious to release upon civilization, has seen some intense development as of late, Recon bots and the…

If you had one thing to change about how you discussed design iterations, what would it be? I can imagine a few ways, starting with destroying useless email conversations and firing that one guy who can’t seem to do anything on his own. Unfortunately, there’s no program to make people more competent, but there is…

How many times do you look at somethign and say, “yeah, that would be MUCH COOLER in 3D.” Ya know, stuff like a book, a movie, or set of schematics for a miniature fusion reactor. Yet, with all of the possibilities, there’s just something way to simple about the glyphs representing the English alphabet and…

He’ll eat’em all and then just leave the crumbs… That’s when it happens. The crumbs turn into a giant ‘crumb monster’ and chase the cats and butter everything. Only way I can stop it is to distract them with this set of links! Mike Mitchell – Little skull people on hummings birds. Birds with jetpacks?…