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Archive for July, 2009

Friday Smackdown: Beaky Cranker

31 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in SMACKDOWN
3D Human CAD Models

I see laddie, plenty of gopher throwin’ goin’ on here I see, I do. Must be it’s time ta send yer’ granny up to MCClatty’s butterfly farm again fer’ more o’ thos’ magic darts that come in so handy. In the meantime, use these links.

Fanatastic Mr. Fox Trailer – It’s Oceans12, but a stop-action Fox and his wily gang of miscreants. Really, George Clooney, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson. Superstar.
The First 10 Free Apps to Install on a New Windows PC – They left off Picasa, and I’d choose AVG for antivirus fun, but yeah, go for it.
How to Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn – A little more juice for trickin’ out your online profile/job gettin’ site.
Desktopography.net – A Desktop Wallpaper design exhibition. You know there’ll be some good ones, may some weird ones too.
Zombie Boot Camp – It’s the first search result you get so it must be cool.
SmoothWheel – A firefox Extension for smoooooth scrollin’ – your eyes will finally stop jittering.
Mexico Delicious! – kind of a tattoo-ish lookin’ shirt from Camiseteria.

The Vinyl and Resin Custom ‘Toy’ Intensity of Cris Rose

30 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

They’re among us. Little robots flitting about, busy with the task of taking over this part of the world and demolecularizing that part of the world, exploring caves and enjoying the natural setting of coastline and atmospheric radiation. It’s all but a few know of… till now.

Cris Rose, supreme leader of all creatures mechanically inclined to be experimentally adorable and mindfully anamorphic, invites you to mingle amongst the outer reaches of a damp, mossy tundra to meet his mighty armada of vinyl/resin figures.

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Ask the Reader: What Kind of 3D Model Check Process Do You Have?

29 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in NEWS

Well, from last weeks poll on Zombie Co-workers it’s clear… most of you feel your jowl kickin’ skills are in fine form. Good for you, not so good for your undead coworkers.

This week, something to ravage your thought process and provoke the estranged feeling that you’ve forgotten something. We all probably have some sort of drawing check we are subjected to, but what about the 3D models you create? Do you have a check process for those or do you just let the drawing hash out the issues?

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The Raddest CAD Magazine Cover in the History of CAD Magazine Covers

29 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in ROCKIN'

Forget for a moment that you could receive permanent ocular impairment with the absorption of too much color. The new issue of Develop3D is about to force sunglasses and a cold cup of icy tea to your face.

I just got the paper copy in the mail. Yeah, so I write up an occasional piece for them – it’s all gonna be ok. The cover of this mag is breakin’ the print layout color barriers and the content itself is about to break your mind. Yes, mind breaking content. It’s rare these days.

You can get this months issue free at Develop3D.com

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Put the Badgers Down. The KUBIK Facade Projection Is Freagin’ Cool

28 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in ROCKIN'

I am beyond the point of training badgers to scale brick buildings and form random binomial equation patterns on the side. Today’s technology is just too advanced and one German company is showing how it’s really done.

UrbanScreen, in the attempt to completely redefine what is possible with the outer surface of a building, does so with the architectural manipulation of the Hamburg Kunsthalle Galerie der Gegenwart. It’s 3-dimensional illusion at it’s projected best.

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Should 3DContentCentral, Ponoko, or 3DVia Buy ShapeWays?

28 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

Plug it in and crank up the DIY make machine baby, we’re about to roll out a huge vat of speculation. Last week at the SolidSmack Posterous site, I put up a tidbit on the new Shapeways 3D Part Database. I commented that it would be interesting to see 3DContentCentral, a user-generated 3D part library, buy Shapeways.

An interesting thought (to me at least), but in the same field of interest sits Ponoko and 3DVia, both of which, run similar outfits. So, whose the most likely to cozy up to Shapeways?

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Angry Samurai Combat Tips for Circular Refererence Suckage in SolidWorks

28 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in CAD

The model you’re working on and the bad rice you had last night are sucking the will to live right out of your kabuto wearing head.

Circular references are some of the most heinous problems to crop up in assemblies this side of ancient feudal Japan. The two worst things about these type of problems is that they’re not shown as errors and you have to dig them out of the miry clay of SolidWorks features. Two items no amount of Katana swordplay will work against. However, there are ways to slice up assembly issue and destroy Circular References.

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Dan and Chuck Rock the First 3D Viewer for Your iPhone

27 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Well now. While you’re sitting around waiting for the 3DVia iPhone App or throwing your vote in for an eDrawings app, a relatively small band of developers has slammed 3D model viewing right into your sleek smartphone.

Dan Halabe and Chuck Han have release NaviCAD, currently the only way to get silly with 3D viewing excitement for the plethora of 3D models available at Google’s 3D Warehouse. Here’s what you’ll see.

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A Terabyte Drive Small Enough to Stuff in Your Socks

27 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Don’t ya just get warm fuzzies all over when you hear of new over-priced, high-capacity storage options? Well, prepare to tell your coworkers once again the story of how much 6MB cost 20 years ago, cause Western Digital is dropping the single terabyte beat on your face.

Today, Western Digital ships the first 2.5″ 1TB available for storage-hungry consumers. The latest in the WD Scorpio Blue series of SATA Mobile Hard Drives rings in at 3 Gb/s at 5200 RPM and a mere 1/4 pound.

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Friday Smackdown: Itchy Gah Gah!

24 Jul, 2009 by Josh Mings in SMACKDOWN

There were herds of’em, just standin’ around eatin’ my cabbages. I slapped the ugly one, and after he shook it off, he gave me a dirty look and these burly links.

John Pugh 3D Mural Art – Your eye sockets are about to be fooled by the amazing illusionary murals of Mr. John Pugh. Ready?
PortableApps – Allows you to store/run all your programs, setting , emails and more from a USB Flashdrive. Bye Bye Desktop.
256GB Thumbdrive – 256 Giga’s of thumb, for a measly… $900. Now you’re all set for PortableApps.
Death and Taxes 2010 – The 2010 version of the two certainties of life. Warning, this isn’t as encouraging as you might think.
Top 10 travel Gadgets under $50 – Ok, they totally left out all the variation of Connect-4 gadgets, but still a pretty good list.
First Tron Legacy trailer – The sequel to the long awaiting 1980′s Tron leaked onto the interwebs with beautifully awful quality. Due to hit theaters in 2011.
IceAge… in 4D – If you’ve seen it in 3D, you’ll love it in 4d, and 5D, and 6D, and 7D…and even 8D. It was beautiful.
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