Here’s something you’ll absolutely love. If you’ve ever had a fan, screen or keyboard go out, most laptops require you to purchase new tools, tear the laptop completely apart, then stab the tiny screwdrivers into your eyes after becoming completely frustrated. So, if you’ve ever taken a dremel to the back of a latop (like…
If it was that large, you would have to strap more than the usual amount of spoons to your fists. However, you could alway flatten it out with a large bat and sprinkle it with these links. Silvio Aebischer – I could live is these environments, with these creatures. Definitely check out the mech section.…
If you’ve been waiting to see what PTC’s next move is, your wait is over. If you’ve been waiting to see what direction product development tech is taking, stop. Nearly every CAD vendor has shared their vision of what the future of product design is going to be like. Thursday was PTC’s turn. Thursday, October…
Update: Just an update… I’ve got the overview with my thoughts up on what project lightning turned into… PTC Launches CreoWhatcha think now? There’s a peculiar odor of CADmospheric ions in the air and all the blustery bits of activity are swelling up over the US East Coast. Tomorrow, October 28th, PTC will reveal their…
Mesmerizing. There’s nothing like seeing the modeling and rendering process from start to finish. Oh, and then there’s showing how it can all be done within the time span of 20 minutes. That’s exactly what Cut & Paste is all about. You, three others, music thumping, crowd watching… Intensity. Adam O’Hern is all about it…
This Monday, Adobe fired the Acrobat X cannon out across the interwebs. You may have felt odd vibrations emanating from your screen creating a feeling that something was going to affect your career-long affection with PDF’s… or that feeling could just be some indigestion from that lunch burrito. Either way, a new version of Acrobat…
It once tilted, down into the chasm where strange soups lie dormant, heated beneath a layer of membranous light, with nothing other than the blind, bearded settler to keep the roto-healm alive. It was quite there, and these links bubbled to the surface. Kekai Kotaki – If there was ever someone that could inspire you…
Well, once again the superiority of the Design/Engineer CAD Geek has been completely blown over. People should be hurt… badly, with mean looks and cold coffee, but instead we’ll sit back and say, “The massive coolness of the CAD Geek lies firmly outside the realm of any guanine/adenine-based geek mutation… so there.” …OR maybe we…
Yellow is for me graphic by Azrol Kassim using Sketchbook Pro You remember that time you won a spanking for sketching all over your little brother with permanent marker? No? You’ve probably just repressed that event. No matter, because you can channel your creative sketching ability once again and win 1 MILLION spankings… in the…
Don’t you just love the smell of a new operating system? Goes well alongside the boiling adrenaline shooting out your eyes as you become familiar with it’s functionality and problems, doesn’t it? Actually, there are a lot of people and companies in the design and engineering community who still use Windows XP. There are many…
Well now, if you think those intricate clay micro-structures you’ve squeezed out through your teeth are amazing, you’re going to love this. Up till now it’s been nearly impossible to create complex 3-dimensional carbon nano-shapes, partly from the limitation in the process of creating them and partly from the hexagonal structure of the fullerene molecules…
Completely random and also completely rockin’. This image is from a circa-2004 drawing I uncovered. That was so long ago… I believe they made meat out of dirt back then… so long ago. It, as well as its model table, is quite epic. Wouldn’t you agree?
Last week, Siemens launched what is very well the most feature-busting update to the Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology craze thus far. It’s Solid Edge ST3. I’ve not been able to get inside it yet, so I’m holding off on a proper review till I do. In the meantime, I went to Siemens with some…
There are a few things I don’t enjoy watching repeatedly – boiling cabbage, videos of cats, and anything with Ben Affleck. The one thing I can watch repeatedly are the 3D façade projections being done by NuFormer, a digital media company out of the Netherlands. They have pretty much perfected the art of mapping 2D…
Sculpteo, the 3D print service we featured last week, will announce tomorrow (October 19th) that their print service will be available to U.S. makers, fabbers or any other person that enjoys the feel of layered plastic.
Tighten your corsets folks. Actually, you can loosen them, because this design will make your eyes pop no matter how you’re compressing your innards. Last May we featured an iPad Canvas Wrap concept designed by Jeff Bare. Well, the design has come full-circle and the result is amazing. We’ve just uncovered images and video from…
Eventually, the dishes just pile up so high in the sink you spray them with the nearest alcoholic beverage and light them on fire. When you see the result is only a light charring, out comes the broom handle you use to awkwardly jam them down the garbage disposal. There’s a better way, a better…
Open your mouth, it’s here. If you’re in charge of implementing SolidWorks or in charge of bribing IT with chili-cheese fries to install it, you now have to consider the ramification of upgrading to the new version… or throwing caution to the wind and just going for it. Either way, if you’re on subscription, you…
I enjoy a good 3D print as much the next stark-raving mad 3D print fan, but there’s something cool about being able to upload a file to a faraway land via a slick interface, pay a fairly high price and get a freshly fabricated 3D print delivered to your front door. One of the latest…
Imagine being so CAD savvy, that you emanated CAD wherever you go. Yeah, you would be the life of the party and everyone would say, “That guys wears CAD crap, and looks FABULOUS in it.” They would also cry, because you are way more prepared than they, in the occasion a random, chest-size CAD reference…
And then suddenly, without warning, five enormous insectoids entered the capsule. They breathed heavy and looked famished from a long day of harvesting dew droplets, weedlings and these links. Richard Anderson – If you blur your eyes fast enough, Anderson beautiful abstract style nearly moves right off the screen. A picky eater taxonomy – Personally,…
Frankly, you may tear your leg muscles out in disbelief when you see what you’re about to see, but it’s for real. It may be even more shocking to believe it’s possible to do anything but wither away at a desk while performing design and engineering tasks, but yes, it is. To stay in shape,…
You see that hot looking Camaro up above? That’s a thousand features of SolidWorks surfacing coolness you’re about to create. There’s an even cooler aspect to this as well. Matthew Perez, a Certified SolidWorks Expert (CSWE) and designer of injection molded parts, created this tutorial for you to learn all he has learned about modeling…
It never fails. You put leftovers in and either a mold infested lifeform emerges or the skin is torn off your fingers from freezer burn. Your fridge has it out for you… and it’s time to show it who’s in charge of your food preservation needs. However, before you empty that knife block into it’s…
He slide the noodles off the window… slowly. Never had he seen a site as shocking, lighting the night sky beyond the pane of blurry glass, as he did that night. It reached the sky, towering over the city, tossing vegetable matter mixed with these links. Leo Snow – Wow, just wow. Sketches, illustration,characters and…
Honestly I can’t get enough of what people are able to do with some of the rendering programs of late. Especially with KeyShot 2.1 we covered last week. Al at Develop 3D took a rip through KeyShot 2.1 as well. His overview, rendering results and the video he slapped together (after the jump) are nothing…
Our good friend, world record-breaking, seafaring and slightly beady-eyed Canuck, Ben Eadie is at it again. You might know him from an encounter at a SolidWorks event or from his multiple online presence at SolidMentor, SolidJott and MechanicalMashup. The latest of his offerings for the info-hungry SolidWorks user has just launched. Give a warm welcome…
You know how it goes. You’re sitting hunched over the keyboard with a coffee in one hand, spinning your model around while singing “Weeeee little bird!” in your highest pitch, when a knife comes flying over the cubicle wall. That… can cause a mess the janitor is not use to cleaning up. Besides taking voice…
Wouldn’t you know it? CNBC reports that the iPad is the “most quickly adopted non-phone electronic product” EVER in the history of all history.
You know what’s not cool? Cancer. You know what’s super cool? Thousands of people sporting bald caps in support of those stricken with the disease that doesn’t do much for the energy level, the hairline, or the organs it affects. That’s why SolidSmack is joining in the fight and is asking you to join in…
Just look at that Quadro 2000 circuit board shimmer in the perfectly directed studio lighting. It’s almost enough to take your mind off the $50k you just spent upgrading all the company’s computers to the, now antiquated, Quadro FX 1800. So what, I say! What’s $50k when it comes to a full 1GB of memory,…
One of my favorite things to do in the morning is bake the plastic off the CPU cores in the ol’ computer and there’s nothing like a little rendering action to make that happen. As I write this, my CPU is maxed out at 100% while KeyShot 2.1 creates some of the renderings you’ll see…
There, in the distance, then… suddenly. A ripple felt through the quaking air across everyone’s furrowed, skeptical brow. The pounders had escaped and each screeching moment that elapsed, brought them closer. Closer to these links. Ian McQue – Gunboats. That’s all you need to tell me. Airships of any style will do, especially the ones…
Take those fancy Apple iDevices out of their immaculate leather holsters party people. 2D and 3D fans of all shapes and sizes are getting some angst-relieving app juice to soak their geometry in today. Autodesk has release both the AutoCAD WS 2D app and the Inventor Publisher 3D viewer app. Both are released on the…
You just know when you see massive chunks of metal and wires attached to a scrap piece of plywood, there’s got to be a story behind it… either that, or you’ve taken a wrong turn down a hillbilly back road where you’ll quickly discover everything is attached to a scrap piece of plywood. You may…
Sometimes there are simply not enough laser beams you can shoot out your eye holes to automatically change how geometry is modeled. They should have built it this way, they should have built it that way, they should have quit and taken a job as someone who jabs lard into large buckets. Stacking model features…
The small cichlid examined it’s surroundings. To it’s surprise there were sea berries to eat, plankton to befriend then devour and most of all, a link for every eyeball and fin. Toby Lewin – Wow. Wonderfully rich environments for the few that are there. Check out his blog for more work plus some 3D. Nacho…
I’m shaking my head right now. Tears are welling up in my eyes as my PC scrapes it’s fingers across the blackboard of the boot sequence. Grueling, especailly on a computer in major need of being kicked through a hard surface. Jorge Rui, a SolidWorks user and Mechanical Engineer, is NOT experiencing the same feeling.…
You could stab the stuffing out of the SolidWorks documentation, but you won’t find the mention of BIM or AEC anywhere. What you will find is another cushiony three letter acronym synonymous with both, IFC. In fact, for SolidWorks 2011, you’ll see a little .IFC format compatibility, the addition of walk-through visualization, and special reference…
With all the touchscreen craziness we’ve seen over the past few years, there are about 500 direction future screen technology could go. Personally, I won’t be satisfied until they’re formable, edible and can be wrapped around my face like a make-shift Halloween mask. Some people have other ideas, and the perfect organization to compile them…
With all the software release news as of late, your 2D CAD on a Mac dreams are either a repeating nightmare or a pleasure feast of .dmg delight. First with the announcement of ARES on the Mac then with Autodesk publicly announcing they would soon release AutoCAD on the Mac… along with it’s little brother,…
They hung lazily, swinging in a light breeze – wind chimes singing randomly in the distance and the distinct cackle of hyenas as they finish their morning biscuits and gnaw on these links. Jon McCoy – He wraps deep perspective and rich colors around an environment scene like you wouldn’t believe. The Best Bathroom Sign…
You lika to burn tha meatballs eh? He lika to burn tha meatballs! OH, and the noodles!? and the TABLE!!? and the ULTEM 9085!!!?!?!? Bontà mia! Yes folks, and burn it will, all of it. Even the 3D print material that passes FAR 25.853 flammability requirements for aircraft with occupants. It’s ULTEM 9085, the up…
I’m looking upon the screen, at a presentation of Solid Edge ST3 at this very moment. The 3rd amalgamation of history-free and history-based design wrapped up in a simple phrase you comfort your children with, Synchronous Technology. I’m seeing it, but I can’t say anything about it. The pushing, the pulling, the Live Rules… taunting…
If you enjoy an evening of pouring soup out of a bucket, into six buckets and then back into one bucket, you’ll like this mix of combo tech coolness. Both ATI and MSI are making thick and chunky waves with some much anticipated news which, albeit at a price, gives you more options on your…
Close your eyes for a moment. Now, fling your head forward into the nearest solid object you can’t see. What’s that you do see? Yes, pretty lights. Pretty lights jittering their way across the back of your eyelids and unconsciousness like a hallucinogenic back-slap. Dentsu and Berg know this feeling and how to produce it.…
There are a whopping 500 apps in Apple’s AppStore for architects and contractors. This includes apps categorized as “games,” “lifestyle,” and “entertainment.” While SimCity Deluxe might alleviate stress on the job site, it’s not going to help create layouts or access floorplans. So, Software Advice has slapped together a list of the best iPhone and…
Guess what kind of wild 3D manipulation news came flying out of Velizy, France today? Wrong, it has nothing to do with crêpes, large mustaches or the combination of the two. It’s all about 3D and iPads and viewing the 3D, on the iPad. The news actually ‘leaked’ out late last week with an early…
You know what’s cooler than flesh-eating robots? Nothing. That’s the worse it can get. However, printing out robots and robot parts falls into a whole other class of cool which will distract you from any impending robot doom. I’ve never thought about using Shapeways to print different variations of mechanical creatures and their implements of…
Nothing but good can come out of a project that includes a bunch of researchers in a small room and finger probes. Especially when they start toying with the visible aether and our ability to touch it. That’s exactly what a group from the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has done. They’ve…