I’m so close to SolidWorks World 2010, I can almost smell the enormous influx of SolidWorks geekery blanketing the So Cal city of Anaheim over the next week.
This is going to be my 4th SolidWorks World, with an unexplainable gap between thoroughly enjoying the very first SWW out in Palm Springs and the last three in San Diego, Orlando and now, Anaheim.
If only we all had buckets and buckets and buckets of paint in our possession and a powerful paint canon for occasions such as this. We have 3D color palettes people. Lock, load and FIRE.
ColoRotate is on the web app scene serving up a new way to use and abuse color. Their online 3D tool and associated Photoshop CS4 plugin take that boring, flat color palette and cleverly add in the 3rd dimension. It’s more than an interesting take on color and palettes. It’s a look into functional 3D UI’s… on the web.
Many of us are plugged directly into the monitor, starting and ending the design process within the confines of a virtual 3-dimensional prototype. Rubbish. What if that was only a small part in the middle of the entire process?
The Futures Channel slaps the spectacles off the idea of 3D CAD and rapid prototyping with a new video looking at the Industrial Design process over at Giro. If you’re a designer, engineer, process nerd or bike geek, you’re going to thoroughly enjoy this. Watch it at the Futures Channel.
The pump! Release the gate valve and reverse the hurt-mags! We’ve got a zombie-class 8 weave-worm breaching the main duct! We’ve got to get these links out!
Rysh – I “Rysh” you would look at this to see some excellent character development. Not much there, but tis glorious.
Coolest Clock Ever – It’s totally different from the clock that you stuck the old man in, this is an LCD.
How to suck at Facebook – It’s so hard, I know, but the oatmeal shows you how.
10 Design Quotes – People made witty quotes about design and creativity, and then others made posters of them.
16 addictive online flash games – Another addiction to add to the list of time-wasting fun. Like you need this.You do.
Zhangjiajie National Park – Those floating mountains in Avatar. Yeah, idea was totally ripped off from here. Breathtaking indeed.
100 Quotes Every Geek should Know – But please, do not, no matter what, tattoo them on any part of your body.
Stay calm… it’s a simple hardware review for a simple piece of hardware. A graphics card as a matter of fact. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800. A mighty GPU fit for many a CAD system, that five years from now will lie dead in a muddy trench of the IT underbelly.
It’s likely you want to find out if the FX1800 is a worthy upgrade. It’s also likely that if you want to upgrade your GPU, you want a simple explanation that any upper management person can understand with as few grunts, wandering gazed and shoulder shrugs coming from them as possible.
We take care of both. The official two-tier, print-n-submit solidsmack way.
SolidWorks World 2010 is over… I jest, it actually hasn’t started, but a week from now at this time, it will be over and I, along with many others, will be dragging blistered feet from an Anaheim, California hotel bed to shed the light we gleaned from SolidWorks World on our friends, family and supermarket clerks.
There is some juicy news I’m thinking we’ll here about and some we will definitely be covering. So, what is it you wanna know? Here are a few possible topics and some things in general to be on the look out for.
If you’re like me, you’ve been a bit uneasy and perhaps bitter that you didn’t get the foam projectile device you wanted so badly for Christmas. Wipe those tears, because it’s a new year and there’s something even cooler you’ll want to get your hands on.
Phil Sluder of Triaxial Design has all the boys and girls in a ring hurling rage (as you’ll see in the video) with a toy he designed along with a particle physicist, a machinist and a chicken farmer. It’s the Zyclone, and if you don’t buy one after reading this, the rest of this year will be BORING.
Here’s the scoop, the process Phil went through to design it in SolidWorks and bring the toy to market with a little advice for those wanting to do the same.
Well, I’m about the only one who hasn’t weighed in on the deep, molten pool of plasticy ramifications seeping out of the HP + Stratasys 3D printer deal which happened last week.
For good reason too. I’ve been busy running back and forth along the fence in my backyard, pelting the neighbors dog with polycarbonate pellets while pondering just what a new HP-branded 3D printer means for that small segment of highly influential people called the “mainstream.” Do they need one? Do you need one? What are the problems they will solve?
Here, I take you on an adventure to the bayou, the car shop, a family gathering or maybe your office break room to have a little Q&A with a couple people who will invariably be printing our future, our 3D future.
There is certainly no shortage of 3D print or photocopy news the past couple weeks. Now Solido3d is causing a stir. A big stir.
Next week, in conjunction with the SolidWorks World 2010 event, they’ll hold a press release announcing new pricing on the SD300 Pro, the only desktop Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) printer that carves out sweet 3D from polyvinyl sheet. It’s quite a process. SolidWorks Co-founder and Solido3D board member, Scott Harris along with industry expert Terry Wohlers will be rockin’ the news.
Just as I was preparing the most delectable post on the HP + Stratasys 3D Printer deal that went down last week, I saw this news pop up in my inbox.
Harness your excitement and then start making of pile of the knick-knacks you want to photocopy… IN GLORIOUS 3D. Yes, Ortery Technologies has a “New” blinking image on their site, right next to the image of the Photosimile 5000 that will copy anything you toss inside using their proprietary “Real3D” technology. Thing is, it’s not the 3D ya think it is. Check out the vid after the jump.
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