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‘3d modeling’

Form-Z 7 Prepares to Launch Parametric Modeling Point Blank in Your Face

23 Jan, 2012 by Josh Mings in CAD, DESIGN
3D Human CAD Models

AutoDesSys is peeling back the flexible underbelly of form-Z 7 and stuffing in a slew of new features. Form-Z has been around a while. It’s always had great features for architectural modeling, but this new version brings even more to the freeform table. New features increase the options you have for dynamic modeling of roofs and stairs and also deliver an array other geometry shaping goodness, including direct modeling with new parametric features, updated deformation tools and new NURBS functionality that makes fixing up those forms a lot easier. Here’s a look.

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Tinkercad. Incredibly Brilliant, Web-based 3D Modeling for Makers

19 Apr, 2011 by Josh Mings in TECH

Ok, now this is more like it. I’ll try to tell you without choking on the beauty of this, but since my larynx is already convulsing, you may have to proceed on your own. I know, you’ve probably had your fill of web-based 3D modeling applications. What’s that? There aren’t any? You mean, they’re weren’t any… until now.

Tinkercad, a Finland-based startup, has just lunched their public beta after a 6 month development cycle. It brings the simplicity of 3D modeling to the simplicity of the web and, really, it couldn’t be more beautifully done. If you haven’t jumped away already, here’s a look at what you’ll see.

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The 3D, Free-Space Modeling Future Created by a Single Person

15 Mar, 2011 by Josh Mings in TECH

You may have just shaken the dust of an old set of gloves, slipped into a memory of days gone by. Days spent hitting your brother after hogging all the Nintendo playing action with your new Power Glove. “IT’S MY TURN!” No, not until I beat this dragon… WITH MY FIST!! That’s right. You were the glove…

And the glove isn’t going away. Take for instance the possibilities it possesses for manipulating 3D geometry with your hands. UNLIMITED. Sebastian Pirch is just the guy to prove it too. WIth nothing more than a Kinect, an Arduino and the technological knowhow to tie it into PureData via pduino, he was able to create a very interesting method of modeling in completely open space with nothing but his hands… his hands covered in warm, woolen 3D nabbin’ geometry mittens.

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Ask the Reader: When Did You Start Modeling in 3D? {Poll}

09 Dec, 2009 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

Well, the last poll showed people overwhelmingly think our robots servants should keep management quarantined. For good reason, no doubt. We all want to frolic in the freedom of designing and rendering awesome bits of plastic and metal in our favorite 3D program.

There’s probably a time in your life that you remember 2D being torn like a shroud from your innocent mind. All of a sudden you had to deal with multiple files, multiple file formats and the expectation that everything you make will look cooler, work better and save everybody loads of time.

It happened just like that too, didn’t it? So, when did it happen for you?

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Forget Hybrid Modeling, Delcam Has the Solid-Surface-Mesh Tribrid Modeling Paaa-nache {Video}

09 Sep, 2009 by Josh Mings in NEWS

How many types of CAD modeling can you stack atop your chest before collapsing a lung? Most draw the line at two, solids and surfacing, and even then, aortas start rupturing. Little do people know there’s a third that can be applied to give you, YES, TRIBRID MODELING.

Delcam has had Tribrid modeling capabilities in their PowerSHAPE Pro product since the 2008 release, but many people haven’t had a chance to see it, let alone even fathom what it could possibly be.

Fortunately for you, Al Dean, of Develop3D is on site in South Korea at the Delcam Asian Technical Summit to get all the meaty details on the power of PowerSHAPE and what Tribrid modeling is all about. Al explains it all and even caught the demonstration on crisp 4:3 SD video. Sweet.

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Ask the Reader: If You Could Design Anything With 3D What Would It Be? {Poll}

02 Sep, 2009 by Josh Mings in NEWS

OK, so the last poll revealed that no one cares if the OS goes away as long as our lovely apps work. Hoorah. But who cares about OS this or OS that when you can model up something sweet you’ve always wanted to, right?

There’s the 3D modeling at your day job, but what if you had your choice? I somehow doubt most would honestly choose gasket molds. Not that gasket molds don’t ‘pay the bills,’ but what would be the ideal? I’d be throwing down some models of spacecraft, robots and toys myself. What would you model?

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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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