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The SolidSmack Awesome Sauce Design Contest
Winners

30 Sep, 2011 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS
3D Human CAD Models

Yes! The time has come to announce the winners if the very first SolidSmack Design Contest. This… was absolutely incredible. We had over 130 entries across a range of categories spanning architecture, automotive, consumer products and more. You can just see all the entries at GrabCAD. With the amount of entries and the thought that was put into many of the designs, choosing the winners was more challenging than putting this contest together. Nevertheless, we have 7 winners and a big dish of honorable mentions to take home over $15,000 in prizes! Here they are.

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SolidSmack V3: Fresh Pot of Awesome, iPod Winner
and More in Store

01 Aug, 2011 by Josh Mings in SOLIDSMACK NEWS

The time has come. Like hot flaming liquid poured straight into a web server, pounded with a hambone made of lightning and set on the table for everyone to partake… the new SolidSmack site is LIVE. It’s about time also, the old site was kinda shiny lookin’ but had the content kickin’ factor of wadded cat hair. But enough about the past. It’s all about the future and where SolidSmack goes from here. You, of course, are a big part of that. The feedback on the survey was overwhelming and will form rubbery mold we shove the future of SolidSmack into. We’ve got a winner to announce from the survey and a little more to tell you about… a design contest in fact. Here we go!

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The Winner of the SpacePilot PRO Blow to the Head is…

26 Apr, 2011 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS

It comes down to this. A typically Tuesday morning with nothing but the smell of hard work in the air, lukewarm coffee and multiple ways to make 3D happen. We had just over 50 entires in the Rock Your Desktop contest, which correlates to just over 50 GrabCAD portfolio submissions you should check out via the comments of that last link. One is the winner of a 3DConnexion SpacePilot PRO.

The winner is…

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Create Your Own Light Design… and Win a 3D Print from i.materialise

03 Jan, 2011 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS

It’s a fresh, slightly still doughy new year and what better way to start it off than with a contest and giveaway. This time i.materialise is bringing the opportunity to try out their fresh 3D printing service with a very slick tool you can use to create your own – very special, very unique – lamp design.

Yes, dim the lights, turn on the ambiance and spool up those 3D printers… we’re designing LIGHT. The contest is simple. Submit your light design to enter. We’ll let the “cool light design” pickin’ harpies take care of the rest. Here are all the details.

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Winner of the HP EliteBook 8740w Mobile Workstation

20 Dec, 2010 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS

Hands down this has been the biggest giveaway on SolidSmack and you all made it an absolute BLAST. I know you’re all anxious to know who won, or if you won, or didn’t, so I’ll cut tho the chase real fast like. The winner of the the HP EliteBook 8740w Mobile Workstation is…

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Jab the Pointy Finger of Life Into Your Models, Win KeyShot

06 Dec, 2010 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS

Our models. They’re dead… dead, pasty monoliths of engineering excellence plagued by the cold touch of a default color scheme. It must end. You must show the world what you’ve got and as the result, risk the chance of winning the ultimate in speed rendering technology, a license of KeyShot 2 Pro.

GrabCAD and KeyShot are punching up the Pantone possibilities to see what kind of MCAD rendering you can create. The rendering doesn’t even have to be created using KeyShot. Just upload a model, a screenshot of your slickest image and you’re automatically entered to win one of three prizes. Here are all the details.

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Win 1 Million Splash Screen Spankings with the Sketchbook Hero Contest

20 Oct, 2010 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS

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 form of your graphics being displayed to the thousands of people who have downloaded the Sketchbook Mobile app for their iPhone and iPad.

How could this be? Autodesk is calling for entries to the SketchBook Hero Image Contest. Here are the details…
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Model Your Wicked Cool Organic Design in T-Splines, Win an iPad

06 Aug, 2010 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS

BEEEEHOLD!!! Oh, ouch! Ok, muscles have tensed cracking most of the bones in my upper torso, but… (deep breath) No worries, because the endorphins are kicking in and some good ol’ modeling fun approacheth.

T-Splines is holding a contest. Yes, a modeling contest using T-Splines for Rhino. The winner will be chosen from the best models in the categories of consumer products, architecture, marine, jewelry, toys, and vehicular design. It can be submitted as a T-Splines, Rhino, SolidWorks, Pro/E, Spaceclaim or Inventor file.

The Prize? An iPad and V-ray for Rhino. Ready?

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iPad Model Rendering Challenge. Snag a 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator

06 May, 2010 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS, DESIGN

If your nerves, family or free-time have been affected by the frenzy of the shiny new iPad from Apple, you’re not alone. In less than a month Apple sold over 1 million of the 10″ touch-screen tablets.

However, only a small percent of those people are obsessed with getting a 3D model of the iPad design, and it looks like you are one of them. Not a problem, because Mike Puckett from SolidWorks took on the task and has made his iPad model available for download. He tells us the process he used, plus offers a challenge…

Can you render it? The winner takes away a 3DConnexion Space Navigator. Download below.

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The Winner of the SpacePilot Pro 3D Spinnin’ Mouse Is…

30 Dec, 2009 by Josh Mings in CONTESTS

Well, well, well, well, well, well, well… ahem… it’s no big surprise that when I asked if I should upgrade to Windows 7 and SolidWorks 2010 or just start vomiting, that 61% of you said to UPGRADE, while 14% said to just start vomiting.

We all know there are reasons to upgrade. We’ll touch on that in the future, in case you’re trying to prove the benefits to someone. Now, to the business at hand. There’s one person that will walk away the glorious 3D maneuvering capabilities of the brand new SpacePilot Pro from 3DConnexion.

The winner of that is…
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