There should be five things that you do today. They should all involve string, live bait and an assortment of wild animals. Oh, and this, KICK IT.
‘engineering’
This week in Design, Tech, CAD and FAB – SolidSmack Update 1:10
When the bluebonnets are dancing in the field and you feel a large antler near your spine, it’s best you not turn around. Simply put your headphones, tighten your belt on and scream, KICK IT.
This week in Design, Tech, CAD and FAB – SolidSmack Update 1:09
I know it’s the weekend. Time to work on the tan, take the horse for a ride, wax your bike and maybe even make that crumpet basket you’ve been reading about. But before you do all of that, sit back, relax and enjoy 3 minutes and 42 seconds of bliss. KICK IT.
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SolidSmack Update 1:08
Why, it looks like you’re enjoying your weekend. Spring hat, drink in your hand, veggie or steak kabob of your choice grilling on the hood of your neighbor’s car. If only life could be just a touch more exciting. May I introduce the SolidSmack Update? I may. KICK IT.
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Ask the Reader: Should Drawing Revisions Be Letters or Numbers?
This week, a deep, thought-provoking poll that really matters. One that paws like a toothless rat against the marshmallowy film of time. Everybody knows drawing revisions are better represented as… what? Letters or numbers? How about letters and numbers? Should we even have a choice? Should 14 year old standards been thrown out with the filing cabinets? This is where it finally gets decided…
Your Engineering Degree Doesn’t Mean Smack Without the Knack.
Little did you know it, but that engineering degree you spent 100k and 5+ years completing, fueled by cafeteria food, long nights and the occasional nervous breakdown… may actually be making you less useful, or at the very least need some flare.
In an article at Techcrunch, Vivek Wadhwa goes up against some thoughts from Guy Kawasaki on engineering knowledge versus business knowledge, and the need for each in the startup world. Wadhwa basically says, an engineering degree, by itself, isn’t good enough… hmmm, what do you think?
Extrude. Print. Manufacture. 10 Tips to Design Your Parts for Manufacturing in SolidWorks {CheckList}
Put the crackers down. The shop is calling. Nope, not to tell you they have to remake everything, but to let you know the part-makin’ is going perfectly. Why? You knew what to look out for.
On the screen it looks spectacular, right? but can it actually be made? For many designers and engineer’s designing parts to be manufactured is second nature. However, there are ways we model parts in SolidWorks that can get us severely scorned by the people making the parts and that’s what were here to deal with.
COFES 2009: Big, Bright and All About the FUTURE of Software and Design
Pull up your socks. It’s about to get ruckus up in the CAD Engineering Software world. The Conference is going down the next few days in Scottsdale, Arizona at the Palace Resort. COFES 2009 (Conference on the Future of Engineering Software).
The topics focus on ‘Innovation’*, from how software affects design to predicting the future of intersecting technologies. The DaS (Design and Sustainability) Symposium also starts this year which allow attendees to seeks collaborative solutions for specific software/design challenges.
This conference, takes the leading minds, thinkers and tinkerers of the CAD/PLM world, sticks them in a bunch of rooms of a beautiful resort to turns out ideas and solutions for the software you use each day.
It kicks off TODAY at 3:00 PM (Mountain Time). Here’s where to find more info, live coverage and see the rampage that will be occurring via Twitter.
Smack Your Senses: the SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package
Look out unemployed and soon-to-be-unemployed engineers and designers… SolidWorks has gone and done the nearly unimaginable… free software.
For a limited time, they are offering a free trial download of SolidWorks 2009 to stimulate the corpuscles out of your ever-loving, unemployeed facial pores. And although your excitement may instantly look like a bad case of rosacea, the visible joy could very well turn into SolidWorks skills you’ve never known. Check it out.
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