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SolidWorks Flickr Finds: The Rockin’est Visual Essay You May Ever See

26 Mar, 2009 by Josh Mings in ROCKIN'
3D Human CAD Models

Look, I know you’ve seen your share of provocative ‘visual essays’ that just make your wits reel with multi-dimensional perceptions of life and the universe, but this one is really cool looking, and it smells of PhotoWorks rendering.

This lil’ experiment in visual prose is from Darren Ng. You may remember his impressive apartment refurb done in SolidWorks. Try to guess how he did this. Maybe he’ll be nice and let us know.

What’s really interesting is how similar this task is to what we as designers and engineers have to do each day.

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SolidWorks Flickr Find: The Wassily Chair. It’s Kinda Comfortable.

05 Dec, 2008 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

Do you ever look at a chair and say, “that thing looks so uncomfortable.” and then you sit in it and yeah, it’s uncomfortable but then your like, “wellll, it’s kinda comfortable.”

That’s the Wassily Chair. The icon of modern modern furniture from Marcel Breuer. You can actually download a SolidWorks model of this chair here.

The chair. It’s cool, it’s popular, watcha think?
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