Well, I don’t know about you, but it’s been a tense couple of weeks watching the entries come in for the iPad model rendering challenge. The wait is over… Or is it? YES, it is!
All together we had 28 submissions and over 50 renderings from people using a variety of top-notch rendering tools – very impressive the options you all have. Here they are along with the top contenders and the one to take home the prize, a 3D Connexion SpaceTraveler.
Oh! and if you have an idea for a future rendering challenge, just drop us a note.
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I’d tell you all to stand up simultaneously and start slapping each other while screaming and going into a frenzied panic, but that would be putting it mildly. What you should do is slap each other, scream, and start pulling the cords violently from the wall socket and flicking the light switches off and on… There, now we’re in proper state of hysteria. Why?
Hold your gasps for a few minutes… ok, just a bit more, hold it… and release. I know, it’s almost shocking. And your friends? They probably won’t believe you for a few minutes, but yes, it’s true. SolidWorks is dropping support for Windows XP and phasing out PhotoWorks after 2010.
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.
I had a conversation with someone yesterday about how to create really great looking images without using the SolidWorks rendering add-in, PhotoWorks. I told him it was simple and you can do it in just a few steps. ‘No way, show me.’, he said.
Recently, SolidWorks thwarted a would-be Zombie attack by launching 
For ya’ll that like to make your models look like the real deal, there’s a (soon-to-be available) new book for you to cozy up with.
