‘web apps’

SolidSmack Promo Week: Vuuch For Discussing Things About Design.

22 Mar, 2010 by in NEWS

vuuch-sceneWell, would you look at that. You’ve put on the ‘nice shirt’ to start the week off and nobody has said a thing. Well, TEAR. IT. OFF. and as you do, scream VUUCH! at the top of your lungs.

Sure it will get attention, but even more important, it will shred the vocal cords and remind you that this Thursday, they are having a very rare web preview to show you what Vuuch is and what it actually does for you. So, if you’re having trouble pronouncing words with two ‘U‘s in them or curious about what Vuuch does, here are the details.

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SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Pro/E, Alibre or Inventor. Which 3D CAD App Has More Character?

11 Mar, 2010 by in ROCKIN'

Because the popular 3D CAD apps have no visible appendages to beat each other down into an oily goo or give their own opinion on medicine, politics or art, we’ve decided to see what the web has to say about how they all stack up in this regard.

To do it, we’re using a nifty little web app from Aaron Zinman and the MIT Sociable Media Group called Personas. It’s part of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit at the MIT university and an interesting way to see how your name can be used to lock you into a little house of web activity.

However, instead of a person’s name, we’ll enter the names of a few popular CAD companies – SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Alibre, Pro/E, and Inventor – to see who has more character and then poke and laugh at the results.

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