Javascript disabled.

We use clean, safe Javascript to make our sites easier to navigate. Please consider enabling Javascript for this site.

‘year end review’

The SolidSmack Year-end Smacktastic Smack Up

01 Jan, 2010 by Josh Mings in NEWS
3D Human CAD Models

It’s finally over. We can take off the gas masks, stuff the confetti back in our shirts and look forward to a new year of sweet product design, cool technology, SolidWorks and other cad-related goodness.

Not that we didn’t have some great fun with some great topics over the past year. In fact, a tiny person who just threw champagne in my face, said many posts were quite superb, while a few made him cover his eyes to keep them from popping out their sockets. Goal achieved, I say. Here’s what we’ve got.

(more…)

The Five Best 3D CAD-Related Tech Innovations of the Last Decade.

29 Dec, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

2010. It’s here… or almost here. Which means it’s time to reflect on all the fun innovations that we ran screaming towards, or away from, over the past decade.

Over the past ten years I went from storing data on a CD to storing data online. I also went from emailing someone a couple times a week to sending tens, thousands, billions of messages per day. All the tech to keep me distracted from breathing normally or having a properly developed physique is a mix of good and bad, but mostly good.

As far as the CAD-related tech is concerned, there’s only five I could think of, which means there are likely twenty others which are way better. Here’s what spilled out after a small glass tube resembling my head was shaken vigorously and smashed against a neck of a CAD administrator.

(more…)

Happy New Year! SolidSmack Best of 2008

31 Dec, 2008 by Josh Mings in NEWS

solidsmack-happy-new-yearSo, what were the best and brightest post of 2008 on SolidSmack.com? I was sifting through all of them and thought the quickly-trained monkeys that wrote some of them did a pretty good job. I kid. It was actually just one monkey, with a day job and an extra finger… I kid again.

Here’s some of the best and most memorable posts that spilled over the edge of the SolidSmack editorial desk, onto the webernet and into your eyeholes. Of cours, your comments, as always, make them even better.
(more…)