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09/06/2010 07:42 AM
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First seat of SolidWorks, SOLD! …15 years ago, today. |
Well, just look how time oozes suspiciously right past us. SolidWorks 2011 launched last week, but you may not have known there have been 15 years of enhancements before it. Today, September 6th, 2011 marks the 15th anniversary of SolidWorks selling the very first seat of their 3D product development software. Over 1 millllliooooon seats [...]
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09/06/2010 06:00 AM
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How to Go From 3D Model to Online Game With 3DVia Studio |
Yeah, you spend your days modeling food dispersal system for fish hatcheries, but your evening activities tell a different story. Let’s just say people should think twice before challenging you to 5-day Mario Kart Marathon. Perhaps, as you’ve sat in silence waiting for the next installment of the Halo series to come out, you’ve wondered [...]
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09/04/2010 12:10 PM
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Celebrate Good Times, Jellybeans and 3D Buckyball Intensity |
September 4th is a special day. It’s the zero day anniversary of the day I figured out that it cost less to get a full salad and full soup, instead of two half salad, half soup “Deals”. Soup and Salad ON ME. It’s also the 25th anniversary of the Buckyball, a spherical Fullerene created using [...]
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09/03/2010 04:17 AM
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Friday Smackdown: Slosh Popper |
It’s all about absorbency. If you find one with six paws and an orange belly, you’ve got a keeper. But watch it! They’ll soak these links right out of your head. Alexandr Melentiev – Alexandr creates amazing world art.. amazing. Right-click, view image on his site to see large versions. If Historical Events had Facebook [...]
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09/02/2010 02:50 PM
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SolidWorks 2011: More Features, Faster Design, Fewer Beatings |
Blow the beet juice out of your mouth. This week SolidWorks 2011 is launched. We could ask the same questions we did last year and we could also bore 1/4-20 screws into our head. We will do neither. What we want to know is one thing, is 2011 better. Is it better than 2010? Does [...]
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08/31/2010 12:14 PM
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GrabCAD. Pot Pie Squeezin’ 3D Model Excitment for Your Grabby Little Hands. |
I bet you’re squeezing a giant pot pie into your mouth right now. I am. In fact it’s one of my favorite things to do while sharing and discussing 3D models amongst friends. GrabCAD is where it’s all happening. We covered GrabCAD when it first came on the scene as a place to outsource your [...]
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08/30/2010 09:02 PM
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Autodesk Slams CAD on the Mac OS X. Plus AutoCAD for iPhone and iPad |
Well, blow my everloving mind out of the water. You won’t see the PR till Tuesday, but the New York Times just scooped the whole CAD industry on the news. AutoCAD for Apple Mac is here. Not only that, the scaled down version, AutoCAD WS, is here for the iPhone and the iPad. We’ve not [...]
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08/27/2010 06:00 AM
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Friday Smackdown: Buckle Your Bread |
Once you’re able to buckle the bread ends down sufficiently, it’s all a matter of how you apply the jelly. In this case, you’ll need a shovel, a big one, and these links. Brent Nolasco – No portfolio, but his blog is filled with much of his amazing acrylic paintings and vinyl/resin customs. Linguistics puzzles [...]
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08/25/2010 02:48 PM
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SolidWorks 2011 Launch. 6 Day, 8 Hours, 3 Minutes and 30 seconds. |
If you look at the image to the left (and the larger version after the jump) you’ll see a bunch of tiny people mulling about the large appendage like structure in front of them. Little do they know that beneath the crumpled paper lies the number… 2011… that in 6 days… will… transform and DEVOUR [...]
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08/25/2010 01:51 PM
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How To Convert Your PDF To AutoCAD DWG… For Free. |
There are times in our life when we stand behind a wall, peek around the corner and snicker at someone pulling dimensions off a PDF document to sketch out a part. The tears roll down their overworked cheeks. If only they could convert the PDF to an .dwg file. They can. It use to be [...]
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08/24/2010 02:29 PM
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ARES Commander. First 2D CAD on the Mac Released. DraftSight Next? |
Deep outta the heart of Berlin, Germany comes news for the user who enjoys the planar bliss of X and Y coordinates… and wears a shirt that say, “I do it on a Mac.” Everyone down with 2D alternatives to AutoCAD knew that Graebert was working on a version of their ARES Commander product for [...]
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08/23/2010 02:26 PM
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Don’t Throw-up, You Now Have Two Options for Online CAD Stores. |
I know, I know. You get so giddy thinking about shopping, you just totally lose it. Then someone mentions shopping for CAD products, and you go completely nuts and lose control of your stomach juices. You may start to feel the gurgle yet again though. In the past you had but one option, Novedge. Their [...]
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08/23/2010 01:15 PM
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Siemens Slams SolidSmack with Questions. This is What I Said. |
A couple months ago I went to Siemens PLMConx Event. It was a magical time filled with magical talk about PLM, Solid Edge, NX, curling irons, highlight techniques and ways to deal with split ends… I may be getting two events mixed up, but whatever the case, Mrs. Dora Smith was on the hunt to [...]
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08/20/2010 08:00 AM
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Friday Smackdown: The Nillies |
That, my friend, is a mighty fine curd. May I ask, how does one mix breakbeats and bebop with coagulated milk? Ahhh, with two pointy nubs you say? and these links?! Brilliant! Pablo Vicentin – He’s got some 3D, but what’s exceptional is the characters and composition of his 2D work. Grahpic.ly – Comics where [...]
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08/19/2010 12:30 PM
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Paint A Rainbow On Your SolidWorks Assembly. Multi-Colored Macro Follow-up. |
A mere month ago we asked y’all how to go about slapping color across parts in SolidWorks. Unless you have a program to apply a random color to a part when you put it in an assembly, they all have the same curiously drab color. That’s not the diverse kind of 3D modeling world we [...]
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