SolidSmack - SolidWorks 3D CAD Technology Design Blog
09/05/2008 12:00 AM
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Friday Smackdown: ToothPick Eyes |
No… wait… yeah, here they come! Get me my cane ya coot! These links are crawlin’ up on my face and making a durn mess of my astigmatism.
We heart places - Do you absolutely love that one place you went? share it here, see others, plan some trips. too cool.
Visions 3D image management - Browse [...]
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09/04/2008 02:00 AM
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Ponoko: Innovating Manufacturing With Bid-to-Design |
Interested in making something via the Ponoko rapid prototyping design site, but not quite sure about how to go about it?
You’re in luck, they’ve just release a new service called Ponoko ID that allows you to request a design. You list a price, its sent to some designer and after one has picked it, [...]
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09/03/2008 10:30 PM
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SolidWorks Crushing Skull of CAD Marketing with Small Army |
There’s nothing quite like waking up to a new day. The birds singing, the smell of toasty oats, and then a blaze of SMOKIN’ HOT marketing material being transfered directly into your brain cage.
To create this special effect for all you CAD junkies in need of being persuaded by direct marketing campaigns, SolidWorks has transfered [...]
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09/03/2008 03:09 PM
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SolidWorks Website Gets a Snazzy New Look: Less Orange, More Gray |
You know what comes out on late at night after your tucked away in bed? A new look for the SolidWorks.com website and some beefy new content for your 3D CAD affliction.
The users
It’s a nice change from the static site of days gone by. There’s video, it’s way easier to navigate and has much better [...]
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09/03/2008 09:00 AM
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Flexsteel: Soft and Coooshy Furniture Designed in SolidWorks |
Just look at that nice couple. So overcome with comfort from a sofa designed in SolidWorks, they’re about to smash there poor faces right into each other. Not too uncommon, but furniture designed in SolidWorks, that’s something that’ll make you look forward to bloody noses.
Flexsteel has been making furniture for over 100 years. After being [...]
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09/02/2008 11:23 PM
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The Most Obscure SolidWorks Feature Combos. What are Yours? |
There’s nearly 8 ways to create the same 3D model in SolidWorks… along with the 4 other ways. That’s a lot of flexibility, but many of the features just don’t get the use they deserve until someone shows them how to bring forth the hammer of power that is all the crazy, little SolidWorks feature [...]
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09/01/2008 09:17 PM
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Apply Excitment of OpenGL vs Direct3D Directly to Forehead |
Oh, the tangled web of 3D CAD hardware and software. It spans between the cracks of ultimate compatibility for the software, ultimate confusion for the user and sticks to you right after walking through the door of deciding what computer to buy.
SolidWorks uses the OpenGL graphics API. Other CAD companies have decided to use [...]
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09/01/2008 12:46 PM
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Four Fabulous Labor Day Tips for Student Success in SolidWorks |
Last year, SolidSmack riveted the academic community with some mighty fine tips for students success in SolidWorks.
One year later and those measly tips are just not enough. Times are’a changin’ folks and there’s all sorts of things students and ‘the aged’ can do to have more success and more opportunities in 3D CAD and [...]
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08/28/2008 10:04 PM
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Friday Smackdown: Squeeze a Bit |
As a matter of fact, if you do tighten it like that the bleeding will stop, but the centrifugal force will make the cookies taste a bit salty. To remedy, just add a dab of these links.
12 Photoshop experiments - Where else could you learn a little about particle disintegration and geometric manipulation to make [...]
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08/27/2008 10:34 PM
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Escape Slow, Painful Death. Renewable Water and Power Designed in SolidWorks |
There’s products that really add to the quality of life and then there’s products that can actually help you survive it.
Whether its months in the brambles of the desolate Australian interior or days spent escaping robot swarms the Ersa, renewable water and power generator is one item you’ll want in your pack.
It’s transportable, it’s [...]
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08/27/2008 04:31 AM
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Serving Up Hot and Spicy SolidWorks Subscription Service |
Update: As of noon on Thursday August 28th, SolidWorks has rescinded the penalties that were soon to take affect. You can read the email that went out to the resellers and customer here. Good move on the PR side. SolidWorks is listening to the customers, plus the resellers don’t look like bad guys to the [...]
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08/25/2008 05:24 AM
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Wearable MotorCycle Video: Clean Your Face With Pavement |
If you keep an eye out for motorcycles you can wear, you may have seen this one zipping face down across the pavement of the internet.
I know it’s not as practical (less dangerous?) as the two wheel versions we see everyday weaving in and out of traffic, but if you want to go from 0-60 [...]
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08/22/2008 05:00 AM
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Friday Smackdown: Cracker Pants |
Well yeah, of course they look hot. But ya know, if you go wearing them into a public place, babies will cry, women will scream and everyone else will run smack dab into the links.
Design Trendz - It’s what all the websites are doing. Shadows, reflections, frames and video on how to do it.
Photosynth - [...]
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08/21/2008 09:30 AM
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Explode Diagrams. The Next Cool Thing In 3D CAD |
You all are gonna flip, or rather, explode, when you see this. I’ve been looking for 3D CAD news out of Siggraph08 that happened last week, but have not found much beyond some announcements about rendering models.
Fortunately, Mark Treadwell from Premier Rides came across some info and filled me in. A team from Berkeley [...]
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08/20/2008 09:40 PM
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Salvador Dali Says Your 3D Product Design is INSANE |
It’s both parametrically intense and oddly invigorating to look at. It’s like jumping in the air through a small hole and coming out on the other side with all the knowledge of perspective while marching rhythmically outside the confines of an inverted parallelogram.
What is it? Surrealism. An artistic expression of the early 1900’s that captured [...]
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