“Bzzzzzzz!”, it went, and suddenly more ice cream than you could catch in your mouth was falling from the opening, along with horses, butterflies and these convincingly brilliant links.
Ivan Santic – You’ll see once you get to the site. The video on the front page then proceed to the gallery.
Can a Smartphone replace a Laptop? – The referenced article is one thing, then there’s the conversation here. I think you know the answer.
Lunchbots – you need steel. throw out the plastic, not the kids, or the yappy dog. steel, it’s durable.
Pioneer Woman Photoshop Actions – It’s sunny out on the ranch, and these actions created by Pioneer Woman will make your photos just freakin’ pop.
Cost of Living Comparison – It’s hard times. If you’re gonna pick a cheap city, here’s one place to start. via Lifehacker.
Coriander Meatballs -You KNOW you’ve been craving it. Cheaper than a box of vino to go with it, whip up a lil’ mint sauce with it you gourmet.
Cardiovascular Paper – It’s all the rage these days. Sport some at your favorite sporting event or just wear into work.
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Have you ever sat at your table staring into a pile of peas wondering just how a multi-touch workflow would work? Would it be practical for editing 3D content or video content?
Oblong Industries (creators of G-speak) and supreme futurist John Underkloffer unveiled TAMPER at Sundance Film Fesitval this year as part of the New Frontier exhibition. But check this out. John recently gave a demonstration to Makingof.com showing exactly how it all works. Video after the break. It’s happening with video, why not with 3D CAD?
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I’m excited. Are you excited? The crinkly wrapper is coming off and it’s about dang time. Today, July 1st, after two years (and two months) of tinkering with graphics, plugins and a soupy mixture of html code, we’re launching the all new SolidSmack.
It’s shiny, don’t ya think. But that’s not all there is to it. This is a new day for what’s going on with SolidSmack as well. This is also a testbed of sort. One, to find better ways of sharing cool content with you and two, to make it more a more engaging experience for you. Here’s the details on some of the design and what’s to come.
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Oh no, you not gonna do it are you? please, no, no. YES. Slowly step away from the rotor. Bolt Circles my friends. Large, circular, equally-spaced bolt circles to turn your manufacturing nemesis into someone that buys you cakes on holidays. Manufacturers have a special place in their heart for “B.C.” , and as engineers we want to appreciate the power of creating them easily.
Now, in SolidWorks, you have a few options, but if you’re a square plate with no circular edge to be seen, using the plain old Circular Pattern feature just won’t cut it, but there’s a tool that will.
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I’m not saying that one day robots will eat and digest you for energy, but I am saying. Especially given the state of two minds that are creating carnivorous robots that run on the juices extracted from various pests and their materials.
This one grabs flies, mice or other small creatures, scrapes them into a microbial fuel cell vat of bacteria that breaks down the biological material into pure robot-loving energy. No word on if the vat removes the fibrous material or if it’s dishwasher safe.
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How many ways do you think there are to share content online? hundreds? thousands? Who cares, cause we’ve boiled it down to four. Exactly four sites that are changing how people post content and interact online?
Not only are these the coolest places to be online nowadays, they’re the quickest and most versatile ways to put up your thoughts, consolidate your social activity and post just about any kind of media you want people to know about. So, get your amazing food mold photos and thoughts on abolishing insect repellent together, you’re about to go post.
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It rose right up I tells ya, a creature as wily as a hairless mouse with ten arms and no visible face. It did have a nice name though, Clarence Witherspoon, and presented these link calmly while drinking marbles and buttered hate.
20 Impressive 3D Graffiti Artworks – and you thought 3D was just for movies and designing products. Get your spraypaint on.
Google Voice – Google just got a million numbers. They’re about to send invites. Get one or be left behind.
The Sake Education Show – Get your edumecation on about Japanese alcohol. Sayonara. Part 1 and Part 2
Robot Voice Modulator How-to – You could use your normal voice, but what fun is that when you can creep people out with a robot voice.
TrailerFreaks – Just watching trailers is so 2009, get hip and start downloading your favs right here.
The Personal Finance Chore List – But is it really a chore. C’mon, it’s soooo fun I’m gonna make TWO lists. But seriously, get on it.
How Star Wars, Star Trek, The Matrix, and Harry Potter are Actually the Same Movie – I knew it. jerks.
Bonus!! Sound in 3D Videos
Drone – It sounds nice.
Sync – I like cubes.
Rhythm – It’s got a nice beat.
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We’re reaching deep in our pool of unusual uses for 3D CAD today and pulling out something extra shiny for ya. If you’re into graphic design or making pretty 3D icons and graphics for your website, you’ll want to adjust your seat.
You never would have thought it, but SolidWorks is extremely useful for creating 3-dimensional graphics for web and print design. Frank Parenteau has been doing it for years and SolidWorks is right there on the shelf to Photoshop. There’s even a trick you can use to get pixel perfect sizes in SolidWorks. Here’s how Frank makes it happen.
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Put down the oil can you’re dumping into the river and rev your electric motor Mr. Clean, we’re gettin’ sustainable and Xpress-ive up in this design. Yes, you could single-handed prevent further disintegration of the atmosphere and taxpayer burden by properly analyzing your design and applying a material that reduces those nasty carbon molecules causing the sun to cook everyone’s brainpan.
SolidWorks has released the beta version of SustainabilityXpress on the SolidWorks Labs site. We’ve got the eco-friendly, low calorie review.
So, prepare yourself to become the sustainable designer or engineer you’ve always dreamed of becoming. And since this post is generating a carbon footprint larger than a 7MPG truck without a muffler in a developing country, you’ll have to work that much harder on optimizing your design… just sayin’.
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There’s a wave of particularly large significance in the world of parametric, history-based modeling these warm summer days. A wave directed straight at your inability to manipulate 3D geometry any which way you want. Many a company has taken on the task of harnessing more ways to fiddle with your solids. Now, it’s Autdesk’s turn.
At the 2008 Autodesk University, Inventor Fusion was introduced to show just how serious Autodesk was about providing the option for CAD users to choose between history-based or history-free modeling, mixing them together, mashing them around and coming back to either whenever the need be. Today, they release it on the masses.
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SolidSmack is a very small behemoth of an online community about 3D CAD, technology, design, robots, and ninjas… Ok, maybe not ninjas so much, but those guys are COOL so there just might be something about some dang ninjas.
