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If you’ve seen the movie Transformers or were a fan of the animated series you’ll know how super freakin’ cool this is. The truck that was used in the movie and played the part of Bonecrusher is an actual production vehicle that is developed in SolidWorks.
Force Protection Inc. created this monstrous vehicle in their Buffalo Series of Armored Vehicles to clear mines, transport assets and clear routes. The company is based Charleston, S.C. and has 94 licenses of SolidWorks. You can read more about them in this SolidWorks Press Release.
The site for the the Buffalo Series has a lot of info. If you look close at the photo on the site you can see the Decepticons logo on the scoop. sweet. They also have an employment section if you’re interested in working with this group.
Enjoy a video of Optimus Prime vs. Bonecrusher (with transformation!) in the movie and check out some pics of the beast.
In the past 14 years of my experience in CAD the wood end grain hatch pattern has always been one of the most elusive of the nocturnal hatch patterns. At least, it has been in the 5 companies of the lower southern mid-west I’ve worked at.
I doubt it has to do with temperate zone or carbon emissions, although you can blame carbon emissions on just about anything now days. So, instead of chopping down a tree to show you some fabulous wood grain, I’m going to give you a hatch pattern you can use in SolidWorks.
All it takes is a little modification to the SolidWorks Hatch pattern file. There are two options to make it easy.
Self-Extracting Zip file
This has all the existing SolidWorks hatch patterns along with the wood end grain pattern. Download this, unzip it and extract it to your SolidWorks install folder. It looks something like this: C:\Program Files\SolidWorks 2007\lang\english
Text File
If you want to add it to your existing hatch pattern file, it pretty easy. First, copy the original file to a safe place to back it up. Open the file below, select all the text (Ctrl-A) and copy (Ctrl-C) the text. Go to the install folder (C:\Program Files\SolidWorks 2007\lang\english) and open the Sldwks.ptn file with Wordpad (Right Click, Open with…,Wordpad). Go to the end and Paste (Ctrl-V) the pattern info in the file.
There’s been some interesting things going on the past week. Here’s some links you may find interesting and the one of the best from last week here on SolidSmack
Imagine not paying thousands for a crumby, burnt-looking 3D print out of a part. These guys over in Russia have done it.
(This page shows you) “How to make a 3D-printer for your home lab with $340 cnc kit and some junk. It uses cheapest plastic waste or powder paint as raw material to produce freeform models from STL files. Also there are links to original open-source 3D model file reader and step motor control application.” Make
Ready for a knee-slapin’ good time? What’s that? You don’t like strawberries thrown at you? How bout if I mash’em up real good first? Still no? You are indeed a strange one. I think it best you sit and look at these.
Fuzzwich Mini-vids - make your own little animations quick and easy like. Super FUN. Stealth Computers - Finally someone is making SMALL Desktop PC. 6 x 10 x 3. (via) It’s not the new imac though. 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design - I love Typefaces. I buy them. It has to be perfect. It took me 10 days to find the right one for the SolidSmack Logo. I am insane. Synthasite - Make a website fast. Still being developed, but uses AJAX and is way easy to use. EarthShots - a lot of great, inspiring and sometimes odd photos of the world we live in.
If you’ve seen the movie Transformers or were a fan of the animated series you’ll know how super freakin’ cool this is. The truck that was used in the movie and played the part of Bonecrusher is an actual production vehicle that is developed in SolidWorks.
In the past 14 years of my experience in CAD the wood end grain hatch pattern has always been one of the most elusive of the nocturnal hatch patterns. At least, it has been in the 5 companies of the lower southern mid-west I’ve worked at.
Imagine not paying thousands for a crumby, burnt-looking 3D print out of a part. These guys over in Russia have done it.
Ready for a knee-slapin’ good time? What’s that? You don’t like strawberries thrown at you? How bout if I mash’em up real good first? Still no? You are indeed a strange one. I think it best you sit and look at these.
