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Yes, it’s all about proportion. You gotta have just the right amount of slap and the right amount of sizzle. Too much of one or the other and suddenly there are parasite infestations and mandatory curfews. These links are good examples.
Photoshop Grudge Brush set - Ya just can’t keep that design all clean looking. That is sick. Add some grit and grim with these fine Photoshop brushes.
Beautiful Disassembled Appliances - It’s amazing, but yes, a dismantled appliance can inspire you to layout all the parts in fancy, abstract ways.
Learn to Swim - What is water? How do I live safely amongst it’s molecules? This gives you the pointers to keep afloat.
80 How-to Sites You Can’t Live Without - Yes, there is only 80 fortunately. No time like the present to learn how to do something you don’t know how to do. Knock yourself out.
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The mist clears and a brassy, leather-clad apparition appears towering above with nothing but a low hum and muffled wirring of clicks and springs. Prepare to inspire your rigid 3D mind into the most pliable, inventive machine of mechanical renaissance madness you’ve ever experienced.
Steampunk. It’s the coolest new ‘old’ on the internet. It brings in aspect of manufacturing and design long since forgotten.
People, have latched on to the sub-culture attempting to define it within context of different media, but leave the details overlooked and under-appreciated. Let’s change that and see what’s makes Steampunk so wickedly steamy.
Continue reading ‘The Engineer’s Guide to Smashing Steampunk Design’
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Well surprise, surprise. You don’t have to wait till SolidWorks 2009 Pre-release 2 comes out to try PhotoView 360, the new rendering software announced by SolidWorks and Luxology is now available for anyone with SolidWorks 2009 to poke around in.
You’ll want to see the First Look Ricky Jordan has along with Gabi Jack rendering some models for her first time ever.
I’ll have some rendering up moments from now to show you some of the capabilities PhotoView 360 has. Until then try it for yourself. Download PhotoView 360
UPDATE:
Ok, I’ve had my chance to get into PV360 and run some rendering for you to see some of the different capabilities. Here’s some rendering just created:
Continue reading ‘PhotoView 360 Preview: Download Now Available’
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I know. You’re just screaming, “I work with the CAMERA. Striking a pose this way and that.” *whoosh, whoosh*
I’m actually talking about how you model your 3D design in SolidWorks. Ah, now this post is suddenly boring. No tips to get that gritty engineer look on film, just stuff about drawing lines and extruding stuff.
But look here, a question for ya and a challenge for your top-down design idea to be featured on SolidSmack.
How Do You Model Parts in SolidWorks?
Continue reading ‘Ask the Reader: How Do You Model? Plus A Top-Down Modeling Challenge’
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And when I say TeamUP, I mean TeamUP with a capital UP a two giant arm motions that scare you into a flared fetal position. SolidWorks and Luxology are rockin’ the 3D rendering scene with a whole new technology that is gonna FLOOR you. Rob Rodriguez has all the bits of detail in his latest blog entry.
Basically, PhotoView360 is the divination of two products brought together in a new technology that will allow you to see SolidWorks models in an ultra-realistic setting… without rendering, without RealView.
As Rob puts it, it’s “real-time on screen image updates…very fast at saving high quality final images.” Does that sound like something you would want? huh?
Continue reading ‘PhotoView360: SolidWorks and Luxology TeamUP Bigtime’
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I’d have to say, forgive my Industrial Design tendencies, but then this site would not be SolidSmack if I did.
I’m not an Industrial Designer officially, but I like the drawin’ and the inkin’ and the sketchin’ and that is exactly where IDSketching.com curls up nice and snug in your arsenal of super freakin’ cool design sites.
It’s the brainchild of John Muhlenkamp and Spencer Nugent whose pure goal is to share their methodology with anyone interested.
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Five, even six would be ok, but if take another one of those creatures into the field I’ll be cleaning actuators and lookin’ at these links all night. Where’s my grease gun?
Futuristic Graphic User Interfaces - I’m eating this stuff up. Cool futuristic UI design and how to make them using good ol’ Photoshop. Go on and make the future look cool.
Design Your Dwelling - Google Sketchup and Dwell Magazine would like you to test your skills and design a home overlooking the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco.
3d Around You - So what would happen if you’re sitting in a room and it suddenly changed to another room. think about and watch this.
The Dome Home - It’s all the craze in Japan. A few basic parts and your set. You could throw one up in the back yard for your mother-in-law.
X-Ray Photography - Add that extra dimension to your photos. Results are impressive
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It is here folks. Yes, very soon, a fate better than sandy shorts and blistered skin will wreak havoc upon Orlando, Florida. The 3D modeling mass of SolidWorks users will join their compatriots in the massive gathering of SolidWorks related products, information and technology lovingly known as SolidWorks World 2009.
It’s time to prepare, bribe the boss, and get your butts on a plane to the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin February 8 - 11, 2009. If you register by October 10th you’ll save a $200 bill and there’s even a 3 for 2 special.
If anything watch the highlight video of last years conference, just to get a taste of what it’s like. So, are you going? What’s would you like to see this year?
Deadlines
- 09-15-08: Last day to submit Presentation - FREE admission to SolidWorks World for presenters
- 10-10-08: Save $200 when you register before the Early Bird Deadline.
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Have you ever seen pictures that move? I hear they call it ‘Video‘ or something. I also hear that there are some snazzy ‘video’ demos of the new SolidWorks 2009 functionality at a place called ‘the YouTube’.
Sounds kind of personal to me, but I checked it all out and I think you’ll like what you see. In fact, I’ve been told I can ‘embed’ them into this post. Now that sounds dangerous, but I’ll dare to do it anyway, just so you can have a peek at what’s in ‘em.
After this, be on the lookout for more moving pictures from the mysterious YouTuber only know as FFequals66.
Continue reading ‘Hey Look. SolidWorks 2009 Videos.’
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