It’s big, it’s beefy, it’s hairy, and oh so, very scary. It’s a new site from SolidWorks and it’s has infiltrated all the fine internet web portals of your peaceful neighborhood. Who knows what wild and woolly adventures of strangeness unknown will be found within the post to come out of the SolidWorks News site.…

Exactly how rockin’ would you be with your own guitar? Not as rockin’ as you would be with a sweet, custom manufactured axe made to your exact style and specifications. Amit Zoran, from the MIT Ambient Intelligence Group, has been fiddling with the concept of Rapid Prototyping acoustical instruments. But are the materials that rapid…

It use to be a nice modern-looking container, but after I filled it with those dragon babies, their intelligence about odd craft items to sell at wholesales prices helped me discover these links. Photoshop Fractal Brushes Oh my eye. These fractals are hot and fractaly. MapMyRun.com Map and find running routes. Time to get all…

There’s nothing better that staying up all night playing video games with your favorite robot friend, unless your robot friend is actually made of Legos and gets you cold beverages from the fridge. If you browse Flickr for SolidWorks Photos, you’ll occasionally come across some outstanding models and renderings. These Lego renderings by Bob Van…

The news about Windows7, Microsoft next OS, has been pouring out of the seething cauldron of Microsoft PDC this week, getting all the fanboys and multi-touch crazies in a ruckus. Are you all just extremely AMPPED? No? Well, for those gnashing their teeth over Vista, the new OS promises to be the escape Microsoft wants…

The thick wire mesh guarding us against the experimental research inside the SolidWorks Labs Studio nearly had to be re-enforced when a new program leaked out which allows SolidWorks users to create a quick portfolio-style .PDF of their 3D solid model. Presentation Studio is an Add-in, a free add-in. Open a model, start a layout,…

It’s all great fun to chill with your friends and model up some of that 3D junk with your own sketches, but sometimes you need to take some of their really crappy sketches, toss their lazy buttss a cold beverage and import them to SolidWorks. Let’s just assume, that you’re starting with an AutoCAD drawing…

You know what is sweet? Fast stuff is sweet. But a new SuperSonic Car adventure blows the whole concept of fast, along with the previously held 763 MPH land speed record, right off the sands of the Nevada desert. Richard Noble, developer of the record-setting Thrust SSC, piloted by Andy Green, is at it again…

Have you ever tried to model a car in SolidWorks? How about rendering a car? How about being an adventuresome adaptation of a Japanese Manga comic and racing around the world? That last one sounds fun, but could be dangerous. However, Ricky Jordan is giving you the opportunity to take the Mach4 SpeedRacer he’s modeled…

Yes’m, we counted ten of them. Ten tiny links festering in oil, all buttered and bumpy like that one guy’s face. We were only able to save a few of them. What’s that? Well yes, I do like a hard slap, but these links are better. Adam Haynes Illustration – Check out these lines. You…

There’s just nothing like some deep-fried, home-baked HD LCD technology to get your techbuds salivating. 2008 has been the year of Ima-gonna-make-a-better-monitor-than-you and with the prices you’ll see below, you’ll wonder why you spent a cool ‘K’ on one of those ordinary old non-HD monitors. Here we’ll break it down, show ya the main specs…

Imagine for a moment, that you’re an engineer, that needs to ask his Boss to go to SolidWorks World 2009. This… is how it could go.

What do ya say we cause a little trouble? Last week I made some extremely riveting points about setting up your SolidWorks interface for a better workflow. I’m sure it cause mild shaking and maybe a distant shriek of terror. However, one thing that frustrates me to the point of making a really disturbing face,…

“You likka ta ride the bicycles?” There’s nothing quite like zipping down the shoulder of the road or through a rocky crevasse with two-wheels and a handlebar between you and a very ugly and extremely stingy road rash. You are so hardcore, but look here. Lapierre Cycles will make you look like you’re a pro,…

It’s rare, but you just don’t get a highly optimized SolidWorks part by holding your breath and pushing really hard. That’s a chronic medical condition you should probably have tested. It’s time to brush up on that structural engineering and add some interpretive analysis to those fine SolidWorks parts. SolidWorks in partnership with SOLIDProfessor has…

Speaking of Objet 3D printers , there’s a new rapid-prototyping option available this fall from the company enabling you to upload a 3D designs for rapid-prototyping, Shapeways . It’s smooth, it’s black and just screaming your name. The black photopolymer material is used with their Objet Eden 500 machine and gives you a very fine,…

It all chop, chop here and chop, chop there. Your style like very angry monkey with feet on fire. Must look to find Fist of Slappping Donkey and purge vengeance with these links. Daniel Simon Future Vehicles – Flip..ing…OUT. Daniel Simon is intense with his future ship and vehicle concepts. totally blowing my mind. i…

Imagine for a moment – taking a sip of coffee, scalding your mouth, then slamming your fist upon the keyboard that sends your final SolidWorks generated 3D model to a 3D printer sitting right next to you. The print heads go to work as your brand new 3D desktop printer creates a high-resolution, fully cured,…

If you try to connect with Certified SolidWorks Professionals (CSWP’s) on the SolidWorks website you may have a little trouble finding exactly where those SolidWorks specialists are hiding. Don’t worry, the link is still there. From SolidWorks Certification, “We had to change it due to the request by many CSWP members to keep their information…

I warned you. Tonight, October 15th, four uniquely qualified engineers will begin a series to entertain your analytical mind with mind controlled cars, space-age sleeping pods, giant robots and anything else that borders on cool and impossible. Discovery Channel’s Prototype This! premiers TONIGHT. Not only will they be creating concepts that shock your senses, they’ll…

I know. It happened here as well. Five people and a large parrot fell over convulsing when they thought of the possibilities. It’s one thing to use SolidWorks to turn your design and engineering department into a concept-crazy, model churning machine of product-cycle pleasure. It’s quite another to whip that interface into a tool that…

What do you get when you mix a Canadian, a laser, a web camera and a penguin sitting in a corner? The perfect ingredients for a show on how to build a laser scanner for $30. Patrick Norton of Revision3 SYSTM TV take on Ben Eadie of SolidMentor to show you step-by-step how to build…

Wow, 3D and multi-touch. Who woulda thought of that. It’s like putting peanut butter on bread. What’s interesting about this is that it’s being used in public to get some collaboration going on with residents in Helsinki. CityWall is a large multi-touch display… which acts as a collaborative and playful interface for the everchanging media…

Seems that most of the comments about running SolidWorks on a 64bit Microsoft Vista system are positive and there are quite a few that are curious about what will work best. If you want to run programs on Vista, you may want to test them out first by downloading a trial version of Vista. However,…

And what did he say when I peeked over the edge? Nothing. He starred at me with his glowing eye and dropped the oil bucket all over the new carpet. It’s like trying to control rebellious and highly interesting links… like these. 3D Cutaways of the Future – The largest set of 3D cutaway art…

Take a big, long sniff. That’s not your CAD skills that smell so sweet, it’s the smell of a slick new add-on to make your jaw drop in abject horror at the price it will cost to have a 3D model printed. But that is ok, because Print3D has made it work right inside SolidWorks…

It’s hard to get away from sketching if your an industrial designer. It’s at the core of conceptualizing your designs. I love the sketching and if you love it too… heck, if you’re even slightly interested in how new interface technology is changing the idea of working in 2D and 3D you’ll want to see…

What’s the last thing you’re thinking of when you wander into a den of wild asps? …What system is best for running SolidWorks on 64 bit Vista. That does absolutely nothing for your survivability quotient. It’s a common misconception that SolidWorks doesn’t run very well on 64 bit Vista. If you look into installing Microsoft…

It’s not everyday you get to sit for hours on end, as your body slowly atrophies… ok, well, maybe it is everyday, but this new chair from Herman Miller may turn your hardening arteries into pliable conduits of efficient blood flow to get that oxygen back up to your brain case. The Embody chair, with…

“That’s it. This is the last time a cartoon mocks my engineering processes and relegate me to the bottom rung of the unsuccessful company ladder just because I don’t use 3D CAD to design my products.” If you’re still using that 2D stuff and you’ve been thinking about using SolidWorks, now is a pretty good…

Right when you thought the product inspectors were coming after you with rude and ambiguous looks of disapproval, a company out of North Carolina rises from the ashes of poorly documented drawing sheets and reveals the most beneficial tool a tightly toleranced engineering company could ask for. ExtensibleCAD brings you InspectionXpert, a program to automate…

Frightening. I had my suspicion, but there it is. The yarn industry is controlled by a small cartel of angry, yet highly intelligent absorbent wool mittens, and these links. 40 Brilliant Hi-Res Wallpapers – For all ya crazy wallpaper nuts. These are some cool, inspiring wallpapers, many with 3D effects. Tyler Durden’s 8 Rules of…

Come in out of the large open spaces, where you risk inevitable attacks from throngs of flying ninjas, and have a look at the near possibility of how we will be interfacing with virtual objects in the future. 3D space is a pretty big area to be manipulating like a clump of old clay, but…

It’s got a 5 inch rotor, multiple lenses and a healthy appetite for taking photos from high above your eye for composition. You detach it from it’s base and launch it up to 160 ft (50m) into the vast blue yonder. The rotor and sensors take over and it does a somersault in the air,…

There is really an endless amount of interesting object you can make with SolidWorks and a lot of interesting and unusual way to get there. Some readers on the Most Obscure Feature Combo post had excellent ideas and I even got a few via email. This crazy spiral, by Jeff Mowrey (@idesignhaus on Twitter) of…

Ready. Aim. Rapid-prototype your freagin’ cool idea before someone else does. That’s exactly what Stu Fingerhut did with his gun rack organizer, fully-loaded to help you clean-up that mess gathering on your entryway table. The Process? Modeled in SolidWorks, rendered in PhotoWorks, and manufactured via Ponoko. It’s the steps that a lot of designers and…