A deep-rooted hatred for rare game board colors drove him to the sudden realization that Bolivian Scarabs were classified incorrectly. These links did not help. Sparth Construct – What? Future landscapes, vehicles and mechs? The amazing art of Nicolas Bouvier. Best desktop Customization Tools – More ways in which to make your ‘puter screen perttier.…

Hey everyone. I’d just like to say thanks for reading, commenting, loving, hating, cheering, puking and pondering each post here on SolidSmack. I wish I could buy a turkey for everyone (and throw a cranberry at some) that make me wanting to keep doing this, at times with the incessant rage of a rabid beet…

It may not be enough that you know how to sort desktop folders, write a cordial email or sketch a straight line, you may actually need to know some software that allows others to see what’s going on in the recesses of your analytically-primed imagination. There are hundreds of software apps that help Industrial Designers…

If your fear of needles send you into a fever-breaking sweat, there’s nano-technology being developed in the recesses of multiple research facilities that would eliminate the tension and danger of delivering meds to your drug-laden organs. The skin, being your largest organ, is the target of a transdermal patch with microneedles to get the juice…

There’s a new site that might get you an answer quicker that you can say, arrrrrrrGGGGH! to a SolidWorks VAR. It’s a new take on Tech Support from Ben Eadie of SolidMentor called SolidJott. Ben says it’s simple and it is. You sign up and type a question. You don’t need a SolidWorks Serial number…

For most in the US, there’s dancing. It’s a three day week as happiness surrounds the Thanksgiving holiday and ensuing riots to get 90% off a ham brazier. We’re excited about the same here at SolidSmack, not with finely charred ham, but with.. oh yes, finely charred tips. A short week, with a limited fewer…

Two steps to the right and look up. You’ll notice how the symbiont has taken over each leg gear with a separate group of combat trained wombats. They’re weakness? These links my friend. Robot CGI – Pure 3D robot goodness from the 3DM3 CG Chosen magazine. A whole mag of robots? yes. Rogue Game Browser…

Well, next Friday starts that time of year when many of us cut the wrist of our bank accounts to buy that special someone what we think they want, but actually wanted something totally different. SolidSmack is here to add to the massive bleed out with our very own picks for the best gadgets and…

You can strum all day long and wear down the clearcoat on the wooden body of your regular old guitar, or you can be awesome and check out the humidity-proof, carbon fiber Blackbird Rider from Blackbird Guitars. Picking out tunes can be done in either Steel or Nylon String flavors and you’ll have the added…

There is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well as Minority Report, Hulk and…

They’re a little bit easier to handle than the teething undead, but all the relations in a SolidWorks sketch can make modeling, and specifically concept modeling, a relation re-defining nightmare that is way less interesting than cleaning up after a zombie child. One of the biggest problems you’ll have with relations automatically added to your…

Don’t take it from us, just listen to Al Dean who confirms that he is 99% sure that the new RED Digital Cinema cameras Scarlet and EPIC are modeled in SolidWorks and likely rendered in the blistery goodness of HyperShot. The RED SCARLET and EPIC are the first of their kind build-it-from-scratch-with-endless-amounts-of-possibilities Digital Still Motion…

It’s not everyday, you get to download an upgrade to a new version of software you use almost everyday… actually, you could download this everyday if you wanted to. Maybe wrap it in a croissant, share it with some friends and talk about the good ol’ days when you had to install software off a…

Well it might as well be tied down and torn in two. How else do you expect me to reattach it when the legs just keep poppin’ off with an unbridled fury of these here links. youfikus portfolio – The name says it all. It’s yofik-errific 3D illustration with a bunch o’ color. Toshiba TimeSculpture…

(will somebody please give me a decent drumroll. I mean seriously, let’s do this proper-like. ) The SolidWorks World 2009 mystery guest… that is no longer a mystery… but very much a guest… that you will now find out about IS… The world record attempting… The billionaire extraordinaire…

Yes, it crawls like none other. Not across your face in the middle of a dark, cold night in the middle of Utah, but across the vicious terrain of the rockiest of earthen obstacles and barriers. BE warned! Be very a…warned! It’s the Venom Creeper with 70 degrees of axle articulation and a magnificent transmission…

Oh yeah, that thing can move this way and that like a caffeine addicted bat, but you take away the music and it’s all just a sad story about a orphaned Chiroptera that lost his way, that is, until these links came along. Magnus Kjäll Illustration – A lot of 3D, a lot of layers…

Architecture in SolidWorks? Can it be done? Yes, and it doesn’t look too shabby either. Take a look at Darren Ng’s (DazStudios) photostream on Flickr and you’ll see just how cool it can look. Perhaps the greatest aspect of the images of a refurbished apartment that was modeled in SolidWorks and rendered in PhotoWorks is…

SolidWorks has a TON of useful features and ways to model the most amazing chunks of 3D your nimble fingers can sketch and extrude, but some features are a fiery heap of performance hindering options that just get in the way. We’ve put together 12 features you can turn off right away to get better…

You may have seen this on some of the tech or design blogs a while back, but it just so happens that this simple looking stackable chair is a highly optimized, ergonomic peice constructed of recycled Playstation 2 game consoles and, oh yeah, designed in SolidWorks. Old news? Noooo… well maybe, but there’s a new…