So how many of you tore yourself out of a paper bag this morning ready to play with 3D online? hmm, nobody? Well, some of you may have a bit of an mild obsession itch about getting away from program installations and tedious upgrades to create and manage 3D online. Wild Pockets is on the…
As if those potatoes will peel themselves. Ok, so apparently they do, but it’s got to be the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen, besides that disco family of Sumatran rabbits and these links. Wayne Barlow – Yes, speaking of creepy. Wayne wins for his creature art. A fleshy sac on the back of a 3-legged…
I was showing some people on Twitter how RealView helped to cure confusion and ignorance with manufacturing. It just so happens that Twitter, also helps to cure confusion and ignorance. My ignorance. I complained about tangent edges showing in shaded mode. I really needed to have them off, but thought, Oh well, nothing I can…
Once again you’re trapped in a firefight between hundreds of mechanized sentient beings, with no route of escape that wouldn’t leave you riddled with the dawning of human extinction. That is, until you see a little beast of a vehicle creep into view from around a corner. Your first thoughts are DOOM, but you soon…
After SolidWorks World a couple weeks ago, there was such an influx of CAD peeps to Twitter that it has forced me to take actions and update the CAD Twitter List. (It needed an update anyway) Less than a year ago, the list started with an interesting set of 40 people exploring the possibilities of…
No more slamming your face against the hard surface of your monitor in hopes of gaining the pity of your coworkers. The soft foam that sends you off to dreams of work the next day is potentially a future interface to create 3D models on. DIS.PLAY allows you to manipulate projects objects via touch-sensitive force…
After really thinking about this post, getting some feedback and losing a slap fight with an angry camel trader, I’ve decided to totally revamp the former SolidWorks Success post and put them in all together. It lacks the detail I originally determined I wanted to put into the points, but the angst about not having…
Two things prompted this post 2 weeks after the total obliterating coverage of SolidWorks World 2009. 1) Some people emailing me not knowing how to get there 2) the need to write another post. Recently, Jeff Ray highlighted some things at SolidWorks World 2009. Out of all the incredible stuff that happened the best one…
You have buckets and buckets of data. I mean it’s almost ridiculous how much information you’re trying to manage. So how do you do it? How do you backup your data and make sure it’s actually backed-up, as in protected, sealed, SAFE. I’ll give a a hint… it’s probably not how you do it now.…
It was more than any single person could bare to look at. All this soup and one small runt of a raccoon baby to eat it. There was buttered toast as well, with jam and a side of these links. Render Robot Illustration – If you don’t look at Norio Fujikawa’s portfolio, you will kick…
You want’em? We got’em. Hot, steamy nuggets of SolidWorks tipage you can wad up and stick under your pillow, give to your coworker or completely ignore. Let me warn ya. These are not your regular old tips. These are the most obvious…and when I say obvious, I’m talking around 38-41% mostly obvious… give or take…
Do you ever wake up from a dream, encapsulated in a bony structure surrounded by a translucent fleshy film? Not recently huh? Well, Anthony Tammaro is an artist from Philadelphia exploring that world and the medium of create art with 3D CAD, CAM and Additive Fabrication. We looked at DDM (Direct Digital manufacturing) with 3D…
You’re probably thinking the same thing I am. Soon 3D printing will be just as sure a part of the design process as having to pluck ticks from your eyelids after a nosedive into a damp, brushy floor of a wooded hillside. Barring analogies to lyme disease and the whole blood-sucking thing, it pretty obvious…
I know you’ve been looking for reasons to climb onto your office chair today and fall out. This is good a reason as any, so start a’climbin’ little mountain goat. For centuries you may have wondered how to get a SolidWorks model into an assortment of various other 3D formats. Okino products is there to…
You could probably make a mountain out of Kinkajous, but I imagine it would be a painful climb… unless you had these links. Russ Schwenkler Illustration – Future 3D ships and vehicles?Can we get enough. Not when they look like this. Shadows in Photoshop – Making Shadows, like being hit in the face, is easy…
You know that handy little thing that sits on the left side of your screen? The sidebar that keeps track of all features, mistakes, workarounds and wonky bits? Yes it’s a veritable visual of your organizational ability and it had it’s start somewhere. Beleive it or not, it came out of a customer visit Jon…
It was Sunday night. A day before the SolidWorks World Sessions started. Most likely this would have been another night at the Hotel Lounge trying to speak over the noise. Instead, it was a night spent learning how to win at BlackJack. The strategy, the running count and all the tricks in between. How? It’s…
General Session and Keynote: Day 2 – ProtoType This and SolidWorks 2010 LAST DAY. That means Secret Guests, the SolidWorks Top 10 Enhancement Request and new features coming out in the next version of SolidWorks – yep, SolidWorks 2010. Are ya ready? Here’s the highlights…
Special Events: Animal Kingdom Tuesday Off-site Event It might surprise you, but people love being bused down the road to an Amusement Park that looks like a small jungle. This small jungle was Disney’s Animal Kingdom and it turned out it’s not all that small. Nearly the entire group of 4300+ SolidWorks World attendees and…
One of the Swan Hotel Patios - It's a beautiful thing. concrete swans spittin' water out thier beaks. simply relaxing.
Special Events: Press Event & CSWP Party We’ll hit this one real quick. Monday night was the Press Event and the CSWP Event. There were 10 bloggers that were both Press and CSWP’s. The best part? When we irreverently (but not purposely) all stood up at once while Jeff Ray was speaking at the sit-down…
My daughter Isabella sportin’ the neck badge. super cuteness. Don’t ya think. The stickers are just makin’ that badge happen… imo. If you see me, ask me for a sticker.
There were two Wireless Zone at SolidWorks World 2009 (not including the Press Room). My advice to resort conference centers… Yeah, your big, but get a wide area wifi net. More conferences will use you.
I am gonna Sumo Tsukiotoshi that design ALL OVER the flippin’ floor! That’s tough talk for a skinny white boy. It’s also probably not the most accurate or the safest way to test out the forces applied to a concept design. SolidWorks was in full effect at Tuesday’s General Session showing just how product testing…
This Animation of the iCoaster, from MegaBrands, was created by Cramer Design. They also did last years SolidWorks World 2008 Vexplorer Inpired to Design animation.
SolidWorks Tips and Tricks Phil Sluder It’s an absolutely packed house. Apparently people want to take home a few tips to amaze their coworkers. Phil Sluder, from Triaxial Design, takes on the obscure and the practical in these SolidWorks tips that should be on the list of any best practices. Here’s the highlights…
This day’s Keynote was all about you. Not actually you, but the users, the companies creating products using SolidWorks. Here are the highlights… MegaBrands Jeremy Luchini (SolidWorks Certification Manager) introduced MegaBrand’s Design Manager Yancik Tremblay. He discussed the design process – going from sketch concept to figuring out how to make a sphere transform into…
Go with the Flow – Efficient Workflow with the 2009 Interface Matt Lombard Uh-oh. They’ve let Matt Lombard loose on the SolidWorks UI. What good could come from this?? Plenty, he takes an enjoyable, rabbit-trail look at just how to change anything possible with the new 08/09 interface, how he uses and what works best…
The SolidWorks Equivalent of Duct Tape and Bailing Wire Adrian Fanjoy Josh Altergott Anybody have problems with SolidWorks that are frustrating the heeeeeck out of you? These guys have some of the solutions to some of the most common problems you’ll face.
7 Habits of Highly Effective SolidWorks Users J. Pancoast So, first up we’ll hear some talk about HABITS. *ShreeeK!* Don’t worry, these may actually be helpful.
General Session and Keynote: Day 1 Day 1 in the massive assemblage of SolidWorks Users staff to find out what SolidWorks has been up to. Jeff hits on what you think about SolidWorks and what can be improved. And then guess what. He has a sitdown interview with Sir Richard Branson about World Record, what…
Luxology has some very, very SWEET news coming out today. It’s the ‘Hey, I can bring my SolidWorks models directly into a rendering program and get some dang cool graphics.” kind of news. I talked with Brad Peebler, CEO of Luxology (modo), and got to see some of the new features in the upcoming modo…
Special Events: Welcome Reception Hey look, there’s a bunch of people just mulling around in here feeling all welcomed. I meet up with a friend and bumped into just about everyone you would want to. Then they kicked us all out. Here are the highlights.
In about half an hour, this place will be flooded with attendees and other sorts that like to frequent welcome receptions to kick off a big ol’ conference like SolidWorks World 2009. This is deep in the bowels of the Dolphin Hotel (down the escalator below lobby level) The SolidWorks Partner ranging from Fabbing to…
Hey, guess where you can get your fill of SolidWorks World 2009 photos… nope, not in that basket of cookies. Right here on the Interwebs. Last year, I didn’t get many photos. This year, that will be different. I’ll be annoying everyone with photo opportunities till I fill my card or the battery dies. Actually…
So barring the shuttle ride that was longer than the last leg of our flight, we (the familia Mings) have arrived. I didn’t make it to the blogger meet-up because of the splendid shuttle ride, but was able to make it to the first annual SolidWorks tweet-up at the Dolphin Hotel Lounge. A lot of…
The Press at SWW08 got a special presentation from Jon Hirschtick, founder of SolidWorks and CEO up till 2001. He’s an MIT grad and should know a thing or two about CAD history and the future possibilities since, ya know, he’s been a large part of making it happen. Jon is also a Keynote speaker…
“@solidsmack you’ll like this.” Charles Culp says to me. Turns out I did and I’ll think you’ll not only like it, you’ll want to create a matrix of everything you model. You may even get really inspired and create a 3D rendered matrix for your boss that will leave you both staring at each other…
Look, it’s like a giant anthead trying to gnaw it’s way through a tar and gravel sandwich. It’ could probably use a bit more mustard, or perhaps these links. 50 Stunning 3D Renderings – How cool are renderings? Extra cool when they’re 3D. Thanks again to Rod Uding!!! Anthony Sims Moon Roadster – Did ya…
Are you ready to elevate your heart rate a couple notches about extremely powerful computer tech? How does the word ‘Supercomputer’ make ya feel? While the nVidia Personal SuperComputer is bound to have your models streaking across the screen, don’t shove your old workstations down the stairs just yet… Ok, go ahead, but you’re gonna…
Vuuch.com. A completely new way to discuss and communicate your designs, or maybe we should just call it Pure 3D Collaboration. It’s the dawning of something very interesting in design environments that require information from multiple people with easy access to that info. Vuuch.com is just a few days away from launching the SolidWorks add-on…
Do you wish you had just a sprinkle of magic CAD dust to make you a 3D modeling force to be reckoned with? I’d say, this article is it… but it doesn’t smell as nice and there’s a bit of an aftertaste. Nonetheless, barring the aptitude you have for engineering and design and your eye-jabbing…