There is certainly no shortage of 3D print or photocopy news the past couple weeks. Now Solido3d is causing a stir. A big stir.
Next week, in conjunction with the SolidWorks World 2010 event, they’ll hold a press release announcing new pricing on the SD300 Pro, the only desktop Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) printer that carves out sweet 3D from polyvinyl sheet. It’s quite a process. SolidWorks Co-founder and Solido3D board member, Scott Harris along with industry expert Terry Wohlers will be rockin’ the news.
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Just as I was preparing the most delectable post on the HP + Stratasys 3D Printer deal that went down last week, I saw this news pop up in my inbox.
Harness your excitement and then start making of pile of the knick-knacks you want to photocopy… IN GLORIOUS 3D. Yes, Ortery Technologies has a “New” blinking image on their site, right next to the image of the Photosimile 5000 that will copy anything you toss inside using their proprietary “Real3D” technology. Thing is, it’s not the 3D ya think it is. Check out the vid after the jump.
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Aya, ye wiley bilge mouse! I got yer wee cat grappler wrapped round me tooooooth! And you will wear these tiny pants… and these links.
Maciej Kuciara – It’s all the goodness of concept art and matte painting rolled into the architecturally perceptive mind of Maciej Kuciara.
Flight 815.. in Real Time – if you watch Lost, you know what flight 815 is. If you watch this, it stitches everything together.
How to Put Your Computer to Use While Sleeping – Post like this never think about computers that want to stay up cooking all night, but still good stuff.
Machinarium – Rusty robots in an odd world. Incredible art in a really imaginative adventure game.
Map your Mouse Path – Excellent and meaningless fun to see where your cursor travels. Applet is 6 comments down. via Gizmodo.
How not to Catch a Huntsman spider – Silly. I knew what was going to happen… and still jumped. I think the spider ate him afterwards.
Engineers Guide to Drinks – Like engineers drink, puh-lease. But if they did, they’d use this to determine the proper mix under the area of an martini glass.
ZombieNinjaPirate – A shirt. They forgot it should be a robot squid as well.
Bonus! Typopgraphy! Typography!
Fav fonts of 2009 – love.
25 high quality free fonts – well, heeeello PT Sans
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My math teacher hated me. She would beat me unmerciful and use sounds of warrior robot apes fighting over canned meat in equations in a feeble attempt to stifle my creativity… It didn’t work. And neither did her or anyone’s warnings of manipulating the estimated mass of objects.
In SolidWorks you can apply materials to your solid geometry to get a weight. You can also add your own densities to approximate a weight, so that, based on the volume of, lets say, a robotic ape face, you’ll get a mass that works perfectly to strike fear into the minds of others. In doing so, you may find a need to manipulate mass here or there. I’m here to lead you astray and show you a few tricks that will aid in your endeavor.
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My good friend, Jeff Mirisola, got a little riled up and started beating foam bats into the skull of asinine expectations with a recent post. He talks about an engineer who couldn’t use SolidWorks… because his computer was 10 years old.
That is way old. I’d put it out to pasture and let it die in peace. But it makes me wonder, 10 years ago a workstation was a pretty hefty expense. Maybe there are more people hanging onto their beloved rigs than we think.
So, what about you? Are you hanging on to aging technology, staying with the latest of sitting somewhere in between?
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Image via Nathan Randall (Flickr)
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I almost feel dirty just talking about 2D. Dirty, dirty, dirty. However, there’s another dimension to this multi-colored mix of Autodesk aggregation. It’s online. As in completely web-based, but it goes beyond that, which is where it gets really interesting.
The interwebular AutoCAD environment is wrapped in a social sauce giving you abilities to share, review and co-edit your .dwg’s with all of your 2-dimensional friends. It’s Autodesk’s Project Butterfly and it’s a step toward 3D on the web, in which Autodesk also has a Twitch for.
Here are some details on Butterfly and what it’s got going for it.
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I’d tell you all to stand up simultaneously and start slapping each other while screaming and going into a frenzied panic, but that would be putting it mildly. What you should do is slap each other, scream, and start pulling the cords violently from the wall socket and flicking the light switches off and on… There, now we’re in proper state of hysteria. Why?
Well, it just so happens that there are issues with the 64-bit versions of SolidWorks 2009 SP5, 2010 SP1 or 2010 SP2 which have subsequently been pulled from the Customer download area… seems a SolidWorks software surgeon left a pair of forceps in the body cavity before closing up Mr. SolidWorks 64bit. Here’s more on the issue.
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I’ve been holding my breath in a muscle tensing fright for the past day, looking at the images below and imagining being curdled cradled by a skinless baby robot with the head the size of a large bear.
Seriously, if this thing crawled up to me, you would hear the highest pitch scream of your life come out of me as that enormous head gets booted at you. All arm flailing and creeping out aside, I hope whatever they are learning will allow them to construct a more customizable sizes of baby bot. I’m working on finding out more design details.
In the meantime, creep. yourself. out. oh, and I’d love to hear your captions for these.
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So, I’m sitting here throwing make-shift tablet styluseseseses at my face waiting for a massive Cintiq 21″ tablet to arrive so I can test it out, when I see Jordan Tadic from 3D Vision showing off how he used SolidWorks on a Wacom Cintiq.
It’s tablet pickin’ fun of the highest caliber… or next to highest caliber. Check out the video overdubbed with Mystic Bounce by DJ Madlib… some right proper tunage for such sketchin’ and groovin’. After you see it, what do you think? Would you want to use one?
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Chilly! Seems it’s blown off again… and with this fog settling in those skin scavengers are gonna be a might skittish. Best we load the the flank batteries with some of mama’s porridge and these links.
Jon Foster – The world famous illustrator will rule your mind with worlds and creatures unimagined.
The Third & The Seventh – Absolutely… astounding. Complete breathtaking CG looking at architecture from a photographic perspective.
A Basic Guide to Photoshop’s 3D Tools – Goes from formats to primitives to lighting. Great overview and why ya need to watch what Adobe is up to.
Win Bacon for a Decade – A couple slices here and there are ok, but bacon… for an entire decade?! Need we say more?
Turn your skills into cash – Ramit hits on all cylinders. Give’s ya a bit of a template to knock those gears loose.
Perfect Strangers Intro – The Perfect Strangers Intro… remade… shot by shot… in Seattle… BALKI!!!
Milky Way timelapse – Shot from the alps. Behold the splendor.
Seen something cool? You can send in your Friday Smackdown suggestions via Twitter @SolidSmack and include #smackdown in the message. (or submit via Facebook or email.)
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