For those of us not born with carbon composite cruising wheels for legs, doomed to walk the dry earth and swampy grassland, someone has finally had pity on us.
Michael Jenkins from Adelaide, Australia has spent the past three years developing the best possible solution to mount large wheels to your legs while not looking completely ridiculous… ok, mildly ridiculous. They’re called Chariot Skates and 4 months ago Michael tested his first production model. Check it out.
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If you get the fever and shakes just thinking about moving to new technology, I’m with you. (I’m totally not with you) I’d much prefer to just stick my finger in my throat and vomit magnificent cad data all over a glass office table.
Can you imagine?… you SO know that would be awesome. People would sit… and wait… to watch you wretch. But until they come up with the technology that allows vomiting CAD to happen, we’re stuck with upgrading hardware and software till we’re numb in the face.
So, right now, I’m chugin’ Ovaltine and bangin’ away on Windows 98 and SolidWorks 97 plus. STOP LAUGHING! it hurts… (I’m totally not using those, but…) I need you to make fun of me and tell me why I need to put my fear of change muscular IT people with laser guns, behind me and upgrade to the latest tech.
You know what you could get? Well, besides, virtual high fives for your wit from everyone, you’ll have the chance to win a SpacePilot Pro. It’s a fancy 3D mouse thingy that’s part of the scary, new present of technology. All ya gotta do to enter is leave a comment making fun of me and giving us all good reasons to upgrade to Windows 7 and SolidWorks 2010… or not. If you want a few extra chances then do the following…
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Amongst the various things you like to grab on a daily basis, CAD geometry may very well be the lowest on your list. Not to worry, there’s a team that is totally into grabbing CAD for you and they’re here to handle all the ideas you can throw at them.
They just so happen to be called, GrabCAD. We’ll pretend not to giggle and choke when we hear you say it five-times fast. What GrabCAD offers is simple. Fast, flat-rate outsourcing from the convenience of your browser. You don’t even have to look a person in the eye. Here’s how it works.
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Alright, I have a big ol’ plug for my friends at Vuuch. They have a chance to get into the technological fray at the Mass Innovations nights coming up on January 13th. You can tip them over the edge and allow them to present their collaboration-kickin’ ideas at this poll. Last I checked they were within a few votes of being able to present.
Mass Innovation nights is a bit like TED or the Techcrunch50 event, except smaller and once a month. It allows people involved in developing new products ideas to get exposure from people who like to talk about new product ideas.
So, shove that work off your desk and go have a look at the companies presenting, you may recognize some, and throw in a vote for Vuuch.
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Plan on a set of stylish stereoscopic 3D glasses becoming permanently attached to your noggin for the next few years. You’ll have to slip them on for such things as movies, video games, doing the dishes perhaps, oh… and conference keynotes.
Why? A guy who just spent years producing a movie costing $300+ million, which made $232+ million over the past weekend alone, is changing how much 3D inundates every area of our life. That guy is director James Cameron, and SolidWorks just announced him as the SolidWorks World 2010 keynote.
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Magnificent I say! There is nothing quite like the look of bread being thrown at small, innocent looking bear-child on a cold, icy morning… that is, until it becomes enraged and starts throwing these links back.
Pavel Mikhailenko – Chopper concepts, space ships, and hot 3D car renderings is just a little of what Pavel can do.
The Physics of Space Battle – Kinetic Impactors, flak shells, proton blasts and ground-pounders. I, for one, think everything will be wrapped in fur.
Unveiling Photoshop Masks – Mask are super important for hiding your scarred face and for working in Photoshop.
Simpsons 20 – The Simpsons turn 20 this week and I bet you wish you had a scrollable image of every Simpsons character ever.
Legos on Hoth – Seriously sweet Star War Lego photos
Bonus! Sweet New Trailers
Alice in Wonderland – Odd doesn’t even explain it.
IronMan 2 – Arrogance, electric whip guy and things that go boom.
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Well, it snuck up on us, but once again it’s the time of year we wish everyone would stop being so selfish and buy us a sweet piece of tech we can become completely absorbed in. A high-end laptop for crankin’ SolidWorks and other 3D goodness would be just fine.
Where do you start? At this post obviously, but after that, you’ll want to head over to SolidBox. SolidBox is the new site that takes all the guess work out of choosing what kind of rig you need to spank 3D modeling, rendering, simulation or animation instead of having it spank you. It’s all there and they have big plans for the future.
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So, last week I was bending up strips of sharp sheet metal with nothing but loud screams and occasional spewing of coffee from my nostrils when I got an email from a very cool ID chap asking about flattening an imported conical surface in SolidWorks.
I thought, this should be a cinch, opened it up in SolidWorks, hit a very large wall and spewed some more coffee… the surface was non-linear. Non-linear, meaning curved. Now what? Well there is an easy way to flatten this shape, but you may not like the results if you want a curved surface.
So, I ask you. How would you approach it? Here’s the sample part and the solution I came up with to flatten the conical surface very fast.
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I’ve always wanted to let up for a few minutes, take a break from marking all over my face and arms and really get into the nitty-gritty of making my 3D sketch shapes look magnificent.
Fortunately, Spencer from IDSketching is here to show us how to do just that. With the following video, he makes it easy for your brain to absorb, giving you reason for why he’s using the markers that he’s using and reminds you about contrast. CONTRAST people!!! c’mon!! Don’t make him tell you again. Show us your moves Spenc.
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So, the team over at Develop3D, that pay me athe better part of a pence to write the occasional article, have some much anticipated news… a fresh new look with the best of Develop3D bits and blogs.
It’s been 18 months in the making and in all unbiased, totally biased honesty, is the absolute kickin’est product development site out there. Sink your oculars into cyan/magenta goodness for a few moments and let them know what ya like or dislike about what they’ve toiled over for 1.5% of their life. Rock tha beat boys.
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SolidSmack is a very small behemoth of an online community about 3D CAD, technology, design, robots, and ninjas… Ok, maybe not ninjas so much, but those guys are COOL so there just might be something about some dang ninjas.
