Do you see those three words? Cloud, Mac, and Sketch? The triumvirate of contemporary CAD computing, those are by golly, and if you’re CAD slappin’ 3D code pro or have a little marketing and management panache, SolidWorks is hiring. What’s more interesting, and also no big surprise, is what job titles these lie under. There’s…

Out of all the things I’ve wanted to line my desk, hallway, car dash and gold-plated cage of wild hogs with, brightly colored 3D printed pigs is 4th on the list. Shapeways has now made that easier. Just today, Shapeways launches Color it! making it possible for you or your little ones to color a…

Oh yeah, you know you’ve gone too far when you’ve got little Johnny sprayin’ cheese spread out his nose to form building for your moon-based train station display. Those hospital trips are about to drop significantly and your family can rest their weary nostrils. Fab@home Model 2 is here. Fab@Home is a project started by…

You might have a dad that builds you cool camera accessories, but what if you have one that attached rockets to anything that moves? Even better. Ron Patrick is Mechanical Engineer that has no problem with jamming jets into tiny vehicles, so that’s what he did. One modified turboshaft engine, one VW Bug, one sweet…

Little did you know it, but that engineering degree you spent 100k and 5+ years completing, fueled by cafeteria food, long nights and the occasional nervous breakdown… may actually be making you less useful, or at the very least need some flare. In an article at Techcrunch, Vivek Wadhwa goes up against some thoughts from…

So, we haven’t even seen tech from Iron Man 1 developed yet, but who cares! We’ll take any blind stab at future tech Hollywood throws at us and say… HECK YEAH. Iron Man 2 starts today and it’s gotta have gadget galore at least as cool as the first one and UI’s way better than…

A blanket made of moles for pete’s sake! There’s just no need, it’s uncomfortable and the moles aren’t even alive… oh wait, that one is… that one might be… wait! They are! They are alive and they’re eating these links!! MegaMunden – Mega!!! Mega what? Mega cool tattoo illustration, rockin’ skullage and a mix of…

If your nerves, family or free-time have been affected by the frenzy of the shiny new iPad from Apple, you’re not alone. In less than a month Apple sold over 1 million of the 10″ touch-screen tablets. However, only a small percent of those people are obsessed with getting a 3D model of the iPad…

The design process is something we absolutely CRAVE here at SolidSmack. You can throw up pretty pictures all day, but going behind the scenes and getting an idea of the work and thought that goes into a design… simply wonderful. This is a perfect example. Jonathan Bergqvist wanted to have a shoulder mount for his…

I don’t know if I’d really call it ‘the Biggest’ 3D print. I’d be more likely to call it the BIGGESTEST Freeform Architecture 3D Print ever excreted by the pucker of a print head. You remember Enrico Dini, right? The fine Italian gent with a passion for print? He’s working on his next project, a…

You see that image to the left with the weird purple guy shooting green out his hand? That’s actually your brain being whipped repeatedly with the enjoyable sound of SolidWorks video training, but not just any video training, oh no. This is Inspirtech SolidWorks 2010 tutorials, on your computer, in SolidWorks and if full-effect with…

You know we can’t pass up a reference to embedding things into skulls, especially 3D. You could stab your eyes or computer screen with 3D data, but what it really takes to get 3D on the web is getting into that heinous web code. Deelip Menezes-obertron 9 touches on that with a couple posts on…

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know… you’ve all got this down pat. 2D to 3D… 3D in 2D… no problem. But what about with video? and beyond that, within the environment of a 3D modeling program? This is a look at a very well made ad from Samsung UK for their…

So we wrapped it with tarps and a fair amount of steel cord. But, what we saw next peeled three sleepless nights off our eyes. The plastic tore, the cables snapped and these links started singing. Jose Flores – Really, oil painting don’t get enough play. Jose mixes surreal and cool with just about anything…

“Finally!” you think, “A cheap 3D printer I don’t have to build myself.” Yes, you’re probably already doing the calculations in your head. For a mere $3.5 million US dollars you can buy 1,000 of these suckers and build a tower of 3D printing power the likes no one hAS EVER SEEN!! muwwahhHAHA!! All you…

At the center of all that is possible within a SolidWorks assembly model sits the standard bearer of complicated surface geometry villainy… a component that won’t let the darn thing load. Who knows what it is – CPU, OS, RAM, imported parts, geometry bunions or maybe a new user that patterned his name on every…

You’re gonna kick yourself after you see this and think about the grove of bamboo and blood-thirsty, wild panda you just cleared out of your backyard. You so could have fashioned it into an iPhone case. Not to worry, Ken Tomita and his wily gang of sustainable-minded makers have you covered. It’s Grove, an Oregon-based…

If you felt a rumble in the aether that ended up with a guy suddenly appearing in your face poking your eyeballs with a tablet computer, you’re probably not dreaming and you’re probably not holding back a good solid punch to his gut. Neither is Timothy Barnard of Fresh Design Base, a Manchester, UK web…

We found out way, way too late… by  the time the splinters worked their way out, there were five more digging out of the ground, two at the door and seven disguised as… yes, as these links. Alexander Preuss – You may think, oh some little art, but then you view his work and your…

So, the post about SolidWorks enforcing their long-standing policy of only granting service packs to the entitled on Subscription Service got some mild interest, boosted antacid sales and Devon’s Blog even interviewed the VP of Customer Services at SolidWorks, Rich Welch, about the matter. I could pick apart the interview notes Devon took, but I’d…

I tell you now, it made my stomach churn. When we reversed the polarity, it’s face jiggled, and poof, a pile of suds. Then, we reversed it again and ya know what? Cheese… covered in these links. Goro Fujita – The gallery of one of the best character animators ever. Plants, animals, robots… he does…

You just know, when you see babies… in pods, nothing good can come of it. It either means baby alien mama’s are gonna hatch and eat your face or that someone had no idea what they were thinking for a design. This one happens to be the later. Designed by Caterina Tiazzoldi, this structure of…

Yes, it only takes a spark… a studio, a computer, a small production crew, some large machinery, and probably a keg of the strongest ale… to get a interactive web series going… and SolidWorks has done just that. This week SolidWorks launched the new interactive web series called Let’s Go Design. It’s full of design,…

So, you’re sitting in a design review with a concept model of the product and the topic quickly changes to schedule. “You can just use that model for the engineering, right,” your boss asks confidently in front of the customer. Now, before your sweat glands burst and your eyes glaze over, rewind a few days.…

Look at the guy outside your window swatting a swarm of wasps away from his exposed skin areas. Now look at the guy in the cubicle next to you using Leonar3do 3D. Both look similar except one is screaming and swelling up while the other is smiling and creating 3D object… in 3D space. You…

Ya know, once I unearthed the lower structure, it started going a lot easier. There was a cavern though, covered with the slime of a thousand slimy slime-slimes. I threw rocks at’em and these links ate my eyes. Geoffroy Thoorens – The name of a person that creates very intelligent illustration of massive scenes of…

I’m willing to bet a pile of spalling brick that most of you don’t live in a house or work in a building that’s been printed by a 3D printer. No? It seems ludicrous that a large structure could be printed layer-by-layer with a rock-like resin – floor, walls, ceiling, tubes, stairs and roof. But…

It’s days like these I wake up on a desolate beach and peel no less than 14 jellyfish off my face. It’s enough to inspire one to make electronic devices out of their soft, fleshy bodies that float around you and sting people as you enter a room. Erik Campbell actually has a better idea…

Ahhh, can you feel it? Spring is in the air! The lawn is freshly mown, work is void of stress… and that smile you have as the sun hits your face has just removed by the blunt end of a 2×4 falling out of the sky. Don’t ya just feel ALIVE? Yes, you upgraded to…

Oh yes, it’s here party people. Apple released their iPad on Saturday, so I picked one up to toss around and see if it stacks up to all the hype. Personally, it tastes awful, but when you hit the little button on the front the screen lights up and makes you wonder if it will…

I see ya got pore problems son. It’s not uncommon to hear an ooze and a pop, so in severe cases like this, I simply apply a few of these links to relieve the stinging. Joby Cummings – Insane. Awesome. Tattoo-style illustration. Lot’s of skulls, nice, thick lines and plenty of traditional inspiration to go…

This Saturday, the end of people droning on about awesome iPhone apps ends and the start of people droning on about awesome iPad apps… begins. Yes, the iPad is here. Getting one? If you are, and your also into sketchin’ awesomeness with your nubbins, you’re gonna love this. Earlier today, I got a heads up…

For all of you students who are drooling to create 3D prints of your SolidWorks parts at school… tough luck. You can’t. The SolidWorks Student Design Kit (SDK) doesn’t allow you to export .STL files and if you complain to the teacher about he will start crying again. So, besides downloading a free trial of…

While I was growing up, I’d occasionally run towards a wall, jam my fingers up into my arms, pass out and wake up to dogs dragging me off into the woods. Fortunately, the dogs were my pets and my fingers healed into agile implements of multi-touch destruction. And thankfully so. At SolidWorks World 2010 I…

I’m gonna bet a box of matches and some dry cedar that many of you work for companies who enjoy shoveling a fine mush of paper stacks and file cabinet dividers toward smiling documentation specialists. Who blames them… PAPER IS GLORIOUS! Especially, those first sweet sounds of the day sipping vodka coffee to the whirring…

It was a noise we hadn’t heard before. A dull whirring with giggly snaps. Then it stopped, we pealed the membrane off and all we saw were these links. Hodings – Hodong La’s has the best idea for a floating castle yet, plus more CG to become completely absorbed in. 13 Words not found in…

Look out folks, there’s a CNC storm a’comin’. A wee, cute little storm of laser cut, three-axis THUNDER! It’s the DIYLILCNC and it is so lil’ you’ll want to build it, give it a hug and then command it to do your gantry-mounted bidding! In the same open-source artery as the Makerbot 3D Printer, Chris…

If you ever walk down the streets of Anaheim, California you may come across a fine young man who doesn’t look like a gangsta at all, throwin’ down rhymes about managing SolidWorks users and installing license servers. That young man is Alex “SWGeek” Ruiz and the author of SolidWorks 2010: No Experience Required. This is…

Not all of us are able to build wild contraptions that strap to our backs and allow us to shoot plastic out the tips of our fingers. That’s why there are places like CloudFab who will take on the task for you. However, instead of depending on a couple three-jointed appendages for plastic forming, they’ve…

You know when you get on the bus or, even better, when you’re walking through the mall and people are looking at you like a mass of USB cords just exploded out of your jawbone? It’s because it has and it’s scaring the children. Not to worry! You can tame those wily cords with Gonglue…

Well, would you look at that. You’ve put on the ‘nice shirt’ to start the week off and nobody has said a thing. Well, TEAR. IT. OFF. and as you do, scream VUUCH! at the top of your lungs. Sure it will get attention, but even more important, it will shred the vocal cords and…

It’s the round about way they all bubble up at once, straight into your nose, out your eyelids and on to start families and businesses selling a wide assortment of pudding cakes, pudding cakes mixed with these links. Wei Ming! – Nope, I’m not related, but I do like his 3D work and his 2D…

I’m all for a good competition and if you like to guzzle pickle juice and Twinkies without twitching an eye against unforeseen odds, then there’s a competition for ya that won’t hurt near as bad at the end of the day. LG and Autodesk are huggin’ buddies and they’ve teamed up once again to let…

Well now, I hear some of you are in the mood for a really broad question with a very broad and generalized set of choices. EXCELLENT, I say! We’ve got just the question. Today, we’re wondering what topics about 3D, design and any combination of the two, interest you the most. Why? Because there’s an…

If you’ve surrounded yourself with thousands of lighted spheres like I have, you’ll be interested to learn of the potential for incredibly cool design living within each of the precious glowing orbs. Andre Baran of formendesign.de knows, and has animated a spherical surprise to impress upon you the true nature of transformation as applied to…

Ladies and gentlemen, put on your handlebar mustaches, leather chaps and prepare to tankslap your mind with hardtail modeling happiness. Renowned designer and SolidWorks user Jan-Willem Zuyderduyn from Eindhoven, Netherlands has exactly what you’re looking for, if what you’re looking for is a SolidWorks Chopper Tutorial… but, sweet giblets, it’s way more than a tutorial.…

Can you 3D print an aircraft engine? Yes, yes you can… granted you have the inclination and enough thermoplastic to scare a small horse. Last year at Autodesk University 2009, Autodesk and Stratasys saddled up to reveal an aircraft engine created in Inventor and printed using the Fortus3D production system. I maintain that it would…

Think about this. A vest that allows you to receive a massage AND acts as a device to manipulate video game play, or in our case, 3D geometry. Are you feelin’ it!? Well, before you get excited and tell your friends to cozy up behind you, think about this… are they certified to be developing…

I must say, each pastry you pull from your pocket is more delicious than the last… You have magic pastry pockets! Magic pastry pockets? YES, and they’re covered with these links!! Dylan Cole – Cities!? Vehicles!? yes, only the best for you and your crew. Mr. Cole means business. 25 3D Characters – AMAZING. Really,…

So, crack your virtual bottles against your virtual skulls. 3DVia is cranking out the goodness this week at the 2010 Games Developer’s Conference. Yes, it’s all fun and games, but just maybe a chance to add a lil’ gleam to snazzy up your product scene. Along with their new Social Game Billions, they’ve just made…