“Tops and bottoms!” He exclaimed. “Why that’s the largest mix of hard lemon cankers and orange blossoms I’ve chanced to stick my nose upon!” Little did he know, that in the next few moments, his nostrils would be flooded by these links. Shaddy Safadi – Go on the travels through the imaginative creations of renowned…
If you’re like me, you’ve been slaving away for hours carving mermaids, mer-cats and other mer-creatures into your surroundings, so this should provide some inspiration and give you something to talk about over dinner tonight. William Jeffrey Jones is a guitar carving beast of mythical proportions himself, carving such details as tails, scales and curly…
You see that guy? He’s enjoying life… enjoying the heck out it. Just look at him. He’s jabbin’ his meat nub against that 27″ touchscreen screen and loving it. Whoa! He just moved that skull slice with multiple fingers?! He’s dangerous and he knows it. Who’s making all this possible? I’ll give you one guess…
I know, were on a coffee kick, but after you shoot your coffee into your cup, are you just going to sit around waiting for it to cool or take action with heat transforming phase change material? Then coffee Joulies are for you. Developed by two design engineers named Dave, the stainless steel beans cool…
If these model were any more real, they’d crawl their way out of your screen and eat you. I’ve actually just scared myself a little bit, but what’s even scarier is that these 3D human CAD models are the most accurate representation of the human form I’ve ever had the joy of opening in SolidWorks.…
An espresso maker.. that’s a gun… that’s an espresso maker. It doesn’t get any better than that. Actually it could be better, but you’d need to adapt the gun to use a needle big enough for your neck vein. Even still, this is a design of caffeine creating beauty. Stefan Riegebauer, Christina Carli, Florian Kainz…
The crushing rush of wind pushed the ship forward. By this time, most of the shifters had already replicated their phase units, save for one. He stood at the bow, looking down at the massive vortex. Turning his gaze to the sky, he gave one last shout and summoned these links. Blaine Fontana – The…
I’ll tell you right now, I’ve always wanted to construct a pair of my own flat-packed space shoes, but these… these bring a pain to my mind that has made everyone around me start convulsing in a violent shoe-kicking rage. This stylish little ditty is the brain child of United Nude (He said NUDE!) with…
What’s happening in this video? It’s something to do with a fast motorcycle, an alien spaceship, and a shockwave that sends the fleshy jowls of a middle-age man into a flapping mess against his head bone. Oh, and this guy is spilling his coffee, looking quite like he just was bucked between the legs by…
Titanium fingertips. A chin shield. Elbow spikes. An inlay across the bridge of your nose to hold lasers manipulated by your eye. Yes, you’ve dreamt about such things in the waning hours of the morning. Now you can design them and have them made. Max Barry’s book Machine Man, a real-time serial about a man…
Hear that buzz? It’s the sound of your eyes glazing over in the pasty radiance of light while the capacity of your ocular cavities is subjected to the era of 3-dimensional space upon the screen of a hand-held device. That sentence may have been slightly too long, but when you’re viewing 3D on a 2D…
Sweeps. That’s what we love. The stringy morsels of 3D modeling that makes a part all the more difficult (and interesting) to create. Sweeping a profile along a path couldn’t be easier in SolidWorks. A profile, a path, bend it to your will with a few guide curves – perfection achieved. But what if you…
You know when you’re holding a baby goat, and your thinkin’, I can hold that spoon and that bag of chips… and that chair… and that pile of cream cheese balls… and that armadillo dressed like a Spanish conquistador. Yeah, I can hold ALL THAT. Well, just imagine if a simple product which sat on…
You may have guessed it would happen. You may have seen a small group of children exiting a school yard in a zombie-like state chanting, “FEED US, FEED US EASY TO USE 3D SOFTWARE.” No doubt to create and manufacture some killer Barbie/Truck mods. Same for the maker crowd. Is there any 3D software created…
The chalice maker inhaled the deep freezing air. Vegetation was sparse, but where the tentacles had bubbled up through the surface, an oddity took shape. They twisted about him, coating him with the warm goop of these links. Denis Zilber – You’ve likely seen his art. Wonderful, playful character illustration that charms your imagination. Fight…
My eyes! They’re bleeding. Flattened by the sheer velocity of awesomeness. I often forget the times spent as a child, beating the frame of a bike into an abomination of blood-letting bliss. Jagged edges, missing spokes, lighter, faster. All you needed was a steep hill and a thick pair of Garanimal corduroys. Jeff Tiedeken of…
How does Facebook build their massive server infrastructure? You don’t care? You might after you hear why, see how and download the 3D models they use to make the servers that store all your private information. This is Facebook’s bread and butter. They’ve opened up how they build their data centers and how they’ve developed…
Maybe you’re walking down the street. The middle of the street. You can, because they are empty while people charge their electric cars. Suddenly… WHAM! Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go rings in your ears as you lift your body off the pavement. You’ve just been hit by an Urbee. “I’ve just been hit by…
Ancient resumes. I know you have them plastered to your headboard, stuck on your fridge and lining your favorite suit coat. But really, can you get enough of them? I think not. One in particular that may get you and your proclivity for CV oddities excited, is from someone you may know as the father…
I’m sorry, but instant death by sudden penetration of a recoiling swarm of caterpillar robots is not my idea of a enjoyable science experiment. Even if cake was involved. Nevertheless, an ambitious group of researchers at Tuft University are fascinated at the possibility of using Biomemtrics to capture the “balistic rolling” action of the Crambidea…
The curious tumbler tilted it’s motored neck out the door. Everything felt as if it was creaking, Slowly creaking. Pop!, he heard. His eyes adjusted, metal ignited and rolling swiftly toward him were these links. Levi Hopkins – Making light and environment and the mind a cataclysmic event of awe. Truly captivating concept art from…
You may be familiar with the new crowd-funding product design craze. It’s ridiculous. The number of projects achieving funding is amazing. We’ve featured some on here and know of others who are preparing to launch their ideas into the crowd cashing cosmos. Recently, two interesting projects popped up which show how a small team is…
Can you think of a more uncomfortable chair to sit in than an airport chair? I can’t. Add to that the delight of sharing the vast majority of the world’s germs, bacteria and food particles with the other happy people at the airport and really, sitting just doesn’t get any better. One thing that can…
I know what’s been keeping you awake at night. Small, indescribable flashes of light, a mustache, and software UI’s changing because someone in a drunken stupor said ‘ribbon’ instead of ‘simple.’ It’s easy to discuss how some things in the engineering software industry come to be and even easier to show you one place where…
It comes down to this. A typically Tuesday morning with nothing but the smell of hard work in the air, lukewarm coffee and multiple ways to make 3D happen. We had just over 50 entires in the Rock Your Desktop contest, which correlates to just over 50 GrabCAD portfolio submissions you should check out via…
The tilly titmouse toddled down the trail. Long had he wandered through the hanging blades of umbrella grass, wondering what bubbled on the other side of the brook. It happened one day he came upon a hole. “Into, but not Outo.” read the sign. Odd, he though, never seeing it before and chalked in the…
I’ll give you two guesses. If people upload 3D models to a library where other people can view and download the models, what’s going to happen? A mauling by rabid dogs is NOT the right answer… but it’s close. Apparently if there are free models, people will attack them like carnivorous beasts to download and…
Ok, now this is more like it. I’ll try to tell you without choking on the beauty of this, but since my larynx is already convulsing, you may have to proceed on your own. I know, you’ve probably had your fill of web-based 3D modeling applications. What’s that? There aren’t any? You mean, they’re weren’t…
You may want to stop suckin’ that SolidWorks model through the regular old modo SolidWorks import for a few days. Why? You’re about to get a stronger, rockin’er, suckin’er solution to bring all those bits and bobs into modo. It’s the modo for SolidWorks kit. It’s coming soon along with more materials, more compatibility, SolidWorks-like…
A coy dragon’s keeper was he. Turned hallow by an inescapable desire to turn almost anything on end. It happened one day, he came upon a lair. By no means an ordinary lair. For from it’s mouth rose a singing beast, with scales of silver and eyes boiling with these links. Anarkis – Sense of…
A big, fat SolidSmack congrats to our friend Deelip over at Deelip.com. His real job, his real business, SYCODE, which develops software and plugins for just about every CAD program in existence, just announced that SYCODE has been acquired by 3D Systems. This means Deelip now has a boss and that he needs some employees.
I’m making a list of programs I’ll pay for on a monthly basis. Programs downloaded from or accessed via the web, used only when I need them. Just like boxes of cereal, which I also have a list of. Adobe products are first on my list. Well, actually last at the moment, right below services…
You like to ride. That’s what it’s about. Not skimming around on a pretty set of purple powder coated tubes, with matching water bottle, helmet and Lycra bottoms. The tougher, the better and if it can handle blood spatters from shin gashes, dehydration vomits and a 30 foot fall… all the better. Sean Walling know…
If I had one choice in a car, one which was more a necessity to have than a wanton desire, it would be an Aston Martin. A V12 Vantage to be exact. After the incisions healed… from the cuts to remove my organs which funded such an investment, I’d drive it all up and down…
I’m not one to get excited about point releases, but for a new product like tsElements, I’ll make a very large, symmetrical point poppin’ exception. TsElements 1.1 is the first update for the new surfacing tool which allows import of.obj and T-Spline Rhino surface files directly into SolidWorks. I swear they’ve mixed magic with mathematics…
This is just too good not to pass along. Office Depot, the store I often go to just to take a nap in the chair displays then get asked to leave by a stockboy with a box knife, is offering a Seagate 3TB External Hard drive for just $150. This is 50 to 75 dollars…
When you have a hankering to gnaw on a 3D mouse, you pretty much have an option between a 3DConnexion mouse and another 3DConnexion mouse. Not many choices, but when it comes down to it, the taste of that molded rubber wrist pad is going to put a smile on your face. We’d like to…
Tipped the hilt, he did, gently nudging the molded husk into position. The air rippled with silence. The outer layers dissolved. Gradually bones and sinew glistened, displaying the residual power of these links. Karakter – A mish-mash of three Berlin-based artists, toying with your emotions through ruckus illustration and concept art. Mars Curiosity Rover -…
It’s all about the information… kind of. It’s more about not succumbing to twisting apart LCD screens and keyboards because you can’t find the information. Inforbix is here to address just that – finding data… anywhere. As I’ve said previously, the difficult part is often the finding. Now, for the first time, you’ll be able…
How about this? Instead of thinking about launching a set of concrete balls through the air, knocking down your cubicle walls and shattering every window around you, put it into action Goldberg style. Scott Bruins, a member of the GrabCAD elite, has put the project into effect. The idea? Build the world’s largest community built…
Who woulda thought!? Hard drives getting smaller? and thinner? Absolutely unheard of. Things (we) usually get fatter and uglier over time, not thinner and sleeker. Leave it to Seagate to shake up the universal trend and leave us inspired with a cool, compact design of technology. You saw it at CES. Now, Seagate has announced…
Do you remember days spent carving a stick down by the river and you’d swear it could do everything? I do. That stick could kill the undead, make sweet gravy biscuits out of thin air or be used to vault over a ravine of feral hogs. Yes, it could do it all. Much like a…
Why it was just a couple months ago that we wrote about a design outfit named Swarm. They were convinced that everyone with a bike could use a bike clamp which doubled as a bottle opener. They still are. Swarm has relaunched their Bike Clamp/Bottle Opener project, but this time the goal is a paltry…
Wow. SpaceClaim. Wow. It’s truly hard to find the words for what I’m reading. You always wonder who it’s going to be. Who is the company bringing new breath to the process of stacking geometry on top of geometry to form our ideas. I think we have the answer. I’ve pasted the full story sent…
Thunder! Thunder! The beckoning came. Long had anyone known how the skies engulfed the flames. Save for on small boy with a dog and a peach, setting out on a quest in a search for these links. Alex ChinYu Chu – See sketches strewn about the finished work of environment and vehicle excellence. South Dakota…
Names. They usually end up on lists we create of those who have offended us in some way or on lists of desired nicknames we hand out to people in the office. Somehow, though, I imagine names like Sketch, Schematic and Simulate are not on those lists. For PTC, it’s different. They have a list…
You know those days when you look left, then right, then left again, then tear a massive flashlight from your chest, shining it in your eyes with a scream that makes invisible spheres appear? That may be the precursor to the augmented reality tech your about to turn you crispy fried eyes upon. It combines…
Designers and Love. They go together like a wall of fists against the ravages of the elements. That, in fact, is exactly what is happening. For Japan, it’s a time which we, displaced by cappuccino, movie nights and trimming small hedges, can’t quite grasp. Hundreds of thousands across the country were evacuated and many are…
Tilted back amongst the reeds, the DAR Unit blinked. It was quiet. A deep vibration rippled through the water and ninety mechanical arms unfolded themselves from the unit pushing it toward these links. Pascal Campion – His illustrations are crisp, clean, and tell an entire story in a single image. Simply beautiful. Ramen Hack -…
Avert thine eyes!!! No wait, it’s okay to look. The discomfort will only be temporary… and then the eye-blinding awesomeness will melt hot, molten modo directly onto your cornea… which sounds way more painful, but really, is quite the opposite. Adam Ohern of CADJunkie has put together yet another tutorial stepping you through the process…