Actually, who cares about product development at this point. You’ll be the DJ, up in the front of your office as people tear off their blazers and patent leather loafers. DJ Pablo Martin has launched a new MIDI multitouch controller called Emulator. The multitouch screen you’ll see is called Token and developed by Yöyen Munchausen…
Tumbled! I don’t like it! It reeks of peach juice and looks like a muffled badger strung out on battery acid. I’ll say it again! Spray it with chowder and give it these links! Nicolas Ferrand – What good is being a concept artist without drawing ships, bots, worlds and creatures. Ghosts of World War…
You know the comments you keep hearing? No, not the ones about how you look in tight pants. The ones about how good the product you design would look if you only had a good rendering. Once upon a time, a simple rendering seemed impossible. No more. Over the past few years, creating amazing renderings…
My mouth… is full of soup. It’s also gapping wide open. So, soup is falling all over my desk as I watch the future controlled by our appendages. Appendages that haven’t been detached by our robot friends, but are being used to manipulate where we want them to display information… or interact with our environment.…
Go ahead, open the fridge. What do you see beside the fruit salad? A fresh bottle of SpaceClaim 2010. It’s fizzy and brimming with all sort of new features that make 3D product developers say things like, “refreshing!” and “titillating!” but mostly, “I’m so excited, I’ve torn my eyebrows off my face!” Yesterday, SpaceClaim launched…
I could seriously watch this video over and over again… In fact, I have. So much so, I caught fire myself and had to be doused with a potted plant from the kitchen. I love watching skateboard videos, but this one does something a little different. This one tells the reason behind the madness and…
I don’t even use Autodesk Maya, so I have no idea what I’m saying, when I say… This is JUST like Maya. EXACTLY like the morphing effects that make you go to the next Hollywood blockbuster, raise your fist and shout, “The director and visual effects department that made this film are making blood shoot…
Now, when you find the bucket, you must do this. Jump in and out 5 times. At that moment, you’ll find yourself in a land of small shrubs, which smell of bread pudding and shoot these links into your eyebrows. Tyler Edlin Mr. Edlin creates worlds. Worlds that play hopscotch with your subconscious and then…
We’ve seen cool 3D projection on objects before, but this is frighteningly cool. It’s another 3DTV installation from Samsung. It’s not projection so much, as it is a video which run across hundreds of screens mounted to the side of the Beurs van Berlage exhibition and concert hall in Amsterdam. But it’s mapped perfectly to…
Before you pucker your lips up into your nasal cavity at the sight of something called Smart Components, take a breath. You’ll want to know about them if you haven’t used them already. Smart Components automatically put features into parts when you mate them into assemblies. They take a little bit to set up, but…
Don’t you dare touch my 3D parts! Oh. you just want to virtually touch them with haptic feedback… nope, that’s still a little out of my comfort zone. Not so for the researchers at UC San Diego. While they’re not researching researchable research, they’re building cool tech to make it easier. In a recent adventure,…
I DARE you. Try to make a million holes in a sheet metal part with whatever 3D design tool you’re using. Go ahead… I’ll wait… anything happen right before your arteries surface to your skin and workstation starts smoking? Most likely, it can’t be done. I’ve never seen it done… till now. I received a…
It was the pants. They were large, multi-colored and had the faces of a thousand furry yak babies. But, I’ll tell you this right now. They had enough snort juice to power these link and then some. Radoslav Zilinsky – If his name is any hint, you’ll know how rad 3D artwork and animations can…
Carve it. Shape it. Cut it. Smooth it. Knick it. Clip it. Daft Punk Helmet. Yeah, you know what’s good for you. 3 minutes of prop building madness from Volpin Props. The prop? The helmet of electronic, supersonic duo supremo, Daft Punk. The process took all of 17 months… yeeeeeah. So ya gotta think, especially…
This is a guest post by Joris Peels who has enjoyed being the community manager at Shapeways over the past two years. He’s from the Netherlands and makes some mean stoofperen. YOu can find him on Twitter @pilz CAD and 3D modeling tools have come a long way in letting more people turn their ideas…
Let me ask you this. Do you ever have a SolidWorks model that has the same color applied to all the parts? Doesn’t that just frustrate the glitter out of your magenta and chartreuse trousers? I feel your pain, and so does a reader who is looking to add a splash of randomly generated color…
My eyeball lids have peeled back over my head… by themselves. I think I feel pain, but I don’t know, because I’m in shock at the coolness I’m seeing. Even though there’s nothing this cool in 3D product development, we can imagine if there were… and the time wasted throwing our virtual designs into the…
We all know it. There are at least six programs that go into design process. That is, when there are more than five programs used. And with that, there’s a workflow that needs to be beat into submission. You’re about to see one that has been dealt with thusly. You remember the design arsenal poll…
Your measly, little common pens are about to become insanely jealous. You may have warned them that smartpens were a comin’ but being the arrogant pens that they are, they simply taunted you with ink leaks and repeated trips to the stock cabinet. Now, they’ll take notice. The Livescribe Echo Smartpen is showing it’s face…
Here’s your chance to be part of the future… and also part of the remains left over after a rebel group goes after the people responsible for the creation of our friendly humanoid companions. You may be familiar with the REEM-A or REEM-B developed by PAL Robitics. Well, as you might be able to guess,…
Quick! Switch your screen from the SolidWorks model of your house back to the spreadsheet that updates Mr. Manager coming round the corner on your task status. Yep, you know what I’m talking about. Modeling your house in SolidWorks. Many have done it in their ‘spare time’. Or, maybe you actually work for a architect…
Now, there was a time when vassal and vessel sailed betwixt the vapored reef, but all the coin and all the curd could not save your hide from links like these. Alberto Cerriteno – I could seriously sip paint and look at Alberto’s art all day. Brilliant colors and design. Big Bang Big Boom -…
The biggest problem with 3D, creating it, viewing it, and eating it, is the 2D screen. You ruin plenty of screens trying to reach through to crush the model with your hand. Soon, you may not have to do that. Instead you’ll just use a collapsible pen-like gadget to jab that geometry into submission. Jinha…
It’s been a while since we’ve asked this. Plus, when I was talking to a friend about mixing cheese sauce with green paint and throwing it into a fan, he suddenly slapped me and mentioned this: “I’m currently using SolidWorks, NX, AutoCAD, TeamCenter, KeyShot, Shot, and Photoshop as my design arsenal.” I dropped the cheese…
You know how it goes. You buy one, two, eighty quadrotor flying robots at Christmas for your kids. Ya know, because the little gripping mechanism on their belly is just so cute. All of a sudden, the kiddos are being carried off to the mother quadrotor for experimentation. If you saw the copterbot pulling baby…
That’s right. Zombie. Killing. Machine. You may think you yourself are just that, but think about it. What if you had an entire factory to take on the jowl-sagging rampage of a hundred thousand brain gobblers? Mmmm-hmm. There’s plenty of ways to go about designing implements with the ability to knock off an arm, a…
If you’re cruising down the drag and needing some head-bobbin’ beats to make the cabbies and cuties drop their ice-cream cones, check out Luxology founder Brad Peebler. ♪♫ Dope beat ♪♫ aaaaand Happy, Happy birthday to my main man Jetty, he’s bustin’ out assets fast as Mario Andretti…. you’ll have to listen to this week’s…
I’ll tell you right now, when you can’t open 3D files from another system in your favorite modeling program, it’s like spooning soggy corn chips into your mouth… corn chips made of FIRE… and HATE. Fortunately, there are some smart people who know the tricks. Example? Opening a UG/NX file in Pro/E may make you…
You remember that time you were yelled at by that German guy for putting putting peanut butter in the print mechanism? Yeah, that was hilarious. He was like, “SLA!! Schweinhund!! nicht meine Erdnussbutter!!!” and you were like, “wha?” while spraying a goat down with a water hose. I’ll never forget that. It’s sad however that…
In ancient times, the butter would be catapulted straight up into the air. All of it. If the boy caught it with his face, he was given these links. Jamshed Jurabaev – I don’t care. With a name like Jamshed and amazing ship scenes like this, you can do whatever you want. Bendy Bike -…
Not that they would copy your idea, but yeah, Nike totally ganked the idea you had of replacing yourself with a 21 meter sculpture of yellow balls. Nike strung the massive structure from the ceiling of the Carlton Centre atrium in Johannesburg, South Africa for the last few weeks of the FIFA Worldcup. Designed by…
Sound the alarm, tear through the foam-padded backing of your cubicle wall and peel the callouses from your hands power mouse users. You have mouse. WarMouse. Finally available for mass consumption, the WarMouse Meta sports 18 programmable buttons, an analog joystick, a 5600-CPI laser sensor and 512k of memory. The price… $80. Oh and guess…
Now don’t get me wrong. You can live on more than just gravy substitutes, but with that piled around your computer as you beta test SolidWorks 2011, people will know you are DEAD SERIOUS. There are two reason why you should get gravy’ed and beta. They were both results of cool ideas that worked, but…
It’s the question we ponder when putting the cat in the dryer, cutting down the neighbors tree or slicing ham with the back of a shoe. What’s 3D good for? Can you answer that? It’s challenging I know, but the first thing that may come to mind….Braballs. I could end the post there, but I…
At the beginning of the year I predicted a move of 3D apps toward the cloud. Anyone could have guessed that though. SolidWorks showed-off the cross-platform possibilities and Autodesk put AutoCAD on the cloud. But, working with 3D geometry via the web hasn’t been seen… till this past week. Deelip Menezes broke the news Tuesday…
It’s just that. The sauce bottles dropped to the floor, it flared it’s jowls and that’s when I decided I would replace my interest in bar-b-que with these links. Jaime Jones – I’m loving this rough paint style. Jaime Jones has it going on with creatures, characters and more. Field- This CG animation by selfburning…
Sometimes you wake up in the morning, stretch, slap yourself and get a grin on your face right before screaming ‘PLM!’ in your best Robert DiNero voice. Sure, it’s completely traumatized the kids, but you’re amped and ready to start your day. It goes without saying then, that you’ll want a nice dose of what…
Sure you could fritter your time away and fiddle with a 3D City on an iPad, but what if you could create realistic 3D cities… with a push of a button, and for free? That’s what I’m talkin’ about. It’s also what Arnaud Couturier is talkin’ about. He’s developed the very fast, very cool Suicidator…
Don’t look. Do NOT LOOK! Oh, well, now you’ve gone and done it. You were curious. You hear ‘3D City’ and you just can’t help yourself. Now you’re questioning your very existence. It’s ok though, because it’s just an app and only looks like it will suck you right in. The people responsible? Newscape Technology.…
Oh, it was a dark and formidable time. There was the constant sound of gears churning in the distance, the laughter of bears jumping on trampolines, and these links popping you in the eye whenever you turned a corner. Dennis Allain – Fabutastically detailed architectural work. Be sure to check out the design process on…
Put on that shiny, gold vest that says “SUPREME MASTER of COLOR” across the back, because you’re about to get busy pitching pasty ABS prints and adding some color to your fab process. Now that you have Shapeways plugin for SolidWorks, Duann at Shapeways has put up a quick tutorial to show you how to…
Whether you’re a render scene slayer or just want to pose like you’re the HDR playa, Luxology has you covered… literally, with soft, preshrunk cottony goodness. Each year the crew behind the modo all-in-one modeling, rendering and animation program put out a ‘limited-edition’ tee to help you show just how much modo mojo you’ve got.…
Even though it’s just 2D, this makes the whole line-by-line drawing space much more interesting. DraftSight brings a full set of 2D drawing features to users and has full .dwg and .dxf compatibility. It can be downloaded now for Windows and will be available later this year for Mac and Linux. Here’s whatcha want to…
Ya know, when you’ve come inside from a hard day of unnecessary antelope slapping, there’s bound to be some thoughts going through your head about how to make curved shapes in SolidWorks without overwhelming your mind. Over at the 3DVisions blog, chief antelope slapper and CSWP, Randy Simmons shows you how to make a Quick…
Coffee. 3D. Headphones. The purest ingredients in the day-to-day dance-off between your brain and that 3D geometry jittering to the succulent sound-waves in your ears. Oh yeeaah. You are in the groove. So are a slew of other people you may know of. Thanks to the relationship between Facebook and Pandora a few weeks ago,…
What’s better than exporting out an .STL file and uploading your precious 3D geometry to be printed? Not exporting an .STL, that’s what. Today Shapeways releases their 3D print add-in for SolidWorks which allows you direct upload capability from the SolidWorks user interface. There are other 3D print add-ins for SolidWorks but none with the…
Why I remember when we would empty that rusty container… so long ago. It smelled of butter and when you saw what crawled out… son, you’d throw these links right at’em. Dan Blomberg – This chunky, dark illustration style of Dan Blomberg pops of detail. Scenes, vehicles and fabulous buildings. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World…
Most of you only have two fists. One for slamming out 3D geometry in SolidWorks and the other for punching it with pretty sauce using modo. However, if you’re just starting to build up those layers of rendering calluses, you may be looking for some soothing aloe to take the pain away from the workflow…
There’s no doubt. Computing is changing. But, most of us still sit at our desks punchin’ keys with one hand while staying caffeinated with the other. So, what would happen if you could keep the caffeine and ditch the desk? The thing is, a lot of us need that workstation wallop to crank huge amounts…