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…
Because the popular 3D CAD apps have no visible appendages to beat each other down into an oily goo or give their own opinion on medicine, politics or art, we’ve decided to see what the web has to say about how they all stack up in this regard. To do it, we’re using a nifty…
If you’re like me, you know there’s nothing like spinning around till you stumble and slam your head through a 3D display. The small joys of life. Much like being able to model 3D on a display while wearing some dope looking lenses and chewing on a stick of butter. At least it use to…
3DVia also has billions of reasons to make you excited about Mogaloos, how many you capture and how you feel about the color pink as the backdrop of the universe. This week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) in San Francisco, 3DVia is showing off 6 new games developed with 3DVia products. Among those…
Stop. I’m telling you right now, you can quit using the excuse that you shave your body for swimming and bike riding adventures as a cover-up for your camouflage body painting hobby. Instead, you can now tell everyone that your body is being prepped as a touchpad of epic proportion. We’re stuffing every oversize pore…
When you drive a car that fast into a wall of bananas flambé you’ve absolutely gotta remember to pull the e-brake before you caramelize into a sticky goo resembling these links. Russ Schwenkler – He will amaze and astound you with the finest Vexel art this side of Carburetor county. Snake Oil? – I take…
Kick the wads of paper away from your coworker’s head and pick him up off the floor. It’s ok to slap him if he’s still unconsciousness, because he’s about to thank you for showing him a way to go through massive amounts of design iterations with fewer convulsive reactions or concussions. Last week, we discussed…
You can shake whatever you want, but if you’re a photo editor, graphic artist or cutting edge product developer, you’re gonna have tremors of pen tablet euphoria when you hear Wacom has a product redesigned especially for you. It may not be news about a multi-touch Cintiq or a portable Cintiq, but the new Wacom…
It almost hurts me to say this, but the cool factor is just too much to bare… Microsoft Excel rocks at sketching cell-shaded line art. If you know me, you know I abhor spreadsheets list creation management hell. However, I’ll get past the fancy formatting and formula options used to drain the liquid centers from…
The rock rippers crept up on us near the east end that night. Fortunately, we had the outer hull covered in mangle moss and flame lemmings the likes had not been seen since these links attacked up. Matt Tkocz – Matt give you a heaping eyeful of great sketch technique, sea creatures and ships. Fastest…
It’s happened to all of us. You’re bakin’ up sweet 3D assemblies in SolidWorks when all of sudden your supervisor walks over, scratches their dry chin skin over your keyboard and challenges you to 1) not vomit and 2) create 5 other version of the same assembly. All psoriasis and skin flaking antics aside, creating…
Oh great. You fell asleep last night watching “The fine art of family root farming” and completely forgot to plug in your exploding gadget and frog apparatus. How embarrassing. Someone who didn’t forget and, as you’ll see, wouldn’t matter if he did, is Adam Voorhes. I think you’ll agree he’s mastered exactly what it takes…
Jaw. Dropping. I’m slapping myself over and over. Actually, this is the second time I’ve slapped myself to the point my jaw is hanging by a few strands. I saw a preview of the new Luxology Studio Lighting & Illumination Kit (“SLIK”) for modo at SolidWorks World last week and have been having dreams of…
He had a steady hand. Could charge a blast arm with the fastest of’em too, but eventually he absorbed to many burp nodules and all but melted away laughing into these links. Dragos Jieanu – 3D, video, matte, and sketch. Amazing composition and making of rich environments by Dragos Jieanu. Childrens Books and Designers -…
Seriously, no bullets are gonna help, no alliance with the undead or any sort of blunt object or girly scream. The end… is near…. and where ever you run, the werewolf hordes are approaching. Fortunately, you’ve already been bitten and eventually you’ll feel a a sharp bone shifting jab as technological morphotypes wrap their corpuscular…
Ok, we’re about to raise this 3D thing a notch. Scratch that. We’re about to raise it 5,000 notches and 10 sequential pokes to the eye to say, this is how you will create 3D geometry in the future. Yes, not only will you be a concert violinist, you’ll also be a 3D modeling GENIUS.…
I know you enjoy the magnificence of your hairy knuckles as much as the next guy, but after you take a look at this ring, you may be reaching for razor. Ben Hopson and entrepreneur Glen Liberman of Kinekt Design are collaborating together on a series of kinetic jewelry pieces. This Gear Ring is the…
Go ask a molting yak this single question, “Are you using SolidWorks materials??!!” If it does anything other than say yes, you have total freedom to boot the fur right off his confused face. However, if he is using SolidWorks materials, pull a stump up to the waterin’ hole and prepare to show him how…
It’s been nearly two weeks since I fell down a flight of stairs at the Anaheim convention center after some new features for SolidWorks 2011 were previewed at SolidWorks World, but that’s not gonna stop me from spitting up blood to tell you about them. Last week, we talked possible enhancements, but this is different.…
If you’re familiar with the TED conference that highlights some good (and some not so good) “ideas worth spreading,” you’ll know how tough it is to get into the conference, not to mention their book club. That is unless you’re an inanimate piece of hardware showing off new tech at the conference. 3DConnexion got the…
Ya know, there are dreams of computer hardware coming to life, devouring your lunch and snacking on your soul, but that’s nothing compared to when they go all ‘Voltron’ on you and start battling it out with each other. Verbatim has a good idea of what this would be like and they let your join…
You just can’t shove that much butter into hat that tiny and expect it to fit over your face. First apply the butter, then the excitement, followed by the hat and a healthy dose of these links. Tae Young Choi – Some call it concept art. I call it capturing motion and intensity like none…
There’s a multi-touch rash starting to spread across the butt-checks of CAD that no penetrating ointment will cure. So, when SolidWorks demonstrated their future platform independent MCAD platform it was no surprise to see some multi-touch features thrown into the mix. However, what’s supremely interesting is not the multi-touch, but the device being multi-touched. It’s…
Why it was only a month ago that Hypershot fans around the world were up in arms about the news of Bunkspeed losing the licensing for the tech behind Hypershot to it’s creators at Luxion. We knew but one thing, Luxion would be developing and launching a new release… shortly. Well, shortly is here and…