There’s nothing more enjoyable that seeing what a piece of software can do… except for maybe not doing it and going out with friends, but since all my friends are behind a computer like me, I’ll try to break me some software. I’m continuing today from yesterdays Adobe Acrobat 3D overview where we took a…
How many of you have a binder of design ideas lying around? Yeah, me too, and have always been discouraged when I try to get a prototype made or quoted. NOVEdge has put out another interesting interview with the CEO of Ponoko whose new approach to turning out product just may change how and who…
After being chained in the basement for a few weeks to check out the brand spankin’ new Acrobat 3D I found the good, bad and some things that made me just barely fall out of my chair. I’ll leave out the part where I saw flying monkeys. I think that had to do with the…
I know, you’re looking at your sketch that has more relations than the cast of Grey’s Anatomy and wonder how in the heck things went south so fast. Well, it has nothing to do with your social skills or being raised in the country, those things just need a little lovin’. This means it’s time…
There’s nothing more annoying than some one who is over-productive, smirking at you with his dry, beady eyes, taunting you with his attendance trophies, doing little victory dance’s in your cubicle… Prepare to dance. Steve Pavlina has come up with 33 way to boost your productivity, then 33 more, and then another 33. I’d say…
Inspiration from Toys – Thomas Parel has a post with some great shots of toy designs. love it! Improve your photography with classical art – an awesome way to get your photos to look incredible. DRM-free MP3 – The guys over at Engadget broke the news about Amazon opening DRM-free MP3 music store. This is…
Matt Lombard always has interesting insight into the nature of design and engineering. It’s exactly one his post that started me thinking again about the future of parametric design. Maybe it’s a cliche and tiring question that everyone has asked, but check this out… Web of Constraint Right now something is parametric in a model…
So, it’s really lame when you have to make sure to update notes and properties that have dimensions entered in manually. Well, there’s a way to grab a dimension property so you can use it in different places. Nice thing is, if the dimension changes you don’t have to remember where you put it to…
I first saw Jeff Han’s mutitouch screen on the TED website. Since then I’ve been keeping an eye out for what that guy is doing. I came across another video of him demo’ing the touchscreen. It looks like they’ve added some functionality since the previous demo. Imagining this in the context of 3D CAD usibility…
I read Matt Lombard’s interview over at NOVEdge and agree with just about everything he said, but I do think there’s more than economics being a reason for the slow transition to 3D. Maybe it’s the industry I’m in, but the main issue in all the companies I’ve seen is the insistency to make SolidWorks…
What if you could throw a bunch of dots around the world and replicate yourself wherever they landed? Yeah, imagine that one. Pretty cool. Well, it’s possible. Not so much with you, but with little feature thingies you put in your models. Ok, I feel the disappointment setting in, so chin up little camper, Sketch…
We’ll I said there just might be something about ninjas on this site. You might as well forget about the fancy, schmancy algorithmic based modeling technology coming out. This has the potential of changing everything. Listen as ninja enlightens you on the SUPERIORITY of TechNINlogy.
Many times I’m showing someone how to do something and there like, “how do you do that so fast? what are you doing?” I’m being 50% more efficient than you, that’s what I’m doing. Not 48, not 51, but exactly 50% more. Here’s how. Mouse – automatically move pointer to default button option This is…
With an addiction to trying new stuff when it comes out, its been difficult finding what I actually need to get SolidWorks to work the best on Vista. So, when the Windows Vista native version of SolidWorks was made available as a pre-release download from the SolidWorks web site May 4th and thought I’d try…
It’s friday and time to run screaming outside and then back inside to check out these links. The Face Transformer – see what you look like white, black asian or as a famous painting. I did this and it’s freaky weird. (Normal-Asian-Greco) Top 20 Blogs Most popular blog color – Ever wonder what makes a…
If you’ve been wasting your time with liquid or gasous mentors, you’re in for a wake up call. That’s right, SolidMentor is on the brink of launching thee site that consolidates all the goodness that is SolidWorks, from blogs, to wiki, to events and webcasts. Here’s the low-down on the features: Syndicated Blogs Content-driven forum…
You might see this floating around the site. What does it mean? I came up with it for two reasons. Two reason exactly. It’s catchy It explains a mindset It’s a concept that kinda eludes some people, and, at times, even me sadly. Some would take this idea like you’re telling them to quit their…