In APPS

Weekly App Smack 07.15: Peak, Darkroom, FastNote and More…

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Time for another round of apps that cover the spectrum of your beloved mobile device, be it iPhone, Android or Windows!

The Weekly App Smack is the best of design and productivity apps (and maybe a couple of fun ones, too) for the busy design or engineering professional and this week we have a list sure to make you more efficient.

This week we saw everything from an app that operates as a dashboard for all of your social networks to a set of streamlined minimalist Emoticons from none other than everybody’s favorite cheap meatball palace, IKEA.

Have an app suggestion that’s made your life easier or changed up your workflow?

Let us know in the comments below or send it in to tips@www.solidsmack.com.

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In CAD

GrabCAD Workbench Is Now Free For All

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I was sipping a hot coffee and Ding! An email from GrabCAD pops into my email this morning. A very unexpected email. “I have some great news – Workbench is now free!” Hardi Meybaum, CEO of GrabCAD says in the email. Workbench is GrabCAD’s highly rated, browser-based model management and collaboration software that was selling at US $70/user/month and US $107/user/month for unlimited storage. It’s now completely free–Free as in ‘Free Beer’ and ‘Free Backrubs’–A surprising move considering they were acquired by Stratasys last September for $100M whose stock just nosedived last week. Although GrabCAD is an operationally distinct subsidiary, it makes us think, “What was their reasoning behind this?”

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In CAD

What We Learned at #SWW15 About SolidWorks Industrial Design

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I was finally able to get a proper live demo of the new SolidWorks Industrial Design product at SolidWorks World 2015, and while we still lack some really critical information (Uh, price?), a lot of the fuzz is finally coming into focus. We spread some misinformation on The Twitters yesterday, so today we set the record straight. Here’s what we know so far, and, just as importantly, what we don’t.

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In RADIO

SolidSmack Radio | SolidWorks World 2015 Edition

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This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new playlist of face-melting great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days. So whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw or flying through a CAD model, consider these tracks as…

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