3D Systems isn’t messing around in 2013. Despite some new products having lackluster performance, they have managed to prove that an arsenal of ‘whipped cream pies in your face’ is the best strategy for developing hype and getting your attention. Somehow amongst promoting their new product releases at CES 2013, they managed to earn the ‘Best of CES 2013 Award for Emerging Tech” while hosting musicians playing 3D printed instruments at their booth, and still found time to release a platform for modelers and developers to cash in on apps centered around 3D printing.
This is a story from Mark Biasotti on his journey of advanced surface modeling in SolidWorks, from a Senior Industrial Designer at IDEO to a Senior Product Manager at Dassault SolidWorks. SolidWorks Doesn’t Do Trains, Planes and Automobiles originally appeared on the SolidWorks forum. Republished with permission. Back in the fall of 2002, while working for IDEO, I had an idea to see how far I could take SolidWorks 2003 Beta (SolidWorks’ first multi-body version) and I conceived of an idea to create the Aston Martin Vanquish V12 that was featured in the latest James Bond movie Die another Day. The SolidWorks car model was introduced to the SolidWorks community…
The ground cover was softer than he first imagined. A dampness lit by the reflections of light breaking through eroded the shadows, leaving the traveler distracted. But just for a moment. For within the fall of a footstep, where moisture rose like steam, a click was heard, a dry reverb, and thus appeared these links. Rogério Puhl – His color art illustration is brilliant, but the black & white and subdued palette he uses for some is a beautiful contrast. Shlian – In times like these, I can’t pass up anything related to paper folding. Matt Shlian folds geometric paper sculptures with the best of them. Face Sound – Daito…
While you may or may not necessarily be a fan of his show, Glenn Beck welcomed a MakerBot Replicator 2 on his show recently and proclaimed the device “The latest, greatest technology…Jobs will come back to America.” Conservative radio isn’t necessarily known for insights on radical technology…but Glenn seems to be a 3D printing believer.
Perhaps you were dazzled by the enchanting tote-and-row spectacle of the Oru folding Kayak. So much so, that you’ve been on a quest to collect, study and ascertain the benefits of small, folding watercraft. Enter Foldboat. Foldboat is a seamless, hard shell, folding boat fabricated from a single sheet of HDPE plastic and when people see you carry it over, fold it up and slap it down in the park pond, there’s no doubt you’ll turn some heads.
Sit up straight! Grit those teeth! DON’T MOVE. Here’s just one of the many items we missed in our predictions for this year. Hand-held camera scanners. We saw a slew of prototypes last year, from devices tied into a Kinect, like ReconstructMe, to slick, smaller versions like the ARMADA concept. Lynx Laboratories is preparing to launch a Kickstarter project on January 15th that will finally bring a more consumer-friendly version to the scan space.