Last week, it was announced that Luxion was updating their popular Keyshot 5 rendering platform to make your CAD rendering game even more flexible and powerful. The update includes everything from new procedural textures and options, support for the growing lineup of multi-touch PCs, Apple Retina Display support and more. Yesterday, Denmark-based Sørensen Leather released…

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 a portable 3D visualizer to a nifty woodworking tool for nailing those dimensions in right…the first time.

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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This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days.

We’ll start off with the ‘Lambeth‘ from Burial and work our way through some Caribou, Powell, Massive Attack and others before wrapping up with ‘Mad Blunted Jazz‘ from DJ Cam.

Do you have any suggestions for next week’s playlist? How about a playlist specific to a design task? Let us know in the comments!