Do you know why its called “Complex Surfacing”? Because its complicated! I have spent several years specifically working with complex surfacing inside Solidworks. For awhile now I have been working on concept cars, motorcycles, consumer products and general ‘shape-y’ type stuff. I love the parametric design process, and I deal with all aspects of Solidworks…

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 ‘Movers and Shakers’ from Eaux and work our way through some Lone, Flying Lotus, Caribou and others before wrapping up with ‘Death to the Beat’ by Further Reductions.

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!

It is hard to disagree that when Swiss quality meets German precision, great things happen. Take the case when Thorsten Franck put the Delta Tower printer to good use in a project called 7DAYS7STOOLS. One of the objectives of this project was to find a new way of production for real objects in human scale.…