As time goes on, we are quickly seeing an ever-changing job market. Many employers are looking for new designers with additive manufacturing skills in their bag of tricks. Along with new technology comes new opportunities, and in our realm of 3d design that means instant gratification, well pretty close anyways. These days, you can set…
Earlier this week, SolidSmack reported on Local Motors’ latest project, the Strati. Having began with a crowdsourced design competition, the Strati is a single-print 3D printed electric car that is pushing Local Motors into a new territory as an on-demand automobile manufacturer. Presented as a part of the International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014 in Chicago,…
Red Lines? Green Lines? Perpendicular? Let me see the pen! This short highlights the craziness that can happen in client meetings and according to the the filmmakers, “illustrates how hard it is for an engineer to fit into the corporate world”. Definitely worth 7 minutes and 34 seconds of your time today…
The ‘Hump Day Hot Tips’ series from our industrial design training site cadjunkie has been off to a great start after three weeks of looking at splines in SolidWorks. This week, industrial designer Adam O’Hern takes a look at how to avoid inflections and gain better control over your splines using the most common spline…
We all have lived through those excruciatingly painful moments when a knob of cold, hard butter refused to spread easily on a slice of bread. Whose fault is it – the cold butter, the clumsy knife, the bread or your will to have a buttered slice? To satisfy such whimsical cravings and more, DM Initiatives…