In CAD

SketchFab Gets Their Sculpt On, Launches SculptFab

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In a not too distant future, you’ll absorb your coffee through the air, control your home thermostat with third eyelash from your left eye and sculpt crazy alien faces in your browser. Actually, that last one is already here. It has been for some time as a open source port of a school project by Stephane Ginier called SculptGL. The crew at SketchFab thought it the perfect compliment to their web-based interactive 3D model viewer, so they set forth to create SculptGL + SketchFab. SculptFab was birthed with an improved UI and direct publish to SketchFab.

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In RADIO

SolidSmack Radio | Lust for Life

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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. This week we’ve unleashed some of the better ‘pick me up’ songs we’ve heard over the years—everybody could always use one of those, right? We’ll start by flying away with Frank Sinatra and move through some Nirvana, Don Henley, The Kooks, Girls, Prince, and others before wrapping up with some Paul Simon.

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In CAD

Droid Fans Rejoice. SolidWorks eDrawings for Android Now Available.

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Believe it folks. SolidWorks eDrawings for Android is real, living in a small bungalow at the corner of Google Play and awesome. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I’m not sure I would have believed it. We’ve heard it’s ‘Coming soon’ for the past six months. SolidWorks user Jack Owen was the first to comment on the app page, echoing the sentiment of other users of the alternate mobile OS saying, “Finally! We’re there!” Yes, indeed Jack, yes indeed.

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In COOL TOOLS

Cool Tools of Doom n' Stuff: Episode 31

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Brought to you this week by the heavenly taste of raw pig skin marinated in Sriracha ketchup and sun-dried mayonnaise, be sure to check out the all new episode of Cool Tools of Doom n’ Stuff! By the way, we love our SolidSmack readers! Have something cool you’ve come across and want to share it on SolidSmack? Don’t hide it in your neck skin! Send it on in to smoth@www.solidsmack.com. Kick it!

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Nurbular Mechnoid

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I looked in its eyes. It looked in mine. “Drop it like it is hot. Drop, drop it like it is hot,” it repeated in a desiccated, mechanical voice. It’s at this point I usually reminisce of the old days, when mechnoids lacked the access to early aught R&B chart topper lyrics. Still, it made…

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