Pretending there was time, he shook the dust from the vest. It wasn’t as if the tentacles provided any additional power, but they did have a nice effect against the setting sun, whilst rocketing through the air in a face-off against these links. Raku Inoue – What better way to present something in 3D than…

Well, peel the skin off my heels! That’s probably/exactly what you said as you were pulled down the street in your bare feet whilst discovering a new episode of Cool Tools of Doom n’ Stuff–like a healing salve for seriously sensitive road rash. Ya know what? 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!

Remember Alibre? That’s what people will be saying after today (or may have already been saying.) Alibre is the company and makers of Alibre Design 3D modeling software that was acquired by 3D Systems in July of 2011. As of today, Alibre is combined with Geomagic, the makers of Geomagic Studio 3D scanning software (and other design, inspection and haptic products) that was acquired by 3D Systems this past January. Now 3D systems has merged Alibre with Geomagic–the two become one; a big, happy geometry-shaping family. 3D modeling bliss and water-tight mesh babies soon after?

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 brings us a whole new slew of upbeat face-melting ear juice from the likes of Munnibrotherz, Tame Impala, and Menomena to Surfer Blood, Grieves, and Sigur Ros.

Wondering how the future of cloud-based 3D CAD is developing? More and more services are coming online with cloud-based offerings and Autodesk is certainly leading the way in both offloading processing for simulation and having complete access to your software and data via a web connection–it’s the whole anytime, anywhere scenario and they just announced pricing for the 3D design development portion of their growing 360 portfolio.