Today, from the great wild yonder of the iTunes App store comes the design tool of the century, or at least the next few days. Whatever you call it, if you have an iPhone and like to sketch, you’ll love it. AutoDesk has released a mobile version of its SketchBook Pro product upon the masses. It’s appropriately called SketchBook Mobile and it is so ready to be downloaded, used and reviewed. That’s exactly what we’re gonna do, plus give you a comparison of the features with similar apps you may like to know about as well.
Five minutes from now, you will know two ways to recess a surface in SolidWorks. They won’t necessarily crush your skull, but they may expand it slightly by enriching your mind with the power of sketch, surface and split face features. It seems like there should be one feature to recess a surface in SolidWorks. It’s simple on a flat surface, a cut with a draft. But for a curved surface? Now, that’s a whole other beast and requires much more than one feature to create. Fortunately, you have at least two methods. Let’s Rock.
How many times do you see a product design and think, “How could this possibly be manufactured at a reasonable cost?” The ‘YellowClip’ Clothesline Clip designed by Paul Sandip is just one of those designs that brings up such questions. It’s curvy, it doesn’t rust, it’s available in a variety of colors and it looks like a tooling nightmare. Is it? How in the blazes do you think this simple design could be manufactured?
If you sneak in the back-door of just about any company you will find they have their own unique way of developing products. And why not, they’ve had engineering practices created over decades that would make most people slip into a paper-induced coma. Chrysler has their own special mix as well. It’s a fancy phrase called ‘Knowledge-Based Engineering’ and helped them stretch a Charger into a Challenger and cut development time to 21 months. It’s all set up to take advantage of what they’ve already developed. So what, you say? Well, let’s see the news, toss out some unrelated speculation and then watch their competitor’s car transform.
It’s that intense chill of power you feel when you run screaming through a gypsum-board wall right before you throw-up and pass out from a mild concussion. If only you had implements of destruction better suited to your surly demeanor. Christian Ristow has just what you’re looking for. A three-fingered claw. Made out of Aluminum. Powered with hydraulics. That looks freagin’ tough. Get your forearms in shape. You’re gonna look cool… and also have trouble eating a sandwich like a normal person… but cool nonetheless.
Suddenly you hear a *pop* and all the anticipation of creating imaginative 3D models you’ve stored up over the weekend leaks onto your timesheet.There’s no stuffing that gooey mess back in, but there are a few fresh bits of 3D perfection you’ll want to view to get you momentum back. They stretch from graphical to physical, but all have a unique look into structure and space; how we see it, how we use it and how it uses us to mess with another person’s mind. It’s all fun though, but mostly… all amazing.