I have long been wondering who would sink their teeth into the succulent cad-driven tissue of Inforbix. Today, that happened. Autodesk announced earlier this morning that they have “acquired certain assets of Inforbix, LLC.” Inforbix produces product data applications with their main web-based product focus on visualizing your data wherever it is located from anywhere you are located. Those deep-data sifting capabilities are now in the hands of Autodesk.
Too late! This contest is over! See the winners below in the comments section and stay tuned for more contests and giveaways on SolidSmack!
It’s been a while since we’ve had a giveaway on SolidSmack. The tips of our elbows tend to get dry and scaly when that happens, so let’s spread the moisturizing bliss of free software on them. ahhh. I know you’re all going to love this. Backup4all is backup and restore software and while it serves the simple function that a lot of other backup software serves, it has loads of configuration options that put it a couple notches above the others. We’re giving away 10 copies of the Pro version and throwing in another big prize as well. Here’s a quick look and how to enter.
We usually save the less designy, more artisticy stuff for the Friday Smackdown, but these images are just too good to pass up. Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea is a surreal vision of life(?) on Mars as photograpghed and digitally enhanced by Kahn & Selesnick. The aspect we find fascinating is not only the imagery, but also the process that is behind it.
Even Grandma is getting into the act, posting her best 3D printable CAD models of lids that expand the usefulness of that ubiquitous items of every food preserving home, the Mason jar. Lifehacker gathered up a few from Thingiverse – SolidSmack added a few more. It started when a Thingiverse user uploaded his Mason jar lid. Then, all these ‘Grannies’ began physically remixing their own and coming up with the coolest canning ideas. Feast your eyes on these fresh beets after the jump!
RichRap out of Gloucester, UK has been colouring his work with a new type of multicolour and multi-material extruder. 3 filaments enter – only one can leave. That sounds like an epic extruder in my book. RichRap’s extruder produce vibrant yet oversaturated coloured prints – not really the fidelity you need to make exact replicas – but damn, what a step forward. More after the jump.