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Get Your Jewelry On With iRing3D iPad App

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Shocking and amazing. Creating something on the iPad, instead of absorbing the limitless digital content, browsing design variations instead of movie options, sending in an order of that design to be printed instead of sending in orders for a large deep-pan pizza. The iRing3D iPad app has done it. It’s all simple and quite basic – drag some points, adjust, send to Shapeways or Sculpteo for your own 3D printed jewelry creation. However, there’s an interesting aside that foretells a bit about creating designs on mobile touchscreen devices and perhaps about CAD interfaces themselves.

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Friday Smackdown: Stastasisis

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When churning the walkways of the wild burrows, we happened upon this site. A fire, five barrels and atop each one a wee man and a sprite. “Fine and dandy,” said he. “But you have metal teeth for legs. And where your nose and eye should be, are tubes of these links instead.” Helen Kaur…

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Aras Turns SolidWorks into a Data Chuckin' PLM Workflow Beast

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Sometimes making a claw fist and putting it front of your CAD data doesn’t have the data manipulating effect you want it to. Nope, neither does two claw fists or the hiss of a toothless cat. What will scare that data into a finely structured process flow and multi-level bill of material is a little thing-a-ma-bop called PLM… Product Lifecycle Management. It doesn’t get more exciting boys and girls. Many a CAD software developer has top-heavy application to handle all that, but Aras is breaking the decaying mold of data management, first by delivering a product that’s open source and as of this week, delivering another product that takes the SolidWorks Enterprise PDM system you have spent years implementing and extends the living workflow right out of it. It’s called Aras-EPLM and if you’re a SolidWorks data-org-whore, or involved with SolidWorks data in any way, you’re gonna love it…

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Engineer vs. Designer! Rich Hurrey Talks modo, Animation, Rigging and More

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As you may know (or not), digital puppet-maker and modo rigging master, Rich Hurrey of Pixar Animation Studios, has recently released new modo 501 Rigging Master Course. After years in the works and a spectacular video production that explains all the possibilities of animating models with modo, it’s definitely a course to pick up. Rich was also kind enough to join us on the Engineer vs Designer podcast, Episode 13 (woot!), and it pretty much rocked our world. Unfortunately, being only a 20 minute show, we weren’t able to include nearly everything we wanted in the final cut. We’re adding an extended audio interview to EvD, but we wanted even more. So today on SolidSmack, we want to connect the dots.

And if that weren’t enough inducement to read on, what about $25 off said rigging course? We thought so. Coupon code after the jump.

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Cloud CAD Search is Here. How to Start Using Inforbix in 20 minutes.

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First, I totally GANKED (part of) that headline from the Inforbix post on the same topic. That’s how I roll. But let’s hold back the onslaught on data digging for a sec and address something. Inforbix. I understand. It’s hard to say it… without shredding your throat lining by screaming it as loud as you can. So, go ahead. Get it out of your system. Now, let’s move on. Inforbix has launched. What is it? From their site, “Inforbix is a web-based data consumption solution available for purchase on a yearly subscription basis.” In other words, search all of your CAD data, wherever it is, from wherever you are. The base package is FREE. We’ve covered how it works. Here’s how to get started using it.

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