In CONTESTS

SolidSmack Awesome Sauce Design Contest: Over 70 Entries, 2 Weeks to Go!

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The SolidSmack Awesome Sauce Design contest is tearing full speed ahead with over 70 entries already. From submarines to furnitures, motorcycles and concept cars it’s a wonderful array of creative ideas . You can see all the entries here and get all the details for the contest here. However, if clicking that frightens you and you would like the quick and simple entry instructions, just see below. The last day to enter is Friday, September 23rd. Winners will be announced the following Friday, September 30th. Enter as many designs as you like and good luck!

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In CAD

SolidWorks 2012 Features and Tools to Speed the Design Workflow

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Who woulda thought that September would arrive, we’d begin prepping our Mason jars for the winter pickling and SolidWorks 2012 would be released to the early adopting hoards of SolidWorks users. Like many thing that come with a change of season, SolidWorks has fermented this release with tools taunted at SolidWorks Worlds of year’s gone past. Tools that go beyond modeling alone. You won’t see any massive shift to cloud based design, new OS support or a platform independent version, but you will get an increasingly utilitarian tool set good enough for machine design and product design alike. Here’s a quick look at what SolidWorks is packin’ into the pickle jar this year and how it’s set up to bring some sweet optimization to your current workflow.

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In CULTURE

How To Enhance Your Project Scope

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Ah, the project scope. The crucial document many of us follow as a guideline while we’re designing or engineering the next greatest thing. Its entire existence is to keep the focus by describing in detail the new product’s soon to be features, costs, and milestone dates. Love them or hate them, many of us couldn’t work without one. I’ve written dozens of scopes and over the years I’ve learned how to make them even better. Here is a way to bring more meaning to this famous document and consequently the work we produce. I call it… the Last Page.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Till Necker

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When the once orange line had been pulled through the rubble, clipping past the wire and rot, skipping over the broken pipes and membraned glaze of their metal husks, it all went quiet. There was something there. The veined splits appearing across our faces made it evident. It wasn’t dead. Without even thinking, we reached…

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