In RESOURCES

Engineer vs. Designer… The Podcast.

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I think you know what would happen if you locked an engineer and designer in a room together at the same time with nothing more than a microphone and some bluesy background music. Yeah… they would lock eyes, squeeze their bowels and proceed to have an insightful conversation about design, engineering and other CAD related topics. Aaaaaaand, that’s exactly what has happened. It also turns out that I, Josh Mings, am one of the people stuck inside that room. The other is Adam OHern, industrial designer and purveyor of fine tips and tricks at CADjunkie.com. We’ve teamed up to bring you the first podcast of its kind, delivering CAD industry news and analysis, tips, tricks, Q&A and a special guest EACH Monday! It’s Engineer vs. Designer and it starts, today.

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In 3D CAD TECH

Ambiguously Named "Big Robot" Brings Large Scale 3D Printing Closer To Home

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Metrix Create: Space – a collective of evil geniuses in Seattle Washington – recently posted their first results out of their current project, Big Robot. It’s an old CNC machine repurposed to carry a scaled up version of the plastic extruder from the RepRap open source 3D printer project. Aside from being built from mostly Home Depot sourced materials, it has one other penny-pinching aspect that it just too cool: it uses shredded milk jugs as it’s printing material. A few more details and photos after the jump!

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In SOLIDSMACK NEWS

SolidSmack V3: Fresh Pot of Awesome, iPod Winner and More in Store

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The time has come. Like hot flaming liquid poured straight into a web server, pounded with a hambone made of lightning and set on the table for everyone to partake… the new SolidSmack site is LIVE. It’s about time also, the old site was kinda shiny lookin’ but had the content kickin’ factor of wadded cat hair. But enough about the past. It’s all about the future and where SolidSmack goes from here. You, of course, are a big part of that. The feedback on the survey was overwhelming and will form rubbery mold we shove the future of SolidSmack into. We’ve got a winner to announce from the survey and a little more to tell you about… a design contest in fact. Here we go!

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Holibob Alley

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The long, indistinguishable features of the razor prawn struck hard against the rancid air. Days had passed. The few of us who were left, attached what we could to our mechanized frames. Arms, actuators, a rigbots broken wheel or the jowltubes of a fallen brother. We had to do anything possible, anything to get to…

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In RESOURCES

ArtistX. Instantly Turn Your Computer Into a Full Multimedia Production Studio of Beauty

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If there’s one thing I like, it’s when someone takes all the software I would need to make a video of a dinosaur blowing fire-breathing snail babies out its nostril, and compiles it onto one DVD. Totally makes the job that much easier. ArtistX is exactly that tool. A complete OS kernel? no problem. 2500 free 2D, 3D, audio and video programs? NO PROBLEM. It’s all there, neatly organized into a self-launching multimedia production studio that will keep you locked to your computer screen the two minutes you’re actually away from it. Screenshots and download joys after the jump.

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