In DESIGN

The Amazing Vehicle and Yacht Design of Ramazan Kaya

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I love a good yacht design. Particularly if it’s covered with mermaids, seahorses and has sails covered with the illustrative history of sea serpents. Fortunately for you, Ramazan Kaya doesn’t share my appreciation of sea legends and instead prefers to amaze you with in incredibly stylish design. He’s known for his Yacht designs, but had just as many examples of curve-shifting, conceptual car design. We caught up with him to get his take on the process and what he feels is the most the most important factor for creating 3D concepts.

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In NEWS

GrabCAD Hits 10,000+ Engineers. Top CAD Skills Revealed [Infographic]

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If 10,000 engineers in a single room makes you a bit nervous, you’ve not seen anything yet. GrabCAD is growing like hotcakes… Yes, hotcakes grow, ON HOTCAKE TREES. And it’s a well know fact that engineers can sustain themselves for hours on nothing but hotcakes. They also enjoy sharing models and providing input on models other people share. GrabCAD happens to be the perfect place to do that and the fancy infographic they’ve put together shows you exactly why. With knowledge of 161 different CAD products and versions, these engineers are bustin’ the seam of software-handling skill and making a name for themselves at the same time. Check out what the most popular CAD software is and what’s going on with the GrabCAD community.

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In 3D CAD TECH

New Kickstarter Project Promises Desktop CNC Fun for $300

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Ever built a CNC machine? I have. You never, ever hit your budget. Usually it’s because you don’t count on shipping costs or having to deal with sourcing hardware/parts from many different distributors. If you’re trying to recreate a project from instructables, you obviously missed the part where the author failed to mention he spent years scavenging parts to get the total project cost down. I don’t have years, I want my CNC now! Well, there’s hope for you! Project ShapeOko promises a build totaling under $300 for a 12’x12’x8′ cutting area. A summary of the project and why I just pledged $100 after the break.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Dreckrelot

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The herder stooped down to pick the violet. There were millions. But, what was this? He looked closer… and closer. These were not violets. What he had plucked from the earth was a small purple goat. It looked at him with its beady eyes and said, “These links, they are delicious.” Orlando Aquije Abarca -…

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In REVIEWS

The (Kinda) Anti-Benchmark NVIDIA Quadro 2000 Review

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Imagine the possibilities of having all the raw GPU power you can handle. Then imagine a bit less, then just a tad more. That’s where NVIDIA’s Quadro 2000 sits, right in the middle. The Quadro 2000 is NVIDIA’s latest mid-range graphics card pushing memory up to 1GB from the previous Quadro FX 1800 and updates the CAD crunching computation of their CUDA technology. It was just last year that NVIDIA launched the Quadro 2000. We talked about it of course, but now we’ve been able to test it out. You’ll see no benchmarks here though. Foul things. We’ll tell you what works, what doesn’t work and ultimately what you need to look for in a GPU for 3D modeling.

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