The hive rose off the back of the rock golem. A swarm thick enough to shroud it in a wisping darkness tumbled around each half floating step. And clinging to its ribs, rock goats, hopping from ledge to ledge, gnawing on these links. Finn MacManus – Ultra-superb abstraction reeling through the void of space, across…
Do you use CATIA V6? Have you dreamt of seeing it load a large assembly? Are you curious about the future interface of SolidWorks or SolidWorks Live Buildings? Say no more! To some, the CATIA user interface is a mystery, a deep, endless turntable of parts and assemblies to explore and a mix of products to leave you wondering where to start. Today, we’ll take a brief glimpse at the CATIA V6 user interface and the concept of a workshop with multiple ‘Workbenches’ that it uses.
You may have thought it, you may have sensed it, you may have felt it rub up against your ear and frighten you slightly. GrabCAD has closed another round of funding. This time, the 3D model-pumpin’ engineering community means million dollar business. Filling the roster of investment firms, they have Matrix Partners, Atlas Venture and NextView Ventures. Up alongside this group sit 4 other angel investors, John McEleney (former SolidWorks CEO), Jon Stevenson (Shape Data/Parasolid development), Alex Ott (QLIK,Siebel,SAP) and Angus Davis (TellMe). All together, they’re bringing $1.1 Million to the bank account of Boston-based GrabCAD. But even more, they bring industry knowledge and start-up experience to help push this start-up to the next level.
Don’t you wish you could just shake someone vigorously and have a beautiful rendering pop out? I do. I’ve tried it and the results are not beautiful and you’re no closer to a rendering than you were before. However, there are programs that can do for you what your firm grip can not. Bunkspeed Shot is one and it’s simply speedy to knock out some 3D images worth your day’s salary. We’ll look at how it works, the best features it has and how to get the best results.
Scoreloop, a social gaming platform company based out of Munich, announced today they have been acquired by RIM, the company behind Blackberry and the Playbook. The acquisition was as much for the Scoreloop personnel as the technology behind the world-wide scoring system for mobile gaming. This gives an indication of RIM’s new direction, but does it mean anything to designers?