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Learn it Yourself. SolidWorks 2011 Video Training.

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Well, it’s not every day you come in from towel whipping pigeons, sit down to your computer, swat away a few feathers and find a screen full of fresh SolidWorks video tutorials waiting for you. Today is such a day. Left coast bad-boy Alex Ruiz, who you may know as the SolidWorks Geek, has been busy over the past year putting together one of the most complete SolidWorks courses I’ve believe I’ve seen in modern times. It’s called SolidWorks 2011 Video Training (aff) and packs a beefy 96 lessons into 11.5 hours of personal Ruiz-style, video instruction.

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Astronomers Stoked. Most Complete 3D View of Universe, 43,000 Galaxies.

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Turns out this black void we live in is fairly large, and fairly 3D dimensional. Over a period of 10 years, astronomers led by the late, great John Huchra mapped the depths of the universe out to 380 million light years. Yeah, to Cleveland and back. It’s the largest, most complete map to date sportin’ the color codes to tell you just how far away that spec on the left really is. The 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) map was presented last month and can now be seen it all of it’s 2-dimensional jpeg glory.

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CADFaster iPad app Devours 3D, Spits Out Collaboration… for Free… Kind of. [Video]

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We’ve seen iPad apps that allow you to view your 3D models, but nothing adding the cranial crushing aspects of collaboration. Except for one…

We first caught a glimpse of the CADFaster iPad app at SolidWorks World 2011. Since then they’ve lit the switch on development and added features on par with the desktop version of CADFaster | Collaborate. It launches from the iTunes store this month and starting off, it will be absolutely free. Details and videos after the break.

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ShapeDad One-Ups Wacom's Bamboo stylus: Makes Eco Stylus Out Of Actual Bamboo

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After my rant about Wacom’s announcement of their aluminum Bamboo Stylus for iPads—and all other capacitive screens—Shapedad’s Ivo Beckers got ahold of me and asked me to try out his Eco Stylus. Turns out, it is actually made of bamboo. I waited until I had a good bit of experience with the new stylus before writing my thoughts down. Read my full review after the jump.

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Free Download for 30+ Autodesk Products… If You're a Student

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You know who love students? I mean, really, REALLY loves student? Autodesk. They’re getting all giddy with excitement about their relationship with students (who in the past have been the biggest software pirating extension of the Autodesk marketing plan *ahem*) and making it possible to turn their passion for learning into a passion for all…

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