In CONTESTS

GrabCAD Amarok Superbike Design Content. Still Time to Enter.

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How would you like to stand dangerously close to the most light-weight superbike in the world as it flew by you? Yes? Well then, how would you like to be part of the team that design a wee, light-weight bit of it? HECK YEAH! If you’re game, then you’ll want to jump on the challenge from GrabCAD and electric motorcycle racing Amarok. The challenge is to “re-design the triple clamp for the Amarok P1 zero emission race bike that is competing to win the International Formula 75 TTXGP Championship.” The winner receives an iPad 2. But hurry, the contest ends June 1st!

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Troxbo

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The cause had been established. The tooth ox took action. Pushing a back hoof off the wall and the other off the face of the lipless, old man he propelled himself up, through the air, twisting around the darts of the fire leopard’s tongue. Landing, he focused, drew his gaze and shot the explosive terror…

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In DESIGN

The Ease of Architecture in SolidWorks: Project Frog

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Creating amazing looking structures using SolidWorks… Many doubt it, others toy with it and still others know just how to blend the capabilities to make it possible.

Project Frog, out of San Francisco, CA, is one of the later. They’ve got sweet looking, highly efficient, modular building systems down in a big way. They do it all in SolidWorks and have even extending it to use with Luxology’s modo preset and rigging capabilities. From concept to construction each piece of structure is designed to fit together perfectly. Ryan Olson, Product Design Engineer for Project Frog was kind enough to provide the specifics of how they take on architectural structures and explains exactly why it works.

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