I know what’s been keeping you awake at night. Small, indescribable flashes of light, a mustache, and software UI’s changing because someone in a drunken stupor said ‘ribbon’ instead of ‘simple.’ It’s easy to discuss how some things in the engineering software industry come to be and even easier to show you one place where that and early onset liver inflammation happens.
It comes down to this. A typically Tuesday morning with nothing but the smell of hard work in the air, lukewarm coffee and multiple ways to make 3D happen. We had just over 50 entires in the Rock Your Desktop contest, which correlates to just over 50 GrabCAD portfolio submissions you should check out via the comments of that last link. One is the winner of a 3DConnexion SpacePilot PRO.
The winner is…
The tilly titmouse toddled down the trail. Long had he wandered through the hanging blades of umbrella grass, wondering what bubbled on the other side of the brook. It happened one day he came upon a hole. “Into, but not Outo.” read the sign. Odd, he though, never seeing it before and chalked in the…
I’ll give you two guesses. If people upload 3D models to a library where other people can view and download the models, what’s going to happen? A mauling by rabid dogs is NOT the right answer… but it’s close. Apparently if there are free models, people will attack them like carnivorous beasts to download and have their way with them. Was there any doubt?
GrabCAD, the engineering community startup which promotes such practices, has crossed the threshold of 100,000 downloads. The free CAD model library is growing community of users who love sharing their models and seizing others. Along with this milestone is some interesting data the GrabCAD crew has accumulated about the community. What is the most popular CAD Software used? What are the popular models? What categories are people interested in? All this and more awaits you…
Last week, while Josh was in a travel-weary coma, I went through his wallet and found his login to SolidSmack. (Your wallet, Josh? That’s pretty lame, man.) I choose to abuse my new found access to the SolidSmack media empire by writing this rant… directed towards Wacom.