In DESIGN

Swarm Kicks It Up a Notch, Drops Design Cost… How they Did It.

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Why it was just a couple months ago that we wrote about a design outfit named Swarm. They were convinced that everyone with a bike could use a bike clamp which doubled as a bottle opener. They still are.

Swarm has relaunched their Bike Clamp/Bottle Opener project, but this time the goal is a paltry $2,500. Quite different from the $15,000 before. How was the cost reduced by over %80? Jon Hart gives us the breakdown of the contact made, the process used and some ideas you may be able to apply to your own project to cut the cost.

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In NEWS

SpaceClaim Bringin' Fat New Level of Complexity to 3D CAD

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Wow. SpaceClaim. Wow. It’s truly hard to find the words for what I’m reading. You always wonder who it’s going to be. Who is the company bringing new breath to the process of stacking geometry on top of geometry to form our ideas. I think we have the answer. I’ve pasted the full story sent in from SpaceClaim below. Prepare to be amazed by the NEW complexity…

Update:SpaceClaim hasn’t officially released this to the newswires yet, so it’s the first you’ll see of it. I’m also told that there may be double-dongled versions available which will allow you to run multiple copies simultaneously across different computer, whereby allowing an unprecedented level of collaboration by letting people watch you model in real-time. All hail complexity.

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Friday Smackdown: Vales Velour

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Thunder! Thunder! The beckoning came. Long had anyone known how the skies engulfed the flames. Save for on small boy with a dog and a peach, setting out on a quest in a search for these links. Alex ChinYu Chu – See sketches strewn about the finished work of environment and vehicle excellence. South Dakota…

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PTC's Creo Gets the App Slap.

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Names. They usually end up on lists we create of those who have offended us in some way or on lists of desired nicknames we hand out to people in the office.

Somehow, though, I imagine names like Sketch, Schematic and Simulate are not on those lists. For PTC, it’s different. They have a list now. A list of names. And it’s these names you will come to know as the future product line of Creo apps. Even more, it shows what apps will be in the first batch of the Creo app attack.. and which will not. Prepare yourself.

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In 3D CAD TECH

Wow. Super Slick Light Detection Makes Augmented 3D Shine

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You know those days when you look left, then right, then left again, then tear a massive flashlight from your chest, shining it in your eyes with a scream that makes invisible spheres appear?

That may be the precursor to the augmented reality tech your about to turn you crispy fried eyes upon. It combines viewing virtual object through the screen with detection of physical light upon the object. It’s a thing of beauty and a step closer to the visual interaction of 3D geometry.

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