What’s simple, carries no obligation and only cost $49? No, not a massive black tarp to wrap yourself and fear of curdled mayonnaise in. It’s the new CAD service portal from model grabbin’, resource addin’ GrabCAD.

You may know of their web based library one can use to share, discuss and download 3D models. Now, they’re expanding the site to include a cheap, no frills CAD service you can use to have your designs modeled and drawings detailed.

The wood pulp dripped from its teeth. Certainly, this was no ordinary beavoid. For on its tail were 10 foot spines and a gray mist rising from its underbelly with the pungency of these links. Tyler Stout – Dark lines and deep shading in a mish mash of illustrative style that’ll make you slap your…

This week, a deep, thought-provoking poll that really matters. One that paws like a toothless rat against the marshmallowy film of time. Everybody knows drawing revisions are better represented as… what? Letters or numbers? How about letters and numbers? Should we even have a choice? Should 14 year old standards been thrown out with the filing cabinets? This is where it finally gets decided…

What do banjos have to do with the 7th release of SpaceClaim’s namesake product? Only everything. You can model a banjo in SpaceClaim, 4 of 5 bluegrass groups recommend SpaceClaim (unofficially), and Blake Courter, cofounder of SpaceClaim, who gave us a demo of 2011 and it’s multi-touch capabilities, plays the banjo (proof at the end of the post.)

Enough said? I think so. This version of SpaceClaim, above all, shows how the program has matured and where they’re concentrating the updates. Here’s a quick look at what you’ll see and most likely value in, what some would call, the reigning king of direct modeling development.