This is what it comes down to… After getting kicked out of a parakeet aviary while attempting to unbox an HP EliteBook 8740w in the midst of thousands of birds, there’s only one thing left to do… unbox it on top of a bear. This past weekend I received a VERY loaded HP EliteBook 8740w Workstation from the nice folks at HP. Why? It’s all part of HP’s plan to take over various parts of the world, including taco stands and the great outdoors. And SolidSmack is in on the action.
Well, shove some translated geometry in my eye! Here’s something you may not have known. Dassault (SolidWorks) has developed a CATIA to SolidWorks translator so you can import the hundreds of millions of CATIA files you’ve stored up over the years. It doesn’t ship with SolidWorks. It’s not anywhere in the software. It’s not a free add-on or a download available through the SolidWorks Customer Portal. It’s only available through one place. Any guesses?
Our models. They’re dead… dead, pasty monoliths of engineering excellence plagued by the cold touch of a default color scheme. It must end. You must show the world what you’ve got and as the result, risk the chance of winning the ultimate in speed rendering technology, a license of KeyShot 2 Pro.
GrabCAD and KeyShot are punching up the Pantone possibilities to see what kind of MCAD rendering you can create. The rendering doesn’t even have to be created using KeyShot. Just upload a model, a screenshot of your slickest image and you’re automatically entered to win one of three prizes. Here are all the details.
The pickles flew by as stood there, poised, ready to take on whatever came next, but little did I know it would be the juice of a thousand more pickles, mixed in the fire of five types of garlic and boiled in these links. Marek Okon – A handful of Marek’s amazing illustrations, some walkthroughs…
When collaborating on a design, there are just so many blood vessels you can pop before you scare your co-workers to jaw-tensing tears. It can be frustrating. Collaboration and discussion about a design should be simple, visual, and not leave you feeling completely defeated… Get ready for this.
CADFaster is taking on design collaboration and their approach couldn’t be more intriguing. A light-weight .exe with everything you need. Tuomas Holma, VP Sales and Marketing for CADFaster, gave us a special hands-on demonstration to show the feature-rich action of the application and how it works over the web.