In 3D CAD TECH

Multi-Touch Gestural Modeling with Beautiful Modeler is… Beautiful

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You know when you stick your hand in a jar of jelly, you’re in for a sticky mess… but you do it anyway. Maybe you do it to entertain the kids, but really, there’s nothing quite like manipulating bits of gelatinous grape paste into odd and inventive shapes.

Interactive Fabrications is bringing you the same experience, only without the mess. They’ve developed a very simple interface to manipulate 3D geometry using multi-touch gestures via an iPad. It’s called Beautiful Modeler and I must say, it’s quite beautiful.

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In NEWS

More on Creo. Subdivision Modeling and Rendering Tech

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So, last week PTC announced their future Pro/E-CoCreate replacement, Creo. There were two bits of functionality that made me grab my jaw and yank hard. They had subdivision modeling happening within the history-based modeling environment, with the ability to drive it parametrically alongside the other geometry. They also featured an AnyRole app to take on any rendering. Once again, in the same environment. What technology is behind it? Here’s what PTC’s Mike Campbell had to say to our probing questions.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Liberugala

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Crunch. Crunch. Walking across the icy branches of dark Manitoban forest made the discomfort of the thumping unbearable. That is, until he realized this one thing. The thumping was he and the icy branches were these links. Giuseppe Severino – I love good air ship/space craft art. A few hatches, a few antennas and some…

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In FAB

Create Your Own 3D Printed Fluid Vase Supabold Style on i.materialise

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Glass vases, metal vases, vases made of wood, vases made of bone, vases fashioned out of the screams of the undead… even though you hoard all these types of vases, there’s probably one you don’t have yet. A 3D printed vase created from the generative form of liquid entering an empty vessel. Sounds poetic doesn’t it. WELL IT IS.

What’s even more awesome is that you can make your very own vase: customize, preview, print… Supabold? Supa cool.

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In CAD

Turn it Up. Free SolidWorks Complex Surfacing Speaker Tutorial

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Matthew Perez is at it again. You may remember the Camaro tutorial he provided last month. This time he’s going a tad smaller, but blasting just as much sweet surfacing knowledge as before.

Matthew’s tutorial is for a JBL Duet Multimedia PC Speaker. He shows, top to bottom, the process of laying out planes, lofting surfaces as well as how to work with splines and boundary surfaces to create your very own skull pounding speaker model.

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