The small cichlid examined it’s surroundings. To it’s surprise there were sea berries to eat, plankton to befriend then devour and most of all, a link for every eyeball and fin. Toby Lewin – Wow. Wonderfully rich environments for the few that are there. Check out his blog for more work plus some 3D. Nacho…

I’m shaking my head right now. Tears are welling up in my eyes as my PC scrapes it’s fingers across the blackboard of the boot sequence. Grueling, especailly on a computer in major need of being kicked through a hard surface.

Jorge Rui, a SolidWorks user and Mechanical Engineer, is NOT experiencing the same feeling. He uses a MacBook Pro 17″ i5 with 4GB of RAM. He boots into Windows XP SP3 using the new Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac. It’s insanely fast and I’m sure you’ll enjoy seeing it and knowing how it’s happening.

You could stab the stuffing out of the SolidWorks documentation, but you won’t find the mention of BIM or AEC anywhere. What you will find is another cushiony three letter acronym synonymous with both, IFC.

In fact, for SolidWorks 2011, you’ll see a little .IFC format compatibility, the addition of walk-through visualization, and special reference geometry to help in the creation of tiny… or massive grid structures. They are three features being added to push SolidWorks kickin’ and screaming onto the AEC dance floor. Does it have the moves and the mojo to groove?

With all the touchscreen craziness we’ve seen over the past few years, there are about 500 direction future screen technology could go. Personally, I won’t be satisfied until they’re formable, edible and can be wrapped around my face like a make-shift Halloween mask.

Some people have other ideas, and the perfect organization to compile them all into one meaty video presentation is TAT. TAT knows 3D user interface design. They not only conceptualize fancy interfaces, their technology is currently used in 20% of all touch phones.

They recently held the TAT Open Innovation experiment. They gathered comments, ideas, dreams and wishes ranging from enhancing mobile interaction to embedding screen tech into every aspect of your life… Face it. You can’t escape. They even think we’ll see this technology by 2014. Here’s the video and the highlights. What’s your vote for new screen tech?

With all the software release news as of late, your 2D CAD on a Mac dreams are either a repeating nightmare or a pleasure feast of .dmg delight. First with the announcement of ARES on the Mac then with Autodesk publicly announcing they would soon release AutoCAD on the Mac… along with it’s little brother, AutoCAD WS, on the iPhone and iPad.

You could try Graebert’s ARES, but you’ll eventually have to pay the $995. You could wait for AutoCAD and dish out $4000. Or, you could hop over to DraftSight.com and feel the unfettered freedom of FREE. Whatcha gonna do?