We covered GrabCAD when it first came on the scene as a place to outsource your design ideas. They’ve grown, adjusted, sprouted some fat ol’ love handles of the 3D modeling variety and have now, become a place to share your models. At it’s heart, it’s a community and, I believe, adding some much needed simplicity to sharing models.
AutoCAD for Apple Mac is here. Not only that, the scaled down version, AutoCAD WS, is here for the iPhone and the iPad. We’ve not got the brief, video or screenshots of what it looks like yet, but needless to say, this has been a longtime CAD on the Mac fiend desire. The OS X version releases October for $3,995. Free mobile versions for iPhone, iPad and iPod to follow.
Once you’re able to buckle the bread ends down sufficiently, it’s all a matter of how you apply the jelly. In this case, you’ll need a shovel, a big one, and these links. Brent Nolasco – No portfolio, but his blog is filled with much of his amazing acrylic paintings and vinyl/resin customs. Linguistics puzzles…
…or , you know, will simply mark the day in which SolidWorks 2011 is launched. Just check SolidWorksLaunch.com. Now, don’t read this wrong. SolidWorks 2011 isn’t shipping next week.
It’s currently in Beta 3, but you will start being barraged with unreasonable amounts of coverage, including a wee bit from SolidSmack. Have something you’re wondering about the next version?
They can. It use to be that you had to take a PDF into Adobe Illustrator and export a .dxf file to get usable data out of the PDF file. That is no longer the case thanks to a handy little site called, wait for it… ConvertPDFtoAutoCAD.com. It’s different from other options in that it’s completely web-based.
All it requires is the PDF file, an email to send the converted file to and an attitude that says, “I’m gonna convert the PDF and you can’t stop ME!” It’s fast too. Here’s a quick look.