Ya know, when you’ve come inside from a hard day of unnecessary antelope slapping, there’s bound to be some thoughts going through your head about how to make curved shapes in SolidWorks without overwhelming your mind.

Over at the 3DVisions blog, chief antelope slapper and CSWP, Randy Simmons shows you how to make a Quick surface curved 2 directions. It’s a great technique. One we want to slap into the ground like an unruly Kudu that’s had one too many ginger ales. Here’s how it’s done and a little example to give you an idea about some applications.

Coffee. 3D. Headphones. The purest ingredients in the day-to-day dance-off between your brain and that 3D geometry jittering to the succulent sound-waves in your ears. Oh yeeaah. You are in the groove.

So are a slew of other people you may know of. Thanks to the relationship between Facebook and Pandora a few weeks ago, you can now see what your Facebook friends are listening to on your Pandora Radio interface. You can even listen along, or make fun of them for bookmarking Morrissey.

You can learn about a lot a person by what music they listen to. Namely, how cool they are. Here are 15 people in the CAD industry scene, that I’m friends with (till they see that I’ve posted this), and the music they listen to while livin’, workin’ and groovin’ to the beat.

What’s better than exporting out an .STL file and uploading your precious 3D geometry to be printed? Not exporting an .STL, that’s what.

Today Shapeways releases their 3D print add-in for SolidWorks which allows you direct upload capability from the SolidWorks user interface. There are other 3D print add-ins for SolidWorks but none with the visibility that Shapeways has and certainly none with the same amount of options and materials to go from digital to physical overnight. Here are more details to get you printing.

Why I remember when we would empty that rusty container… so long ago. It smelled of butter and when you saw what crawled out… son, you’d throw these links right at’em. Dan Blomberg – This chunky, dark illustration style of Dan Blomberg pops of detail. Scenes, vehicles and fabulous buildings. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World…