You know we can’t pass up a reference to embedding things into skulls, especially 3D. You could stab your eyes or computer screen with 3D data, but what it really takes to get 3D on the web is getting into that heinous web code.

Deelip Menezes-obertron 9 touches on that with a couple posts on the topic. Not too gory, except that he reveals a lot about how difficult it can be to embed 3D. We’ve talked about how to embed 3DVia objects on your website (and how developers should avoid using iframe – and closed formats for that matter.) Here’s my suggestions in order of ease of use.

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know… you’ve all got this down pat. 2D to 3D… 3D in 2D… no problem. But what about with video? and beyond that, within the environment of a 3D modeling program?

This is a look at a very well made ad from Samsung UK for their new super-thin 3D LED TV that displays their idea of 3D being that special part of our life. Imagine that. An LED TV is pretty impressive, but for the ad, they had to make the video on the TV’s look 3D. What’s even more impressive is the installation, which you’ll see in the second video.

So we wrapped it with tarps and a fair amount of steel cord. But, what we saw next peeled three sleepless nights off our eyes. The plastic tore, the cables snapped and these links started singing. Jose Flores – Really, oil painting don’t get enough play. Jose mixes surreal and cool with just about anything…

“Finally!” you think, “A cheap 3D printer I don’t have to build myself.” Yes, you’re probably already doing the calculations in your head. For a mere $3.5 million US dollars you can buy 1,000 of these suckers and build a tower of 3D printing power the likes no one hAS EVER SEEN!! muwwahhHAHA!!

All you need is $3.5 mil and a finger to hit the buy button at Bits From Bytes for their new fully-assembled, plastruding plastruder, the BFB 3000. It’s got a slick acrylic exterior and everything you need to get started importing .STL’s and printing your design or exact duplicate of yourself.

But little ol’ BFB is in a hot market that print powerhouse HP has recently entered with Stratasys to create the Designjet 3D printer. How do they compare? You might be surprised.

At the center of all that is possible within a SolidWorks assembly model sits the standard bearer of complicated surface geometry villainy… a component that won’t let the darn thing load.

Who knows what it is – CPU, OS, RAM, imported parts, geometry bunions or maybe a new user that patterned his name on every surface. Regardless, there are times when you need to load an assembly model, instead of watching it load and crash. There are a few things you can do. A SpeedPak is another.

SolidWorks SpeedPaks can alleviate the deep emotional abrasion of big-ass assembly modeling and make those assemblies perform more like you want them to. Here’s how to rock it.