You just know, when you see babies… in pods, nothing good can come of it. It either means baby alien mama’s are gonna hatch and eat your face or that someone had no idea what they were thinking for a design. This one happens to be the later.

Designed by Caterina Tiazzoldi, this structure of spherical sleeping containers would seem like a minimal shelving system for napping tikes. That is until the babies start removing themselves from the pods… unintentionally. Images of the ideal situation follow.

Yes, it only takes a spark… a studio, a computer, a small production crew, some large machinery, and probably a keg of the strongest ale… to get a interactive web series going… and SolidWorks has done just that.

This week SolidWorks launched the new interactive web series called Let’s Go Design. It’s full of design, interacting and Jeremy Luchini. He’s the SolidWorks Certification Manager and star of the show guided by your decision on what product to design. Here are the choices and some “behind the scenes” shots of LGD.

So, you’re sitting in a design review with a concept model of the product and the topic quickly changes to schedule. “You can just use that model for the engineering, right,” your boss asks confidently in front of the customer. Now, before your sweat glands burst and your eyes glaze over, rewind a few days.

There’s a discussion going on in the SolidWorks forum where good ol’ Mark Biasotti is asking how you use concepts for a final design and if SolidWorks is a good tool for doing so or if it needs improvements.

It’s a great question and reminds me of a method for creating concept designs we discussed a while back which allows you to try out different variations of a concept. But using that for engineering? Where do you stand?

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Look at the guy outside your window swatting a swarm of wasps away from his exposed skin areas. Now look at the guy in the cubicle next to you using Leonar3do 3D. Both look similar except one is screaming and swelling up while the other is smiling and creating 3D object… in 3D space.

You may have seen Leonar3do a few months back. But recently, we caught up with Dániel Rátai and Zoltan Karpati, a couple of the guys behind the VR tech, to find out a little more about their product and how they think it could impact 3D mechanical design.

Ya know, once I unearthed the lower structure, it started going a lot easier. There was a cavern though, covered with the slime of a thousand slimy slime-slimes. I threw rocks at’em and these links ate my eyes. Geoffroy Thoorens – The name of a person that creates very intelligent illustration of massive scenes of…