Just as I was preparing the most delectable post on the HP + Stratasys 3D Printer deal that went down last week, I saw this news pop up in my inbox.

Harness your excitement and then start making of pile of the knick-knacks you want to photocopy… IN GLORIOUS 3D. Yes, Ortery Technologies has a “New” blinking image on their site, right next to the image of the Photosimile 5000 that will copy anything you toss inside using their proprietary “Real3D” technology. Thing is, it’s not the 3D ya think it is. Check out the vid after the jump.

Aya, ye wiley bilge mouse! I got yer wee cat grappler wrapped round me tooooooth! And you will wear these tiny pants… and these links. Maciej Kuciara – It’s all the goodness of concept art and matte painting rolled into the architecturally perceptive mind of Maciej Kuciara. Flight 815.. in Real Time – if you…

My math teacher hated me. She would beat me unmerciful and use sounds of warrior robot apes fighting over canned meat in equations in a feeble attempt to stifle my creativity… It didn’t work. And neither did her or anyone’s warnings of manipulating the estimated mass of objects.

In SolidWorks you can apply materials to your solid geometry to get a weight. You can also add your own densities to approximate a weight, so that, based on the volume of, lets say, a robotic ape face, you’ll get a mass that works perfectly to strike fear into the minds of others. In doing so, you may find a need to manipulate mass here or there. I’m here to lead you astray and show you a few tricks that will aid in your endeavor.

My good friend, Jeff Mirisola, got a little riled up and started beating foam bats into the skull of asinine expectations with a recent post. He talks about an engineer who couldn’t use SolidWorks… because his computer was 10 years old. That is way old. I’d put it out to pasture and let it die…

I almost feel dirty just talking about 2D. Dirty, dirty, dirty. However, there’s another dimension to this multi-colored mix of Autodesk aggregation. It’s online. As in completely web-based, but it goes beyond that, which is where it gets really interesting.

The interwebular AutoCAD environment is wrapped in a social sauce giving you abilities to share, review and co-edit your .dwg’s with all of your 2-dimensional friends. It’s Autodesk’s Project Butterfly and it’s a step toward 3D on the web, in which Autodesk also has a Twitch for.

Here are some details on Butterfly and what it’s got going for it.