In CAD

Rock Your Model. The Seven Step SolidWorks to modo Workflow

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It’s just not working. You spit on your screen, rub your eyes and wait for your models to turn into a beautifully rendered animation, and all you get are frightened looks from your co-workers. We can fix that.

If you do any rendering or use SolidWorks and their PhotoView 360 rendering product, you’re probably familiar with Luxology. They’re the makers of modo, the all-in-one modeling, sculpting, rendering and animation program. They also have a hand in the PhotoView 360 development.

Rendering a model in PhotoView 360 is simple, but limited. You have a lot more power in modo, but getting it all set up for rendering requires a few more steps. This quick guide will get you started down the right path and allow you to experience some of the initial adjustments you’ll want to make when creating a rendering using modo. Let’s rock that model.

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In NEWS

The Comvert Bastard Bowl SkatePark: Rhino Surface to Frontside Salad Grind

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I’m insanely jealous right now, or maybe it’s inspiration shrouded in jealousy, or maybe it’s Jamie Thomas judo kicking my face as he launches down a double-set.

Develop 3D has an inside look at the Comvert‘s Bastard Bowl, a skatepark built inside their new office space renovation of a 1940’s era theatre. That fact alone is a big gulp of awesome. The construction of their new design office/retail store coincided with their own dreams of building a indoor bowl and taking on the project themselves. Another gulp of awesome.

Comvert is a company in the heart of fashion-centric Milano, Italy designing very cool skate/snow gear and apparel. Take a quick gander at process pics of the elevated skate bowl, then head over to Develop3D to read the dets on the design.

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In 3D CAD TECH

SolidWorks Will Multi-Touch You with the Future of 3D Design

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If you woke up this morning wondering what the new decade is going to offer you after your merry stroll into work, SolidWorks has some ideas that include having hands, a very large interface, and a couple friend that are as giddy about new tech as you are.

Put your future hats on and… just forget the future hats. They look silly. Instead, strip down that chair massager you got for Christmas to the bare wires, plug that sucker in and have a seat as you watch the first video SolidWorks has release in their new ‘Let’s Go Design’ campaign.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Crinklapooosh

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I would say with insurmountable confidence that, yes, it’s is easier to catch baby yaks with butter cakes and bourbon than with anything, insomuch as resembles these links. Tessa Farmer – There’s nothing I like more than images of art that will give me a good nightmare. 69 Coolest Web Apps of 2009 – Like…

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In NEWS

The SolidSmack Year-end Smacktastic Smack Up

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It’s finally over. We can take off the gas masks, stuff the confetti back in our shirts and look forward to a new year of sweet product design, cool technology, SolidWorks and other cad-related goodness.

Not that we didn’t have some great fun with some great topics over the past year. In fact, a tiny person who just threw champagne in my face, said many posts were quite superb, while a few made him cover his eyes to keep them from popping out their sockets. Goal achieved, I say. Here’s what we’ve got.

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