Personal luxury subs, you say? I’ll take five, I say. They cost how much, you say? I’ll go home and cry myself to sleep, I say. To fully embark to the depths in style with their 65 meter (213′) Phoenix 1000 you’ll be stackin’ $90 million in your back seat on your way to one of their facilities in Paris, Dubai, Seattle or Portland. Yep, you’ve got options.
In one week from yesterday, Dassault Systèmes is having their state-side Customer Conference, aptly named, the Dassault Systèmes Customer Conference (DSCC). The CEO, Bernard Charles, will most likely be there with his crew.
Even better, SolidSmack will be there covering anything interesting. How could there be anything interesting at a Customer Conference? Oh, there’s always something. Check out some of the topics.
The claim is they can melt certain heat-sensitive metals layer-by-layer into parts, with advantages of decreasing waste and forming it around electronics or other materials. Sound Cool? It is, it’s very cool and just one more way in which the future part of your 3D designing world is gonna be hung over a railing and shaken vigorously by the legs.
This video has been around a while, but I’d never seen it, and I’ve now watched it repeatedly to my own detriment. So, I thought you would enjoy seeing the tech, hearing the high-pitch whine of the drill as this CNC spiderbot, called the Hexapod, routes a 3-dimensional face into high density foam.
Well, we may wish to banish them to the nether regions, but for some, working the Adobe Illustrator machine is a daily task. And, every once in a while, they need to squeeze it’s wily eyes to pop out a few paths to start a design in SolidWorks. It’s really one of the best options out there to get usable vector-based art into SolidWorks.
So, lay down the pitch forks, wrap your arm around an Illustrator user and feast your spectacles upon a few tips to keep you rollin’ out the designs. Huzzah!