The fa-la-la duo They Might Be Gaints has some sing-alongs that rival any after-school special. Their latest is called Here Comes Science and just let me say, it will open your mind and imagination to unknown depths of.. the deep… and stuff. You should be able to relate to this one. It’s called Computer Assisted Design. Ring a bell or two?
CloudFab is set to provide you with more options for your sly design fabrication needs. How? They’re gathering all the print shops and rapid prototyping manufacturers for you. You upload the model, they take care of the rest. How much easier could it get?
We caught up with Nick Pinkston of CloudFab to see what’s going down. He uses that big, scary ‘democratize’ word, but don’t worry, he’s also thrown in an invite code for all you lucky SolidSmack readers to try out the Beta site going live TODAY.
As if we didn’t have enough to make us cringe with super agile robots and flesh-eating mechs, you can now rest less easy at night as you tumble into dreamland with the fear that cyborg insects can be controlled to fly left… AND RIGHT. Pleasant dreams. I’d keep the lights off.
Autodesk just cracked open the Mac ‘Pandora’ box to provide More Options for Mac Users. AutoCAD, Inventor, 3ds Max and Revit are all getting support for virtualization via Parallels. This is, of course, in lieu of having actual, native support for Mac. SpaceClaim is another MCAD company that has divulged their support of virtualization.
Discover Magazine has an article on Sucking the Real World into your computer via 3D Scanning. One slide features a 3D scanning company named GKS who also do a bit of engineering. The project? A prosthetic finger, designed in SolidWorks with the aid of the scanned appendages.