I wanted to get this up last week, but ya know, you gotta let fine content like this simmer in it’s own meaty juices for a few days.

Yes, It’s been nearly two weeks since the PTC/USER event in Orlando, but I’ve continued to to receive emails from users asking about it. So, to wrap things up all nice and tidy like, I’ll give ya what I like to call, the best 5 moments at PTC/USER, starting at #5 and proceeding to #1.

Most of these moments happen outside the regular agenda, but that’s just one more reason why events like these are so great.

I hope you all are ready for a fun and enlightening experience. I know we’ve pushed this iPhone modeling in SolidWorks clear around the table, but this is the model that everyone is and will be looking at for the foreseeable future.

Nelson Au was kind enough to share his model and his process for getting the absolute smoothest surface work possible on an iPhone model within SolidWorks. Believe me, you don’t want to miss downloading this and looking through the features.

You are lookin’ sporty. Really, you are stylin’ the design and engineering process like no other and everyone wants to know just how you do it… or at least, we do.

Is it possible that you use more than one process or program to design and engineer products? We may not even realized it if 90% of our day is spent in one program. But, as is the case with many, there’s an insanely complex series of events that put every bit of design into play. What are yours?

It’s not so much that everything in the future will be built around the idea that we’ll need a proper vessel to study the organs of extraterrestrial life, but you can imagine very quickly that it would need to look stinkin’ cool… and have lights and bolts and stuff.

For instance, it would almost certainly look like the Neuron Chamber by Alan Rorie. It’s Art. It’s Kinetic. It’s Almost Scientific and it’s a mash-up of 3D mechanical design, late nights spent welding and entertaining the minds and hearts of attendees of the Maker Faire and other events.

Alan gives ya some more insight to how he creates his art. Prepare your mind.

Raise of hands! Who wants to blow $489 for 3G Wireless and PDF Support? Huh? Huh? The MASSIVE 9.7″ vertical screen of the new Amazone Kindle DX is available Wednesday, June 17th for your monochrome viewing pleasure.

You (or your company) could pop for one of these badboys so you can store ‘3,500 books‘ on it. Or, you could use it to access and store PDF’s, for use down on the shop floor or in meetings. Ready to fire up the furnace and toss the file cabinets in with a smile on your paper-hatin’ face? Let’s go.