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Jump In. 5 Ways New Tech Is Has Completely Changed 3D CAD Design and PLM Forever

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What’s in the wide, wide world of 3D CAD is going on? I’ll tell ya what’s going on, technology that has been presented over the past two weeks at E3 and various display and developer conferences has completely changed the way we are going to collaborate with people and design projects.

They’re technologies that will seemingly squeeze all the fun out of sitting around becoming morbidly obese and inefficient in our day to day interaction through the wires connected to our computer screens.

Not looking forward to that? If so, have a look at what you’ll what to run away from in the near future. Scratch that.. in the NOW. This is all tech that has debut this and last week, not concept, but in development and production, slated to launch within in the year. Boy are you gonna have fun…

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3D Design and TouchScreen Tech: SpaceClaim Gets the Press

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Yep, can you believe it? There’s more insanity going on in the whole touch-screen market and 3D CAD is getting in on the action and finally starting to be included in the mainstream coverage. What use could touch-screen technology possible have with developing products in 3D? Is it even feasible?

With new highly sensitive, capacitive touch-screen displays starting to emerge, you might be surprised at the degree of manipulation possible with different apps.

It’s gone well beyond sliding photos around on a screen. With Windows 7 slated for release late October 2009, the CAD companies will be staring at touch-screen tech square in the face, but will they embrace it with open… hands? Read what Frank DeSimone, Sr. Director of Research and Development at SpaceClaim, has to say as quoted in the New York Times.

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How To Crank Out Labels, Placards and Signs in SolidWorks

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If you’re like any other normal person, you occasionally sit at your desk putting stickers and labels on your face, thinking there’s got to be a quick and easy way to create labels in SolidWorks. There is and it’s much faster than importing AutoCAD files filled with RomanS terror.

So, ignore the looks from your co-workers, rip the stickers from your eyelids, because you’re about to gain some valuable insight into making your task of modeling font-based geometry a little bit easier and a little more enjoyable with SolidWorks.

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Bing. A More or Less Useful Search for Design and Engineering? Your Thoughts?

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It’s here folks. A new search engine. The new one from Microsoft. Bing. Fresh into Beta and ready for you to compare to all those years spent in the glory of Google’s search results.

It’s got some nice features, some nice lag on video, image and site previews and a fresh look at how browsing can actually be improved. Like clicking. Can browsing be more enjoyable by having to click less? Microsoft thinks it can, but what are your thoughts? Is it more useful for what you do each day?

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Usable 3D Geometry Please. Could There Ever Be a SolidWorks 'Catalyst'?

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Raise your eyebrow in a menacing way if you’ve ever received a really crumby .pdf, concept print or model data to create a production model from? If only there was a little more info or a way that the data could be transformed into usable 3D parametric data huh?

Adobe has just release a interesting program from their Labs called Flash Catalyst (formerly codename ‘Thermo’). It allows graphics designers to create user interfaces… without coding, transforming the graphics into working examples that developers can then use to complete a website or app.

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