Oh, It starts innocent enough. First, it’s, “Let’s turn this desk into liquid-cooled, quad crankin’ beast!,” then suddenly it’s, “Papa, can I replace my spleen with hybridized nitrogen cooling units?

Nonetheless, we’ll gladly accept this experiment into liquid-cooled awesomeness from the guys at Popular Mechanics. Yes, choke another one up to excess, the elimination of cord clutter and check out this extremely cool workspaces.

So what do ya think, is SolidWorks ‘old lady CAD’ out for a stroll only to trip over a small grain of feature-based modeling, tumbling face-first into a small ditch mumbling, “hebber, hebber..” Hmmmm. I see some CAD vendors lookin’ on in anticipation.

They may not be tumbling, but some people are probably wondering what they’re up too with the whole direct editing technology. Deelip Menezes ponders if it’s all just Inventor Fusion and SolidWorks Confusion.

He states thoughts I’ve often wondered. So what is it? Is SolidWorks lagging or cooking up some history-free design of their own?

Simply smashing I say! A small child climbing backwards up a river of chocolate with two poodles and a baby penguin dancing atop his head? Amazing! Have you finished your tea dear? Yes! On to… the links! iunwind – Classy and elegant design. not a bit too early in the day for it either. Celebration…

I know your brainpan is sore from beating it against the wall of deadlines you have looming, but if you have a website in one hand and some 3d models in the other, you can smash those together right now to splatter everyone with your 3D genius.

Good ol’ Cliff from 3DVia shows you how, and yes, you will need the 3DVia player installed into your browser to view the glorious 3D. After that you just site back, relax, spin your model around and say, “See, try baking that twice and selling it to turnip farmers.”

Yep, SolidSmack is starting to reek of greasy touch-screen bliss. Let’s pummel this iPhone stuff even further into the ground. You remember that eDrawings on iPhone poll last week? The one where over 50% of the people would use it if they could?

Well there’s hope for you and it’s all wrapped up in a tiny little iPhone app called Citrix Receiver. So, here we are, running SolidWorks on a tiny iPhone screen? How could that even be possible? or necessary? or even practical? Here are the messy details.