It’s not directly CAD related, but it says 3D and has ‘Graphics‘ is the headline, so it’s gotta be kinda interesting. It’s the History of 3D Graphics from MaximumPC and it’s 10 pages choke full of specs and insight to the GPU evolution.

Have you ever wondered how much graphics cards have change over the past few years? How much clockspeed has jumped? If they’re getting any smaller? Check out the differences from 1995 to 2009 of that things putting pretty 3D graphics all over your monitor.

Five days and five version later the original iPhone 3G model has been slapped around and optimized to use some of those best practices we all tuck away in our back pockets from time to time.

On top of that, we have a image-rich “here’s how you go about doing this”, some important SolidWorks and general surfacing resources, plus a version of the iPhone model done by none other than Mark Biasotti of SolidWorks. Exciting stuff I think.

The excessive amount of arm motion and flared eyelids was just too much to bear. So, Iwhat do you do? Detached some of the arms and installed these links instead. That’s what ya do. Daniel Widrig – If you’ve ever wondered how strangly odd and complicated 3D can be, check out these structures. Creately -…

Since we’ve been talking about viewing SolidWorks files on an iPhone, how about we talk a little about viewing an iPhone in SolidWorks. Better yet, how about we model up the back of one to see how we can get those continuous smooth shapes in SolidWorks.

We’ll be using surfacing, and the fine art of visual analysis, to create the shell of the first touch-screen device to be held in our sweaty palms. It’s fairly simple and we’ve even included the file for you to download.

Update:This post is one way of approaching a design problem and not intended to go into complex surfacing. Only an example of creating a ROUGH surface model for creating iPhone accessories. As read in the comments, there is a MUCH BETTER way to actually model the part for manufacturing. That post can be found at this link (iPhone 3G model Take 2). Thanks to everyone that commented on how NOT to model this part. 🙂

So, here we are. the iPhone market is growing like genetically modified corn and SolidWorks ships a million licenses. Seems something should be going on here. Some people I’ve heard from recently think an eDrawings App for the iPhone is in order. They travel, they need access to drawing info, models and yes, even AutoCAD drawings. So, it only makes sense that one way to view or transport this data would be via your super cool, and very trendy Apple iPhone.