In NEWS

Serving Up Hot and Spicy SolidWorks Subscription Service

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Update: As of noon on Thursday August 28th, SolidWorks has rescinded the penalties that were soon to take affect. You can read the email that went out to the resellers and customer here. Good move on the PR side. SolidWorks is listening to the customers, plus the resellers don’t look like bad guys to the customers.

Happy about SolidWorks subscription support fees?A bunch of us have been nibbling away like happy angry beavers about some new penalties that came out recently for not renewing you SolidWorks subscription support in a timely fashion.

You may not know, or even care, that there’s a $1295 cost, in addition to the $3995 price of the SolidWorks software, to receive support from your reseller, software updates, access to the Customer portal and more. The penalty is tacked on if you don’t pay the $1295 each year. So what?

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In DESIGN

Wearable MotorCycle Video: Clean Your Face With Pavement

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wearable motorcycleIf you keep an eye out for motorcycles you can wear, you may have seen this one zipping face down across the pavement of the internet.

I know it’s not as practical (less dangerous?) as the two wheel versions we see everyday weaving in and out of traffic, but if you want to go from 0-60 in 3 seconds laying prostrate 10 inches off the ground, this three-wheeled electric motorcycle and video are just for you.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Cracker Pants

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Well yeah, of course they look hot. But ya know, if you go wearing them into a public place, babies will cry, women will scream and everyone else will run smack dab into the links. Design Trendz – It’s what all the websites are doing. Shadows, reflections, frames and video on how to do it.…

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In 3D CAD TECH

Explode Diagrams. The Next Cool Thing In 3D CAD

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You all are gonna flip, or rather, explode, when you see this. I’ve been looking for 3D CAD news out of Siggraph08 that happened last week, but have not found much beyond some announcements about rendering models.

Fortunately, Mark Treadwell from Premier Rides came across some info and filled me in. A team from Berkeley has developed an automated system for viewing interactive 3D exploded views of models. Check out the video after the break.

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In DESIGN

Salvador Dali Says Your 3D Product Design is INSANE

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It’s both parametrically intense and oddly invigorating to look at. It’s like jumping in the air through a small hole and coming out on the other side with all the knowledge of perspective while marching rhythmically outside the confines of an inverted parallelogram.

What is it? Surrealism. An artistic expression of the early 1900’s that captured the fantasy of la-la-la reality and spread it like thick butter on minds across the world.

Defining it as an offshoot of Marxism and Freudian thought limits and ultimately destroys the passions many of the artist were trying to capture…

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What I really want to show you is some of the coolest examples and the paintings that inspire me. They magnify the field of 3D CAD we’re in, in a way that even some artists could not imagine in their art.

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