In CAD

10 New Backgrounds for SolidWorks 2008 Drawings

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Don’t you just love some seriously beautiful wallpaper to customize your programs with? Sure, you can customize your SolidWorks background, but that’s so SolidWorks 2007. Now, in SolidWorks 2008 you can even add a custom image to your drawing background. In fact…are you ready… it already comes with… a crinkly paper background. Yeah, pretty hard to miss. Props to that guy.

Good ol’ Mike P. got around to explaining this a bit before I finished some graphics done, so here’s my addition and two handfuls of wallpapery goodness.

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In DESIGN

Yeti Cycles: Built to Race with SolidWorks

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I finally know what I want for Christmas. An ASR Carbon mountain bike from Yeti cycles. It’s only $6149.00, fully loaded. These high-end bikes are just plain tough looking and make my purple GT Outback look wimpy. Oh yeah, and they are designed in SolidWorks.

My favorite one from their line-up, the ASR Race/Trail bike, is a 4.25 lb full carbon black amalgamation of insanely beautiful styling, comprehensive sizing and tight 3.89″ travel.

First, here’s a snip of video from a CCNTV interview back in July.

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In ROCKIN

Biggest 3D Lenticular Mural Ever Made

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Do you remember those little prizes in Cracker Jacks you could flip back and forth and see two different pictures? The team down at Big3D have been busy making a much more complicated, 98 foot wide by 13 foot tall one of those. The Lenticular Mural at the Mandalay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas…

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In CAD

How to Add Acrobat 3D to Your Workflow

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Just wanted to let you PDF-on-crack users know I recently did an article for the Adobe Acrobat User Community to show the throngs of people out there using Adobe Acrobat 3D 5 Time Saving Benefits of Adding Acrobat 3D to Your Engineering Workflow. I literally take a standard workflow, tear it apart and neatly locate…

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In REVIEWS

8 Absolutely Odd Facts About SolidWorks 2008

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trophy.jpgThere’s usually a lot of change in a new software release that doesn’t get reported. There’s also most likely an equally sad employee that doesn’t get to bask in the brilliance of that small “mediocre” addition.

Well, that’s about to change. Whether you’ve been noticed or not, we know you’re in front of your computer screen, fingers blazin’ across the keyboard, adding additional goodies to that new version of SolidWorks.

So, here’s to the people that add that itty-bitty smidgin’ of pixel shading, a touch of resource consumption, a burst of consideration for the environment, and everyone else that scrubbed the corners of the program after everyone else went home.

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