Late last week Onshape rolled out another major release. If I was to read into this at all, I would say preparations are being made for surfacing. Reason, to work with surfaces efficiently, you need to be able to work with curves and existing surfaces efficiently – this update adds a bit for all of that. You can see the history and catch the latest updates on the Onshape What’s New page, but we’ve had some interest from readers and discussion around keeping closer track of the Onshape features, breaking down the latest, pointing out our favorites and highlighting the ones we think push ahead product dev for CAD in the cloud.…

Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Each Monday, we’ll link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.…

Five times they turned, each time winding up. The top of the peak was in sight, but to go the rest of the way, they would have to use the wing suits. Now, the idea of a wing suit sounds nice, but once helmet fuses itself with the brainstem, the wingframe is grafted to the spine – the wing suit is now active, powered by these links. Alena Aenami – Oh, the clouds… And everything else. Loads of incredible, colorful scenes with video process on her gumroad and prints available. Self-reflected – Over two years, Greg Dunn and Brian Edwards took a thin slice of a brain scan to painstakingly…

How many times have you looked at your iPhone and wished it was an Android? The opposite? No? Well, what if you had an iPhone and Android together? What lunacy is this, you ask? And what if it included twice the battery life, removable storage, a second 5″ display AND a headphone jack? Well now, hello. ESTI has the first of its kind. The ‘Eye’ Smart Android Case for iPhone. Eye Android iPhone Case Strapping Android to an iPhone?! Isn’t that brand loyalty blasphemy? Yes, there will be plenty an Apple/Android fanboy likening this case to a parasitic virus, but if you care more about practical functionality and less about…

Looking for an easy way to find/create 3D printable terrain models? Go no further than TouchTerrain. TouchTerrain is a project of the University of Iowa that allows you to select a rectangular surface area of anywhere on the Earth and then download a 3D model of the surface terrain. 3D Print a Terrain Models The interface is quite straightforward, although you must expand the map and drag the prominent rectangle over the area you wish to download. Here is the control screen for a download of the San Francisco area: And this is the corresponding 3D model. Note that it doesn’t look like much and that’s because the world is…

There are cities inside the massive head of a rotted out celestial being (name it!) but cities inside the partial shell of a small planet? …I dunno, I can’t think of one of those. Maybe that’s why our model of the week is so cool. Jukka Seppänen recalls a concept drawing of a city inside a moon that has been destroyed. When he saw the drawing, he immediately wanted to create it in 3D. WHO WOULDN’T!? Jukka uses Blender, Sculptris, SolidWorks, and 3D-Coat for modeling and has a knack for modeling intricate structures. The Moon City model he created is just incredible, with loads of buildings and loads of details,…