They came from his arms. Cannons more like. With such a snow falling, it wasn’t hard to see the mass firing yule logs repeatedly with a yell that deepened and shook the earth as he shot. One after another they hit the edifice. Soon, the wall would crack and we would feast, feast upon these links. Jesper Ejsing – The detail! Jumping, striking, fighting, and flying. Dragons and dragon slayers, goblins and fire cats, and more creature and character goodness from this danish artist. The Edges of These Isles – Artist Tom Musgrove and photographer Simon Bray visit and capture seven landscapes in the British Isles. You can see the final works and…
On the ankle-veins of Autodesk announcing they are shuttering T-Splines, they’ve also announced that they’re bringing the family of 123D Apps to the end. Here’s what we know. The 123D apps are being consolidated into other Autodesk products and 123Dapp.com is being shutdown. Outside of specifying “early 2017” and “access and download your content from 123Dapp.com in the coming months”, there’s no definite date for when the apps, site or your data will disappear forever. From the 123D blog: We are making some changes to simplify our Autodesk portfolio and workflows for people everywhere who love to make things. We are consolidating these tools and features into key apps such…
Ultimaker just launched a new Ultimaker 3 app to complement their new Ultimaker 3 desktop 3D printer, and it includes the ability to do remote 3D printing. Remote 3D printing has been a function available by third party accessory for some years now. Typically these standalone boxes would attach to the “dumb” 3D printer’s USB port and drive the machine directly through a cloud network and provide a bit more intelligence to the printer. However, there are now an increasing number of 3D printer manufacturers that are including a form of this functionality directly in their stock machines. The most recent to mention is Ultimaker, whose new Ultimaker 3 model…
Who needs a rocket engine? WHO DOESN’T?! And a 3D model of a rocket engine? Well, just think of the possibilities… You could place it randomly in the model of your new product and have a good laugh when everyone starts questioning it during a design review. You could 3D print it, set it on your desk and charge people to touch it. And YES, you could Photoshop your face and use it to give yourself JET ENGINE JOWLS. Hans de Ridder created this model using SolidWorks, and although it’s mostly modeled up as a single part, it fun to play around with and get some ideas on modeling your…
Who doesn’t love a great video of giant metal parts being manufactured? Suffice it to say, we’re suckers for them around here at SolidSmack. Thankfully, the equally-obsessed fellas over at Extreme Machines Magazine have got our back—and a treasure trove of manufacturing vids, to boot. For their latest hypnotic masterpiece, the fellas took us inside Sweden’s Kihlbergs Stal AB factory to get a behind the scenes look at some massive scale hammer forging. They didn’t teach us this in shop class: https://youtu.be/tEF2erBBVZ4
This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist knocks you in the pop sockets with head-boppin’ groove tuneage to help propel you through the work week in style. Whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw or working that 3D geometry all day, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start things off with “Garden Grays” from Wildcat! Wildcat! and work our way through tracks from Equatics, Gap Dream, Girls, Cataldo, Blue Hawaii, and others before wrapping up with “Lovely Day” from alt-J. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want to hear and what…