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 “I’m Not Myself” from Boardwalk and work our way through tracks from Wild Child, Joon Moon, Lake, Vacationer, and others before wrapping up with “Bathtubs” from Royal Canoe. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want to hear and what tunes…

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.…

Last week, we shared the $379 reMarkable Tablet. Truly remarkable, but some still like the feel of pen and pencil on paper. Enter La Slate. ISKN’s Slate is an ingenious digital sketching tool with sensors that track and digitize sketches made with your own drawing instrument. It weighs a mere 14 ounces, features a wee 4MB of internal storage and allows an additional 32GB with a micro SD card slot. Not long ago, you would have to digitize your hand-drawn sketches with a scanner, a desktop scanner, a hand-held, or one built into a printer. You get portability or high resolution, but rarely both. Those issues all ended a few…

Was bound to happen sooner or later, right? We started worrying about this all the way back in 2011 when Autodesk acquired T-Splines. The small Utah-based company had a growing Rhino user base for its plugin that provide a unique take on organic modeling in a solid modeling environment, and they had just released a similar plugin for SolidWorks. The tsElements plugin was discontinued and now T-Splines for Rhino is headed to the burial plot, which completely ends T-Splines as it has been known. As Develop3D reports: T-Splines is to cease selling or producing updates of its Rhino plug-in on 7 January 2017, having made the decision to simplify its portfolio and include the technology…

Don your favorite bathrobe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this week’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. The Weekend Reader features a handful of the most interesting articles featured on the ‘Smack over the past week ranging from tips and tricks to inspirational designs, processes, and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week. Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too. The $379 reMarkable Tablet Just Might Be the Best Digital Sketching Tool to Date Despite there being more options than ever before for on-the-go digital sketching, it’s still all too easy…

The wraggle bunch of mufflins peeled back the fur from their eyes, peering squint-eyed and tippy toe to see just what strange concoction was in the wooden bucket. The rays had hardly burst over the horizon when they heard a squelch that turned their eye slits wide. For out of the bucket, rose the tentacles of these links. Tu Bui – Simply massive worlds, ship interiors, mechs and wonderful work done for Titanfall from the L.A.-based concept and matte artist. NASA Giphy – NASA just the thing that puts their video archive things on the the internet thing as animated GIF things, and it’s super spaceballs awesome. Liquor Bottles – Glass liquor…