Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an overview on the current state of CAD software subscription pricing (could there possibly be a SolidWorks subscription pricing model on the horizon?) to how Peter Bellerby of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers makes globes from scratch, a new Photoshop brush set geared for your markerheads 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. a
A fine mist settled, thin against the green bladed spears that jutted above. With an icy silence we stepped slowly, wanting to run, to duck and cover ourselves with the mist, to escape the rabbit banshees on the hunt for these links. Thibault Girard – Gritty scenes, ships and characters with an interesting method of providing depth in a scene filled with a lot going on. Ansomnia – Coolest. A dreamscape that goes on and on and on. Sphero BB-8 – This is the droid you’re looking for. Wikigame – As you know, it’s quite easy to start looking through wikipedia for one thing and end up on something completely…
I’m not sure if you realized it, but California has it’s very own 3D Print Week. Organized by Meckler Media, this week actually follows their first official 3D Print Week held in New York during April of 2015. It has become a way to organize all the aspects 3D printing has grown to encompass and expand what topics are covered, and 3D Print Week California will see the first conference zone dedicated to 3D printed vehicles.
It’s ok, you can uncover your child’s eyes. That’s only a 2D drawing they’re seeing on the computer screen. I know, it looks all sultry with its sassy projected views and consistent dimensioning, but it’s really quite innocent. Finally, Onshape has introduced drawings to their browser-based 3D CAD platform.
Although the concept of flat pack (or ready-to-assemble) furniture has been in existence for decades, a new generation of designers have been taking on the challenge of designing functional and aesthetically-pleasing furniture pieces that are capable of being broken down into boxes that aren’t just easier to ship and haul – but also reduce many of the costs associated with pre-built furniture. In the last year alone, these efforts have included consumer-friendly software that enables users to create their own flat pack designs and have them fabricated on a per order basis, to even an ex-Apple engineer who wants to make moving furniture as easy as carrying an iMac box.…
As far as LEGO-inspired block building sets go, aspiring entrepreneurs have ran through the entire gamut of possibilities including different methods of interlocking the pieces to ways of fabricating them using a 3D printer. But how many people have simply just scaled up? In what might be a childhood fantasy come true for some, a new company called EverBlock Systems has successfully created a modular building system of giant plastic blocks similar to LEGO bricks that can be used to build everything from furniture to architectural features and even entire rooms. Unsurprisingly, the company’s own founder and CEO Arnon Rosan was obsessed with LEGOs as a child and figured that…