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 update on the future of next-gen CAD pricing to a way of teleporting physical objects via a 3D printer 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.
Pricing Next-Gen CAD: Has Dassault Systèmes Lost the Plot with 3DExperience?
“The newly announced SolidWorks Industrial Design product is ostensibly similar to Autodesk’s popular Fusion 360 product. Like, really similar. And at $2280 per annum, the confusing mish-mash of overpriced and overlapping subscriptions in the new SolidWorks offering have us asking hard questions…”
3D Modeler Gets into Hot Water with Katy Perry over Left Shark
“Witnessed by hundreds of millions of viewers, the dancing sharks at Katy Perry’s Half-time show got a lot more attention than expected. Poor Left Shark – have you ever had to make your moves while wearing that kind of suit?”
What We Learned at #SWW15 About SolidWorks Industrial Design
“I was finally able to get a proper live demo of the new SolidWorks Industrial Design product at SolidWorks World 2015, and while we still lack some really critical information (Uh, price?), a lot of the fuzz is finally coming into focus. We spread some misinformation on The Twitters yesterday, so today we set the record straight. Here’s what we know so far, and, just as importantly, what we don’t…”
Atmosphere-Inflated Metal Structures Could Be the Answer to Colonizing Mars
“One of the principal problems on living far away from home is doing the most with less. No, I am not equating living on Mars to your first year at college, eating Ketchup Sandwiches to stay alive…”
GrabCAD Workbench Is Now Free For All
“I was sipping a hot coffee and Ding! An email from GrabCAD pops into my email this morning. A very unexpected email. “I have some great news – Workbench is now free!” Hardi Meybaum, CEO of GrabCAD says in the email…”
3D Printed Teleportation Is One Step Closer to Making Your Commute Easier
“Hold onto your hats! The Hasso-Plattner-Institut, near Berlin, Germany, has just released ‘a simple self-contained appliance that allows teleporting inanimate physical objects across distance‘ by the name of Scotty (as in, “Beam me up“). Starting with a few Makerbot Replicators, they added a 3-axis milling machine, a camera, an encryption/tranmission system to enable teleportation of objects…”
