Well, slap my arm flaps. SolidSmack went and turned 7 on us with hardly a grunt! Yes, it’s true. If you’ve been a loyal SolidSmack reader since the beginning, you’ve aged seven whole years–quite well I might add. As for SolidSmack, we’ve enjoyed having you along, and today we’re celebrating with a makeover to the…
We have a special treat for you today. With SolidSmack growing like rustic mountain pines, we’re bringing on more writers. The first of the new SolidSmack crew is none other that Colorado native, Jeffrey Matthias. Jeffrey brings his experience in furniture design, fabrication and gadgetry of various sorts to the fold. He prods, pokes and…
Maybe ‘Punch’ is a bit to harsh? It’s actually more like a firm jabbing with the blunt end of an answered question… multiple questions. Vicious, I know, but it will all be worth it for reasons you will soon be able to feast your eyes upon. If you’ve been kneeling waist deep in porridge, watching…
It’s finally over. We can take off the gas masks, stuff the confetti back in our shirts and look forward to a new year of sweet product design, cool technology, SolidWorks and other cad-related goodness. Not that we didn’t have some great fun with some great topics over the past year. In fact, a tiny…
I’m excited. Are you excited? The crinkly wrapper is coming off and it’s about dang time. Today, July 1st, after two years (and two months) of tinkering with graphics, plugins and a soupy mixture of html code, we’re launching the all new SolidSmack. It’s shiny, don’t ya think. But that’s not all there is to…


