Are you using your mouse to help you view Youtube videos? Most all of us will answer this question with a resounding “YES”. Perhaps its time to cross-over to the keyboard. I recently discovered YouTube has keyboard shortcuts to control its video player. I’d been clicking my way through a heap of videos. Using my…
Each week we’re sharing a new tip with you here on the ‘Smack to help elevate your CAD game to a new level. Our goal is to mix up the weekly tips to cover a wide variety of ground for using CAD effectively as a product design tool. Some weeks might feature basic form-building exercises…
Leave it up to industrial designer Adam O’Hern and his industrial design training site cadjunkie to sharpen those SolidWorks Ninja skills. Released today, the new and improved course pages for the SolidWorks 101, 201 and 301 series are the perfect way to stay on top of your SolidWorks skill set. Featuring projects including a robot…
Mesmerizing. There’s nothing like seeing the modeling and rendering process from start to finish. Oh, and then there’s showing how it can all be done within the time span of 20 minutes. That’s exactly what Cut & Paste is all about. You, three others, music thumping, crowd watching… Intensity. Adam O’Hern is all about it…
This is a guest article by Michael Lord. Michael is a Design Engineer at Trakka Pty Limited in Sydney, Australia where they use SolidWorks to design Campervans and Motorhomes. I first talked with Michael on Twitter and asked if he would write up his experience using PhotoView360. The iPad Rendering Challenge is finished and won…
It’s all great fun to chill with your friends and model up some of that 3D junk with your own sketches, but sometimes you need to take some of their really crappy sketches, toss their lazy buttss a cold beverage and import them to SolidWorks. Let’s just assume, that you’re starting with an AutoCAD drawing…