Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 9, 2012, 10:30 am
I know. You’re like, Make it Real?? Wha!? Huh?! WHHHAAAT? I prefer to make it fake. So fake that it causes people to question if it’s really not real at all. However, for those of you who actually like to ‘Make it Real’, there’s a challenge for that and it’s being put on by the boisterou...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 9, 2012, 9:20 am
Today, Dassualy slips further into becoming the social cybernetic giant of the virtual product design world, with a few big bits of info announced today. Their revenue was up from last year, they have a new head of corporate communications and, at the same time, they’ve announced the acquisition o...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 8, 2012, 9:45 am
Have you ever been sitting in a presentation of a product you designed, screaming inside your head at the person giving the presentation as they fumble through moving your model about? Those days are at an end, my friend. Maide has released the CadRemote iPhone app that gives you (and anyone else yo...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 8, 2012, 9:05 am
“This post is from our new guest blogger, JF Brandon. He works with Enrico Dini and the DShape. He likes 3D Printing, Naïve Architecture, Open Source, Mass Customization and Hockey. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.” I’ve seen a lot of videos promising a desktop 3D printer in every home, as ubi...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 7, 2012, 10:00 am
I’m sure you have been tempted to switch from your iPhone to an Android, but are saddened by the lack of 3D CAD apps on the market, yes? Me? I’m happy with 1982 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, but now that TurboViewer Pro is available, I’m thinking of taking the open platform plunge. IMSI design launc...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 7, 2012, 8:45 am
Let’s just say one day your old, decrepit body needs a piece replaced – a hip, a skullcap, maybe a kneecap or two. Having bits of bone replaced is fairly common, but for the first time ever, an 83 year old woman has a new jaw… a custom 3D printed titanium jaw. The University of Hasselt in Belg...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 6, 2012, 8:55 am
If there was ever any 3D cad app that could be compared with smooth, silky melted butter, TinkerCAD would be the one. If you’ve not experienced it yet, you must. You simply must. The web-based, 3D modeling app is out with a new version and it’s just about everything you would want and expect in ...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 3, 2012, 10:45 am
I don’t like it, not one bit. Last night I awoke to a buzzing sound. I open my window and there, before my eyes, a swarm of quadrotors pulling maneuvers, laying waste to the neighborhood, scaring children and cats… Take a look. It could happen. Quadrotor Swarms The below is a demonstration of...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 3, 2012, 10:00 am
Blown up bandages wrapped the wires and wimples of the war torn wasteland. It would indeed be a challenge to find. Bending back sheets of steel from the surface, he began. Days turned to months, months turned to years and one afternoon, a glow from the ground and the chest covered in the shadow of t...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 2, 2012, 10:00 am
I’ve always had a little bit of a problem with sustainability software. You jam some criteria into it and it throws a comparison of materials, location, the impact your choices have on the environment, and a pretty report you can give to your boss or client to prove you’ve done your research. Th...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Feb 1, 2012, 9:45 am
It’s a mouse. It’s a 3D mouse. Actually, it’s BOTH. It’s the Lexip 3D mouse and it combines the rotational power of a 3D Mouse with the click control of a traditional mouse. Lexip is a start-up out of France with a recent patent on the idea of a multi-axis mouse. If you’ve often feared the...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 31, 2012, 3:00 pm
For all the 3D reconstructionistas in the house, prepare to dilate your eyes with rays of glorious 3D capturing bliss. If you have a Microsoft Kinect at your house, you know the possibility that lies within its depth sensing lasers to capture objects, movement and movement of objects. It’s all com...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 31, 2012, 9:05 am
This week on Engineer vs Designer we have a little chat with Matt Sederberg, co-founder of T-Splines, recently acquired by Autodesk. Matt dishes the goods on how T-Splines came about and takes evasive maneuvers when we pry on the future of T-Splines. Matt Sederberg Matt is a graduate of economics,...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 30, 2012, 10:30 am
It may be completely mesmerizing to watch a wee desktop 3D printer do its thing layer by plasticy layer, but do you remember our interview with Enrico Dini? Creator of the D-Shape printer? The largest 3D printer in the world? Capable of printing large structures? The D-Shape printer. Imagine watchin...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 27, 2012, 9:30 am
Decidedly pertinent as it was, he set forth, silvery landscaped before him and each step sending a minor chord of mischief through the white haze layered against the ground. On his back, the survivors, a small lot, best know for their gun arts and the ability to form bullets from these links. Victo...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 26, 2012, 10:00 am
After what I’ve just seen, I feel as if I could point my hand at a simmering pool of metal and shape it with the power of my mind. Dutch Designer Jólan van der Wiel is practically doing just that. He’s created a process (and a machine) to pull a metallic-formulated resin from a liquid state, cu...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 25, 2012, 2:00 pm
Imagine a Record Executive going over to a 3D file sharing site downloading a pair of patent-protected headphones, laughing as he jiggles and listens to his DRM’ed music list. Ironic. You may think ‘big deal’ when you hear it, but thePirateBay.org, a site infamous for file-sharing and online p...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 24, 2012, 9:30 am
Who loves wooden gears? We do! We do! Wooden hand high five all around for a tool that helps you create the gears and the templates to crank those creations. The Gear template generator from woodgears.ca is a magical web-based tool (probably) using little wooden mathematical gears on the back end to...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 23, 2012, 12:30 pm
AutoDesSys is peeling back the flexible underbelly of form-Z 7 and stuffing in a slew of new features. Form-Z has been around a while. It’s always had great features for architectural modeling, but this new version brings even more to the freeform table. New features increase the options you have ...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 23, 2012, 9:15 am
Tony Fadell. You may have heard of him. At the very least, you’e seen, or let sweet sound emanate from the device he is know as the father of. Tony was Apple’s senior vice president of the iPod division as well as adviser to Steve Jobs. He’s now CEO of NEST, a company that reinventing the Ther...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 20, 2012, 11:00 am
Vapor rolled from the jaw of the ice glazed face. There were literally hundreds spread throughout the forest floor. Some behind trees, other frozen mid-stride, and still others frolicking in the leaves, with all signs of mischief pointing to these links. Mark Molnar – Concept art and illustration...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 19, 2012, 10:45 am
Moore’s Law (or rather Kryder’s Law) has just been decimated. Researchers at IBM just tore out those Wikipedia pages, sneered at them, then proceeded to show the world how five years of work has lead to new possibilities for mass data storage. Atomic-Scale Storage Really, all storage is atomic...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 17, 2012, 1:00 pm
Before you say anything… Yes, I know. We’re about 10 years behind on the news of this mouse, but since we won’t need to use a mouse to move bits around in the near future, we might as well show you what mouse you could have been using all these year. The Evoluent Vertical Mouse. Even thought y...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 17, 2012, 10:15 am
What’s the best thing to do when in Las Vegas? Get out of Las Vegas and go to the Grand Canyon. I had the chance to do just that while at Autodesk University last November, with Hardi Meybaum, CEO of grabtastical GrabCAD. Hardi Meybaum, GrabCAD, Grand Canyon You could say those three share some...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 13, 2012, 5:00 pm
Quick, while everyone is distracted with the aftermath of CES, drop what you’re doing right now and have a look at sunglass.io immediately. Sunglass.io is a venture-backed MIT startup, based out of San Francisco, co-founded by Kaustuv DeBiswas and Nitin Rao. Today, they’ve launched Sunglass.io, ...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 13, 2012, 9:30 am
Buried amongst the thorns, winter long and cold, the bramble beast. Should the rope be torn from his pack fast enough, he may ride, but quick the beast is and torn not was his sheathed cord. Found there amidst briared air, he stood, breath stolen, as rose slow the the bramble beast dripping with the...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 12, 2012, 4:45 pm
How does jet setting over to San Diego sound? What if it involved sitting inside a conference center all day, absorbing vast amounts of knowledge about SolidWorks? I know my pasty white skin would appreciate that. SolidWorks World 2012 is coming up in a few weeks, and SolidWorks is interested in lau...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 12, 2012, 9:30 am
Like Adam OHern, I am very excited to announce that EvD Media is officially official. This joint effort between solidsmack, cadjunkie and engineer vs designer is bringing all the goodness of the design process to you in three glorious halves… err, sites. EvD Media is… A weekly product design ...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 9, 2012, 9:45 am
Nothing screams I AM AWESOME like having the faces of the people you have vanquished surrounding you. But what if you could turn those faces into 3D printed vases (or coffee mugs), put some flowers (or coffee) in them and bask in the glory of your victories? Now you can. Sculpteo has released the Sc...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 6, 2012, 9:10 am
When sailing his house on the wooded sea, green moss pillows rose against the eaves. And upon the rolls of wave shed leaves, floated this princess and pauper king, silently sailing in moonlit peace, eating smoked salmon and squeezing these links. Hal Tenny – Wonderfully expansive fractal art (mad...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Jan 5, 2012, 4:00 pm
You see that little girl? She’s happy because she just printed some little yellow shoes to match her little yellow shirt. THAT COULD BE YOU. We should have known by now, with sites like MyRobotNation and the taunting of Origo 3D Printer for kids, it was only a matter of time before big 3D print in...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Nov 2, 2011, 9:15 am
There are some robots that take me back to my childhood, like this skateboard-mounted, paint-spraying graffiti machine whipping an arduino-driven pendulum arm around. Not that I went around spray-painting objects, but that I was often attached to a pendulum arm, but who wasn’t, right? It’s just ...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Nov 1, 2011, 9:15 am
If you haven’t seen the cranium-scorching, rendering research of Kevin Karsch, watch it, we’ll wait… Now that your brain is charred and crumbling like so much burnt popcorn, you can well understand why, after seeing this video, we had to get the low-down from Kevin himself. So… we blind fold...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 31, 2011, 11:00 am
You’ve got loads of ideas from portable candy launchers to cheese grating iPhone cases, but steps in the process (and your evil arch-nemesis Tim “criticizes everything” Jerksteen) has got your design mojo, motionless. Never fear! Another idea funding, “slam that design process in the face,�...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 31, 2011, 9:25 am
Shocking and amazing. Creating something on the iPad, instead of absorbing the limitless digital content, browsing design variations instead of movie options, sending in an order of that design to be printed instead of sending in orders for a large deep-pan pizza. The iRing3D iPad app has done it. I...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 28, 2011, 9:15 am
When churning the walkways of the wild burrows, we happened upon this site. A fire, five barrels and atop each one a wee man and a sprite. “Fine and dandy,” said he. “But you have metal teeth for legs. And where your nose and eye should be, are tubes of these links instead.” Helen Kaur – ...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 27, 2011, 11:16 am
Sometimes making a claw fist and putting it front of your CAD data doesn’t have the data manipulating effect you want it to. Nope, neither does two claw fists or the hiss of a toothless cat. What will scare that data into a finely structured process flow and multi-level bill of material is a littl...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 26, 2011, 9:11 am
As you may know (or not), digital puppet-maker and modo rigging master, Rich Hurrey of Pixar Animation Studios, has recently released new modo 501 Rigging Master Course. After years in the works and a spectacular video production that explains all the possibilities of animating models with modo, it�...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 25, 2011, 4:29 pm
First, I totally GANKED (part of) that headline from the Inforbix post on the same topic. That’s how I roll. But let’s hold back the onslaught on data digging for a sec and address something. Inforbix. I understand. It’s hard to say it… without shredding your throat lining by screaming it as...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 25, 2011, 9:03 am
Are you even the slightest bit interested in going to Las Vegas for Autodesk University 2011? Well, how would you like to go at someone else’s expense? Yeah, that (and beef stew) is what I’m talkin’ about. Perhaps even more enticing, how would you like to win a 3D Mouse to hang around your nec...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 24, 2011, 9:03 am
Two pieces of good news. You now have a good excuse for both staring point-blank into a stranger’s eye hole and strapping a concoction of electronics and LED’s to your face. Eye-tracking. Eye-Tracking tech for design isn’t even close to being recent news, but it bears mentioning to show you wh...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 23, 2011, 3:51 pm
Sure, we talk a big game about high-falutin’ techno-logical mumbo jumbo around these parts, but now it’s time to flex those flabby brain-bags and see what you know about old-school manufacturing tech. Ready? Go. RADIO NURSE.THE BACKSTORY: In the 1937 “Radio Nurse,” was possibly the first (...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 21, 2011, 9:36 am
Like an attack of digital line drawing glory, the digitized stylus onslaught is finally making it’s way into the tablet accessory market. You probably remember the Wacom Inkling that sucks your physical sketches into its digital software, layers and all. That idea is finally being delivered into t...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 21, 2011, 9:00 am
Long cycling, indispensable forces caught is the crushing grip of a reversal beam spanned steadily across the plain’s splintered sheath. The itinerants deployed. Each one knew however when it ended, they would face the electrifying horror of these links. Dimitar Tzvetanov – Dark, mysterious sce...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 20, 2011, 9:30 am
Are 3D Printers a disruptive technology? Are you kidding me? Look at the image above. That person, or that person’s arm, is obviously being sucked into the filament carriage to be used in the construction of extruded parts. Totally disruptive. On the flip side, that’s one more substance we can a...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 20, 2011, 8:29 am
I tell you what. There’s nothing like the thought of riding atop a container of -195˚ Celsius liquid nitrogen, while its vapor spews from a small tube positioned between your legs. Nope, no problem with that. Why? Because it’s the future and it goes along quite nicely with ice pants. It’s cal...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 19, 2011, 7:59 pm
Remember Lytro? They’re the company that promised to give us a camera that takes refocus-able pictures for an affordable price. Of course, “affordable” is relative and the original press release wasn’t giving up the goods. Well, today emails went out to those who signed up for Lytro’s ma...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 18, 2011, 1:13 pm
I once CNC a foam shelter for a family of marsupials, except they ended up eating it, then attacking the neighbor family. It could have been worse, but I certainly wish I had come across Zomadic’s zensational (HA!) Zome structures before then – perhaps the wee creatures would have been happier. ...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 18, 2011, 9:30 am
I’ll tell you want, consuming large amounts of GPU juice in the morning can lead to mild twitches and people wondering why you’re sucking the back-end of a graphics card in the first place. However, after you’ve got your taste for tech out your system and slipped that card into your computer, ...
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Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Oct 17, 2011, 5:05 pm
It just makes sense. Take some photos of a thing, upload them, 3D print that sucka. My choice? Photos of my fist hitting my face, repeatedly. Unfortunately, motion capture and ruptured blood vessels can not be properly translated into seamless point cloud data as of yet. Nonetheless, hypr3D is putti...
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