Josh M. posted an article on 3D CAD Blog covering News, Tips, Technology and the Coolest Product Design - SolidSmack.com - Nov 27, 2009, 8:09 am
The process? It is thus. You close all the doors, the small furry ones stay contained. the humpbacked ones scoop up the furry ones and these links take care of the rest. Alex Ries – You deserve...
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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 25, 2009, 6:00 am
I don’t know about you, but the Tauntaun scene in Empires Strikes Back was EPIC. In one captivating scene, it taught us the single best way to survive a blizzard is to have the carcass of a very...
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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 24, 2009, 8:15 am
Good news for all of you who inadvertently stick your hands in the front fork of bicycles from time to time. You’re gonna have to go back to sticking them in the chain with this new, totally fun...
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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 23, 2009, 9:00 am
I know. It’s dinner conversation that goes right along with slamming your hand in the potatoes of the person right next to you. POTATO HAND SLAM… “So, What in the world is Qi Pan up ...
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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 23, 2009, 6:36 am
In one week we’ll be smackin’ ourselves (and you) with some Autodesk University coverage. Why would we do that? Well…for good reason party people. 1) product dev tech 2) Las Vegas 3)...
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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 20, 2009, 6:00 am
Why I remember clear as cankers. It was an ancient foe, deserving the worst of our back-hands and bayonets, until it bestowed unto us pajamas, warm and cozy and then these links. Yukari Masuike ̵...
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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 19, 2009, 11:00 am
Out of the list of awesome things you’ve accomplished, including bathing a kitty, chopping celery and catching a pineapple in your mouth, there’s some other things as a human being, and ev...
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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 18, 2009, 1:00 pm
Of course it’s a valid question! We just can’t ignore that after mankind’s self-imposed moment of singularity, we’ll all basically be fleshy corpuscles in the eyes of of our se...
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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 18, 2009, 9:13 am
Out of the millions of things in the world to get really, really embarrassingly excited about, storage read/write speeds are UP there. Are ya with me? YEEEEEEAH. Start giving your bandwith brothers h...
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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 17, 2009, 1:00 pm
No, you didn’t get snapped in the eye with a hand towel. SolidWorks is pasting the paper to poles with a year-end promo to scream at your boss about. If you’re in the market for a shiny ne...
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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 16, 2009, 1:00 pm
I’m so glad you’re sitting down crushing red tomatoes and generally feeling pretty happy about life. You know why? Because you need to prepare yourself for what you’re about to see. ...
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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 13, 2009, 7:59 am
Now that’s the five kinds of awesome a goat can be thrown at. Not that I’m into throwin’ goats you understand, but the more you throw, the more links like this ya get. Pantural Cars...
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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 12, 2009, 8:00 am
The level of my customization for something that needs the standard ‘ugly’ removed is typically slapping stickers all over with a little spray paint. It just doesn’t get any more ...
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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 11, 2009, 1:00 pm
Don’t you just love tops. I’ve always liked them. They just make you feel like stripping out the carpet, painting yourself red and spinning as many as you can right before the in-laws walk...
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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 10, 2009, 2:00 pm
Look out Photoshop aficionados, the dev team over at 3DVia has been drinking their milk, running laps around the Dassault campus and has just launched the mother of all 3D plugins to ease your graphic...
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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 10, 2009, 7:00 am
I’m sorry if you bit off two of your fingers with delight while reading that headline, but believe it. PLM and simple in the same sentence, along with a completely obscure red glove metaphor? Ho...
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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 9, 2009, 1:20 pm
She looked, drawn and dazed at the weary traveler. Nothing had been said once, at any point in all of time, that captured this one moment she felt him gazing back. Hey! Hey!!! Noooooo, not that kind ...
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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 9, 2009, 8:00 am
I know the number one thing you are wondering as you tumble down a rocky cliff on your snowboard is, how the heck am I going to get back up there to do this all over again. Problem solved… at ...
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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 6, 2009, 10:23 am
It started with a buzz and a jitter, then five of them flopped like wet onions onto the launch deck. Then it got scary. They started singing and shooting liquid cheese and these links from their eyes...
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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 5, 2009, 12:05 pm
Once again 3D is hitting the iPhone with a fearsome tenacity that makes you just plain ignore regular phone users. But this time the 3D goodness isn’t in the iPhone, it’s on it… and ...
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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 4, 2009, 2:56 pm
It’s been a while since your uncle that glues batteries and LED’s to his face has visited, so you may be getting a little anxious to view blinking lights and oddities that boggle the mind....
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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 3, 2009, 4:13 pm
I’m judging by that look in your eye and the 50 lb sledge hammer in your hand that you’re aimin’ to beat something into shape. But before you pin me down, let me throw something sizz...
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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, 2009, 1:00 pm
Well, gone are the days where you just go off willy, nilly and make a samurai costume out of hole-ridden, lead containers for nuclear waste. That’s right, the dems in the US Senate and House ar...
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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, 2009, 7:00 am
I know what you’re thinking. Pretty much anything free these days has something to do with throwing beets. That, or eating them, and who wants to eat beets. So, this is big news. You can get 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 - Oct 30, 2009, 12:00 pm
Of course a small, kid-like robot wouldn’t go berserk, run and jump onto your face while screaming “YOUR SOUL, YOUR SOUL” in a cold, electronic voice. That, is RIDICULOUS. Almost 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 30, 2009, 8:00 am
I’m tellin’ ya, it harnesses the power of… of every Dirt Pebble Sack Back this side of Yeti-land. What is it? It’s dark and fearsome… goes poik! poik! then throws these l...
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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 29, 2009, 1:00 pm
Shalacka Smacka! Guess what? The SolidSmack Facebook Fan Page is finally up and running. That’s HUGE news… considering it only takes a click and 5 minutes to set up. So yes, we should hav...
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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, 2009, 2:00 pm
I’m positive. If you could wrap yourself around a Subaru Turbocharged Car Engine and tear down the road, you would, you so would, and so would I. But the difference between you and I, is that 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, 2009, 11:00 am
Well, well, well, from the looks of the last poll, not too many people care about hardware/software upgrade plans. I agree… BORING. For me, a hardware upgrade consists of bottling pure rage (and...
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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, 2009, 2:00 pm
You may enjoy running at a tree full speed with your mouth wide open, but when it comes to really embedding a detailed assembly tree structure into your forehead… or your project, you may actual...
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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, 2009, 3:00 pm
Can you just smell the sizzle of fusion happening? I can. The MCAD atmosphere is beginning to get a little bit warmer and a tad amount crispier than last week. Why, you ask? Autodesk slipped their fre...
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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, 2009, 12:00 pm
So, what happens when I go offline for a couple days to clean the charred remains of spiders out of my displays? A ton of news about displays… 3D displays, multi-touch displays, holographic disp...
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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, 2009, 8:00 am
I tarred the intakes just fine ,when the roto-adjusters went all bibbly-squid and shot bloom juice all over the pistol switch. I think we can get her back up and running, but it’s gonna take som...
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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 22, 2009, 2:15 pm
Goodbye Adobe, Brushes, Layers and anyone else trying to dominate the iPhone Sketch app market. AutoDesk just release the 1.1 update to their Sketchbook Mobile app. I just upgraded and tried it out. ...
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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 22, 2009, 9:00 am
So , it’s no surprise the last post was asking about your software/hardware upgrade habits. Windows 7 launches today. What does that mean? Well, besides the likelihood that you’re wonderin...
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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 22, 2009, 8:00 am
Well, heavens ta Betsy! There are software and hardware updates exploding from every pore of the hairless cat of technology and you’ve just now realized your software and hardware are about 5 ye...
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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, 2009, 8:00 am
A horn, a tentacle. Who knows what you may need to model these days. Why just the other day I had to model the pinnacle of perfection, and let me tell you, it had the sharpest point within a five and ...
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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, 2009, 8:00 am
I know, you see it there… on the screen, but then you look on the table… and it’s not there, IT’S NOT THERE. Ya know why, huh? huh? Because it’s Augmented Reality (AR), 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 19, 2009, 2:00 pm
Get your silicon mitts on boys and girls, SolidWorks 2010 has been precooked, sizzled, put out for garnish and is now… available… for… DOWNLOAD. Of course, this is taking everyone ...
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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, 2009, 9:00 am
Your weekends as a Thief, Cleric or Paladin are about to get really cool and immersive and I’m not talking about the late night meeting with the board of trustees. Using Microsoft Surface, Carn...
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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 16, 2009, 2:16 pm
Yes, it’s all fun and games until… someone jabs an elfin creature in the eye, gets a gnarly infection and start projectile vomiting all over the place. Fortunately, it’s a virtual el...
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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 16, 2009, 8:00 am
Foot stomps and smocks! Crazy smocks, as a matter of fact. You want one? I want one. Preferably equipped with pony smiles, blinking lights, and these links. Theodoru Badiu – Everything from Pap...
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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 15, 2009, 10:00 am
Transforming aircraft and vehicles? NO, surely, you must be kidding. That’s a phenomenal concept. You should run with it and make a movie or animated children’s series. So, I came across ...
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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 14, 2009, 10:00 am
If there’s anything that cramps your daring sense of style, and your flaring lower back muscles it’s an inadequate office chair with absolutely hideous lines and a crushing lack of support...
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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 13, 2009, 2:00 pm
SPLINES! You say that too loud in a room full of structural engineers and you’ll either have 5 different types of guns pointed at you and a stapler in your forehead or… just… some ve...
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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 12, 2009, 11:00 am
I know you’ve been tearing your eyelids in restless horror just wondering to your wits end about the oddly, inconsistent capitalization and branding of the Dassault product line. NO MORE, I SAY...
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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 12, 2009, 8:00 am
I abhor oversize images of cuddly cats as much as the next person, so having them on a 155″ OLED display doesn’t do much for me. However, having the option of taking that 155″ displa...
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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 9, 2009, 8:00 am
Salut! There’s no running directly into walls here! It has to be done with a purpose, with… finesse. Now, hunker that head, raise those eyebrow, prepare yourself for battle position! ̷...
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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 8, 2009, 2:00 pm
Strap on your chaps, slide on your shades, and assume the motorcycle rider position as your co-workers push you around the office. All custom bike heeeeeck is about to break loose. Wild West Motors, ...
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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 8, 2009, 8:00 am
Do you remember the Audi R8 Surfacing video? The preview of how to model it in SolidWorks? If the fact that it wasn’t actually available then was enough to taunt you into joy-filled rage, you ca...
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