23 July 2010
Chris Rand, Editor
TOP BLOG POSTS
From SolidSmack.com: How To Make the
Daft Punk Helmet. Wouldn’t a 3D Print Be Better, Faster, Stronger? - “Carve it. Shape it. Cut it. Smooth it. Knick it. Clip it. Daft Punk Helmet. Yeah, you know what’s good for you. 3 minutes of prop building madness from Volpin Props. The prop? The helmet of electronic, supersonic duo supremo, Daft Punk…”
From SolidSmack.com: Stop Using Your Fingers, Start Using
Your Brain: Brain Aided Design - “This is a guest post by Joris Peels who has enjoyed being the community manager at Shapeways over the past two years. He’s from the Netherlands and makes some mean stoofperen…”
From WorldCAD Access: PTC gains more work at EADS - “When PTC got its first win at EADS - the AirBus people - the marketing department made it sound like PTC had won all of the PLM business at EADS…”
From WorldCAD Access: Milling really organic shapes - “Earlier in the week I watched a Webinar that featured T-Splines and MechSoft’s RhinoCAM running inside Rhino…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Book Review: SolidWorks 2010 No Experience Required - “SolidWorks 2010 No Experience Required (’SW2010-NER’) is a new book by Alex R. Ruiz that takes a detailed approach to teaching SolidWorks to new user…”
TOP NEWS STORIES
From Engineeringtalk: CCE launches update for ODX library applications - “CCE has released an update that enables applications using ODX (Open Data Exchange) libraries to read Catia V5 R20 and NX 7.5 files, and write Catia V5 R20 files…”
From Engineeringtalk: Cognex introduces surface inspection software - “Cognex has launched Visionpro Surface, a vision software package for inspecting the surface of materials…”
From Engineeringtalk: Transmagic R8 SP4 performs data conversion - “Transmagic has released Transmagic R8 SP4, a new release of its Expert XL-64 flagship product, for CAD interoperability and data-conversion processes…”
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