CAD News from Wednesday, 5 weeks ago
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From the CADDmanager blog: When do CAD Habits become Bad Habits? -”New Users learn the best and worst from others. What are you passing on? People seem to pick up the bad habits and not the good habits. Some get the good habits and define the bad ones that they do not want to mimic…”
From SolidSmack.com: Butterflies are Scary, and So Is This 3DTV
Mapping - “We’ve seen cool 3D projection on objects before, but this is frighteningly cool. It’s another 3DTV installation from Samsung…”
From the CADDmanager blog: Talk is Cheap - but so valuable - “Communication is one area that can always be improved. Getting the message across to others is what every manager has to do. Communicating well and consistently is not easy…”
From the CADDmanager blog: The Power of the Written Word - “Communication is so valuable and written communication is the artifact and record of a good process. Writing is becoming a lost art for the common person…”
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CAD News from Tuesday, 6 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Brilliant 3DTV Turned Heads-Up VR Lets You Touch the 3D Image
- “Don’t you dare touch my 3D parts! Oh. you just want to virtually touch them with haptic feedback… nope, that’s still a little out of my comfort zone. Not so for the researchers at UC San Diego…”
From SolidSmack.com: SolidWorks Smart Components.
How To Make Them Work In Large Assemblies - “Before you pucker your lips up into your nasal cavity at the sight of something called Smart Components, take a breath. You’ll want to know about them if you haven’t used them already…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: 3D CAD Manager wanted, London - “3D CAD MANAGER This is an excellent opportunity to be at the leading edge, implementing the CAD strategy for a multi award winning, international practice based in London…”
From WorldCAD Access: New
this week in your upFront.eZine: an architect explains blue prints, blue
lines… - “In this week’s issue of upFront.eZine: 1. Sent From My iPad Guest Editorial by Dave Angelotti 2…”
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CAD News from Monday, 6 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: On board the ‘Celebration of Light’ barge
- “At the end of each July, Vancouver boasts the ‘Celebration of Light,’ a nightly competition, in which countries compete by blasting fireworks for a half-hour, coordinated to music blasting from loudspeakers and over FM radio…”
From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: the rather red corner
store - “A corner store in Washington DC, taken in June 2000. It boasts two public telephones, two air conditioners, two Coke machines, and two garbage containers…”
From the Eat Your CAD blog: Saved Views 101 - “WHAT IS A SAVED VIEW? If you read the MicroStation Help file, it will tell you: ‘A saved view is a view definition, which includes the level display for both the active model and reference…”
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CAD News from Saturday, 6 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Snort Juice - “It was the pants. They were large, multi-colored and had the faces of a thousand furry yak babies. But, I’ll tell you this right now. They had enough snort juice to power these link and then some…”
From SolidSmack.com: 1,000,000 Holes Can’t Be Done: Except with
SpaceClaim 2010 - “I DARE you. Try to make a million holes in a sheet metal part with whatever 3D design tool you’re using. Go ahead… I’ll wait…”
From WorldCAD Access: The nVidia plan: To
shatter coffee breaks due to ray tracing - “Oh for the good old days, when hidden-line removal on AutoCAD Release 10 would take all weekend, running on an 8MHz AT clone…”
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CAD News from Friday, 6 weeks ago
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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…”
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CAD News from Thursday, 6 weeks ago
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From the BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International: Get productive with the AutoCAD Inventor
LT Suite and support AUGI! - “Support AUGI Programs and purchase your AutoCAD Inventor Suite LT Licenses from us! Autodesk Inventor LT 3D mechanical CAD software delivers the powerful 3D part-level design capabilities of Autodesk Inventor digital prototyping software…”
From SolidSmack.com: Eyelid Tearing
Multiphysics from Lagoa is a Thing of Beauty - “My eyeball lids have peeled back over my head… by themselves. I think I feel pain, but I don’t know, because I’m in shock at the coolness I’m seeing…”
From SolidSmack.com: Solve It! Make Every SolidWorks Assembly Part a Random
Color? - “Let me ask you this…”
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CAD News from Wednesday, 6 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Behind the Design:
Making Machines that Eat Cars - “We all know it. There are at least six programs that go into design process. That is, when there are more than five programs used. And with that, there’s a workflow that needs to be beat into submission…”
From WorldCAD Access: Living on this side of the
hard-work/soft-work divide - “Some days, I think I’d like to get a regular job, you know, be an employee where you work maybe 40%-60% of the work day…”
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