CAD News from Saturday, 80 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, 80 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, 80 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, 80 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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CAD News from Tuesday, 80 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: 5,000 daily readers, two million
lifetime page-views - “Thanks to all you readers who have powered WorldCAD Access to 5,000 daily readers: - Some 4,000 now read this blog through RSS feeds. - Another 750-1,200 (varies by the day) read the blog directly…”
From SolidSmack.com: Design the (Robot) Face of Death to
Come: but also friendly and elegant - “Here’s your chance to be part of the future… and also part of the remains left over after a rebel group goes after the people responsible for the creation of our friendly humanoid companions…”
From WorldCAD Access: This week in upFront.eZine:
what’s Adobe doing now for 3D? - “In this week’s issue of upFront.eZine: 1. 3D in Adobe CS5 - 3D in Illustrator CS5 - 3D in PhotoShop CS5 2…”
From SolidSmack.com: Goodbye Wacom Tablets? Hello
Livescribe Echo and Future Design? - “Your measly, little common pens are about to become insanely jealous…”
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CAD News from Monday, 80 weeks ago
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From WorldCAD Access: foto of the sunday: for you steampunk fans
- “Foto I took in Washington DC, June 2000. I think it might be the timer mechanism for the bell atop the old postal building?…”
From WorldCAD Access: Graebert’s ARES works on Linux just fine
- “I run Mint Linux on most of my computers, and so I was pretty interested in Linux versions of ARES and Bricscad…”
From the Solidworks Legion blog: Product Review: Template Wizard (2010) - “Several years ago, I reviewed one of the earliest versions of Template Wizard, published by 3 Dawn Consulting, LLC at SolidWorksTemplates.com…”
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CAD News from Saturday, 81 weeks ago
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From SolidSmack.com: Design Buildings Using SolidWorks?
Maybe with SolidWorks V6: or V7 - “Quick! Switch your screen from the SolidWorks model of your house back to the spreadsheet that updates Mr. Manager coming round the corner on your task status. Yep, you know what I’m talking about. Modeling your house in SolidWorks…”
From WorldCAD Access: How come text looks so good in AutoCAD? - “As I work with DWG-compatible CAD systems, I notice that text on their screens looks dreadful, whereas text looks smooth in AutoCAD. I took a close look to find out why…”
From SolidSmack.com: Friday Smackdown: Raft Hallard - “Now, there was a time when vassal and vessel sailed betwixt the vapored reef, but all the coin and all the curd could not save your hide from links like these…”
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