What We Found Out About SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual (and the Future of...
On the first day of SolidWorks World, you can always expect a big announcement. The big one this year is the announcement of SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual (SWMC). Last year they announced it as...
View ArticleBernard Charlès on ‘the Future of Designing in SolidWorks’
Having been President and CEO of Dassault Systèmes (parent company of SolidWorks) since September of 1995, Bernard Charlès has seen better than most how much the 3D software—and software in...
View ArticleSpaceClaim Kicks Project “Connect” Out of Beta, Releases LiveReview & a 3D...
For all of those getting antsy to click a button and start a live session to share your confidential CAD data whilst in your jammies, the ability to do so in now here. SpaceClaim has released...
View ArticleSolidWorks World 2014 Break-Out Sessions Now Available To All
SolidWorks World already seems like it was in the distant past, but in reality, it was just six weeks ago. However, now’s your chance to experience SolidWorks World all over again, or maybe even for...
View ArticleFish3d: A New Touch-sensitive, Interactive Modeling Environment
If you’ve been fishing, you know the layer of slime that covers the fish, protecting it from your nasty hand bacteria. It’s also a defense mechanism that helps protect the fish from predators and, as...
View ArticleConfirmed: Autodesk Getting into the Hardware Market. Announces Spark Platform.
Look out Stratasys. Look out ‘lil ol’ 3D Systems. Mama Autodesk is coming to hardware town, and bringing a truckload of open-platform 3D printed fury with them. Today, it was confirmed in a blog post...
View ArticleAutodesk Brings Cloudy CAM Power To Fusion 360
If you have been with us, tracking the growth of Autodesk’s cloud-based CAD platform Fusion 360, we have some more good news for you. After the last update that brought KeyShot rendering, almost seven...
View ArticleGet Started Designing a 3D Printable Robot in SolidWorks With These Free Videos
If you haven’t checked out the latest in SolidWorks training from the industrial design training site cadjunkie yet, you’re missing out! Whether you’re an aspiring creative, a seasoned designer, or...
View Article‘Hatch Live’ Championship Weekend: Which Rhino Modeling Warrior Reigned...
Last month we reported on the opening weekend of the new Hatch Live tournament—a sort of Cut+Paste-like competition with the end goal of having a unique, manufacturable design. Well, after a month’s...
View ArticleDon’t Be Stupid (a SolidWorks bracelet)
As the sweat beads drip across my sun-scorched face, my mouse hand quivers and cracks in the cruel dry heat. “This was a bad plan.” I think to myself. “Setting up an outdoor office in the middle of the...
View Article3DShap.es Licks Your 3D Prints, Makes Those Shapes Searchable
Let’s say you’ve pinched off the last sip of your 8th ginger brew, your bladder is full and you need to 3D print a part that looks like a part from your mother’s, 2nd cousin’s custom-made prosthetic....
View ArticleWhat Matterport’s 3D Platform and 16M Funding Means for Designers and Engineers
Imagine working on a project, modeling and simulating the design, in the very environment. A 100% dimensionally accurate environment that you shot with your mobile device. It’s an ability we’ve talked...
View Article500lbf of SolidWorks Simulation Training Applied to Your Braincase
You’ve trained your body to withstand two hour meetings, chatty co-workers and guzzling a Slurpee in five seconds flat–THE BURN. Now you’re anxious to sharpen your SolidWorks Simulation knowledge. You...
View ArticleNew (and Free!) Photo Editing Software Manipulates 3D Models Within Your...
Siggraph 2014 is coming up this weekend in Vancouver and as expected, lots of exciting new computer graphics tech developments will be announced. Among them is this incredible new photo editing tool...
View ArticleAMRC uses 3D printing to prototype new small-sized drone
Drones are quickly becoming commonplace and it’s not only military and law enforcement who have them. Even the kid a couple of houses over has a quadrocopter lit up with LEDs he flies at night a couple...
View ArticleAdobe Releases Enhanced 3D Printing Support for Photoshop CC 2014
Since announcing support for 3D printing directly withinin Photoshop earlier this year, Adobe has been focusing on enhancing the popular photo-editing software to be an even more powerful 3D content...
View ArticlePlethora Gives You Instant Quotes to Machine Your SolidWorks or Inventor Parts
There are five things I want after designing a part–a damn part, damn fast. 3D printing was suppose to be the revolutionary technology that made all our manufacturing woes go away, speed the whole...
View ArticleSimple Steps for Stopping Tears and Starting 3D Print Projects in SolidWorks
A tear falls on the molten plastic heap outside the confines of the 3d printer base. The print bed is too small. It’s sadness that creeps in at times, leaving us to scale down or chop up our designs....
View ArticleIntroducing the Cadjunkie ‘Hump Day’ Weekly SolidWorks and MODO Tips and Tricks
EvD Media’s very own Adam O’Hern has been busy concocting various new awesome sauce CAD tutorials over at cadjunkie. The industrial design video training site features hundreds of videos ranging from...
View ArticleThe Most Annoying Thing in CAD: Survey Says…
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