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Model of the Week: 12 Gauge Desk Organizer [Ready! Aim! ORGANIZE!]
I know what you’re thinking – I could organize my desk all sorts of ways wit ma 12 gauge shotgun ♫ ♪ But hold your reload and save those shells for dove season. What we’ve got for you is a desk...
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Model of the Week: Nixie Clock TV [Turn on the Vintage!]
If you’ve cyborged your upper torso with gears and lights glued to a cardboard box, I hate to tell you but, the transformation isn’t complete until you’ve embedded a Nixie clock in your chest cavity....
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Why SOLIDWORKS World Was Changed to 3DEXPERIENCE World
I know all y’all SOLIDWORKS users have been loosing sleep over one thing and one thing only since February 2019. Why, in the pit of Elroy’s belly, did Dassault Systemes go and fiddle with the name of...
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SOLIDWORKS 2020 Comin’ Atcha With a Quickness (Plus More on 3DEXPERIENCE)
It’s fall y’all, and that means football, hot wing juice on your keyboard, and a new version of SOLIDWORKS comin’ atcha fast. This month, SOLIDWORKS held their SOLIDWORKS 2020 launch event/sportscast...
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Cool CAD Tips: How to Easily Thread Parts in Autodesk Fusion 360
If you ever wanted to create threaded fasteners for screws, nuts, bolts and the like on the fly using good old Fusion 360, Autodesk has a simple method to easily implement them using the Thread...
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How to Automate Hole Recognition in Fusion 360 for CNC
While drilling a hole is something every CNC machine user can do easily, programming the locations of several holes takes a bit more time and effort. Instead of going through the arduous process of...
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This Epic Racing Drone Was Made Using Fusion 360 and Generative Design
It wasn’t too long ago when the concept of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the capabilities of generative design seemed like some far off sci-fi future. Yet, both technologies are alive and...
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Autodesk Changes Fusion 360 Free License Terms
Autodesk seems to be tightening up their rules regarding use of the popular Fusion 360 CAD system. The company moved the product to a subscription-based cloud system a couple of years ago and then...
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PTC to Acquire Onshape for $470M
It’s been long suspected that Onshape would eventually land in the hands of a larger enterprise product development (or non-product development) company — that day is here. PTC has just announced the...
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Model a Boeing 747 in SOLIDWORKS
You may have ridden on Boeing 747. You may have even designed parts of a 747. But have you ever created an entire 3D model of a Boeing 747-8 exterior (including landing gear) in SOLIDWORKS?! Well, one...
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The New Tesla Cybertruck is Dang Easy to Model in Blender
Even though the new Tesla Cybertruck is supposedly going to usher in a new age of electric offroad vehicles, some people think the design is a bit… lacking. Like a CG model whose textures haven’t...
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Model of the Week: 3D Printed 2020 Glasses [Pixel in the New Year!]
The END IS NIEGH… The end of 2019. You’ve been taking half days at work to plan shenanigans to ring in the new year, but have hit a roadblock on one critical item: 2020 NEW YEAR’S EVE GLASSES. How can...
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Model of the Week: 3D Printed Rubix Cube Solving Robot CASE [SOLVED!]
You’re trundling through the train station with your Rubix Cube solving robot, huddled protectively around it like a badger on a worm-covered pinecone. SNAP, that guy with the umbrella and snake cage...
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Autodesk Fusion 360 (Sub) Now Includes EAGLE PCB Design
Seems those New Year’s Eve champagne corks over at Autodesk had an electrical surprise attached to them. The January Fusion 360 product update isn’t out yet but notifications are going out about new...
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Going to 3DEXPERIENCE World 2020? Here’s What You Don’t Want to Miss.
Well, well, well. What’s this? We’ve left the previous two decades behind and with it the conference that defined the era for a generation of designers and engineers. SOLIDWORKS World is no longer,...
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The Dawn of Dual-Screen for 3D CAD Apps… Is Upon Us
You would think this article is from a decade or two ago, but no. It’s really about dual-screen and CAD software using dual-screens… but not like you’re used to. This week, Microsoft released the...
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Hold Onto Your PCBs – Autodesk Just Added ECAD to Fusion 360
A couple of weeks ago we shared that Fusion 360 users would get access to EAGLE electronic design automation software. At the time, the Fusion 360 January update hadn’t come out, but with the ECAD...
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The Birth of SOLIDWORKS on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform (3DX World Highlights)
Well, if you were one of the roughly 5000 SOLIDWORKS users at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2020 in Nashville last week (or one of the many who watched it live), you were part of the first batch to catch a...
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Tech Soft 3D Snags ‘Significant’ Funding
Well, well, well. Tech Soft 3D, the developer of the HOOPS family of CAD data translation, 3D PDF, visualization, and toolkits for web, desktop, and mobile, has just announced “significant investment”...
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Model of the Week: COVID-19 Coronavirus [No Mask Required!]
Depending on what news program you see, time of day, and star alignment you’ll hear that the COVID-19 (Corona)virus is worse than any other virus, not as bad as other viruses, killing thousands, or...
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