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Browser-based SelfCAD Adds Load of New Features, New Pricing for Education
SelfCAD has been bustin’ solid modeling moves for a few years now, adding feature after feature to their browser-based 3D modeling app. They’ve grown from a basic 3D shape modeler to including...
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eMachineShop Adds Free, Online 3D File Viewing & Sharing (No Signup Req’d)
Yep, you’re right. I just double-checked. It is, in fact, 2020. How easy is it to view and share 3D models online? Well, easier — we’ve made a lot of progress over the last decade — but you would...
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Model of the Week: Mechanical Phone Holder [Designed for Space!]
With all the quarantining and disease spread lately, you’ve probably thought, “When’s the next flight off this crazy planet?!” Alien abduction volunteers? “Take Wuhan!” Hey now! The virus has already...
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Model of the Week: COVID-19 Coronavirus FaceMask [Be Prepared!]
With COVID-19 spreading, the state of the world has changed faster than you can change your shirt in the morning. We’ve gone from running about like productive worker bees to huddling in our house…...
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A New Normal: How Onshape Helps Engineering Teams Adapt and Become More Flexible
Presented by We’re enchanted with the idea of working from home. We imagine ease, flexibility, and access to a completely stocked pantry, fewer meetings, higher efficiency, and more getting things...
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Model of the Week: ASTROLABICON 3D Printed Marble Puzzle [Finger Tingles!]
[WARNING: May lead to extreme tingling and happiness in the fingers.] With coronavirus getting everyone running around screaming with their hands up in the air, people are doing 62% fewer things with...
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Turbosquid’s Kraken Levels Up 3D Asset Management
First, if you haven’t used Turbosquid to source models, check it out quickly. If you have used Turbosquid before, you know it’s incredibly useful to source just about any type of model you’re looking...
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How Effective is a Facemask? Here’s a Simulation of Your Unfettered Sneeze.
If you ask any software development company what they’re doing to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, you may find they’re using their software in unconventional ways to solve, and in this case,...
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Model of the Week: Cassette Lamp [Rewind and Play!]
With so much going on in the world, it’s easy to go out on a balcony, stare off to the horizon, reflect inside and say, “I have SO many awesome mixtapes!” Or had, if you tossed them in a fit of...
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Model of the Week: V-Walker Robot [Walk This Way… Or Don’t!]
Imagine you had a robot or five. One of those would need to be the cute little mascot that seemingly had no purpose but was, in fact, the leader of them all. This, it that robot. The V-Walker is ‘A...
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Autodesk Offers Free Commercial Use of Fusion 360
Did you know Autodesk is providing free access to Fusion 360 due to the crisis? Fusion 360 Features Autodesk’s Fusion 360 system is a powerful cloud-based CAD tool that can provide both beginners and...
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Model of the Week: Curtiss “Number 3” Engine [The Wonders of Powered Flight!]
Ah! The early days of flight! Experimental flights, experimental aircraft and, most interesting of all, experimental engines. Since 1903 there have been all matter of engines from air-cooled to...
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See Jude Pullen on the Latest Episode of Ok Xoomer
If you haven’t caught Xometry’s Ok Xoomer yet, you’re missing out. But don’t worry, they’re only on 10 episodes in and one of their latest episodes is the perfect place to start. Aaron Lichtig of...
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Model of the Week: Heavy Loader Construction Bot [I Will Load YOU!]
You’ve got so much work, you could use an extra hand, am I right? Well, how about a Heavy Loader or ten? Unfortunately, our model of the week won’t pick up the slack but it will pick up your spirits...
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SOLIDWORKS Tips, Tricks, and Smacks (By Dan): Mid Plane Design Method
Konichiwa, SolidWorks ninjas. Welcome to the dojo (Designing Objects Journeymen Organization). Let’s flip roll right into our training regime. Mid Plane Is Your Symmetrical Friend As we take our 2D...
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PICO CAD is a Low Poly 3D Modeling Software Concept
Note: This is concept software! Interested in available 8-bit/DOS modelers? Check out Magicvoxel, 3D Studio DOS, or Mikshape3D! Game developer Johan Peitz posted a tweet recently with a video of a...
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Onshape CAD Improvements | Changing Geometry Face Colors Is Now A Snap!
Editing appearances inside Onshape just go better. Now applying custom color to any region or face is a snap! Gone are the days of needing a workaround to simply change the face color of solid or...
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It’s Happened. SketchUp Goes Completely Subscription.
It was a slow ride over to SketchUp subscription city but you saw the road signs along the way. First Trimble put SketchUp online bringing you SketchUp for Web. Then, in February 2019, they announced...
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ZBrushCoreMini is the New, Free Sculpting App from Pixologic
Get your sculpt brushes and buckets of inspiration ready. Today, Pixologic introduced ZBrushCoreMini, a free entry-level version of its ZBrushCore and ZBrush software designed to help people get...
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nPower’s New Power Shell and Power Thicken Powers Up Your SOLIDWORKS Shelling
Since time immemorial, CAD users have faced challenges when adding shell features to their designs. Typically used to convert solid 3D objects into hollow shells with walls of a specified thickness,...
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