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Onshape FeatureScript Tutorial: Building Your First Feature
FeatureScript is easy. Even if you’ve never coded before, Adam gets you up and running with 15 mins of free video goodness. If you missed Adam’s Everything You Need to Know About FeatureScript video,...
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Model of the Week: Procedurally Generated Trees [Plastic Trees Are The Future!]
Why would you need a procedurally generated 3d printed tree? Why wouldn’t you?! Really, think about the possibilities here. You could print a bunch of small ones and glue them to yourself. You could...
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Model of the Week: Penny Board [Skate or Die!]
When’s the last time you went barreling down a hill on a skateboard the size of a small sea bass? Never? Well, there’s always a first time and while you’re at it, why not get extra crazy and have your...
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6 Steps to Understanding Integrated CAM in Fusion 360 (and Why It Matters)
Presented by The O’Jays. Remember those guys? Probably not, but I guarantee you’ve heard their most popular song, For the Love of Money. Two chords and a repetitive five-word phrase later, and you’ve...
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Your First Useful Onshape FeatureScript: A (Hex) Nut
Create your first useful Onshape feature: a hex nut. I walk you step-by-step through building 58 lines of simple, human-readable code, explaining helpful tips and tricks along the way. Onshape...
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Model of the Week: 3D Printable High-Bypass Jet Engine [Mach 8!]
You know what you need on your fireplace mantle? Two deer skulls, a He-man action figure and some old books. Next to all of that, you need a 3D printed jet engine. After that, no one will question you...
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Onshape FeatureScript 101 Series: Pump Up the Presets (Part 02)
In this video, we’ll build on last week’s hex nut code to add a drop-down list of standard metric nut sizes. We’ll begin with a simple example using simple reusable code snippets, and then use that...
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Model of the Week: Ambiguous Cylinder Generator [It’s Ambigulicious!]
If you weren’t obsessively clipping your toenails last week and saw the ‘Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion’ by Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University, Japan, then your brain likely squeezed its way out your...
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3DScanStore Sells the Best Human Scans We’ve Seen (Cheaper Than You Think)
3D models of humans are incredibly useful for designing wearable products, ergonomic studies, and in-situ renders. The best-looking human scans we’ve used are from 3DScanStore by Ten24, and they’re...
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Autodesk Fusion 360 is Priced at Just $25/Year for Today’s Amazon Prime Day
Unless you’ve been hiding under a (very deep) rock, we don’t need to get into specifics about Autodesk’s Fusion 360. That said, at $40 per month (or $300/year) for a professional subscription, the...
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Model of the Week: Catapult MechWarrior [BattleTech! GO!]
Well, that’s it. We have a fav new website at SolidSmack HQ. Gambody. Gambody is the buy and sell marketplace for 3D print files of video game models–High-poly, super detailed and optimized for 3D...
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Model of the Week: Low-Poly Pokémon [Catch ’em All!]
By now, you’ve probably avoided running over multiple Pokémon Go players as they traverse parking lots, alleyways and continents searching out Pokémon, Poké Stops and Poké Gyms. Outside of making a...
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Model of the Week: Ghost in the Shell Hexapod Tank [Gheeee!!]
I think we can all tear open a bag of chips, pour some Saki and agree that, next to Akira, Ghost in the Shell (GITS) is the absolute best of 20th century Japanese Animation. The last scene where our...
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Autodesk Announces Design Graph, Punches Shape Search in Solar Plexus
You know when you cried into that bucket of bolts because you couldn’t find the matching hardware? Those were sad, rough times. It’s almost as bad as when you stared into that bucket of PDM space...
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Adam + SpaceMouse Wireless == Major Nerd Joy
I loves me a good input device. As someone who’s struggled with RSIs in both wrists, input devices matter. Not just for convenience or efficiency, but for health and safety. In 2006 I gave up using a...
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Model of the Week: Corner Wall Light Design [Cue the Ambiance!]
Use to be, for a little ambiance, we just needed a time-travelling legwax salesman to unbutton the top two-buttons of his disco shirt… WAIT a minute, that would be the opposite of ambiance. That would...
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CAD with a Stylus. It’s a thing.
My last post was ostensibly about my new SpaceMouse, but within half an hour I had not less than five different people ask about my stylus. What the what? Stylus? For CAD? In short: yes, I use a stylus...
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Model of the Week: LED Bridge Lamp [LIGHT IT UP!]
You know a mask of light that shoots out 50 million lumens whenever someone looks at you tends to cause temporary blindness and bouts of projectile vomit, so something at your desk that is still 1)...
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FEBCAD AR 3D Modeling Software Lets You Model With Different Shapes
We’ve been keeping an eye out for VR/AR 3D modeling apps and, suprisingly… there’s not been much activity. Apparently we’re not in the future yet… yet… yet. There are an increasing number of ways to...
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3D Design for 3D Printing Course Teaches You the Product Dev Process
Think you need to be a 3D modeling pro to use a 3D printer? Think again. Consumers and the hobbyists among us can buy the equipment and start pumping out piles of plastic within the hour. We can even...
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