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How Onshape Changes Traditional CAD – Real-Time Deployment
Presented by Anyone involved in product development knows there’s constant pressure to get to market faster. However, success often comes to, not necessarily those who get to market faster but, those...
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Model of the Week: McCree’s Blackwatch Peacekeeper [It’s High Noon!]
If you’re an Overwatch fan or just need an obnoxiously large and enormously uncomfortable, yet completely badass pistol to tote around, look no further. It doesn’t fire bullets, pellets, Nerf darts or...
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Model of the Week: Squishy Turtle + ID Design Process [Endless Turtle...
If any of your hobbies involve turtles and/or squishing things with your fingers while giggling like a schoolchild hopped up on oatmeal pies, you’re going to love our model this week. Jacob Stanton,...
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Top 3 Onshape Updates: Composite Curve, 3D Fit Spline, DXF/DWG Import
Onshape snuck one in on us last Friday. By which I mean, we totally missed the 11 new updates/improvements released that make the previous curve-rich update even more convincing that surfacing is...
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Model of the Week: RepStroh Violin [Play That Fiddle!]
Ya know, there’s nothing that quite matches the craftsmanship of a traditional violin… except for a weird ass instrument that is 3D printed and sounds just like a traditional violin. Thingiverse user...
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Model of the Week: 1932 Ford Hot Rod [Your New Project Car!]
Have a hot rod project car out in the garage? Yes? No? What’s that? It’s more a pile of hot rod parts you say? If you look at my garage in the dark and squint hard enough, all of those boxes look...
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Coreform Uses Exact Geometry (Not A Mesh) to Bring You Next-Gen FEA
Remember when you had to create a mesh of your model to run any sort of simulation? If Coreform has their way, that question may not seem so strange in a future with the old ways of FEA archived...
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How Swissomation Delivers Precision Manufacturing Using Fusion 360
Sponsored by I’m not sure what you think when you hear the term ‘precision manufacturing’ but when I saw the 7+ axis micro-machining capabilities of Swissomation, I was completely floored. They take...
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Model of the Week: Cylindrical 3D Printed Periodic Table [C3H4O2 Fun!!]
Yeah, that Periodic Table of Elements on your wall? The shirt of the Periodic Table you got for your college graduation? The tattoo you got of your name in Periodic table notation? Yeah, people...
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Onshape Introduces Parametric Modeling 2.0 – Upends Configurations, Slaps...
Last week Onshape released possibly the most major update since launching out of beta. This week they introduce “Parametric Modeling 2.0” on the 30 year anniversary when parametric modeling software...
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Model of the Week: Swiss Army Style Key Holder [I Key You!]
So, you’re going to lunch with your boss again. You get out to your car when you say, “I wish there were a small chipmunk creature that stores my keys in its chest cavity and greets me with a friendly...
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Vention Snags $3.5M Seed Round For Their Machine Design Platform
You remember Vention, right? The web-based machine builder and social marketplace? They just popped the champagne announcing a seed round of $3.5 million CAD ($2.8M USD). The financing was spearheaded...
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Sketchfab Launches Sketchfab Store, Lets Designers Monetize 3D Models
For the entrepreneurial 3D modelers out there, there is no shortage of 3D file marketplaces to generate a nice little bit of side revenue. But when it comes to 3D on the web, Sketchfab’s YouTube-like...
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Model of the Week: Modular Aquaponics Wall [Stack Yo’ Veggies!]
Usually, when I’m talking to someone about vegetables, it’s about making a room size bed of leafy greens, methods for stitching carrot and snap pea riot gear or practical locations for beet juice...
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SOLIDWORKS WORLD and CSWP Celebrate 20 Years of Making You More Awesome
Wow. Woooooow. This year, SOLIDWORKS WORLD and the Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Exam (CSWP) turn 20. What’s that? You were at the first SOLIDWORKS WORLD in 1998? You ARE OLD–Old as the hills. In...
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Concept Modeling in Fusion 360
Do you like things wheels and that go fast? Are you looking to speed up your modeling process in Fusion 360? Then we’ve got just the ticket. Youtuber name notimportant posted a nice video on concept...
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Model of the Week: Howl’s Moving Castle [Your Head’s a Turnip!]
So, maybe you haven’t been turned into an old lady who ends up in a walking castle powered by a wee fire-demon but, you gotta admit, a walking castle is pretty darn cool. I don’t think it’s ever been...
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Two Videos to Watch Before Going to SOLIDWORKS World 2018
The first SOLIDWORKS World was in 1998. Tack on 20 years, a new dress shirt, clipping your toenails 87 times and all those bags of chips you shouldn’t have eaten and suddenly, it’s 2018. There are a...
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Immersive Augmented Reality Sweetness is Finally Coming to SolidWorks
It’s not uncommon for SolidWorks World to feel a little bit like Christmas for serious CAD junkies. Not to mention, it’s a great time for partner companies to get their announcements heard while...
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Siemens to Provide Free Solid Edge CAD Software for Launch Forth Members
Start-up capital has been a pain point—and roadblock—for many brilliant ideas that never end up seeing the light of day. Considering how costly software tools alone can be, it’s no surprise that some...
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