3D Graforiginees

Just found these old images I made in the eary double zeroes. Abstract spray can sculpture in SolidWorks

Cool SolidWorks Google Doodle to mark SolidWorksWorld ...?

Woaaah... Not sure if this Google Doodle is actually going to happen in time for #SWW2013 but it would be so shhweeeet!! Any SolidWorks user worth their Sodium Chloride should recognise at least SOME of the classic user icons from their SW toolbars. And if not... you need to get exploring and customising your toolbars :b



I've always loved and respected the way Google unleash their many Google Doodles on the search engine world. Whether celebrating humanity's achievements or commemorating sad days, the Google Doodles manage to mix elements of science, culture, beliefs and straight-up geekiness (...hmmm, the interactive Moog one probably covers all these in one fell swoop!).

With a love of SolidWorks and the way corporate giants get playful with iconic designs, I definitely feel SolidWorks should have its 15 minutes on the Google homepage. This Google Doodle (er, Goodle?) cleverly and neatly conveys the SW 3D CAD process from initial vector based Sketch Tools through to 3D Features, back into Sketch & Solid Body editing, and finally: publishing your work (in this case, the eDrawings icon is used, but SolidWorks has plenty more ways to get your work out to the people who need to see it (Drawings, PhotoView360, 3D Printing, 3DVia, 3D PDFs, etc).

Well, before this starts to sound like a corporate-sponsored advert (trust me, it isn't) let me just say I hope this SolidWorks Google Doodle will grace the Google search engine homepage some day very soon.

...And with SolidWorks World just round the corner, who knows what a few good spirited tweets and a healthy dose of re-blogging might do... Exercise your social media power, SW 3D CAD fans ;)

Yo it's the SolidWorks® Rap S.W.R.A.P Video (+lyrics)

Check this out: If you're into pigeon holing, I THINK this would be classed as a Nerdcore Glitch Grime Rap track, weighing in at 130 b.p.m.
What I KNOW is that it is a rap video about SolidWorks 3D CAD software, and therefore needs to be seen if you are or ever have been a SolidWorks user.
The lyrics are full of SW references, check em out below the video if you don't understand the language of rap! Big shout out to the Geojobi crew for posting this up!!

SolidWorks® Rap S.W.R.A.P - Now with added video!
Lyrics:

Techies designers & engineers,
Stop what you’re doing And lend your ears,
I’m not dissing the competition, But lets just say,
I’m down with Dassault Systèmes
Throw your keyboard in the air,
Roll your SpaceBall like you just don’t care
And if you’ve got SolidWorks tattooed on your knuckles
Let me hear you say “oh yeaah”.

Oh… So I guess its just me,
My SolidWorks skills are a bit rusty,
That’s a joke… are you mental?!
In my sleep I model sheep, made from Sheet Metal.
Back to the program,
For 3D CAD, man
It’s just so nang. Understand!
You can design anything that you think you can.

Shell it out rip the corners and flatten it.
Library Feature Emboss and Pattern it
Watch for zero thickness edges,
Or the feature manager just ain't havin it.

I start a part like a warlord, planning it
Sketch on a fag packet before attackin’ it.
And if its got Wrap in it ,or a complex feature I’ll handle it,
Hang on I said wrap, init --
‘Wrap’ s a feature featured in this rap, init!

It’s a
Rap, It’s a
Rap, It’s a
Rap, It’s a

S-W-R-A-P
(x3)
Somebody did a SolidWorks rap before,
But the rhymes were shoddy & the track was poor.
This is 130 BPM, and what’s more,
Have you ever heard SolidWorks Grime Nerdcore?

His rap was essentials; mine’s advanced,
Now it’s time to bust a little SolidWorks dance, it goes…

Left click… Right click…
Alt + Mouse wheel & ‘Roll’.
Rotating’s easy, and if you wanna pan
It’s Mouse wheel & hold control, yo!

I Flexed my best Feature at SolidWorks World;
Tried to Combine my Solid Body with the girls,
It was getting late with no sense in a date,
So I said that I’m great at Concentric Mates

I drew me a Rolex, so I looked the bomb,
Threw in an exploded view and a BOM.
My graphics card ain’t wack, I keep it real dude,
My pimp cup’s blingin’ when I tweak the RealView,

Some ‘ice’ on my neck’d look fresh,
I’m gonna Boss Extrude my name in bold text.
And then 3D Print this thing,
And I’m gonna make myself a sick pinky ring…

…And I’m out!


It’s a
Rap, It’s a
Rap, It’s a
Rap,

S-W-R-A-P

(x4)

CMYK vs RGB 001

Composition inspired by the core colour palettes of CMYK and RGB

Excel Spreadsheet + SolidWorks = 3D Pixel Art Design Tables

If you know about SolidWorks you therefore know about Design Tables, right?
RIGHT???

Here are my first two tests; I fill out the rows of my spreadsheet, import them to SW, and hey presto it automatically constructs the multi-layered 3D block models for me.

Now I can quickly and easily generate fresh 3D models in a kind of 3D pixel-art style... easy as X-Y-Z

3D Week is WICK3D!

Don't forget to peep Friday 13th Part 3 (in 3D) this Friday on Channel 4!!

It is sure to be WICK3D!

in the Mouthoff madness

3D ode to the iPhone application "mouthoff™" by ustwo™

...a very cool related hip-hop video using MouthOff is the ShowUsYourMouthoffRap