March 2010Monthly Archives

solidThinking at 2010 IDSA District Conferences

Connect with us at the Industrial Designers Society of America’s (IDSA) district conferences April 9-May 2, 2010. As part of this nationwide conference tour, we will offer personalized previews of solidThinking and solidThinking Inspired and show some of the key product advancements planned for 2010.

Southern District Conference
Mass Reduction: The Economy of Design
April 9-11, 2010
Hilton Charlotte City Center—Charlotte, NC

Northeast District Conference
CoCreate
April 16-17, 2010
Kean University—Union, NJ

Midwest District Conference
Using Story to Design Products and Experiences
April 16-18, 2010
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee—Milwaukee, WI

Western District Conference
Make a Scene!
April 23-25, 2010
The Curtis Hotel—Denver, CO

Mideast District Conference
Faces of Design
April 30-May 2, 2010
Western Michigan University—Grand Rapids, MI

solidThinking on CGW

Computer Graphics World has just published an online exclusive on solidThinking written by Kathleen Maher, senior analysts at Jon Peddie Research and editor in chief of JPR’s “TechWatch”.

Click here to read the full article.

Some highlights:

“SolidThinking is a lovely industrial design tool with a very graphical interface. The company’s tools are NURBS-based, and the software has combined the ability to directly model an object but maintain relationships through a construction tree. As the company says, industrial designers like to make changes, so it offers designers tools that let them try out ideas iteratively without destroying the design intent or, if appropriate, just grab and move features.”

“SolidThinking’s Morphogenesis technology lets users apply some very basic constraints to a rough block and gives it some guidelines as to how much material to save or remove. The software goes to work removing as much material as possible while still maintaining structural integrity. The result is a skeleton that can then be used to develop new ideas.”

solidThinking Presentations at CimWorks, Spain March 9, 10, and 11

CimWorks, solidThinking Spain reseller, is hosting three solidThinking presentations for Spanish industrial designers. The two-hour presentations will be given by CimWorks and solidThinking Product Specialist, Adel Matar.

MADRID
Date/Time: March 9,  11:00 am
Location: CimWorks
Avda. America 32, desp 251, pta1
28922 Alcorcón

VALENCIA
Date/Time: March 10,  11:00 am
Location: AIMME
Parque Tecnológico de Paterna, Avda. Leonardo Da Vinci 38
46980 PATERNA (Valencia)
Directions

BARCELONA
Date/Time: March 11,  11:00 am
Location: ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny
La Rambla 30-32 (entrada por Plaza de Joaquim Xirau)
08002 Barcelona
Directions

Contact: Yolanda Garijo
ygarijo@cimworks.es
Tel. 93 544 14 60