A new demo showing how to model an electric razor has been added to solidThinking’s YouTube Channel.
See how you can quickly model the razor, change details and perfect its design in complete freedom thanks to solidThinking’s unique ConstructionTree technology.
FISHER/UNITECH, a leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management solutions, will host a FREE, one-hour webcast to demonstrate how you can enrich and accelerate your design inspiration using solidThinking on February 4, 2010 – 7:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time).
You’ll learn about:
Register for FREE attendance to the next solidThinking QuickStart web sessions.
Duration: 1 hour.
Here are the dates:
February 2, 2010 – 10:00 AM CET (Central European Time)
February 11, 2010 – 2:00 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time)
February 16, 2010 – 10:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time)
February 25, 2010 – 2:00 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time)
You are invited to the first solidThinking Product Day on November 2nd at the “Forum am Schlosspark” in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
The information day is part of the 3rd European HyperWorks Technology Conference 2009 (www.altairhtc.com/europe), which you might be visiting (registration is free).
The solidThinking day is dedicated to all creative trend-setters of the design community in Europe and will offer networking with the developers of solidThinking and solidThinking Inspired and experiences from real customer use cases.
The solidThinking day will start at 11.00 am on November 2nd and will include workshops and papers from solidThinking spokespeople and users. It will end at 18:00 with refreshment at the Welcome reception of the 3rd EHTC, to which all attendees of the solidThinking day are invited.
Ludwigsburg is located in Baden-Wuerttemberg, not far from Stuttgart. Baden-Wuerttemberg is one of the largest tourist states in Germany. It is situated in the very heart of Europe and is just as famous for its delicious cooking as for being the industrial home of globally renowned companies like Daimler, Bosch, Porsche, Boss, Adidas and Puma.
Ludwigsburg has a lot to offer. In the baroque centre of the town you can see the baroque quarters, which host the birth houses and residences of famous poets, such as Morike and Schiller, and you can stroll around in the castle park or go shopping and try out the local restaurants.
The solidThinking Information Day is FREE of charge.
Register today at: http://www.solidthinking.com/forms/EventList.aspx
The Shadowcatcher is a unique shading property that allows the object(s) with this particular material to be invisible in the rendering but stll accept and display any shadows cast upon them. This is typically used to integrate a 3D object into a photographic background where the object would not normally have a shadow.
To use it, you can add on or more ground planes to your scene where you want the shadow to be cast.
After selecting the ground plane(s), open the Shading panel and choose the Surface Material tab. Right click the Reflectance shader component to assign the Shadowcatcher type. Various parameters are available. When the scene is rendered, shadows will be realistically cast upon the ground plane(s).
Arcitects and product designers are in constant search of inspiration.
Nature has always been a great source of inspiration, and particularly biological forms. While biological forms tend to be aesthetically interesting, they also tend to be efficient and highly functional because they are the product of environmental pressures.
Today, new technologies enable architects and product designers to simulate some of the processes and physical laws in nature with software algorithms, thus helping to generate forms in response to environmental stimuli.
What challenges and opportunities arise from defining environmental conditions and interpreting the forms that are generated? How do methods such as these complement traditional methods?
The FREE half day workshop will describe, with practical and visual examples, exciting new methods that have now emerged for architects and designers to generate and explore forms that are aesthetically interesting, often unexpected, and at the same time well adapted to their intended function.
Each participant should bring their own laptop.
Attendees at this workshop will be granted a 3-month license to solidThinking and the new morphogenesis™ form generation technology which will be unveiled for the first time during CAADFutures 2009.
Click here for registration details.
A new demo showing how to model a spray bottle is available. See how solidThinking lets you explore any possible design alternative in real time.
You can find the real time version of the demo, useful for learning, at the Demos page of the solidThinking Web site.
An accelerated version of the demo is avaialble at www.youtube.com/solidthinking.
Only two of the five IDSA District Conferences are left. If you missed the others, make sure to mark the next dates.
During the events, we will be showcasing solidThinking 7.6 and demonstrating useful modeling and rendering techniques.
If you have planned to be at the Western Conference do not miss the presentation on Friday April 24, at 3:00 PM:
“Human thinking and machine intelligence: New inspiration for product design”.
A new solidThinking video is available at www.solidthinking.com, Demos page. See how to model a Web Cam with solidThinking while exploring design alternatives.
The quality of a rendering picture often depends on the lighting of the scene. Images can be used as environments (via the “environment” light shader) which illuminate a scene (allowing digitally created objects to be rendered with lighting conditions exactly matching some real world scene).
Although HDRI Images (.hdr) are not required for the environment lighting technique, they can can represent a much higher range of intensity values than traditional image formats, which only represent the range of intensity values which can be displayed on a computer display.
The picture shows how lighting changes with different images used as environments.
