This week the team is at the European ATC in Turin, Italy. They have been printing parts designed with Inspire on a MakerBot Replicator 2 in addition to demonstrating the capabilities of Evolve to the delegates.
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New Product Brochures and a New Look
DEVELOP3Dlive 2013
Matthieu Pupat (who does a great job supporting our Inspire customers in Europe) and Nick Johnson (from our UK partner Cadsoft Solutions) are setting up for DEVELOP3Dlive at Warwick University. It is going to be a full house tomorrow.
IDSA District Design Conferences 2013
Tomorrow the IDSA District Design Conferences kick-off in Raleigh, NC. Look out for the solidThinking team in Cleveland, OH (12-13), Long Beach, CA (12-13) and Hartford, CT (19-20).
Lineapelle Spring 2013
Sonia, Adel and Yuri were among the thousands at the Spring Lineapelle in Bologna, Italy. This is an international exhibition for the footwear, leather clothing, leather goods, and furnishing industries.
Evolve for Architecture Students
Adel Matar started right at the beginning when he taught an Evolve class at the University of Architecture, Ferrara. I’m sure you recognize the “I have my license file. Activate now.” stage of the solidThinking license wizard.
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Ready for the Lights to Go Out
Of course we love F1 at solidThinking! It is all about beautiful functional designs, just like Evolve, and efficient lightweight engineering, like Inspire. This is a fun video showing the evolution of F1 car designs over the past 50+ years.
Evolution of the F1 Car from Ruf Blacklock on Vimeo.
Wake Up with Evolve
Antonio Flores knows how to get a classroom full of students alert in the morning, the largest espresso cup you’ve ever seen! Antonio was teaching a group at Nantes Design School how to master 3D modeling and rendering in Evolve.
Evolve Tips & Tricks: Animation Basics
This month, Darren Chilton will guide Evolve users through some animation basics. Animation in Evolve is based on a simple but powerful technique called Key Framing. Darren explains the attributes that you can animate for an object (translation, rotation and scale) and for the camera (position and target) with an easy to follow example.
Click on the video below to see these tips & tricks in action.
0 – 1,000 mph: Create the Steering Column & Wheel for the Bloodhound SSC
We’ve sponsored a challenge to the GrabCAD Community to create a steering column and wheel for the BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car. First prize includes a trip to the Product Innovation Congress 2013 in Berlin, Germany and a copy of solidThinking Inspire. The challenge deadline is January 31st, 2013. Good luck!
http://blog.grabcad.com/2012/12/0-1000-mph-create-the-steering-column-wheel-for-the-bloodhound-ssc/
