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Episode 30: Bre Pettis - Engineer Vs. Designer engineervsdesigner.com
Today we'll talk with Makerbot co-founder and CEO Bre Pettis about the world of 3D printing, and what it takes to start an open-source hardware company from the ground up.

Hi, Iv posted a couple of posts in the past but I thought I would introduce my self. I am founder of SolidDesign Consultancy, a Product...
Looking to connect with fellow product designers that may want to work together in the future. Check out our website at ...

Dutch Designer Jólan van der Wiel is incredible gravity-defying work with a magnet machine...

Nearly an hour of SolidWorks Surfacing tutorial videos
Just scroll down to the bottom of the page for the videos.
Become a SolidWorks surfacing expert in just a few hours… usingsolidworks.com
The Bugatti Veyron! ...Have you looked for SolidWorks surfacing tutorials online? I bet when you did you found some great sports car and...

The Samsung Transparent Smart Window makes sci-fi movies a reality soliddesignconsultancy.com
Imagine a world of see-through monitors, windows that are interactive, and car windscreens that relay all the information on the screen rather than the dashboard beneath it. Now imagine that, rather than being the stuff of...

How to Set Up Your Freelance Business for the Long Haul soliddesignconsultancy.com
When starting a freelance design business the natural primary concern is how to find clients and to start getting paying work. While this is necessary in order to achieve success as a freelancer, there are a lot of other...

How to make your self stand out from the crowd as a Freelance Product... soliddesignconsultancy.com
How to make your self stand out from the crowd as a Freelance Product Designer … When it comes to freelance work, many product designers under estimate the work required to actually pull off being a freelancer. Getting your...

Living Hinge, Overmolding, Insert molding, Undercuts and more Oh my!
All of these features appear on VistaTek's new injection molding samples. These are all of your standard no quotes from the other rapid ...
New Injection Molding Samples | VistaTek vistatek.com

What is the best, affordable MRP software for a small manufacturing company?
For a company with only a few seat of CAD software, what is best to use?

New release of CAD viewer, Kubotek KeyView geoconnexion.com
Infotech Enterprises GmbH, with more than 1,500 customers in Europe one of the leading providers of visualization solutions for CAD, announced today the release of the new version 11 of the CAD viewer Kubotek KeyView. Being...

Why Manufacturing Should Throw Away their History-Based CAD Modeler info.kubotekusa.com
History-based CAD modelers are the wrong tool for manufacturing. Products are rarely designed with Manufacturing in mind.

I have to vent Matt Lombard over at… solidjott.com
Matt Lombard over at DezignStuff.com/blog has been writing about how the blogs about SolidWorks are dying or dead and I agree. SolidWorks corp has been aware of the death of the blogs and asking for help on twitter. Here are my...

How to design for overmolding in Objet's 3D Printing?
It is different than just sending .STL files. Here is our Design tips so you do not need to play email tag sending files back and forth ...

Punch SolidSmack Repeatedly... Win an iPod Nano. solidsmack.com
Tell us what you think about SolidSmack and be entered to Win an iPod Nano. New site launching August 1st!!
