http://www.3dcadtips.com Over 50,000 CAD and Graphics Tips, Tutorials, 3D Models, Freeware and more. Part of the Design World Netowork. Our goal is to be an objective information resource for all CAD & Graphics users, administrators, and managers. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:13:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2269637http://www.feedburner.com nVidia is turning their CUDA GPU architecture into a desktop computer of the supercomputing variety. ASUS, Dell, and Lenovo are apparently shipping boxes based on nVidia's Tesla C1060 GPU -- "the power of a traditional supercomputer cluster at 1/100th of the price."So which mainstream CAD package will be the first? ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067283" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067283/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/which-cad-will-run-first-on-tesla-2/ An Italian supercomputer running ANSYS performed a one-billion-cell analysis of an unnamed America's Cup yacht, breaking the previous record for largest finite element analysis. The super computer: an HP Cluster Platform 3000BL running Linux, consisting of 208 server blades, each with an Intel Xeon quad-core CPU. Total peak performance was nearly ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067285" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067285/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/linux-powers-billion-cell-analysis-2/ There is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067286" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067286/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/3d-future-interface-oblong%e2%80%99s-g-speak-user-environment-2/ They’re a little bit easier to handle than the teething undead, but all the relations in a SolidWorks sketch can make modeling, and specifically concept modeling, a relation re-defining nightmare that is way less interesting than cleaning up after a zombie child. One of the biggest problems you’ll have with relations ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067287" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067287/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/solidworks-on-edge-relations-avoid-them-like-teething-zombie-babies-2/ There is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067288" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067288/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/3d-future-interface-oblong%e2%80%99s-g-speak-user-environment/ They’re a little bit easier to handle than the teething undead, but all the relations in a SolidWorks sketch can make modeling, and specifically concept modeling, a relation re-defining nightmare that is way less interesting than cleaning up after a zombie child. One of the biggest problems you’ll have with relations ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067289" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067289/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/solidworks-on-edge-relations-avoid-them-like-teething-zombie-babies/ Dassault Systemes launches a new blog, "3D Perspectives: A casual talk about 3D & innovation out of the cloud."  Official Blogger Kate Bourdet writes casually enough in her early postings, describing Dassault's philosophy, design, and so on. DS tends to be one of the more secretive CAD companies, and so ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067290" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067290/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/ds-doesnt-get-blogging/ You can strum all day long and wear down the clearcoat on the wooden body of your regular old guitar, or you can be awesome and check out the humidity-proof, carbon fiber Blackbird Rider from Blackbird Guitars. Picking out tunes can be done in either Steel or Nylon String flavors and ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067291" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067291/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/stop-strumming-start-rockin%e2%80%99-blackbird-guitars-designed-in-solidworks-2/ You can strum all day long and wear down the clearcoat on the wooden body of your regular old guitar, or you can be awesome and check out the humidity-proof, carbon fiber Blackbird Rider from Blackbird Guitars. Picking out tunes can be done in either Steel or Nylon String flavors and ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067293" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067293/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/stop-strumming-start-rockin%e2%80%99-blackbird-guitars-designed-in-solidworks/ Public CAD vendors commonly spent millions repurchasing their own shares. Daniel Gross explains the two reasons for doing so:1. Repurchases would compensate for the dilution created when executives and employees exercised stock options. 2. By reducing the number of shares outstanding, repurchases would make profits look more impressive. (One dollar ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~4/459067294" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/3dcadTips/~3/459067294/ http://www.3dcadtips.com/2008/11/halting-the-share-buybacks/