Carl Alviani
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By Carl Alviani - Dec 09, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Rhino Tutorial: Creating your first toolbar/button/macro (pictured above).SolidWorks Announcing the SW World 2010 Hollywood Nostalgia contest. 5 tips for reorienting geometry. SW Legion's 10 part review of the SpacePilot Pro 3D mouse for SolidWorks. Should SolidWorks become more modular? Critique and user poll.Inventor Video Tutorial: Inventor simulation is really easy. CATIA import...
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By Carl Alviani - Dec 02, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Alias Interview: Alias master Peter Kossev talks about modeling process and the need for fun (photo above). Showcase visualization software now has its own community site.Rhino VSR Realtime Renderer plug-in now in beta. T-splines Vehicular Modeling Challenge deadline extended to Dec 8. Video: Rapid ship hull modeling methodology. Tutorial: Modeling a...
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By Carl Alviani - Nov 26, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.SolidWorks The official SW Screencast page. Modeling a freeform face in SW -- not all that easy. Using Assembly features to create a section view. Video Tutorial: Using a Wacom Cintiq with SW.Alias Tutorial: Creating landing surfaces on curved surfaces. (pictured above)Rhino i.materialise 3D printing plug-in. BilliardRhino: play pool in Rhino. ObjectViewer plug-in...
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By Carl Alviani - Nov 19, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.SolidWorks Video Tutorial: Using Excel spreadsheets to drive 3D model creation. Mythbusting: Do fully defined sketches really solve faster? Cadalyst reviews SW 2010.Alias Tutorial: Modeling strategy and patch layout.Rhino Simlab's 3D PDF exporter plug-in. Video Tutorial: Modeling a solitaire ring (jewelry). 3DS Max Render nerd eye-candy: 3D animation phenomenon Pantural's "Shelby vs Camaro...
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By Carl Alviani - Nov 12, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.SolidWorks The often misunderstood Geometry Pattern tool. Annual Luxology + PhotoView 350 Holiday Rendering Contest (last year's winner pictured above).Alibre Alibre challenges the rest of the CAD guys to come up with a $99 piece of software.Alias What's the best hardware for running Alias?Sustainable Minds Kenneth Wong takes "the TurboTax...
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By Carl Alviani - Nov 05, 2009
Coroflot 2009 Designer Salary Survey: The results are in!
The numbers are in, and they are both great and terrible. Coroflot's Designer Salary Survey, now in its ninth year (true!), broke the 5000 response barrier this time around, with strong showings from every design field that calls the site home. The findings are a combination of expected and astonishing.First,...
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By Carl Alviani - Nov 04, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Pro/Engineer PTC/USER 2010 promo video. PTC's official tutorial PDF page for WF 4 and 5. Inventor Video Tutorial: Using iLogic for woodworking joinery.SolidWorks Video Tutorial: Two ways to loft to a point (pictured above) New in SW 2010: The Save Modified Documents window.Rhino Tutorial: Modeling a remote control using no measurements whatsoever. Rhino...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 30, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Alias New online self-paced training course for Autodesk Showcase (US$95 - pictured above). Video Tutorial: Using and viewing canvas planes. Tutorial: Applying textures and images planes to last week's ship model. SolidWorks SW World 2010 preliminary user conference agenda. Introducing Treehouse version 2, from SW Labs. D'Assault buys IBM's PLM sales force. Tagging...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 26, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly (ish) finds from the 3D world.Operating Systems Autodesk announces support for Windows 7. What to do when the old tools won't work with the new 64 bit OS.SolidWorks Modeling and virtually stress testing a child safety latch. Tutorial: How to loft a surface to a point. Dimensioning to virtual sharps in SW.Rhino Tutorial: Adjusting display...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 15, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Rhino Tutorial: Modeling a compact fluorescent light bulb (pictured) complexitys.com blog: doing remarkable things with rhinoscript Rhinojewel jewelry design plug-in released Alias Video tutorial: Setting up a project directory structure Video tutorial: The Draw Precision settingPro/Engineer PTC/User World Event 2010 announced Video tutorial: Creating a 2-slider assembly (part 1)SolidWorks Six tips for improving spline...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 14, 2009
San Francisco Confab update: One week to go, 1st workshop SOLD OUT
The one week that stands between now and the fourth installment of the Coroflot Creative Confab looks to be a busy one, if we extrapolate from recent trends. The morning workshops, for one, have filled up with astonishing speed; encouraging, since this is the first time we've expanded the schedule...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 13, 2009
The motor that makes "Will It Blend?" blend
The merry team of desconstructors at iFixit recently got their hands on an icon of viral marketing: the $400 Blendtec Total Blender of "Will It Blend?" video fame. And found it to be awesome.Take, for example, the awesomely substantial rotor from the unit's 1560W motor, pictured above. It helps explain...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 12, 2009
San Francisco Confab update: new sponsors, stellar audience
It's been a busy few days over at Coroflot, and since we last blogged about the upcoming Confab in San Francisco, we've been able to welcome a new folks to the party. Superstudio frog design, interactive marketing firm Agency.com, and staffing agency Artisan Creative are now among the event's Sponsoring...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 07, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.SolidWorks The future of CAD 2019, as predicted by SolidWorks Video: Design optimization in SW2010 Assembly tip: Showing configurations in imported parts Surfacing tutorial: Making a mouse head Eyecandy: Lots and lots and lots of pics of Blue Realm Studios' helmet models for Halo 3 ODST, modeled in SW (sample...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 02, 2009
Oregon Manifest builders vie to build the perfect commuter bike
This is how we like to spend our Friday mornings here in Portland, when we can: drooling over astonishing examples of the custom bike-builder's art, applied to the long-neglected niche of commuter bikes. The Oregon Manifest Constructor's Design Challenge kicked off this morning at a pop-up shop in the Pearl...
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By Carl Alviani - Oct 01, 2009
2 Questions for Emily Delmont of Google Creative Lab
Google, from the outside, is a strange and magical place. First off, their effectiveness: they didn't exactly invent the internet, but it'd be hard to find a part of the internet's modern form that hasn't in some way been shaped by their efforts. That's unique, and phenomenal.Second, and maybe more...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 30, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Alias Video Tutorial: Creating a washout feature on an automotive design Video Tutorial: Preparing Alias files for rendering in Showcase Video Tutorial: Creating an interior car console (part 2 of 7 -- Sections to Curves)Rhino Maxwell Render V2 releasedSolidWorks Importing 2D artwork from Illustrator into SW Video Tutorial: "Bloom" lighting effects...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 23, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Autodesk Just announced on Autodesk Labs, Twitch is a limited step toward CAD applications provided over the web. If you're within 1000 miles of San Francisco and use Revit, Inventor, AutoCAD or Maya, give it a try. Kenneth Wong's initial impressions of Twitch. Autodesk + Avatech rendering contest...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 22, 2009
Fourth Confab panelist announced: Emily Delmont of Google Creative Lab
Latest news from the Creative Confab we're putting together through Coroflot: the afternoon panel's just grown by 33%, with the addition of Google Creative Lab recruiter Emily Delmont. She'll be getting the 2 Questions treatment next week, so stay tuned, but in the meantime, we can offer up a quick...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 21, 2009
2 Questions for Terra Dehnert and Corey O'Brien of Aquent
Even in the hyper-focused niche of creative staffing agencies, Aquent holds a unique position. Operating 75 offices on four continents, this overlord of design placement firms finds talent for two-thirds of the Fortune 500, and in their 20+ year role as AIGA's Official Professional Development partner, has operated one of...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 17, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.SolidThinking ST 8.0 official release announcementAutodesk Develop 3D's coverage of Sketchbook Mobile Tutorial: Showcase hands-on Autodesk University 2009 YouTube ContestAlias Video Tutorial: Construction history in AliasKeyCreator (formerly known as CADKEY) In all the hubbub about Direct Modeling, we sometimes forget that there are great CAD packages out there that have been...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 16, 2009
Autodesk puts the fun in your pocket: Introducing Sketchbook Mobile
Images: Top - Susan Murtaugh, Bottom - Andrew MeehanThere's an app for that: finding a taco stand, playing Frere Jacques on the pan flute, figuring how much to tip, making fart sounds... As the iPhone App Store climbs towards the 100,000 offering mark, we occasionally sigh and wonder when something...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 14, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips: Special "Morphogenesis" Issue
No, that's not a coliseum for interstellar gladiators from the next installment of the Alien franchise, it's a demonstration of a new set of design tools, included in the newest release of ID CAD software SolidThinking. The technology, which ST is calling Morphogenesis, is a sort of semi-automated biomimicry toolbox,...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 10, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world. Rhino xShoe4Rhino plug-in for footwear, last and sole makers SolidWorks Is SolidWorks Rx ready to start sucking less? Mouse gestures (aka Marking Menus) in SW 2010 Performing stress, deformation and FoS analysis from within SW Motion Alias Video Tutorial: Alias 2010 perfect blending techniques Interesting profile of Canadian high school students using Alias...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 08, 2009
3 Questions for John Foster of IDEO
IDEO is very likely the best known and most respected design consultancy on earth. And while hundreds of thousands of words have been penned in attempts to sort out how they got there, we're putting our money on a simple explanation: they hire astonishing talent. You can argue about process...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 03, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world. SolidWorks Modeling an Audi R8 - 12 hours condensed to a 5 minute video (above) 10 things that still suck in SW2010 D'Assault to SW users who want a robust CATIA translator: "Wait a little longer." Tutorial: Attach annotations to dimensions Alias/Showcase Video Tutorial: Assigning decals in Showcase Tutorial: Build a helmet...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 02, 2009
Jan Chipchase (again) on the "Rise of the Superfakes"
Even though we just blogged him a couple of days ago, we're putting the spotlight back on globe-trotting Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase for a brief moment, to draw some eyes to a completely fascinating series of observations on the future of fakes, in China and beyond.Returning from a long research...
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By Carl Alviani - Sep 02, 2009
2 Questions for Kate Gilman of 24 Seven
Hey CDs and senior designers -- how many interviews did you conduct last year? Five? Ten? How about 450? Kate Gilman's job at creative staffing agency 24 Seven, Inc. has her scrutinizing graphic and interactive designers, marketers, design directors, and a slew of other creative professionals at the rate of...
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By Carl Alviani - Aug 28, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.SolidWorks 2010 Kenneth Wong's overview of the new release SW Legion looks at which features got sped up: part 1, part 2, part 3 Rob Rodriguez looks at new features in Photoview 360 Josh at SolidSmack gives a pretty involved overview of new features Gabi Jack explores Sustainability Xpress And in...
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By Carl Alviani - Aug 20, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Pro/Engineer Video Tutorial: Social product development in Wildfire 5.0Alias Interview: Jordan Nollman of Sprout Studios (also see his interview on Coroflot last year) Tutorial: Improving presentation images with a masking shader, by Coro-fave Joshua Maruska Changing the name of Marking Menu itemsInventor Video tutorial: Sheet metal components for Frame Generator...
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By Carl Alviani - Aug 17, 2009
Inside Ziba Design's new headquarters
The first thing that strikes you upon viewing the new Ziba headquarters is its size. It takes up most of the streetfront on two sides of a block on the edge of Portland's Pearl District, floating with unlikely grace atop an expanse of vacant retail space.That space, founder Sohrab Vossoughi...
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By Carl Alviani - Aug 14, 2009
Maker Faire Africa is on!
After several months of anticipation, the first ever African installment of the Maker Faire technology conference is underway, in Accra, Ghana. Coverage so far is a bit scattershot (the Maker Faire Africa website was down as of the writing of this post update: the site is up again, and sports...
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By Carl Alviani - Aug 12, 2009
Craftsquatch's social media throw pillows
In case you don't see enough of this on your monitor already. They do most of the Adobe Creative Suite too:Available through their Etsy store, naturally. Via Mashable.
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By Carl Alviani - Aug 12, 2009
3D CAD News and Tips
Weekly finds from the 3D world.Alias Video Tutorial: Troubleshooting your Alias license Video Tutorial: Keyframe animation in AliasRhino AEC Magazine reviews Grasshopper Video Tutorial: If you've ever wondered what the difference is between a Bezier and a NURBS curve, and your Spanish is good, find the answer once and for all right here Semi-complete list...
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By Carl Alviani - Aug 07, 2009
Will the real Coca-Cola logo story please stand up?
The brand-sensitive among us (you know who you are) have been gleefully passing a certain image back and forth among themselves over the past week or so, skewering Pepsi for its constant attempts to improve upon its logo by dramatically altering it, as compared to Coke's steady hand. If you...
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