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It’s a new record! 107 Users became 3DVIA Shape users and contributed their first new 3D models! Congratulations! When you see a model that you like, be sure to give them some feedback and encouragement!
(This week’s post was delayed one day because of a holiday here in the US.)

1 – julienasp
2 – nblau
3 – DLam
4 – sweetmly

1 – jasieksz1992
2 – cdmon41
3 – roakabakibo
4 – darksllep

1 – tsk74
2 – Lunte
3 – kancho
4 – PTherrien

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3 – jotous007
4 – miguelo

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2 – kenlool
3 – Adilantha
4 – jcbrcm

1 – AliceJ
2 – Younes_Dehri
3 – mlahlou
4 – a-miliee

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4 – mpa169

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4 – jo2nathan

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4 – wassimnk

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3 – hrison
4 – georgedjang

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2 – NinjaStormNS
3 – Poil
4 – madmabb

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2 – MaiHuyVo
3 – keepr22
4 – Simple_me

1 – Ghost213
2 – joe540
3 – marcostp
4 – everton_pet

1 – PuzzledM
2 – VIRTUAL_LBS
3 – jscaceus
4 – algpio

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2 – andrerodrigues
3 – maverick67
4 – Chichi999

1 – SantoDomingo
2 – amtran
3 – e0964187
4 – winterhawk4

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2 – e0965157
3 – beatitude01
4 – dn93

1 – Frandy
2 – lucas92
3 – joesakic1919
4 – simon_daneau

1 – kevie
2 – yanvalliere
3 – bobics
4 – nassim6

1 – hrabrost
2 – anthonyz
3 – myanh
4 – countyomama1

1 – 01mg02
2 – akanero
3 – blainemalox
4 – inrod93

1 – julcoool
2 – Didou02
3 – Kataka
4 – simjawa888

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2 – sangjan
3 – 0926528
4 – beachboy057

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2 – kenan1
3 – fernando73
4 – vaitea

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2 – mexmid1
3 – Nakroler
4 – esato

1 – Ben5
2 – malek00
3 – Mat144
4 – drawerJamie

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2 – stillmyselfl
3 – emiroglu

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We have had quite a few requests to find a way to share a design with specific people without making the design public.  In the last round of website updates this is now possible with a hidden model view state. It is relatively easy to do and means that you can sell the object to a customer whom with you share a private URL that includes a security code to access but still allows you to include (and conceal) your mark-up.Follow the steps below.
Continue reading "Shop Feature Request: Limit purchase to selected customers."

"It's too early to draw any conclusions about what kind of game we can expect in From Dust. Right now, this intended god game from Ubisoft is little more than a tech demo. But what an impressive tech demo it is for one simple reason: the water." fidgit.com

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Animals are not directly related to our purpose, albeit they are, obviously, 3D.We opened this ZooLife topic as a tribute to animals, friendship, mutual understanding, and love.Animal condition worldwide is awful.Please bring your share to its improvement whatever you can do.

"Shakespeare's face recreated in 3D by scientists but have they got right man?Scientists have used state-of-the-art 3D computer technology to create what they say is the first true likeness of William Shakespeare..." by Nigel Blundell dailymail.co.uk 3D TODAY   # blast from the pastPart 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3DPart 2   Forward to the PastPart 3   Medieval snapshot Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

Article by Palokalo cruzine.com

"The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API.All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers."  code.google.comWhat are the Google Font API and the Google Font Directory?http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/webfonts/

Over the past few months we have been working with colleagues here at CASA, University College London and at the University of Nottingham, in association with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to write a report on Data mash-ups and the future of mapping. We are pleased to say the report has just been released and is available to download. 

Report by Suchith Anand, Michael Batty, Andrew Crooks, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Mike Jackson, Richard Milton, Jeremy Morley
Data Mash-Ups and the Future of Mapping
Executive Summary
The term 'mash-up' refers to websites that weave data from different sources into new Web services. The key to a successful Web service is to gather and use large datasets and harness the scale of the Internet through what is known as network effects. This means that data sources are just as important as the software that 'mashes' them, and one of the most profound pieces of data that a user has at any one time is his or her location. In the past this was a somewhat fuzzy concept, perhaps as vague as a verbal reference to being in a particular shop or café or an actual street address. Recent events, however, have changed this. In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton's policy decision to open up military GPS satellite technology for 'dual-use' (military and civilian) resulted in a whole new generation of location-aware devices.Around the same time, cartography and GIScience were also undergoing dramatic, Internet-induced changes.
Traditional, resource intensive processes and established organizations, in both the public and private sectors, were being challenged by new, lightweight methods. The upshot has been that map making, geospatial analysis and related activities are undergoing a process of profound change. New players have entered established markets and disrupted routes to knowledge and, as we have already seen with Web 2.0, newly empowered amateurs are part of these processes. Volunteers are quite literally grabbing a GPS unit and hitting the streets of their local town to help create crowdsourced datasets that are uploaded to both open source and proprietary databases.
The upshot is an evolving landscape which Tim O'Reilly, proponent of Web 2.0 and always ready with a handy moniker, has labelled Where 2.0. Others prefer the GeoWeb, Spatial Data Infrastructure, Location Infrastructure, or perhaps just location based services. Whatever one might call it, there are a number of reasons why its development should be of interest to those in higher and further education. Firstly, since a person's location is such a profound unit of information and of such value to, for example, the process of targeting advertising, there has been considerable investment in Web 2.0-style services that make use of it. Understanding these developments may provide useful insights for how other forms of data might be used. Secondly, education, particularly research, is beginning to realize the huge potential of the data mash-up concept. As Government, too, begins to get involved, it is likely that education will be expected to take advantage of, and indeed come to relish, the new opportunities for working with data.
This TechWatch report describes the context for the changes that are taking place and explains why the education community needs to understand the issues around how to open up data, how to create mash-ups that do not compromise accuracy and quality and how to deal with issues such as privacy and working with commercial and non-profit third parties. It also shows how data mash-ups in education and research are part of an emerging, richer information environment with greater integration of mobile applications, sensor platforms, e-science, mixed reality, and semantic, machine-computable data and speculates on how this is likely to develop in the future.
There are two versions for download: the first is an optimised version (900Kb) and the second is the one with full resolution graphics (14Mb)

Curated by Max Fraser in partnership with the Crafts Council, Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft will look at the use of technology as an extension to the capabilities of the human hand at Tent London as part of the London Design Festival. Lab Craft will challenge the relationship between the hand and machine in contemporary craft. It will focus on tangible outcomes through the examination of new practice, while exploring the impact of technology within craft practice and will feature the work of 26 designers including Tord Boontje, Hector Serrano and Michael Eden. Continue reading "Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft"

Shapeways user Juniortan was recently placed in a situation where their child had to have an IV placed in it's hand while in hospital.  Never a nice thing to see your kid, or any loved ones in pain when a simple change in procedure could help.  Juinortan noted that the process used meant: 1. No protection for the top of the wrist where the IV was, causing much anxiety on my part on whether the dude was gonna knock his wrist against anything and dislodge the IV needle, etc (wince!)2. Total lost of dexterity in the hands due to the support blockRather than sit by wincing in helpless emapthy, Juniortan designed a Medibrace prototype in an attempt to ease the suffering. Continue reading "3D Printed MediBrace: Taking (some) of the Pain out of an IV Drip"

Well, just look how time oozes suspiciously right past us. SolidWorks 2011 launched last week, but you may not have known there have been 15 years of enhancements before it.
Today, September 6th, 2011 marks the 15th anniversary of SolidWorks selling the very first seat of their 3D product development software. Over 1 millllliooooon seats have found their way into the talented, and not so talented, hands of people around the world since. It just so happens we found the guy who laid his hands upon that first seat and asked him a couple questions.
In 1996, Bill Townsend took a chance with a then unknown 3D modeling software. Here’s what the CEO of Barrett Technology had to say.
Did you think then that using SolidWorks would bring you to where you are today?
I was so blown away the first time I sat down to SolidWorks — you cannot imagine. I could not sleep for a couple of days. It was especially frustrating that I could not share this excitement with another real-world (i.e. not a SolidWorks developer) SolidWorks user as there were no others initially. I would call Jon Hirschtick every few hours (night and day) almost beyond excitement before sitting down for another few hours. Everything else in my business for that time period suddenly seemed unimportant. It opened a whole new world to me. What I may have felt were just radical thoughts back then came true many times over since then. My imagination about where it might take us did not come close to the reality. For example, the notion of being able to render a photorealistic animation for a presentation is so easy today, but I could not have conceived of that in 1995 partly due to advances in the product and partly due to the wave of advances in PC technologies.
Is there anything you would change about SolidWorks having used it for so long?
I would not have changed anything in today’s SolidWorks except, perhaps, to see it spread much further into our culture than to just mechanical engineers and architects.
A big thanks to Bill Townsend for sharing his thoughts.
The next 15 years
I began using SolidWorks a few months later than Mr. Townsend. I didn’t have Jon Hirschtick’s phone number, but my boss at the time was pretty excited about the results from the software. There’s a laundry list of items I wish were done differently over the years. Perhaps another post for another day, but it’s pretty amazing where SolidWorks has brought people, how companies have used it and how SolidWorks itself has changed over the years.
Looking on to the next 15 years, I can’t hardly imagine what will change… Actually, I could. Computer tech didn’t change much over the past 15 years. It’s different today. We’re starting to use computers differently, access data differently, and we have many more options to help create our ideas.
What’s your favorite version?
I’d probably have to go with Solidworks 2001+ or SolidWorks 2005. Both were stable with great performance. I loved the UI changes with 2008, but the speed was awful. 2010 improved that and 2011 brings some more speed and performance.
If you want to recall some old memories or uncover some repressed trauma, Ricky Jordan has all of the What’s New Guides since SolidWorks started.
Northeast SolidWorks User Conference
One more thing, If you’re up in the Northeast part of the US, you’ll want to mark September 17th on the calendar. Bill Townsend will be the opening keynote speaker for the 1-day SolidWorks World equivalent Northeast SolidWorks User Conference (NESWUC). If you can, be sure to say hi and talk to him.
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