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How To Go from SolidWorks to modo… and More. [Video]
Most of you only have two fists. One for slamming out 3D geometry in SolidWorks and the other for punching it with pretty sauce using modo. However, if you’re just starting to build up those layers of...
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How To Make the Daft Punk Helmet. Wouldn’t a 3D Print Be Better, Faster,...
Carve it. Shape it. Cut it. Smooth it. Knick it. Clip it. Daft Punk Helmet. Yeah, you know what’s good for you. 3 minutes of prop building madness from Volpin Props. The prop? The helmet of electronic,...
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Flex Your Models! How To Create a Simple Propeller in SolidWorks
Sometimes when you’re feeling particularly adventurous, you can throw mashed potatoes through a propeller blade. Or, you can throw propellers through a wall of mashed potatoes. Other times, you can...
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The Indestructible Lantern You Can Make Yourself
So you’re floating down a quiet jungle stream, the overgrowth blotting any light from the viney corridor, spider-eating snakes rustling overhead. Fortunately, you used your backpack to store...
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How to Create Realistic Water Droplets in SolidWorks
Creating delectable looking food and drink items in solid modeling software like SolidWorks may not be your routine, but it is possible and if you ever need to drench either with dew or a generous...
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Quick Tip: Create a Custom Material Preset Library in modo
While modo (and the modo community) offer a wealth of free material presets, there’s always going to be a time when you’ve made your own adjustments and want to save your secret recipe-material as a...
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Feel the Power of This Power Surfacing for SolidWorks Tutorial
Modeling with both Sub-D and NURBS is all the rage with the kids these days (at least we’d like to think so) and Power Surfacing is one add-on that allows you to use such a novelly modern modelling...
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Behind the Design Process: Creating a Bent Plywood Scale Model
After being stuck in an engineering job that left her feeling like ‘a coma victim’, design engineer and artist Nicole Hodson decided it was time for a change and decided to switch things up a bit by...
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Take Better Shots of Hands-On Projects Using Foot Pedals [How-to]
I love new types of Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs). When it comes to demonstrating design projects, you typically need both hands – unless you’re a badass who can fold origami cranes with one hand...
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Build A 100% 2×4 Workbench With This Simple Instructable
This past weekend I took apart a massive 2×4 workbench–it covered the entire side of a garage. It was large enough to lay two 4×8 plywood sheets end-to-end, dismantle a motorcycle upon, gut and clean...
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How to Make a Cosplay Helmet from Mat Foam in 5 Simple Steps
Yeah, you know any old helmet won’t do. And you definitely know that Lannister guard helmet you fashioned from a paper bag, gorilla glue and wood chips is looking pretty weak right now. Well, there’s a...
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How To Make a DIY Pressure Pot Exhaust Silencer
If you work in manufacturing or have your own resin casting operation, you’ll know the all too familiar sound of pressure pots or tanks being bled and the subsequent look of agonizing pain as blood...
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Learn How to Make This Awesome Fat Tire Bike
Not wanting to pay for car repairs, Mash chose to learn how to weld, which resulted in his amazing Car Wheel Bicycle. Welding is a useful skill to have, especially if you want to repair your vehicle,...
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Behind the Design: Weta Workshop’s Ghost in the Shell Geisha Mask
If you haven’t seen it, I would highly recommend watching the original animated movie Ghost in the Shell, which will give you an idea of the amount of technical detail prominently featured in the live...
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You’ll Want To Build This LEGO Tic Tac Dispenser For Your Next Customer Meeting
Ah, LEGO blocks – the real-life equivalents of Minecraft. From tiny model PlayStations to a gigantic 7,541-piece Millennium Falcon, almost everything has been made a subject by these Denmark-based...
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How to Not be a Total N00b
Dan Slaski – The High School Years. Are you a total n00b? Do you walk around proudly pronouncing fillet like in ballet instead skillet? You may be a n00b. It’s okay if you are. I once was myself. I...
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How To Create Unique Low-Poly Designs Using SelfCAD
If you’ve yet to get your CAD jabbers on SelfCAD, you can spin it up and start modeling in less time than it takes to juice a pack navel oranges with your elbows at your co-worker’s desk–Tis a fact....
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How to Build a Computer Mouse with a Built-in Computer (For Real)
Even with the prevalence of touchscreens and touchpads, no piece of input hardware can interact with a computer quite like the traditional mouse. Introduced as a prototype in 1964, the very first...
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MakerBot’s Definitive How-To Guide For Post-Processing 3D Prints is Wicked...
Using a series of post-processing techniques like sanding, painting, gluing, and mold-forming, you can easily make your 3D printed projects look just like their store-bought counterparts — ideal for...
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How to Build a Backyard Workshop for $2,000
Purchasing a traditional home may be physical proof that you’ve officially made it as an adult. Making a custom “micro-home” or heated backyard workshop, however, may be physical proof of your...
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