3DMojo

Back in podcast episode #44, you saw how easy it was to create complicated motion paths using the simple technique of combining assembly movements with part movements.

Yesterday I was browsing the 3dmojo forum, and I found a very good question posted by 3DComposter (clever and humorous username, by the way!). I thought the answer to this question would make a perfect podcast episode -- how you can create a complicated motion path using very simple techniques.

Enjoy this podcast episode, and please feel free to continue posting questions to the forum. And if you have created any of your own interesting animation techniques, please feel free to share them with us by posting them directly into our forum under the "Share It" thread.

 

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Newsflash: 3DVIA Composer has been added to the breakout session grid at COE!

Chris Williams, the General Manager of 3DVIA Enterprise, will host an in-depth session titled Revolutionizing Design Communication: Creating Product Information with 3DVIA Composer. This presentation and discussion will begin on Tuesday, April 29 at 4:30 pm, as part of the “COE Briefing Center #1” track, in the Australia 3 room. This news is so late-breaking that the COE website has not yet been updated with this information.
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I was reading, and frankly, not completely understanding, this very interesting story in the MIT Technology Review about the creation of 3D particles in a new chemical process and it got me to thinking about the "end state" of ubiquitous 3D.

I wondered what the cultural and business meaning is of particles with "precisely structured internal parts", a sort of 3D chemistry that expands 3DVIA Composer's "product information everyware" vision in ways we've never thought about before.

What if the vision isn't just about 3D for everyone, but becomes instead 3D chemistry in everyone? 

When microfluidics can efficiently make "particles with exquisite internal structure" don't we have a classic assembly? Would there be a product tree for these particles?

It's fun to speculate about what a 3D particle could mean and how it relates to what we traditionally think of as 3D. But here's my main point: how do you think the bedside machine that's delivering 3D particles to a patient will be marketed...how will its users get trained...how will its instructions be delivered?

Clearly, if the purpose is to inject a human with 3D chemistry, wouldn't it be really dumb to to anything other than document the delivery machine in 3D as well?

It's been a very fulfilling and exciting 24 hours for everyone in Seemage since our acquisition by Dassault was announced.

First, I want to give a shout-out and thank-you to some of the more authentic bloggers in the community, people like Robin Capper (post here), Chris Kelley (here) and Josh Mings (here), for noting our big news and for encouraging us to continue the blog. We will.

We wouldn't be true-to-form, however, if we didn't have a response to the "traditional" CAD press, as expressed in their blog posts on the acquisition (Ralph Grabowski's comment here and Randall Newton's here).

Trust me, we don't give a whit for Autodesk's "tags" (whatever that's supposed to be). And we are always happy to explain the difference between a file format and a complete system, like Seemage, for producing content. If we thumbed our nose at anything, it was the tired, thread-bare infatuation with yesterday's file-format arguments.

It hardly seems like only a day...we've been inundated with email, phone calls from customers, partners and people throughout the Dassault world with requests to get going on a project with them.

This is what many people in Seemage have dreamed of: being part of a company that has the reach and resources to complete the revolution the product has started.

It's going to be a great ride.

It is with great pleasure that we announce today that Seemage has been acquired by Dassault Systèmes. The complete press release can be downloaded using the link below.

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