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Casper, not a ghost
These eyes didn’t look quite so bright as they closed for the last time just 3 weeks before his 20th birthday. The end of a long & happy life.
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Design and Art
Chris Bangle on design
Famous, perhaps infamous, for his work at BMW I first heard of Chris Bangle when the Fiat Coupe (right) appeared in the Nineties. In this video he talks about his career, design approach and process from his studio in Northern Italy. Chris Bangle on the future of cars and design
Revit User Group Wellington — Notice Of October Meeting
Wed 26 Oct 2011, @Productspec HQ, 14 Holland Street, 5.30 - 7.30pm Come along this Wednesday, have a drink, learn new tricks..! * Everything you wanted to know about Shared Parameters * Alex from RevitWorks will showcase shared parameters - this presentation is suitable for both beginners and gurus. * Precast Concrete Schedules
iOS Auto-Incorrect and the CAD user
A text telling a user to try a generic “caduser” logon on a spare machine* is foiled by iOS Auto-correct. I suspect it will forever be the Cashew workstation from now on. * It was logon specific network problems preventing access to a shared folder so cashew worked fine.
Traffic Light Thought–Oh, not Solidworks?
Traffic Light Thought posts started as a way to capture random, ok rubbish, thoughts which occur waiting for the red lights to change on my commute. They usually appear on the other blog but tonight’s one has a CAD flavour. The car in front had a personalised plate: SOLWRK
The Red Bull Formula 1 Car Owners' Workshop Manual
Want to build, or maintain, a 2010 Formula 1 Championship winning car? This Haynes Manual would be a good start. The last/only Haynes Manual I owned was for a 1973 Fiat 127. Although the technology in this one is rather different the format is familiar. There are lots of
A question before you die...
Aardvark ask a question you probably don’t really want to think about, but should. After all, barring a dramatic medical breakthrough, it’s going to happen and somebody will have to deal with this. Before you die... - aardvark.co.nz If you get hit by a bus tomorrow, could
Yahoo! not ‘cool’? The Yahoo! Mail Visualization Project is!
I’ve used Yahoo! mail since 2007, simply because that’s when my ISP changed their mail hosting from MSN to Yahoo! I also have Gmail and Windows Live mail accounts but my primary account is Yahoo! hosted. Until recently their webmail UI was pretty awful but I only used
Fiat Panda: design story - Car Body Design
This Car Body Design post has the design story of the new, 3rd generation, Fiat Panda. Although quite a few first generation Panda were sold in NZ the Japanese Used Car import boom killed that market. No chance a basic, if good, new car could compete with the loaded used
Bill’s AutoCAD Blog about (Revit) Spark
Autodesk Labs Project Spark is an experimental simplified Revit aimed at introducing BIM to new users. It could also be the Revit which gets seasoned AutoCAD users to try Revit. Bill is one of those who has: William Le Couteur's Autocad Blog: Revit Spark A while back I
Design and Art
The Ferrari Pinin & me
I debated posting this on the CAD blog but it is a bit off topic. If you’d like to see how a 1980 Pininfarina Ferrari Concept car (now up for sale) led to a school tech drawing project which played a part in my career choice, and therefore (indirectly)
The Ferrari Pinin Sedan Concept Car for sale (without my interior)
I was interested to see reports that the 1980 Ferrari Pinin Sedan concept is going to be sold. Ferrari Pinin Concept to be auctioned in London - www.eurocarblog.com 1980 Ferrari Pinin Concept, the one and only sedan with a Ferrari badge ever made, will soon be up for auction.