Blog

With the recent launch of Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, the difference between a PC on your desk and a PC in your pocket has been reduced drastically. Both the iPhone and the iPod Touch are equipped with a powerful browser, Safari. Because of the sheer size of it, the iPhone cannot compete with the powerful Desktop PC, but it opens up many possibilities.

This gives us the perfect opportunity to bring out something on this platform, which is useful, elegant and going to help us explore the future

We are pleased to announce the iPhone version of our Drawings Now product. Keeping the screen space availability and the iPhone capabilities in mind, we have come up with an interface which is smaller and simpler, but the right features you will need on this kind of device.

Thanks to your comments and feedback, SolidWorks Labs has created the next iteration of our free ZoomIn product for you to explore.

There is a new product on the labs site called CB Model Pro. For those of you familiar with Cosmic Blobs, it may seem somewhat similar in concept. And well it should since it comes from the creators of Cosmic Blobs. Basically it offers all many of the freeform capabilities of Cosmic Blobs, but with a user interface targeted at the professional user.

In order to have transparency in your custom logo, it must be a 32-bit bitmap. Doing this process in Photoshop allows you to create a custom alpha channel for your bitmap file. (Meaning you can flatten your image onto a black background and still have transparency in your final image.)