CAD Forum

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 4:04 pm Hey,

There's a little banner made at the top that's very basic that says ''CAD Forum''. I suggest having a mini-contest inside the forum to have people submit their own stab at a banner. I'm sure people would be fine with the eternal glory of having created the first banner

I'm sure some very interesting things could come out. Who knows, maybe Paul would model one entirely from SolidWorks? I know I'd pick up Photoshop and give it a go. Used to create forum ''signatures'' when I was a teenager so it'd be fun to give it a go

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 4:21 pm The other place has this:
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Shouldn't be too hard to come up with something better...

mike miller wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 5:59 pm I've got a little time to tinker but..................I need ideas!

Someone want to post some screenshots for inspiration?

matt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:27 pm

mike miller wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 5:59 pm I've got a little time to tinker but..................I need ideas!

Someone want to post some screenshots for inspiration?

You could make a collage of a bunch of different models - maybe SW marketing models, or splash screen models, models you collect from the forum or internet ...

You could make a billet machined bulletin board heading with machined polished text...

You could make something that looks like marketing materials with a bunch of beautiful young people of assorted races pointing mindlessly at a screen with nothing on it.

Make a header image that uses as many different CAD techniques as you can think of, assemblies, sheet metal, welded frames, surfacing, electrical, piping, bolted connections...

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:55 am Some basic guidelines (@matt please confirm if I'm mistaken)

-Header dimensions should not exceed 275pixel x 90pixel
-There are no colors imposed, altough it would be neat to have a logo that matches the actual default template.
-Banner must contain "CAD Forum" and "A place for CAD users by CAD users"
-Bonus points for creating some of/all of it with a CAD program
-Do not use copyrighted material


I will try picking Photoshop back up this weekend and have a go at it, unless I totally forget about it.

mike miller wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:14 pm

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:32 am My apologies for the off topic posts...I read it as a "Banter contest"...

Kidding aside, I think the important part is to make sure the aspect ratio is what @matt needs. It may be better to supply him with a higher res picture than what he needs, say 2400 x 200 instead of 1200 x 100. You can always reduce image quality but getting it back is near impossible.

matt wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:54 am

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:32 am My banner entry for the win:

Tom G wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 12:44 pm I've got a fine idea that I'd like to work up. Is there a time-frame? I'd like to work on this after I have captured what I want from the old Solidworks forum - that is, after this week.

• Upload a higher resolution version (see attachment)
• Adjust lighting to make side edge more visible
• Font use: OpenSans (It should be under Apache License 2.0, should it should not face any copyright infringement...)
• Logo created using SOLIDWORKS and Powerpoint

Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:04 pm Dropping mine here...
Just a rough sketch at the moment.
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matt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:30 pm

Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:04 pm Dropping mine here...
Just a rough sketch at the moment.
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Looks great!

We'll start voting on April 21, so ~2.5 weeks to go!

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:32 am My banner entry for the win:

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:49 pm @matt, you mean you want me to enter a serious entry?

Cause I can do this all day.

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Roasted By John wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:41 am I just seen this thread this morning, so here is my entry "Bed Of Nails" which was done using SolidWorks, this one is also Dave Bear's favorite SW Art, so anyone that remembers the Dave Bear story will recall that they applied a Skin on his laptop using the "Bed Of Nails" picture.

I can supply a copy of the original pc, it's rather large, but it can be resized to whatever you need.

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Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:44 am

Roasted By John wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:41 am I just seen this thread this morning, so here is my entry "Bed Of Nails" which was done using SolidWorks, this one is also Dave Bear's favorite SW Art, so anyone that remembers the Dave Bear story will recall that they applied a Skin on his laptop using the "Bed Of Nails" picture.

I can supply a copy of the original pc, it's rather large, but it can be resized to whatever you need.

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Amazing...

Some suggestion:
It will be even more amazing if the pic provide some indication that it is done using CAD as i think this will make it serve better as our CAD forum logo..
My thought is that if you still have the original model, maybe you can try render two view (full color like the pic, wireframe/mesh/hidden-line view), cut them in half and combine them

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Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:44 am My thought is that if you still have the original model, maybe you can try render two view (full color like the pic, wireframe/mesh/hidden-line view), cut them in half and combine them

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:57 am I tried downloading Photoshop this weekend but it seems it's a lot harder to get then it was 10 years ago, besides Gimp is there any other software that's free that I could use..?

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:13 am

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:57 am I tried downloading Photoshop this weekend but it seems it's a lot harder to get then it was 10 years ago, besides Gimp is there any other software that's free that I could use..?

Not quite free but fairly inexpensive and currently 50% off ($25) is Affinity Photo. It does 90% of what Photoshop does and you get a perpetual license that you only upgrade when you want. Patches are released monthly and there is a store to purchase brushes, textures, etc.

Affinity Photo = Photoshop
Affinity Designer = Illustrator
Affinity Publisher = InDesign

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/store/

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:32 am My banner entry for the win:

Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:04 pm Dropping mine here...
Just a rough sketch at the moment.

Update:

• Upload a higher resolution version (see attachment)
• Adjust lighting to make side edge more visible
• Font use: OpenSans (It should be under Apache License 2.0, should it should not face any copyright infringement...)
• Logo created using SOLIDWORKS and Powerpoint

Preview (Open image in new tab)

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matt wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:45 pm Remember we start voting on images tomorrow, so get your entry in tonight. For those of you on the other side of the world, I'm not sure if you're ahead of us or behind us, so we'll play that one by ear. Tomorrow +/- a day or so.

MJuric wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:23 pm Did you ever have any luck fixing the image not showing issue? I'm still getting the broken links, just wondering if it's just me.

Tom G wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:30 am I never made the free time to create my idea. I was thinking something like the letters in a foreshortened exploded view, with a few appearances thrown in like glass, steel, and plastic. Don't hold up a poll for my lateness.

Jaylin Hochstetler wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:45 pm My submission.
Modeled with SW
Rendered with SW Visualize
Edited with Adobe Photoshop


Edit: I may post another rev tomorrow or Monday because this one I noticed is slightly cocked and the "A place for CAD Users by CAD Users" text is a little small.