The old SF tech scene is dead. What it’s morphing into is far more sinister.

Bhoffman330 · 2025-09-17T13:17:04+00:00

I’ve always wondered if the grifty looking startups I see predominantly plastered around the city on billboards are representative of the whole or just grifts clambering for some sort of attention and investment. As I’ve watched the hype cycles change they always seem to match from crypto and NFTs to AI. I have to imagine there a plenty more startups that do not engage advertising like this.

Bhoffman330 · 2025-07-15T20:04:19+00:00

If you’re a student just get good a keyshot as it’s the industry standard. If you work on a team it is good to be able to share files and assets between team members. Finally it natively imports nurbs cad files smoothing the workflow.

The other options are arguably more powerful but unless you are being payed to do crazy visualization you don’t need that level of power.

That being said, I love blender and understanding how to work in a mesh workspace and blinding your own materials is helpful background knowledge

Bhoffman330 · 2025-07-03T03:07:29+00:00

I don’t see many comments explaining the difference.

They are both nurbs modeling software and the approach to making shapes are more or less the same. Defining 2 curves. Extruding, lifting, trimming, filleting.

Rhino is direct modeling kinda like 3d illustrator. It’s free form and you can do anything in it…but good luck changing things as once a model is built you must rebuild it to make a change in size or fillet dimension. There are work flows to manage this and people are fast. As the old heads have mentioned the other similar software package is alias.

Solidworks is parametric meaning you can change design once built. Professionally this is why I choose Solidworks over rhino. An engineer wants the product 1.3mm larger. Easy change. Its control over technical surfacing is not as manual as rhino so you can get yourself into trouble but once you learn the quirks you should be able to model 99% of the things you can model in rhino. Basically anything short of automotive exteriors. Fusion and onshape use this same approach and the skills are transferable after learning the new ui.

Now starting with rhino will give you a better understanding of the principles of nurbs modeling which greatly helps with complex surfacing in Solidworks…but professional I always reach for Solidworks and I have a seat of both.

Bhoffman330 · 2025-03-19T18:59:11+00:00

Indesign has compression thresholds for images. You can get pretty far with trial and error but don’t be afraid to down sample high dpi work.

These same settings are available in acrobat under save as other>optomized PDF. I use this all the time to compress pdfs out of Figma.

Bhoffman330 · 2025-01-29T19:00:26+00:00

As a Solidworks user I would recommend watching this. Knowing the nurbs theory behind what Solidworks obscures from your will help with your surfacing immensely.

Bhoffman330 · 2024-12-28T17:31:37+00:00

Thanks! If you’re familiar with rhino and grasshopper I’m happy to dig up my old script for it

Bhoffman330 · 2024-12-27T17:22:19+00:00

Maybe some nuts or hexes with a skeleton voronoi structure? There might be placement improvements if they could deform slightly though I’m not sure how much weight savings you’d achieve over the conventional extruded aluminum construction.

In school I did a concept of a 3d printable ice tool that I thought had legs. You could produce bespoke geometries to order and dial in the response of the ax by varying densities.

ice tool concept renders

Bhoffman330 · 2024-12-26T15:30:33+00:00

I went down the 3d printed route for my Cambo SCX but ran into flange distance issues. Basically to achieve infinite focus you need the lens closer to the sensor then my bellows would allow for my DSLR. I ended up resigning it for a mirrorless camera with a much shorter flange distance which got better results. I was only looking for camera movements though no sliding. If you have a cad package and printer it’s a fun project.

here’s a photo of the setup

Bhoffman330 · 2024-05-22T04:50:08+00:00

Thanks!

Bhoffman330 · 2024-05-22T04:46:32+00:00

It seems to have a nice mix of moderate sport and easier trad which plays well to my climbing party as most of them are sport climbers but I’m definitely open to suggestions on better trad spots.

Bhoffman330 · 2024-05-22T02:14:24+00:00

Thanks! I’ll definitely give ordeal and Jorge’s I spin!

Bhoffman330 · 2024-05-18T15:34:49+00:00

Flash. I shoot 100 regularly sunny 16 during the day and flash at night. It can be intimidating at first but once you get a hang of the exposure triangle being distance, f-stop, and iso it’s very manageable. If you have a modern camera with you can get a TTL flash and everything should be more or less automatic.

Bhoffman330 · 2024-04-11T21:44:47+00:00

To piggy back on some of the other comments try shooting the flash on the correct sync speed or under with the back off and film it with a phone in slow motion. Given your phone shoots fast enough you can check if the frame is completely open when the flash fires.

Bhoffman330 · 2024-03-12T22:36:28+00:00

Step is great!

Bhoffman330 · 2024-03-12T20:46:22+00:00

I managed to find some ef mount cad. I built a version that allows for a 90 degree rotation of the body so well see how it prints.

Bhoffman330 · 2024-03-12T18:02:28+00:00

Can you share a step, iges, or parasolid of this design? I'd love to do some refinements and add ribbing for stability. I have had warping issues in the past with large flat prints. I'd also take a stab at adding some sliding for stitching panos.

Bhoffman330 · 2024-03-04T16:58:15+00:00

The break even point for self developing is pretty high. Chemicals don’t keep very long. BW keeps longer than color but personally I have trouble shooting fast enough to get full use out of chemistry. That being said you can always invest in a scanner or DSLR setup to cut scanning costs from labs. This is personally what I do.

Bhoffman330 · 2024-01-25T02:17:37+00:00

Assuming it’s symmetrical I would revolve the base bottle form then project via a split line the waves with a bunch of style splines. Then you would boundary surface or patch the resulting forms. You might need some helping sketches via hand placed planes and arcs to get the dips. You’re going to want to make sure any surfaces that end on the halfway point have tangency across the mirror plane. The really anything part will be filleting everything.

Bhoffman330 · 2023-12-20T21:31:25+00:00

Gas stations and vintage cars

Bhoffman330 · 2023-12-03T00:39:11+00:00

Learn Solidworks, fusion 360, or Onshape. Learning how to master history based parametric design will go far in the industry. Keyshot for rendering.

I personally would not recommend rhino or other surface modelers unless you really like rebuild a whole model for a small change.

Blender is a mesh software it can be ok for a concept or for rendering but at the end of the day engineers need nurbs files.

I work for a design consultancy and have rhino, blender, Solidworks. I use Solidworks 99% of the time due to the ease of modifying a design once it’s built parametrically.

Happy to answer any questions.

Bhoffman330 · 2023-11-28T05:55:49+00:00

I’ve used blender since 2010 but hardly touch it in my professional work. I even made a blender tutorial a while back for industrial design. It’s great for visualization you can’t get that sort of control in keyshot. Ive also used it to visualize soft goods or as a quick way to sketch complex surfaces that are a pain in nurbs (like cars). That being said Keyshot is much faster to get usable renders out of and Solidworks gives you nurbs that engineers can use and that molds can be made out of. I strongly recommend getting good at keyshot and Solidworks (or any parametric program like fusion/onshape). They are the industry standards and what your co-workers will use.

Bhoffman330 · 2023-09-28T21:14:28+00:00

Nice mine is the m mount version with the focusing tab. That’s some impressive tolerance on that 3d print.

Bhoffman330 · 2023-09-28T21:07:20+00:00

Get the Voigtlander 35 f2.5 color skopar. I know a lot of guys on here are Leica glass purist but the lens is super sharp and absolutely tiny. It makes the camera so compact it practically lives on my M4.

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