Core77

First off, a big thanks to Al Dean for picking up the slack and sharing his considerable awareness of the CAD biz with the rest of us, while I was off tromping through the hills. If you're a CAD professional and don't already have his Develop3D site on your bookmark list/RSS reader/deli.cio.us linkpile/car radio preset, then be advised it's one of the best written, most thoroughly researched blogs on the topic, and well worth frequent reading.

Now back to the links.

Weekly finds from the 3D world.

SolidWorks
What kind of model check process do you have?
Tips for avoiding circular references
How to buy a pro-level graphics card for SolidWorks
SW opens its Lexington headquarters to the tech blogerati, as covered by Gabi Jack...
...and as covered by Solidsmack.

Inventor
Autodesk Labs releases the Sustainable Materials Assistant for Inventor
Video Tutorial: Basic sketching
Tutorial: Creating a hole on a cylinder

Alias
Tutorial: Freeform surfacing
Tutorial: Advanced sculpting for maximum surface continuity
Video Tutorial: Global surface intersect tool
Tutorial with extra nerd sauce: Alias rendering....in DOS!

Rhino
Catmull Clark mesh smoothing now available for Rhino
Australian Association of Architectural Illustrators reviews Rhino 4
MecSoft releases JewelCAM 1.0 for Rhino
Video Tutorial: Creating a parametric truss system in Grasshopper
Rhino 4.0 SP 6 released

Autodesk
Autodesk creates a link page specifically for Mac-compatible products

Pro/Engineer
Sycode Pro/E plugins for 3DM, 3DS, OBJ files, and more

Solid Edge
For the Synchronous Technology curious, a Solid Edge tutorial from Siemens