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SolidWorks For Dummies: 2nd Edition
SolidWorks for Dummies, 2nd Edition was recently released by J Wiley Publishing. The 2nd Edition has been updated to include all the changes in the software up through SolidWorks 2008. The book was authored by Greg Jankowski and Richard Doyle. Richard called me up last June and asked me if I wanted to be the…
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SolidWorks 2008 Service Pack 1 is available
I just happened to check the Customer Portal today and saw that SolidWorks 2008 Service Pack 1 has just been released. Some of you out there may have been waiting to upgrade until SP1.0 is out. For those of you in that group, it’s upgrade time! I put up a post in October of last…
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SolidWorks Tip: Adding a Mate in 2008!
Here is a great little tip-off for those of you using SolidWorks 2008. With previous versions of SolidWorks, you may constantly find yourself venturing from the graphics area towards the Assembly Toolbar or CommandManager everytime you wanted to add a mate to a component in your assembly. The Edit/Add Mates command is available in the…
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SolidWorks World 2008: Less than two months away!
Maybe it’s just me, but things sure have been moving FAST lately. SolidWorks World is less than two months away! I’ve finally gotten all my travel plans solidified. I’ll be arriving Friday night January 18th and will be there all the way till Thursday morning January 24th. My participation this year will be a bit…
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A GREAT Enhancement Request
It’s not often that I post references to enhancement requests directly, but I have to make an exception with this one. Fellow Blogger Lenny Kikstra has a Blog Post describing what I think would be an excellent enhancement request for a future release of SolidWorks. In case you missed my first link, you can check…