SolidWorks 2010:  Awesome Tables!
Sun, 02/21/10 – 11:55 PM | Comments

Sometimes when testing newer versions of Software you discover some “unreported” enhancements that really can be a time saver.  That type of enhancement is the source of this post, but first we’ll take an overall …

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Al Predicts the Future of SolidWorks
Sunday, 21 Feb, 2010 – 21:43 | Comments
Al Predicts the Future of SolidWorks

If you are active in the CAD world and haven’t heard of Al Dean and Develop3D, then you are seriously missing out.
Al does a great job of looking at the MCAD Industry as a whole …

SolidWorks in the Cloud
Monday, 1 Feb, 2010 – 18:36 | Comments
SolidWorks in the Cloud

This is just the first post of many to come on this. I’m going to try and hit the highlights and then we will get into some of the details later. Today at …

Dell M6400 with Windows 7!
Monday, 4 Jan, 2010 – 0:19 | Comments
Dell M6400 with Windows 7!

Well…after Vista x64 started giving me a few “blue screens” and the fact that I had a slow week at work, I figured this was an opportune time to update my M6400 to Windows 7 …

SolidWorks What’s New Guides! – Yes, ALL of Them!
Saturday, 25 Apr, 2009 – 23:08 | Comments
SolidWorks What’s New Guides! – Yes, ALL of Them!

Have you ever wished that you could turn back time and look at what previous versions of SolidWorks looked like?  Perhaps you have a customer who is a few versions back and you can’t quite …

Ben Eadie on Revision3
Tuesday, 14 Oct, 2008 – 0:49 | Comments
Ben Eadie on Revision3

Ben Eadie of SolidMentor recently filmed an episode with Patrick Norton at Revision3.com showing off his home built laser scanner.  Click the image above to check out the episode!
Congrats to Ben for making his first …

SolidWorks 2009 Explosion
Tuesday, 19 Aug, 2008 – 0:08 | Comments
SolidWorks 2009 Explosion

No, SolidWorks 2009 has NOT exploded.  But it has now “officially” burst onto the scene this week with SolidWorks posting their SolidWorks 2009 Launch site and Industry Magazines putting out stories.
The SolidWorks 2009 Launch site …

3dvia Shape
Sunday, 11 May, 2008 – 21:03 | Comments
3dvia Shape

It’s time now for the third installment of my series of reviews on 3dvia.  In case you missed it, make sure you check out my first and second reviews.
This review will focus on 3dvia Shape …

Direct Modeling: The future?
Wednesday, 23 Apr, 2008 – 21:04 | Comments

I’ve put it off writing about this subject matter for quite some time now but with the recent announcement of yet another CAD company touting Direct Modeling, CAD 2.0, Non-History based modeling, or whatever other …

3dvia – Community and Studio
Sunday, 20 Apr, 2008 – 21:17 | Comments
3dvia – Community and Studio

Well, its time for Chapter 2 in my definition search of 3dvia.  In case you missed it, make sure you catch the first installment of my posts on 3dvia.
This time out we are going …

3dvia – What is it?
Wednesday, 16 Apr, 2008 – 22:46 | Comments
3dvia – What is it?

If you frequent ANY CAD or 3D related web sites these days you can’t help but have run across 3dvia somewhere.  I’m sure many of you have been wondering like I have what its …

Bloggers and Press
Wednesday, 5 Mar, 2008 – 22:12 | Comments

If you have been frequenting some of the SolidWorks Blogs here lately, you can’t help but find a link back to Roopinder Tara’s CAD Insider Blog where he has been discussing the differences between the …

DWG wars
Tuesday, 21 Nov, 2006 – 21:59 | Comments

Autodesk has sued the Open Design Alliance over the 2007 .DWG file format.  AECNews has a good article with details.
Rob Rodriguez has started an interesting discussion related to this talking about data exchange in the …