A few months back I Blogged about some of the new options in the SolidWorks Knowledge Base.  Well, the folks at SolidWorks are at it again.  I went to the Customer Portal last night to …

The headline and banner image above pretty much says it all.  Click on the image to see the new site.  Time to start working on your justification letters.  Leave me a comment if you are …

Yes, you read the headline correctly.  SolidWorks is changing its name….but only slightly.  The new name is Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation.  The “DS” has been in their logo for years so is this really that …

In a little over 24 hours the NDAs will be lifted and many of the SolidWorks Bloggers will start rolling out articles, videos, and stories about SolidWorks 2009.  I already have a few posts written …

SolidWorks 2009 Beta is fast approaching.  Word on the street is the software is slated to be made available Monday June 9, 2008 around lunch time EST.  As Mike Puckett reported earlier today the Beta …

Check out this new site from SolidWorks showing Leonardo da Vinci’s Self Propelled Cart.  The features of the cart are demonstrated with SolidWorks 2008.  The design of the mechanism in the cart is absolutely …

SolidWorks has released a Community Survey to better gauge what users are after when accessing and participating in online communities.  The survey is a bit long but I highly recommend that you check it out …

One of the most useful tools in the SolidWorks Customer Portal has had a bit of a facelift today which is sure to be a hit with all SolidWorks users.  The SolidWorks Knowledge Base …

SolidWorks announced today the acquisition of Priware Limted, the maker of CircuitWorks.  You can get more information on this by checking out the SolidWorks Press Release and Priware website.
The exciting part of this announcement is …

The SolidWorks Discussion Forum has a new look and feel to it.  The interface to me looks much cleaner now.  The biggest change to me is the addition of RSS feeds to the forum.  You …

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 …

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 …

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 …

SolidWorks Labs has posted a free beta of a modeling tool called CB Model Pro.  It is a direct manipulation freeform modeling tool.  It was developed by the creators of Cosmic Blobs.  I have already …