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HP Mini 110 Review
Last year while attending SolidWorks World 2009, I started thinking seriously about purchasing a “netbook” computer after lugging around an 8.5 pound Dell M6400 for 6 straight days. Rather than purchasing one right away, I decided to wait and see what the rumored “Apple Tablet” looked like before taking the dive. With SolidWorks World approaching,…
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SolidWorks World 2009 Presentation: Custom PCB Design with SolidWorks
This year at SolidWorks World I gave a presentation on Custom PCB Design with SolidWorks. It covers not only useful features in SolidWorks that can help make the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design process faster, but also recommendations on the process itself. The presentation along with all the model files is available for download HERE.…
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SolidWorks 2010 – The Quick List
Ok…I still need to type up my COMPLETE post of Wednesday’s General Session. LOTS of cool things were shown…but for the folks wondering about SolidWorks 2010, here is a quick list of what was shown: New Display Box for View Mates with Separater Bar. Lots of new functionality with this new display box! Mirror Components…
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SolidWorks World 2009 Tuesday General Session
OK folks….it’s a long post…but quite a bit happened in the General Session today. Lots of GOOD STUFF! Tuesday’s General Session at SolidWorks World 2009 started off with Fielder Hiss, who is the Director of Product Marketing for SolidWorks taking the stage in advance of a long cast of participants. Fielder introduced Tom Salomone of…
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SolidWorks World 2009 Monday: A Special Honor for a Special Guy
At the end of the day Monday the 2009 SWUGN International User Summit was held. It is the annual User Group Meeting held at SolidWorks World that is open to SolidWorks User Group Leaders, Members, and any other conference attendee who wants to attend. This year’s Summit had a special ending this year. About six…
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SolidWorks World 2009 Monday: Custom PCB Design in SolidWorks
For the third year in a row, I got to participate in a Breakout Session Presentation at SolidWorks World. Today was not only the start of the conference, but also the day of my presentation on Custom PCB Design in SolidWorks. I had an absolute BLAST giving the presentation. The questions from the audience were…
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SolidWorks World 2009 Monday General Session
SolidWorks World 2009 “Officially” got off to an AWESOME start this morning with the first of three General Sessions. Today’s General Session featured the normal welcoming ceremonies plus an on stage interview with Sir Richard Branson. If are following me on Twitter, you may have already seen some of this, but at this point I have…
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SolidWorks World 2009 Sunday
Its approaching late afternoon here in Orlando at SolidWorks World 2009. It has been a very interesting day thus far. Today I attended Round Table sessions on SolidWorks Toolbox and Surfacing. I also have been able to catch up with some folks that I haven’t seen in quite sometime. This is of course a typical…
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SolidWorks World 2009 Saturday & The TweetUp!
Well, due to an early morning start on Saturday with not much sleep from the previous night, my Saturday report on SolidWorks World is coming on Sunday! All my Flights yesterday pretty much were about as perfect as you can ask. I ended up arriving at the Orlando airport just after 11:30AM after a first…
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SolidWorks World 2009 Coverage Begins Tomorrow!
Its almost that time again! My flight leaves EARLY in the morning for SolidWorks World 2009 in sunny Orlando, Florida! I’ve added a couple of new features to the site that will be posted for about the next week. In the right sidebar you’ll find a Twitter Widget that lists all the Tweets about SolidWorks…
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SolidWorks World Roll Call
Through the magic of Social Networking (Twitter, Facebook, & Blog Comments) I have a mental list of folks who frequent this site that will be attending SolidWorks World next week. But I know that doesn’t include everyone who is a reader of this site. The purpose of this post is to try to reach out…
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SolidWorks World 2009 – Full Steam Ahead!
Only 24 days left until the start of SolidWorks World 2009 in sunny Orlando, Florida. I will be attending this year’s conference as a member of the Press and will be presenting as well. (More on that later). Registration is still open so don’t give up hope yet if you haven’t planned your trip. With…
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Vote NOW for Your Top SolidWorks Enhancements!
SolidWorks is going to be doing something different for the well known “Top Ten SolidWorks Enhancements” that are revealed to attendees of SolidWorks World every year. In the past, voting was limited to attendees of the conference only and the topics were pre-selected. For SolidWorks World 2009, they are opening up voting to ALL customers…
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Richard Branson to be Keynote Speaker at SolidWorks World 2009
Hot off the presses today is the news that entrepreneur extraordinaire Richard Branson will be a Keynote Speaker at SolidWorks World 2009. Richard is the man behind the Virgin Group which started as a record company but has since expanded to include airlines, mobile phones, broadband, and commercial space flight just to name a few.…