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Richard Doyle’s SolidWorks World Podcast
Richard Doyle’s Countdown to SolidWorks World Podcast went live today. For those of you who don’t know Richard, he is the User Community Coordinator for SolidWorks Corporation. Richard is also heavily involved in organizing SolidWorks World. He also authors the SolidWorks Community Blog. Richard is one of the few folks I know who has been…
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SolidWorks Tip: Converting Drawing Views
When working in SolidWorks sometimes it is necessary to convert Model Views in a Drawing to Vector entities (lines and arcs) so that the view is NOT tied to the geometry of the solid model. An example of this would be a view of an electrical connector’s pin numbers for a cable/harness drawing. In cases…
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Experience SolidWorks World – FOR FREE!
Are you having a hard time gathering funds to attend SolidWorks World? Well, here is a deal for you! What if you could experience parts of the conference for FREE? The great news is you CAN! If you go to the SolidWorks World website and register with this code, SWEX07105, you will receive a complementary…
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New Boundary Surface Video
Mark Biasotti has posted a really nice Boundary Surface Video Tutorial. If you use surfacing at all, I highly recommend you check it out. With Mark’s permission, I have made the model available for download here. In the tutorial, Mark shows how powerful adding connectors can be within the Boundary Surface feature itself. This is…
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SolidWorks World Online Game
Here is a link to the SolidWorks World Online Challenge. It’s a trivia game that asks you specific questions about SolidWorks World. It’s even got an animated John McEleney! If you play the game you can register to win a Playstation 3 game console. You can play it as many times as you like. I…
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SolidWorks Tip: Move Face
Over the past year, the Move Face tool has become one of my favorite tools in SolidWorks. It was originally introduced as a tool that helps users make modifications to imported bodies (parts with NO feature tree). The feature works so well, I have found myself using it on SolidWorks native models. The Move Face…
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Your Favorite SolidWorks World Story
We are less than two months away from SolidWorks World 2007. I thought this would be a great time to hear about your favorite “story” from attending previous SolidWorks World conferences. It can be a particular occurrence, experience, or overall impression. I’ve got a few that I’ll share with you. At SolidWorks World 2003, everyone…
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Countdown to SolidWorks World Podcasts
SolidWorks World 2007 is coming up fast! As we get closer to February 3rd, you’ll hear more and more about it. SolidWorks has begun a Countdown to SolidWorks World Podcast Series that features many of the presenters and SolidWorks employees. I will be presenting at SolidWorks World next year in a breakout session for the…
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New Forums!
So why haven’t I posted much to the blog in the last week? Here is one reason. I’ve been setting up a new forum for the North Alabama SolidWorks Users Group. The all new NASWUG Forum is open to ALL SolidWorks users who wish to participate. SolidWorks related areas have been separated from our User…
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SP 2.0 is out
SolidWorks 2007 SP2 is now available for download at the Customer Portal. I’ll be installing it first thing next week since I have a few SPRs that are supposed to be addressed in it. We have been running SolidWorks 2007 for almost a month now and I have been really happy so far. As with…
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DWG wars
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 CAD World. Check out Rob’s post by clicking here. What does this mean for all the companies that are…
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SolidWorks 2007: Relative View
For those of you that use the Weldment functionality in SolidWorks, there is a nice little enhancement that has been included in SolidWorks 2007. The Structural Member functionality in Weldments allows you quickly create weldment frames using a multi-body approach. If you need to detail a specific body in a drawing the drawing view creation…
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Steve Wozniak to be Keynote Speaker at SolidWorks World 2007
Steve Wozniak will be the keynote speaker at SolidWorks World next year in New Orleans. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs back in 1975. He designed the Apple I & Apple II computers which were very popular back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Wikipedia has a very interesting bio on Steve Wozniak…
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SolidWorks Tip: Time to upgrade!
It’s upgrade time this week for SolidWorks where I work. I thought this would be a good time to discuss a few things to do in preparation of a major version upgrade in SolidWorks. Not everyone’s upgrade preparation is the same since it can depend mainly on how many seats of SolidWorks you have and…