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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 x64. Last June I did a review of the M6400 hardware itself. Since that seemed to be a popular…
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We Are SolidWorks!
While browsing through my Twitter feed today I came across this link from Mike Puckett at SolidWorks. Could this be the future interface for CAD? While I’m sure the main purpose of the video presently is to show the forward thinking motion of the company, I can’t help but wonder if just maybe the folks…
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SolidWorks Help in your Browser!
As reported here a few months back, SolidWorks 2010 introduced an option for Online Help. The Online Help has some enhanced search features which includes sorting by subject and links to the Knowledge Base. In addition to that, because it is web based, it is guaranteed to always be up to date. Here is something…
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SolidWorks 2010: Mouse Gestures
Today we are going to take a look at perhaps one of the most underrated new features of SolidWorks 2010, the Mouse Gesture Wheel. While this new tool has gotten some good press in recent weeks, its hard to gauge how useful this command can be until you actually use it. The Mouse Gesture wheel…
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Dassault Systemes in NASCAR
If you are a NASCAR fan and a CAD user like myself, you might have noticed a little something different at this weekend’s race at the California Speedway. Dassault Systemes was the primary sponsor for A.J. Allmendinger’s Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) entry. As far as I can tell, this was the first entry by DS…
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SolidWorks 2010: Hole Wizard!
It’s been a while since I have had a chance to post. I have been working some crazy hours on various projects. Hopefully some of them I can share with you one day. Its time to get back on track with introducing some of the new features of SolidWorks 2010. Today we take a quick…
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SolidWorks 2010: Multibody Materials
Way back in late 2002, SolidWorks users received what I call a “game changing” enhancement in SolidWorks 2003. This was the version of SolidWorks that first introduced the ability to model multiple solid bodies in a SolidWorks part file. Looking back now, it is sometimes hard to imagine SolidWorks without it. The way SolidWorks handles…
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SolidWorks 2010: Drawing Dimension Enhancements
As I said in my first post on SolidWorks 2010, Drawings received A LOT of enhancements! Today we are going to take a look at a few of them that relate to dimensioning. Rapid Dimension is a new option that allows for quick placement of dimensions in Drawings. As soon as you select a edge…
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What’s New in SolidWorks 2010 Guide Posted
The What’s New Guide (PDF) has been posted to my What’s New Guides page. If you missed the post a few months back this is the page I created that hosts EVERY What’s New guide that SolidWorks has ever produced! You can even check out some User Guides from the first releases of SolidWorks (Before…
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SolidWorks 2010 Enhancement Highlights
Well folks, it’s now officially August 24, 2009 and the NDA on SolidWorks 2010 has been lifted! With this post, I’m going to just quickly highlight what I consider to be the most notable enhancements of SolidWorks 2010. This post will be followed up with more detailed posts that will include information on the enhancements…
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Gearing up for SolidWorks 2010
This week I was fortunate enough to take a trip up to SolidWorks headquarters with several other Bloggers to see first hand the new features of SolidWorks 2010. Since I am a Beta tester, this wasn’t the first time I had seen it, but this trip gave us a chance to get an in-depth overview…
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ALL NEW SolidWorks Community (Forum)
Users of the SolidWorks Forums were treated to a NICE upgrade today with the launch of the revamped forum which has been renamed to “SolidWorks Community”. With the new features of the forum, I feel like the new name fits nicely. Just about everything in the forum has been enhanced. I’ve listed my top enhancements…
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SolidWorks Electrical Routing – Part 2
Most users of SolidWorks Electrical Routing use the product to determine wire & route lengths. This video is a direct followup to the Part 1 video. In this segment, we will take the 3D Electrical Harness that we created in Part 1 and make some modifications to the route itself to better fit our design…
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SolidWorks Electrical Routing – Part 1
After talking about it for quite some time here on the site, today marks the first installment on a series of posts on SolidWorks Electrical Routing. In this first example I guide you halfway through the creation of an Electrical Harness using what I call the “on the fly” method. This particular method is often…