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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 Video Tip: Using Mates for Animation
Recently I have had a few questions about ways to create animations with assembly motion. These questions brought to mind this great tip on using Mates to generate assembly motion. Using Mates to create motion in Assemblies is often overlooked so I have prepared this video that includes a simple example of how to do…
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SolidWorks 2009 SP2!
Well, Friday night just happened to be the perfect time for me to upgrade our seats at work to SolidWorks 2009 SP2. Overall things went smoothly and I was on my way home in time for some awesome pot roast served up by my multi-talented wife. So what’s new in SolidWorks 2009 SP2? Well, thanks…
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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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The SolidWorks Secret Weapon: The Wrap Tool
Have you ever wanted to place a logo on a SolidWorks model? There are of course a number of ways to do this. If you want the logo to be embossed or cut you probably would first think of the Extrude tool. But then again what if the surface is curved? Hmm…well what if you…
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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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The S Key Experiment – Part 3
The S Key Experiment continues for me and in this post we dive into Part 3 which covers using the S Key shortcut menu in the Drawing environment of SolidWorks 2009. In case you missed it, I covered the Part Environment in Part 1 and the Assembly Environment in Part 2. I have found the…
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Unique Model Download
Late last week I was asked to verify a mounting pattern for a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) connector that was being placed on a custom PCB that we are developing. This project was a bit unique in that I hadn’t really been involved in it much. Normally I am right in the middle of any…