Author Archives: Joy Garon
Enterprise PDM and Office – How to never leave the Office
Okay, so the title of this post is slightly misleading. But, it is a question I get often. Folks call, email and message me asking if there is an add-in for Microsoft® Office that provides the same user experience as
... ContinuedSolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2010 Beta: Resource Pain Relief
A few months ago I was talking to my brother, who is an IT manager for a local company that uses SolidWorks for design, and I asked him what his biggest challenges were when rolling out new software. Not surprisingly
... ContinuedReading technology overload?
Back in March Jeff Ray wrote the blog article ‘Why Amazon Will Save the World’ which talked about the Amazon Kindle. Since reading that article I had toyed with the idea of purchasing an ‘electronic book reader’ but paused when
... ContinuedWhat do you see?
A friend of mine recently sent me a video of a fascinating study that looked at the limits of perception, attention and awareness. The study was on inattentional (or perceptual) blindness. It was done by Daniel Simons, University of Indiana
... ContinuedCool PDM tool: embed an SQL query within Excel
One of the things I love most about attending SolidWorks World (SWW) is the learning. As someone who teaches regularly, it’s great to meet up with colleagues and customers and learn from them how they have applied their learnings to
... ContinuedSolidWorks Enterprise PDM – A Geek’s View
This is my first post to the SolidWorks Blog. I will be posting on the technical aspects of the SolidWorks data management products. The 2009 release of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) includes support for Microsoft® SQL Server 2008. Since I
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