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Announcing the winners of the Ocean Cleanup Contest
Back in October, we launched a contest in cooperation with The Ocean Cleanup team based in The Netherlands. Engineers and designers around the world were challenged to design the floating booms integral to the design of the floating collection platforms
... ContinuedSolidWorks User Group Leaders Like to Gather
Every year 100-200 SolidWorks User Group leaders take advantage of their free admission to SolidWorks World. They come for the same reasons as other attendees – technical sessions, the exhibits, the keynotes and the networking. But they also come for
... ContinuedSixteen Years of Tips and Tricks – Phil Sluder
According to my records, there are 67 people that have attended every single SolidWorks World conference – 31 reseller employees, 2 members of the press, 7 exhibitors, 21 SolidWorks employees, and 6 SolidWorks users. I consider myself fortunate to be included
... ContinuedSolidWorks World 2014 Top Ten Idea List is now open for voting
Idea creation is now complete. We are excited by the number of Idea submissions for the SolidWorks World 2014 Top Ten list. This year, we have the most submissions ever! Now’s the time to vote for Ideas that will make it to
... ContinuedWin a free pass to SolidWorks World 2014 with our Holiday Gift Contest
It’s that time of year again—the holiday season is upon us (and even over for some), and SolidWorks World is only a few weeks away. We have two passes to SolidWorks World to give away, and we thought we’d give
... Continued“I want you to model a box…”
In my 13 years with SolidWorks, I never ventured out much past what I have been trained to do, and explore the outreaches of other teams. My accidental career sprouted its own wings and I became part of a team.
... ContinuedSolidWorks World 2014
There are a lot of reasons to get excited about SolidWorks World 2014; nice January weather in San Diego, 200+ technical sessions, 100 exhibitors, and thousands of SolidWorks users eager to learn. For the SolidWorks User Group Network (SWUGN), this
... ContinuedChristmas Shopping Will Have to Wait
SolidWorks User Group Leaders will be very busy over the next three weeks, with 29 meetings on the December calendar – 14 of them this week alone. December 2nd Huber Heights, OH December 3rd Elkhart, IN Houston, TX San Antonio, TX
... ContinuedNTSUG Members See Some Magic
I was invited by Christie Buresh of the North Texas Solidworks User Group to show off a few of the new “delighters” in SolidWorks 2014 this week, and the group members and I had a lot of fun with it. The best
... ContinuedAnd…I'm Back
And just in time. This is a great time to talk about what’s going on in the SolidWorks Community. SolidWorks 2014 has been out for a couple of months, and I was fortunate to attend several reseller roll-outs and watch SolidWorks users
... ContinuedIt was all sort of an accident, really….
Thirteen years at the same company is not actually how I had foreseen my future. It started off in the summer in between my Freshman year of college and a Sophomore year that I knew in my head wouldn’t exist.
... ContinuedMy.SolidWorks November Update
We are excited to announce the release of a new update to My.SolidWorks today. In this new version we’ve included several improvements making it easier for you to use the site and search for answers to your questions. 3D ContentCentral
... ContinuedSolidWorks World 2014 Top Ten List: Now Open For Idea Submission
It is the time of the year to start preparing for SolidWorks World 2014. To start things off we are looking for your input in creating the SolidWorks World Top Ten List. This is a list of your ideas for
... ContinuedDudley the duck is getting a 3D printed foot
Every now and then, a SolidWorks user sends us an email that really catches our attention. We got one of these last week from Terence Loring, owner of 3 Pillar Designs in Vancouver. Terence wrote to tell us about a
... ContinuedOcean Renewable Power Company is harnessing the power of the oceans to generate electricity
When Chris Sauer’s team at Ocean Renewable Power Company set out to build one of the world’s first underwater turbines, they were doing something that had never been done before. SolidWorks helped turn their vision into reality. Watch the newest
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