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NTSUG 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
... Continued“He’s a designer, so he shouldn’t touch CAM, right?” Wrong—and here’s why.
CAD and CAM are so frequently lumped together that many people outside our industry have a difficult time separating the two. “CAD/CAM” has become a single catchall phrase for two very different processes; modeling and machining a part. That line
... ContinuedThe IFWE Challenge – Reloaded, and in 3D!
IF WE ask the right questions, we can change the world… In 2012, more than 500 of you submitted crazy ideas to our crowd-sourced collection of world-changing dreams. 3 winners were awarded with prizes and software to help bring their
... ContinuedTenLinks to Award Top SolidWorks Bloggers
Do you blog about SolidWorks? If so, you could win recognition by your peers and other members of the SolidWorks community. The following was posted to CadDigest.com yesterday. We’re proud to sponsor this program, and look forward to seeing the
... ContinuedEnter The Ocean Cleanup Contest for a chance to change the world (and win prizes)
Millions of tons of plastic are polluting the world’s oceans. It reaches the oceans through rivers and waterways, and then accumulates in five high-concentration areas called gyres. Boyan Slat, a student at the Delft University of Technology, and his Ocean
... ContinuedCatching up with the SolidWorks community at Maker Faire NYC
This past weekend, I went on a spontaneous trip to Maker Faire in New York City with some friends working in the Lewis Research Group at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We woke up at the crack
... ContinuedCheck out the latest updates to My.SolidWorks
The My.SolidWorks team has released updates to My.SolidWorks.com that make it easier for you to find answers to your questions across the SolidWorks community. Starting today, you will find a new home page for My.SolidWorks that places the search option
... ContinuedColorado teenager Easton LaChappelle 3D prints the next generation of prosthetic limbs
A coworker recently sent me a story about Easton LaChapelle. Easton is a 17-year-old student from Colorado (in the western US) who has been doing some incredible work designing advanced prosthetics. Without telling the whole story, Easton met a young
... ContinuedIf you want to build the Iron Man suit, you can do that: engineering student immortalizes himself at Georgia Tech freshman convocation
With the new school year starting, I got to thinking about the reasons people choose to go into engineering. Is it to create the future design of the NASA space suit, become the next George Stephenson, or even just follow
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