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SolidWorks Veterans on SolidWorks 2012 – Ron Bates
Did you know that SolidWorks 2012 marks the 20th release of SolidWorks? To help celebrate that milestone, we've asked some long-time employees to talk about their time at SolidWorks, from the early days to the present. Today we're hearing from
... ContinuedHot Rod Baby Buggy Episode #4 is available now!!!
The Let's Go Design team has been taking some well-deserved vacation over the summer, but they got back into the swing of things recently to put together the next episode in the Hot Rod Baby Buggy project. Swing on over
... ContinuedMeet the Let’s Go Design Dream Team: Fred Koehler
We're well into the summer vacation season here at SolidWorks, and Jeremy Luchini and the Let's Go Design team have been taking some well-deserved time off. But we haven't forgotten about all of the fans out there. While we anticipate
... ContinuedMeet the Let’s Go Design Team: Boris Raskin
We're well into the summer vacation season here at SolidWorks, and Jeremy Luchini and the Let's Go Design team have been taking some well-deserved time off. But we haven't forgotten about all of the fans out there. While we wait
... ContinuedRegistration for SolidWorks World 2012 is now open!
It may be six and a half months away, but that doesn't mean it's too early to start thinking about SolidWorks World 2012. In fact, the new website for the event just went live moments ago, and all of you
... ContinuedMeet the Let’s Go Design team: Al Hernandez
We're well into the summer vacation season here at SolidWorks, and Jeremy Luchini and the Let's Go Design team have been taking some well-deserved time off. But we haven't forgotten about all of the fans out there. While we wait
... ContinuedDesign That Matters: accelerating development and saving lives with SolidWorks
Back in 2009, former SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray wrote about Design That Matters, a local non-profit organization that leverages volunteer engineers and designers to come up with life-saving products for use in the developing world. SolidWorks has been a long-time supporter of Design That Matters, and the group even appeared on stage at SolidWorks World 2009, showing off an infant incubator designed using car parts.
... ContinuedMinneapolis Just Keeps Setting Records
The three most attended SWUGN Summit events have one thing in common – they were all in Minneapolis. We're back here today with 184 SolidWorks users – another new record. I asked the crowd this morning….why? The answer is simple -
... ContinuedSolidWorks Partner Profile: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Leading up to SolidWorks World 2011, we posted a series of blog entries spotlighting some of our SolidWorks Solution Partners. A lot of you told me that you found these interesting, so we're trying to post more of them as we can. Today, we have a feature on a partner many of you probably know–AMD.
If you're not familiar with them, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a manufacturer and developer of processor technology, with products that include CPUs and graphics hardware. Some of their most popular products for SolidWorks customers include the ATI FirePro workstation graphics accelerators and the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors.
Antoine Reymond, Sr. Strategic Alliances Manager at AMD, was nice enough to respond to a few questions for us.
... ContinuedCEOs perspective: an update on the recovery in Japan
Last month, I went on a week-long trip to Japan. This was the first trip I have made to the country since the earthquake and tsunami earlier in the year, and I was particularly interested in seeing how our customers and reseller partners were doing.
On the flight over, I noticed that only 2/3 of the seats in the airplane were occupied. I have been to Japan many times in my years at SolidWorks, and have never seen a plane that was less than full. However, one of the flight attendants told me that only a month earlier, most flights were only 1/3 full, and that they have been seeing a noticeable improvement in travel to and from Japan. So that gave me some small bit of hope.
... Continued3D scanning helps the Let’s Go Design team save time and effort
In the latest episode of Let’s Go Design Project 3, Jeremy Luchini gets some help from a SolidWorks reseller using a 3D scanner to scan a golf cart engine and transfer it directly into SolidWorks. This saved significant design time, by using an existing—and working—design to augment the new elements of the Hot Rod Baby Buggy.
Seeing that there's been some interest in the technology, I sat down with Jeremy to discuss his use of 3D scanning in the episode, what the future holds for this newest 3D technology, and how it helped to streamline design of the Hot Rod Baby Buggy.
Reporting back from the SolidWorks Executive Forum in Minneapolis
I had the opportunity to sit in on one of our Executive Forum gatherings in Minneapolis recently. Despite unseasonal heat for Minneapolis, approximately 30 customers from our largest accounts in the area joined us for the day at the Walker Art center downtown.
If you’re not familiar with them, the Executive Forums are a fairly new program started last year and sponsored entirely by SolidWorks. They’re geared more toward managers than the power users who normally attend SolidWorks User Group meetings. The sessions are small, informal, and provide attendees an opportunity to hear the SolidWorks strategy as well as network with peers and exchange best practices (two users from Trail King in South Dakota earned the honor of having driven the farthest with a 4.5 hour road trip). Customers present as well – rather than a case study on WHY they picked SolidWorks, they talk about HOW they’re using SolidWorks products. For the SolidWorks employees in the audience, this is the best part.
Laser scanners, FEA, and tank treads (oh my)
It's that time again–a new episode of Let's Go Design has been posted to the website. This time around, Jeremys bring in an expert from one of our resellers to run a state-of-the-art laser scanner, gets some help analysing his
... ContinuedDesigning Dads: How Design Skills Translate to Dad Skills
With Father’s Day only a few days away (don’t forget to buy that classic tie), we wanted to take a moment to recognize all the Dads out there. Being a Dad means wearing multiple hats, and balance between this and
... ContinuedTrip report: my SolidWorks User Group tour
As you may recall from my earlier post, I spent the week of May 23 driving through the southeastern US with SolidWorks User Group Network coordinator Richard Doyle, attending user group meetings and visiting customers. It is always exciting to get out of the office and meet with SolidWorks users, and I learn something new every time. Rather than give you a day-by-day retelling of my trip, I thought I would talk about some of the highlights.
Each of the user group meetings was different and enlightening in different ways. The first meeting was in Atlanta, Georgia, and was held at the Quickparts headquarters. The second meeting in Greenville, South Carolina, was held at Clemson University. At this meeting, several resellers set up a display of 3D printers for the 70 attendees to demo, and SolidWorks customer Redneck Engineering brought out a few custom choppers. Here’s a picture of me sitting on one of them along with Vince “Nobody” Doll, who runs the company.