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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
... ContinuedGreen Design Contest Deconstructed
I didn't know what to expect when we launched our Green Design Contest on Earth Day (April 22), which ran until June 30th. We've spent the last month judging the contest, and now that the results are in and the
... ContinuedHow SolidWorks Saved My Camping Trip
Somehow (and don’t ask me how) my family have turned into avid tent campers, going every couple of weeks over the New England summer. But as with anything in my family, nothing ever goes smoothly; let me tell you about
... ContinuedPromote Your Company and Products & Get More Value from Your SolidWorks Models
SolidWorks is currently looking for customer datasets (models/assemblies) that we can use to generate visual assets that can be used for marketing collateral, videos, blogs, web, SolidWorks World imagery, demos, packaging imagery, etc. What you might not know are the
... 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.
... 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.
3DVia Composer 2012
A new version of 3DVIA Composer has been released with a number of improvements for documentation, animation, interactive directories and publishing on the Internet.Let us address some of the news for creating images and technical illustrations. When creating images,
... ContinuedSubscription customers: SolidWorks 2012 beta testers wanted!
This is your opportunity to impact the quality, performance, and reliability of DS SolidWorks products. Our objective is to create a positive SolidWorks 2012 migration experience. By taking advantage of beta releases, you can avoid migration problems by alerting us
... ContinuedX-Fingers Replace Lost Digits, Empower Patients with New Function
SolidWorks Helps Make Replacement Fingers a Reality CONCORD, Mass., USA, May 10, 2011 – The question, “Hey, Grandpa, where’d your fingers go?” haunted the man featured in the YouTube video for months after he lost two digits to a table
... ContinuedReporting 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
... ContinuedTaking the Certified SolidWorks Professional Test – Segment 2
Back In March I wrote about how I was challenged by Matt Lorono to pass the Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP) test, and in April I talked about taking (and passing) the first segment of the test. It has been nearly
... ContinuedSee how parts sticks together to one another
This can be done by selecting two elements in the consolidation and chose "Properties Tab"The Mates that are together are marked in bold. Another way to understand the relationships is to point on a detail and then the View
... 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
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