COFES 2009 First Night
It's great to back in Scottsdale Arizona for the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software (COFES). The opening night reception last night was, as usual, a great chance to meet many CAD industry insiders and personalities. Steve Wolfe, Brad
... ContinuedSpending Some Time in the Desert
This morning I flew into Phoenix and made the 100 mile drive to Tucson for tonight's Tucson SolidWorks User Group meeting. I'll be doing a session called SolidWorks User Tips Group and Network Tricks. You read that right, it's a
... ContinuedThere is a hunger for these schools
Last month I had the honor, and the anguish, of drawing names from a stuffed box of applicants for 75 coveted freshman spots at the MATCH Charter Public High School in Boston. MATCH, along with a number of other area
... ContinuedLynnette Cracks Me Up
I got a pretty good laugh out of Lynnette's three line blog post today.
... ContinuedRandall Bock – Educator or User Group Leader?
Well…both actually. Randall burst on to the scene last September as the leader of the Happy Valley SolidWorks User Group. Since then, the group has averaged over 80 attendees for each of three meetings that have been held. HVSWUG will
... ContinuedCAD Society Announces Richard Doyle of SolidWorks as the winner of the 2009 CAD Society Community Award
Here's something I got yesterday about our very own Richard Doyle. And yes, I'm cribbing most of this from a press release, but it's such awesome news that I wanted to get it out without too much delay (writing blog
... ContinuedAt last: the SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package
Almost as soon as Jeff Ray announced the Engineering Stimulus Package (ESP) at SolidWorks World 2009, we started getting questions from many of you, asking about the details. Today, we're happy to announced that the program is live for those
... ContinuedSWUGN Technical Summit – Orlando
The 2009 SWUGN Technical Summit series kicks off April 28th in Orlando, Florida. We’re expecting a good turnout to see technical presentations by the likes of Casey Gorman, Tim Paris, Eric Bright, Carl Scheible, Matt Rece, and Dana Parrish. Five
... ContinuedRoast Turkey on a Sourdough Roll w/Mayo
The best sourdough bread in the world is made in the San Francisco Bay Area, so any time I get a chance to visit California, I always make it a point to find a little, out-of-the-way deli at least once for
... ContinuedParis, here I come…
I'm heading to Paris next week to visit the fine people as Dassault HQ. If there's anything you're interested in learning about, let me know. Maybe I can get someone to show me the much-heralded CATIA V6 in action.
... ContinuedUsing the SolidWorks Certification Center to Structure Training
The Certification exams offered by SolidWorks have long been a means to test a users skills, and to gage their ability to understand the SolidWorks software. Once someone passed they were issued a certificate, they printed it out and hung
... ContinuedIt’s not how high you jump, but how well you bounce…
Last week, SWUGN leader Richard Doyle posted a blog entry about Rodney Hall. We first learned about Rod and his employment troubles on Twitter, and I had a chance to speak with him before SolidWorks World 2009, and even mentioned
... ContinuedGreat People Make Great Things Happen
I originally titled this "Great Things Happen to Great People", but changed it to reflect the real story. A little over a week before he was scheduled to attend SolidWorks World 2009, Rodney Hall found out that his employer was shutting
... ContinuedLook Ma, we’re on the TV (with Fisher/Unitech & Terrafugia)
Here's a video Mike Puckett sent to me. It's a piece from the WDTN news in Dayton, Ohio talking about Fisher/Unitech's No Engineer Left Behind program. Kudos to Fisher/Unitech for helping, and stay tuned for details on our own SolidWorks
... ContinuedWant to be a guest blogger on the SolidWorks blog?
I've been meaning to do this for some time, but things invariably get busy, and user conferences have to be attended, plans have to be made, videos have to be posted to the YouTube…you know how it goes. Anyways, something
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