Thanks For Helping us Reach our Millionth License!!
Did you know? Just last month, contemporary gear bag designer OGIO International of Salt Lake City, US, which caters to extreme sports enthusiasts and free-spirited golfers, purchased the one millionth license of SolidWorks software!! This is just the beginning… Take
... ContinuedNew SolidWorks UK Blog!!!
Hello and welcome to the first post on the NEW SolidWorks UK Blog! Follow this site to find many tips and tricks, some regional news and events from both SolidWorks and our Resellers! My name is Justin Burton, my role
... ContinuedWhat Does a SolidWorks User Group Meeting Look Like?
Dave Bartholomew and the Northeast Ohio SolidWorks User Group had a great meeting this week, and here are the pictures to prove it.
... ContinuedWhat Did I Do at COFES?
The 10th annual COFES conference was my fourth, and like many others have expressed, I feel it was the best one I have attended. There's plenty of in-depth coverage of the event to be found: SolidWorks: Heard!Lou Gallo covered COFES
... ContinuedCOFES Saturday Morning: Joel Orr’s Keynote
Joel Orr's fascintating keynote Saturday Morning at COFES 2009: "Remembering The Future" Joel showed some really cool old web pages from 1999. Check out the Internet WayBack Machine at https://www.archive.org. Search there on https://joelorr.com. Click on his 1996 webpage and
... ContinuedCOFES Saturday Morning: Joel Orr
The elder statesman of our CAD industry, Joel Orr, keynotes Saturday morning COFES session. His theme: Remembering The Future. Joel played a key role in my personal career. I met Joel in 1987 when I was raising money for my
... ContinuedCOFES Friday Afternoon: Way Cool Stuff
Final Friday COFES session had a load of way cool stuff: Simon Floyd of Microsoft just showed an amazing video that imagines a future world with huge touch/gesture screens everywhere, plus tons of other cool technologies. Watch it here: https://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-g9JBSEBu2q8/microsofts_future_vision_2019/
... ContinuedCOFES Friday Noon
I am in a COFES session on sustainable design. COFES 2009 has a whole new track "DaS" on sustainable design. There is a lot that engineering software companies can do. Rick Chin of SolidWorks has presented the cool Sage product
... ContinuedCOFES Friday Morning
Great start to COFES 2009 this morning. Chuck House keynote speech was really interesting. Chuck is an engaging speaker who has been around Silicon Valley a long time. Lots of fascinating stories about technology evolution in places like HP, Stanford,
... ContinuedParticipation is good, plus it can be worth $100 bucks!
If you have taken a SolidWorks Training Course from a Value Added Reseller, your input on how the course went is very valuable information to SolidWorks. And in the case of one training course, could net you a free Certified
... ContinuedCOFES 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
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