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SolidWorks World Sunday Part 2
Well, Sunday has now wrapped up and everyone is getting geared up for the first General Session tomorrow morning starting at 8:30am PST. The rest of my day included a few more Roundtable Sessions followed by the opening of the Partner Pavilion. To me, this looks like the BIGGEST Partner Pavilion ever! As usual there…
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SolidWorks World Sunday Part 1
Well…I’ve got a small amount of time between sessions here so I thought I would post a few pictures of the convention center areas. Below is the Convention Center entrance. Nice Sign! Here’s a further out shot from the street showing just how big this convention center is! According to Al Dean over at Develop3D,…
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New Product Announcement at SolidWorks World?
One of the interesting things on the press agenda for SolidWorks World 2010 is a press conference scheduled for Wednesday morning regarding a “New Product Announcement”. This is the only reference I have seen anywhere on this so I don’t really have anything else concrete on what this may be. So what do you think…
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Getting Set for SolidWorks World 2010
With the start of SolidWorks World 2010 now officially 1 day away, I’m finalizing my schedule, planning my coverage, and pondering just what exactly we might see at the biggest MCAD event in the industry. One curve ball has already been thrown my way as my 6:15am flight for tomorrow morning was canceled. I am…
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We Are SolidWorks!
While browsing through my Twitter feed today I came across this link from Mike Puckett at SolidWorks. Could this be the future interface for CAD? While I’m sure the main purpose of the video presently is to show the forward thinking motion of the company, I can’t help but wonder if just maybe the folks…
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SolidWorks Help in your Browser!
As reported here a few months back, SolidWorks 2010 introduced an option for Online Help. The Online Help has some enhanced search features which includes sorting by subject and links to the Knowledge Base. In addition to that, because it is web based, it is guaranteed to always be up to date. Here is something…
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SolidWorks 2010: Mouse Gestures
Today we are going to take a look at perhaps one of the most underrated new features of SolidWorks 2010, the Mouse Gesture Wheel. While this new tool has gotten some good press in recent weeks, its hard to gauge how useful this command can be until you actually use it. The Mouse Gesture wheel…
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Dassault Systemes in NASCAR
If you are a NASCAR fan and a CAD user like myself, you might have noticed a little something different at this weekend’s race at the California Speedway. Dassault Systemes was the primary sponsor for A.J. Allmendinger’s Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) entry. As far as I can tell, this was the first entry by DS…
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SolidWorks 2010: Hole Wizard!
It’s been a while since I have had a chance to post. I have been working some crazy hours on various projects. Hopefully some of them I can share with you one day. Its time to get back on track with introducing some of the new features of SolidWorks 2010. Today we take a quick…
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SolidWorks 2010: Multibody Materials
Way back in late 2002, SolidWorks users received what I call a “game changing” enhancement in SolidWorks 2003. This was the version of SolidWorks that first introduced the ability to model multiple solid bodies in a SolidWorks part file. Looking back now, it is sometimes hard to imagine SolidWorks without it. The way SolidWorks handles…
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SolidWorks 2010: Drawing Dimension Enhancements
As I said in my first post on SolidWorks 2010, Drawings received A LOT of enhancements! Today we are going to take a look at a few of them that relate to dimensioning. Rapid Dimension is a new option that allows for quick placement of dimensions in Drawings. As soon as you select a edge…
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What’s New in SolidWorks 2010 Guide Posted
The What’s New Guide (PDF) has been posted to my What’s New Guides page. If you missed the post a few months back this is the page I created that hosts EVERY What’s New guide that SolidWorks has ever produced! You can even check out some User Guides from the first releases of SolidWorks (Before…
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SolidWorks 2010 Enhancement Highlights
Well folks, it’s now officially August 24, 2009 and the NDA on SolidWorks 2010 has been lifted! With this post, I’m going to just quickly highlight what I consider to be the most notable enhancements of SolidWorks 2010. This post will be followed up with more detailed posts that will include information on the enhancements…
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Gearing up for SolidWorks 2010
This week I was fortunate enough to take a trip up to SolidWorks headquarters with several other Bloggers to see first hand the new features of SolidWorks 2010. Since I am a Beta tester, this wasn’t the first time I had seen it, but this trip gave us a chance to get an in-depth overview…