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CircuitWorks acquired by SolidWorks
SolidWorks announced today the acquisition of Priware Limted, the maker of CircuitWorks. You can get more information on this by checking out the SolidWorks Press Release and Priware website. The exciting part of this announcement is that starting with SolidWorks 2008 Service Pack 4, CircuitWorks will be included as part of SolidWorks Office Premium. (As…
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SolidWorks Forum: New Look & Features
The SolidWorks Discussion Forum has a new look and feel to it. The interface to me looks much cleaner now. The biggest change to me is the addition of RSS feeds to the forum. You can now get feeds from the forum (by Category) piped directly to your favorite news reader (Examples include Netvibes, iGoogle,…
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A GREAT Enhancement Request
It’s not often that I post references to enhancement requests directly, but I have to make an exception with this one. Fellow Blogger Lenny Kikstra has a Blog Post describing what I think would be an excellent enhancement request for a future release of SolidWorks. In case you missed my first link, you can check…
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SolidWorks 2008: “FINALLY!” Features
With every release of SolidWorks there are always a few features that automatically invoke the user to shout “FINALLY!” when they see it for the first time. These features are often very simple changes which can save the user time or features that may have been long overdue making it into the software. I’ve identified…
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CB Model Pro – First Cut
Yesterday I posted some news about a new program that had been added to the SolidWorks Labs website called CB Model Pro. Tonight I had my first chance to sit down a play with it a bit. I must say I’m pretty impressed with what I see so far! First and foremost, you REALLY have…
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SolidWorks and Transformers?
I don’t post links to press releases here too often, but this one really caught my eye today. Growing up in the 80’s, I was a HUGE Transformers fan. I had quite a few of the Transformers toys from Hasbro (some of which have been passed on to my son). It was a big deal…