Top Commentators for 2007 Bruce Buck (45) Devon T. Sowell (27) Kyle Mason Albert Whatmough Rod Uding Making it Fun Patrick Cook – Podcast man and Internet Marketing Specialist at SolidWorks. Tony DeYoung – Acrobat3D and digital marketing guru at the Acrobat Community. Al Dean – For the great comments and great conversation. Ben Eadie…
Well, it hasn’t been a full years, but it’s been a full 6.5 months of slamming the door open and closed in the SolidWorks scene. In 251 post with 477 comments, here’s the 10 most popular one’s of 2007. How to Make your Own Custom Background for SolidWorks 14 SolidWorks Video Tips to Get You…
Don’t ya just love themed holiday posts? They’re like those themed bathrooms with the puppy shower curtains and the puppy soap pump and the stuffed puppies and that smell. How to Travel the World With (or Without) Kids in 2008 – It’s possibly, just take care of the concerns. Here’s how. The History of New…
Days and nights of sitting in front of a computer can be very hard on the ol’ melon. The low droning buzz of the fluorescents is enough to make you go completely mad and your ipod just ran out of juice. Fortunately, the interweb has had little radio babies with endless hours of streaming tunage…
Well, right after slapping SolidWorks on the wrist for an inaccurate case study about car design, we’ll move on to a car that just might be completely created with SolidWorks. You can at least get SolidWorks models eDrawing Model Files for it… earth-friendly eDrawing model files models. Hybrid Cars are all the craze with the…
I love a good discussion and a recent post brought up a huge point. SolidWorks Case Studies are not always the most accurate. The discussion hinged around car design and the Koenigsegg automotive case study issued by SolidWorks a while back. “Koenigsegg used SolidWorks software to design the Koenigsegg CCX…” You come away thinking everything…
All I’m saying is that it tasted pretty weird and if it actually was a magical reindeer I’d probably be flying right about now. Christmas Holiday Icons – You can’t get much more festive than printing a bunch of Christmas icons and sticking them all over your friends. Google Desktop Christmas Gadgets – Decorate your…
Wondering what John McEleney has been up to since leaving SolidWorks?… Yeah, me neither, really, but it’s kinda interesting that he just got elected to the the BoD at Stratasys. Beside’s having a cool sounding name that makes you want to keep repeating S’s’ss’ss’ssss, they are the “leading provider of 3D prototyping technology.” He can…
Ok, so I’m chillin’ over at RockSolid with Jason and he’s like, “Do you need a Free Pass for SolidWorks World 2008 that’ll get you into the general sessions, Sunday and Monday receptions and the Exhibit Hall? Tacton is providing them… for FREE!” “First,” I said, “Let’s get some burgers, play some Guitar Hero, and…
9 days ago SP1.1 came out. Fixed a few minor things. I’m in the process of upgrading to EV (Early Visibility) 2.0 and so far things are going well. For one, I’m not having to download the whole install, just a measly 1 GB. If you’re on the EV list and notice anything hit the…
I’m working in an assembly with just over 1300 parts and most of them are not in sub-assemblies, which means my Feature Manager is gets pretty long and messy looking. Now I usually will put things in folders, group things together and eventually end up with a pretty organized structure that looks good in a…
You see it in your kids all the time as they sit there tearing the vacuum cleaner apart or tapping small gears and wheels to the cat. A lot of kid’s seem to have an innate sense of mechanics and what-will-happen-if-I-do-this? These commercials put out by Hydro on Norwegian television are perfect example. Their phrase:…
There’s not too many cars out there that just jump out and slap you upside the head with incredibly astounding design. I recently came across the Lamborghini Reventon and I gasped (in a real manly sort of way with choking and spit) with awe at how freakin’ cool it looks. Apparently only 20 are being…
Don’t you just love the magnificent spectacle of an exploded assembly in SolidWorks? It’s like everything in the world has been revealed and facial hair has become a thing of the past. And let me tell ya, when you’re exploding stuff you want as little facial hair as possible cause that’s just gonna distract aerodynamics…
Boy, I tell ya. The big gaming systems like the Xbox 360 amd Nintendo Wii come out and the kids go crazy with tearing things apart and making mods. A nice young man named Johnny Chung Lee has done just that with his Wii-mote and is moments away from manipulating 3D space with his fingertips.…
So some of us got on the phone and gabbed about SolidWorks World and the ensuing riot that will be the “Stump the Chumps” Session, courtesy Ben Edie. You can hear the interaction among us here (Episode 127). I’ve never met these guys, but we’ll all be together on stage as you challenge us to…
Massive amounts of coffee. I‘m talking massive amounts. Then the birds started pecking my face and Joan Rivers was wielding four sawed-off shotguns attached to her face with opposable thumbs and red licorice. Fotolia.com – Buy stock images and sell yours. The price is the best and it’s a free sign-up. FutureScanner – an interesting…
I imagine software upgrades like vaccines. I’m one of those people that don’t get them just because they tell me I’ll die if I don’t. I check it out first. Sometimes it’s unnecessary, contains mercury, arsenic and just the right amount of recombinant mouse DNA to give your body a delayed hypersensitivity reaction. SolidWorks Legions…
It looks like a war zone in my neighborhood. Trees down everywhere. Day 3 I’m dead in the water. The winter storm that came through Tulsa knocked out the power to half the city and has left a lot of companies kaput. Especially those that have all their data on one server, in one building.…
Last Week Albert Whatmough gave us some insight into successful SolidWorks Training. He knows a thing or two about using SolidWorks and making training videos too. You can watch several SolidWorks tutorials and also see some lesson overviews of the well-thought out course he offers here. This is one of the latest.
Maybe you jumped on the Dell deal last month and got yourself a $500 gifty for a Dell Monitor. This month, if you’re thinking of buying SolidWorks, the deal has been sweetened. You’ll get a $1200 dollar coupon for a nVidia Quadro FX 4600 graphics card. That’s an even 50% off what those badboys usually…
Apparently… they have fixed something. You can download it but but the SPR’s are not listed yet. Maybe they just added more… feelings… and smiles.
Butch, a good friend of mine, just informed me that he was able to access and view SolidSmack from his Windows Mobile device. sweet. That is some good news and I’m glad for Alex King’s Wordpress Mobile Edition plugin to make it all possible. Now you can sneak peeks at the dinner table.
Having trouble finding a gift for that guy in the cubical next to you that knows everything about SolidWorks but still has that lonely look in his eye? Give them the gift of creativity with this 3D drawing pad and watch the lonliness melt away. MoMA store via Core77
Ever wonder where software developers (eh-hmm) and the technology elite get their ideas for interface design? It may very well be the last episode of Battlestar Galatica or James Bond. It’s no secret sci-fi has been an inspirational motif of futuristic possibilities, but the guy behind a lot of it may be the one to…
If you’re wanting to immerse yourself in the depths of SolidWorks Surfacing, you probably won’t get a better opportunity to do it for less than the price of 150 cups of premium coffee my friends. Yes, through a special ‘limited-time’ offer from ConnectPress and SolidProfessor you can get the Advanced SolidWorks Surfacing Course from the…
Sometimes when you run down a hill as fast as you can you won’t hit a tree root and go flyin, but if you do, watch out for the baby rabbits and also sticks. SuperMarket – Connect with designers. See what they make. Elf Yourself – How much more festive can you get by turning…
It always starts with a line. Some of you cross that line and go really crazy adding extruded fillety curviness and such. That’s exactly what we’re doing today and there’s even a sweet video to show ya some technique and one way to work inside SolidWorks 2008. Start with a line What could you create…
What is it with cool hologram stuff coming out? I absolutely love this stuff and Vizoo Media is bringing holograms and visualization to a new level “with revolving video images, that can be seen 360° in all ambient light conditions.” The product is called the Cheoptic360 and you can’t even describe how amazing this looks…
OK, here’s one for ya. Imagine, ok, just for a sec, gliding your mouse…yeah… instead of dragging it…I can tell you’re shocked and amazed. Supposedly there’s a difference, and MousEX has defined it. Available now, in one flat and carpel-tunnel free flavor, is the mouse extension MousEX Glider. It not only acts as a mouse,…
This post was guest blogged by Albert Whatmough at Inspirtech.com For one reason or another, engineers, designers and trades people are constantly faced with the demand to continue learning new CAD applications. Depending on their current level of expertise, the ideal training solution can change. The various methods of learning a CAD application can be…
Have you ever had a question about SolidWorks you think nobody can answer? Here’s your chance. Some of you may be going to SolidWorks World 2008. One of the sessions is called Stump the Chump, hosted by Ben over at SolidMentor, where a panel of SolidWorks Bloggers, Matt Lombard, Rob Rodriguez, Ricky Jordan, Lou Gallo,…
So, SpaceClaim has been sending out the vibes for a while and now they’re turning on the charm with a little contest. For those that are not aware, SpaceClaim is a CAD system, that is either trying to take over SolidWorks… or complement it. I’m not sure yet, but, I’ll tell you right now, it’s…
If CAD was like drumming… the Swiss would be the 3D pummeling force of a 5000 lb. gorilla. I lived in Basel for a little bit, but didn’t get to see the Top Secret Drum Corps. If you like drums and junk, you’ll love this. This is exactly what I would be doing if I…
Wow, so thats how many times you can poke a dead cat until it actually moves. These links have nothing to do with that. Icons for your Desktop and More – If you told me there were such a thing as too many Icons, I would never believe you. Layout-o-matic – I wish I had…
I finally got a Nikon D40 today for my wife Maggie. The camera is sweet. What’s disconcerting is one of the user manual warnings. Apparently there’s some people with twitchy fingers poking themselves in the eye.
In a recent poll I held, some of you were waiting to upgrade to SolidWorks 2008 till SP1.0 came out. Psst, hey, it’s out. Whatcha waiting for?I just installed it with the Installation Manager and had no problems at all on my XP machine besides what Jason also came across with the full installation download.…
You may recall a post about the Koenigsegg CCX being the fastest street legal car designed in SolidWorks. Now they have the fastest biofuel car designed in SolidWorks, and it doesn’t look ridiculous and slow. It’s called the CCXR. “… the ethanol in biofuel has the positive side effect of cooling the combustion chambers, as…
There’s a new blog in town and it’s sporting a crop of writers. SolidWorks Legion has come on the scene and plans to give you the huzzah on SolidWorks. You may recognize the authors if you frequent the SolidWorks Yahoo group. FCSuper, and his two compatriots, are sporting a Wordpress Blog with a nice blue-gray…
Getting through a project in a multi-user environment is one of the greatest challenges an engineering company can face. There’s this PDM and that PDM, this process and that process, and it quickly turns into a community of gopher-heads popping up to have each other check stuff in ‘real quick’ while schedules dwindle into the…
You like free stuff? I though you might. You can now get Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 absolutely free and record all the computer screen goodness you want. Create video tutorials, zoom, pan, then share on a site like Vimeo. Here’s the simple 3 step process. Download the software from here (28.3MB). Go to this page and…
One of the speakers at SolidWorks World 2008 is going to be Dr. Don Norman. His book The Design of Future Things just came out last Monday. “It’s meant to be fun to read, but it’s meant to be a little bit scary and cautionary.” Sounds good. The book is a continuation of a previous…
You know that feeling you get when you look out over a drop off and you’re like I could jump that and you get that funny feeling? These links are kinda like that. Flickr Related Tag Viewer – Take an interactive journey through Flickr. from the maker of SimpleViewer. World of Warcraft Commercials – Mr.…
Register for SolidWorks World…check, Get free weird Lookin’ mouse…cheeeck. The quickest 100 people who register for SolidWorks World here will get a shiny new Space Navigator 3D mouse. Just look at it in it’s ubiquitous model-manipulating glory. It cost $59 retail. You could swap that for half a barrel of oil or 11.8 cups of…
I’m not to keen on Macs, even though I was raised on them years ago, along with meat, potatoes and iodized salt. You may have seen the Apple ads on TV. Now you may start seeing some even more creative ones online. Macs don’t run SolidWorks (for shame), but you can’t beat a good ad,…
You know that open-source software like Apache or OpenOffice that actually makes it possible for you to do things on your own? Some bright guys applied that to hardware and have developed BUG, an open source, web-enabled, modular software + hardware platform. Sound cool? Here’s what they have to say. Bug Labs is a new…
I’ve hired Burt Reynolds to convince you to chip into a fund to buy my wonderfully supportive and extremely cool wife a Dell XPS. Here’s the video from Burt. Mad-cap Consumerism at its best This is actually a pretty cool promotion from Dell. Get someone famous to convince people to chip in and buy you…
So I went to a SolidWorks user group last week. The Tulsa SolidWorks User Group (TULSUG). It’s the first one I’ve been to since, oh, since I was a reseller and I had to go. That was a few years ago. This one I’m not only a user, I’m helping out where I can as…
I just ate five different kinds of chili, one was a seafood chili and it was disgusting. please stop that. Search by Color – Search websites designs based on color. I like red. The Feidad Building – a high rise building created using the dynamic forms and patterns of hair. yeah hair. Free Open Source…