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‘2009’

SolidWorks 2009 Unleashed. New Features, Killer Performance.

04 Aug, 2008 by Josh Mings in NEWS
3D Human CAD Models

I’ll tell you right now, get ready to break into song if you are a SolidWorks user. In a few months, you are going to wake up, putter off to work and see that familiar splash screen pop up when you start SolidWorks. But this time it’s different, this time it says SolidWorks 2009.

Can you feel the excitement? No? Well, maybe you’ll shed your seasoned skepticism after you read this article. We are going to tear the covers of SolidWorks 09 before Beta even takes it’s last breath.

SolidWorks (hearts) users
You either love, hate or haven’t even used SolidWorks 2008, but the development team at SolidWorks has been busy on the next version that aims to please any one of those people. Their goal is simple, a big freakin’ focus on performance and scalability. What does that mean? They want all the feature to reach a level of usability that hasn’t been achieved before and they want the users to drive it. Let’s see if 2009 is living up to that.

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SolidWorks 2009 Beta. Monday?…We Meant Tuesday.

10 Jun, 2008 by Josh Mings in NEWS

The SolidWorks 2009 Beta program that was rumored to launch Monday (yesterday) has just gone live at the customer portal. If you’re a subscriptions service customer, and signed up to be notified for beta launch, you can download it and enjoy the new version till your eyes shoot blood.

So, get on board, man the torpedoes and all that jazz.

Update:
12:50 CST – The week 1 survey is available.
12:55 CST – The download link is visible, but download not showing up yet. Give it a few minutes.
1:30 CST – Download link is up!! Go get it!!
1:40 CST – Downloading via Installation Manager

SolidWorks 2009 Beta Starting in June, Plus A Friendly Community Survey

07 May, 2008 by Josh Mings in NEWS


I received an email recently that had the above graphic in the footer. The time is drawing neigh, my friends. The wolves are howling in the distance and travel mugs are being imprinted with the SolidWorks Logo…be warned… ok, here’s some links you’ll want to keep an eye on.

SolidWorks Beta Links
SolidWorks Beta Site
SolidWorks Beta Feed

Community Survey
In addition, SolidWorks is also conducting a community survey. It takes about ten minutes to go through, but you’ll get a look at what SolidWorks may be considering for the community aspect and you could have an affect on what it becomes. Documentation? Social Network? Models? Blogs? or Free Stuff? Let your opinion be heard.