‘best solidworks features’

2 Reasons You Should Live on Gravy Substitutes and Beta Test SolidWorks

07 Jul, 2010 by in CAD

Now don’t get me wrong. You can live on more than just gravy substitutes, but with that piled around your computer as you beta test SolidWorks 2011, people will know you are DEAD SERIOUS.

There are two reason why you should get gravy’ed and beta. They were both results of cool ideas that worked, but became really, really annoying really, really fast. One I even gave a SolidWorks 2010 best new feature award. I slap myself, repeatedly with a mug of cold gravy. I’ve been waiting four Service Packs to do this post and now… the time has come.

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SolidWorks 2010 Review. A Big, Fat Taste of the Best, New Features.

24 Aug, 2009 by in CAD

Slam a caffeine drink and stick some sparklers in your eyes, we’re about to take a surface-level look at the new features of SolidWorks 2010, complete with cheesy little award graphics and some special SolidSmack commentary.

The 2010 version is still in beta, but that won’t keep us from pouring it half-baked from the beta container to poke at a bit. There are new User Interface (UI) tools, more Multibody mayhem, more for features and fun for drawings, all of which just might bring a more consistent workflow to your 3D world.

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