One of my older posts discussing the possibility of SolidWorks being moved to Mac or Linux turns out to be one of the more popular ones for people to comment…
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Deelip has been at SWW10 this week, and I just ran into him today. Here are Deelip and John Picinich. Deelip writes a blog and John is a highly respected…
The Fading Buzz Well, the buzz has died down. The party has passed. Now we will see if Synchronous Technology is really going to turn the history-based CAD world on…
In general over the last 15 years, the workflow of using theSolidWorks software has improved. The left click context toolbars, middle mouse button rotation and view manipulation, the interface remembering my last used…
The Geometry Pattern option in feature patterns has been misunderstood from the very beginning. When I was a budding reseller application engineer, I remember SolidWorks tech support telling me that Geometry Pattern…
Anyone who was “business aware” and lived through the first internet bubble is probably a little skeptical about “the cloud”. The first internet bubble was really about irrational optimism, and a…
If you are a surface feature user, the 2010 enhanced Knit feature is worth the price of admission all by itself. This is a feature that allows you to get…
SolidWorks 2010 is kind of modest in the interface changes department. Thankfully. One of the things they added was what some folks were calling “marking menus”, or command donuts or…
It looks like a product I have worked with an inventor on is going places. The “Stethecozy” is an attractive, patented device that houses and sanitizes the stethescope while not…
Ever wonder what PLM really is? I hear people throw this term around a lot, but I never get the sense that anyone really assigns much meaning to it other…