I see a lot of people who get wrapped around the axle on philosophical issues with their CAD, PDM, or general engineering and documentation processes. They’ve got a problem that…
Category: documentation
This is a topic I spent a lot of time contemplating when I wrote my SolidWorks Administration Bible. Every company should go through the process of writing this type of…
For those who have been paying attention, you may have noticed that occasionally I have been known to grouse about publishers and the restrictions of publication formats. It’s true. I’m…
SolidWorks is very proud (and defensive) of their documentation process which they call “task-based”. To be fair, it has worked well enough for them for the training materials which generally…
I’ve spent a fair amount of time yelling about the documentation in SolidWorks. Face it, it has really been getting worse – it has become sparse and they were removing…
This is a screen shot of the help that describes an interface used to create interfaces. So it’s help about the interface. The function was described in the What’s New…
Last week, Matt Lorono, fcsuper of SW Legion wrote me an email. He wanted to talk about the lack of printed documentation from SW Corp. It has been a long…
The SolidWorks documentation, and I guess here I’m talking specifically about the official training materials, tend to aim low. Not that the quality of the training docs is poor, quite…
Wow, you all had a lot to say about documentation. Thanks for all the input. I’m going to get grilled by a panel of SW managers responsible for various aspects…
I was on the phone for 90 minutes with some of the folks from SW Corp: Mark Biasotti (product manager) John Cochrane (product definition) Jim Wilkinson (usability) Dave Pancoast (training)…