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…
Category: rant
Warning: this blog post is a bit all over the place. Everything seems related in my head, or at least it did when I first wrote it. 1/3 history lesson,…
<off-the-meds rant warning> For those of you who are still guessing, I’m an anti-corporate, anti-marketing, plain-speaking individualist. I despise the affects of advertising in our everyday lives. I think that…
[rant warning] The phrase “We suck less” was famously uttered by a former CAD company CEO from the main stage at a famous international user convention. What would you think…
SolidWorks Corp seems to be hell bent on converting the bottom of the barrel 2D user to 3D, regardless of the cost to the rest of their existing customer base.…
I just went to the first SolidWorks user group meeting in Richmond, VA tonight. A couple of weeks ago, the 100th US user group was started in Augusta, GA, so…
I personally would love it if SolidWorks Corporation gave up selling CAD. CAD itself is of no use to me. CAD is not what makes me money in my business.…
This post could have had one of several names. “Hidden Functionality”, “Under-educated Users: Holding Information Hostage”, or “Getting the word out – who’s responsibility is it?” I couldn’t decide which…