I was glad to download and install ST5 on my computer yesterday. It has been available for a couple of days, but I’ve been out of the office. My first…
Category: whats new
The tweet says it all. I could repeat it, but that would be silly. After SEU, using ST4 to start a new project seemed like a waste of…
Dan Staples and Doug Stainbrook showed the What’s New for ST5 as a part of Tuesday morning’s session. While all of the presentations on Tuesday were informative, I heard a…
Oh Boy, Oh Boy, something finally for me! I’m a plastics designer, and SolidWorks is announcing this SolidWorks Plastics software, and it must be finally my lucky SolidWorks day! Right?…
An article on Graphic Speak blog by Randall Newton contains an interview with Gian Paolo Bassi, the new VP of R&D at SolidWorks. One item of interest in the article…
Since I started talking about this, I should be more complete. The SolidWorks 2012 Modify box for dimensions has a lot of new functionality. It encompasses equations, global variables, and…
There have been some improvements in SW 2012 that you may not have seen yet. Most of these are highly useful. Let’s take a look. You already knew about the…
SolidWorks has put up a website for the new version of the software. Just one catch – you have to fill out a form with 12 fields including a “time…
2012, even though it’s a lightweight year for modeling, does have a couple of nice enhancements. Some easy crowd pleasers like Select All (with filters – very nice and about…
“Innovation” is a word that’s easy to write, but it’s much harder to actually achieve in the product design world. And even if you do in fact “innovate”, innovation of itself is not always…