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…
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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…
For whatever reason, SolidWorks employees working on beta cannot hear you when you tell them about bugs that exist in previous versions. It’s as if its “somebody else’s job” –…
SolidWorks 2011 is being announced. It’s not ready to install, it’s not ready to ship, it’s just being announced. It is currently in beta 3. Next come a couple of…