I understand confusion when I see it. Different segments of the CAD industry are moving in different directions, and it is by no means a given which direction is the…
Most of the real straight talk you (or I anyway) get from SW employees is under non-disclosure or personal conversations that really can”t be made public. Bummer. I wear multiple…
What do users think about the adoption rate of 2008? How do you find out answers to questions like this? Do you ask Matt Lombard? Do you ask Mike Puckett? Everybody has…
Obviously another Trek addict. Several of the other Trek movies have been major disappointments. The latest go with a new cast and intervention from time travel was the opportunity to…
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…
\n\nFar be it from me to be one of those blindly optimistic sorts who sees only Prozac induced bliss around every announcement from SolidWorks Corp. Still, all cynicism aside, sometimes…
I was digging around for something else, and found this. It is about two months old, and is speaking in reference to Catia V6. V6 is a brand new kernel,…
Let’s be clear about this. Direct Model Editing is generally an old concept, CAD-wise, which is being applied in some new ways in the last year or so in the CAD…
Well, sometimes things change in ways you don’t expect. Yesterday I was getting emails from SW Corp requesting that I remove the links to the SWW presentations from my blog.…
Disallowing bug fixes for non-subscription customers is reprehensible, no matter what kind of spin is put on it. In a post entitled “Autodesk Subscription – it could be worse“, Steve Johnson of the…