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…
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…
The “templates and formats” question is one that continues to plague users. It’s confusing, although I don’t think it should be. Templates are the things you select to start a…
Here’s a hint for people wanting help from other users: If you learn to help yourself first, additional help will come more readily. Also understand that if you’re a new…
Conceptually, SolidWorks Toolbox is beautiful. No, really, I mean this without any sarcasm this time. Conceptually, it is beautiful. The idea of delivering thousands of fastener parts in a very…