SolidWorks has had a certification process for a long time. It originated in 1997 with a written test for reseller tech support certification. It had very odd rules. If you…
Public speaking is not something that comes naturally to most people, and less so to engineers in general. Many people simply avoid public speaking because it makes them uncomfortable or…
Richard beat me to posting about the Orlando Summit. We had more than twice an many people show up as the last time we had an event like this in…
If somebody likes to rant, there are a few easy targets. 2008 interface. Software quality. Toolbox. Routing. Each of these topics conjures negative emotional responses in different people. What about…
This post came to be because of a thread on the SolidWorks forums about whether or not industrial designers should add draft to their parts. Mark B said they should,…
I think it is a miracle that I can make a series of silly sounds and that someone next to me can interpret those sounds to derive either a mental…
I’ve been through the certification thing a few times. Back in 97 I had to be certified to do training and tech support after joining a reseller. I didn’t pass…
Sean Dotson has raised an interesting question, even if he picked the wrong CAD product to write about (not really kidding, Sean ;o). Some of us have been all torqued…
It must be frustrating to be a programmer who worked on some of the great functionality added in 2008. All of the publicity has gone to the interface disaster rather…
I wanted to put the myths to rest for good. This is a head-to-head comparison between the new-to-2008 Instant3D and the tool called Move/Size Features which is very similar and has existed…