I personally would love it if SolidWorks Corporation gave up selling CAD. CAD itself is of no use to me. CAD is not what makes me money in my business.…
SolidWorks 2008 is going to be a really fantastic release for people doing work with assemblies. What I have listed here are just some of my favorites, or potential favorites.…
I’m getting the controversial stuff out of the way first. The interface is going to be very controversial, especially as the software rolls into the general SW using public. Somewhat…
This may be tough to see because it is so large. Click on it for a better view. My monitor is a 24″ wide aspect. I’ve spent a fair…
Just cleaning up some details from yesterday’s interface commentary, the filter at the top of the FeatureManager is new in SW08. This is the item with the funnel above the Part1 icon.…
SolidWorks Corp has given “the blog squad” (thanks to Jeff Mirisola for the picture) some advance access to info and permission to post it publicly. This seems to be the first valuable change in 2008.…
Ok, I had to get your attention. John McEleney (known affectionately as Johnny Mac around the office), who recently spoke at the Huntsville AL and Atlanta GA user groups, also…
This post could have had one of several names. “Hidden Functionality”, “Under-educated Users: Holding Information Hostage”, or “Getting the word out – who’s responsibility is it?” I couldn’t decide which…
Somehow I’ve been blogging for about a year now and I haven’t yet written about Toolbox. It is a little dated at this point, but 3 years ago I wrote…
Microsoft is coming out with an interface device which is signalling the beginning of the end for the mouse. In true Microsoft fashion, it seems to be targeting commercial applications…