Here’s a great SolidWorks resource for you – SolidMentor. This is from Ben Eadie, the crazy Canadian. I met Ben for the first time at SW World, and he was…
Design Happens in Your Head Different kinds of design happen differently. Mechanisms can be difficult. But so can flexible parts, and complex shapes. The ideas for these things have to…
This is a question that came up in comp.cad.solidworks, and I thought I’d pass it along. A fillet can only be made between separate surface bodies when the Face Fillet…
Novedge is a company that sells graphics and CAD software. Lots of it. I’m not here as a corporate advertising shill, though. Novedge also runs a blog which is informative and interesting reading.…
It was a great plan. Wes Cobb, ringleader at the WNCSWUG, proposed to combine some of my favorite things – hanging out with SolidWorks users, skipping work, and fishing. The user…
I don’t typically follow links from spam, but this time it was a little different. I’ve had some comments to this blog get misrecognized as spam by my automatic filter.…
Some rumors have gotten back to me that there are some people out there who think that the credit (or blame) for the SolidWorks 2007 Bible should be shared, and…
It’s so easy to take potshots at SolidWorks Help documentation, it almost feels unfair to criticize it, but people pay for the software, and expect documentation that is useful. First…
This is potentially big news for SolidWorks surfacing types: Dassault announced it is acquiring ICEM. ICEM is the holy grail of “class A” surfacing tools. It is what many of the…