Dassault had the CAD world talking when it showed a cloud based version of SolidWorks at SolidWorks World 2010. I sat in the audience during the conference and listen to Bernard Charles talk about the Dassault family of products and their mantra of “3d for all”. That’s why I was surprised when I learned the newest software …
The Next NVTSWUG meeting will be held on Thursday June 10th at NRG Systems from 4-8pm. We have a great meeting lined up for June. Everything has fallen into place to make this meeting a one of a kind event. This meeting will start a bit earlier than our typical meetings so please make…
Often times when creating rendered images for marketing or promotion purposes you’ll need to use a variety of tools to reach an end result. It would be great if you were able to simply set up something in PhotoView 360 or PhotoWorks, process the image and it would be complete but that is rarely…
It’s been in the works for a while an now it’s finally here. The SolidWorks User Group Network has a new website! The new site sheds the “homegrown” feel of the old for a fresh modern look. All the information you’d expect to find about SolidWorks user groups is there. It’s been dressed up a bit and…
Last fall SolidWorks issued this announcement about the retirement of PhotoWorks and the future of PhotoView 360. Beginning with the release of SolidWorks 2011, PhotoView 360 will now be the standard photorealistic rendering solution for all SolidWorks software versions moving forward. PhotoWorks will no longer be available. With the launch of SolidWorks 2011, SolidWorks software and PhotoView…
It will be a while before SolidWorks makes the presentations from SolidWorks World 2010 available for download. Luckily for you I’m able to make four of those presenations available now. Two of the presentation were created by me. PhotoView 360: instant images Find out how easy photorealistic rendering can be with PhotoView 360. In this session,…
The Monday and Tuesday general sessions have taken place here at SolidWorks World 2010 and I have to say I’ve been totally blown away by them. They haven’t been particulary flashy or overally dramatic but they have contained entertaining and interesting content. Here’s a quick run down of some of the things we’ve seen. There are…
I spent the day Saturday alpha test SolidWorks 2011. There were about 15 other users there doing the same along with the SolidWorks product definition and usability teams. Of course I can’t really talk about anything I saw at alpha testing since that would violate my NDA but I was impressed with some of the…
Service pack 3 for Modo was released on January 26th. If you’re a SolidWorks / Modo user this is good news because as of SP 3 Modo now supports the SolidWorks 2010 file format. You’ll also notice the SolidWorks importer now converts SolidWorks/PV360 appearances and decals better. Now, if we could only convince SolidWorks we…
We had to wait on the runway for about an hour because of high winds and the ride was a little bumpy for a while but the 65 and sunny weather here in Anaheim is so much nicer than the 5 degrees and snow I left at home. 🙂 It’s Friday afternoon and I just had…
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