SOLIDWORKS World 2016 is over. This year’s conference was much the same as the previous 11 I have attended. The keynotes, general sessions, overall schedule, events, software announcements, sneak peaks, etc, follow the same routine every year. That’s not a bad thing, engineers love consistency. It did have me pondering a question however, why have…
Monday morning at the SOLIDWORKS World general session SOLIDWORKS announced the availability of SOLIDWORKS Visualize. SOLIDWORKS Visualize has been in beta for the last few months and now its available to everyone. If you own SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium and are on active subscription you will be receiving an e-mail soon (you may have received…
It’s that time of year again! SOLIDWORKS World 2016 is less than two weeks away and I find myself scrambling to be ready. To be more specific, SOLIDWORKS World 2016 will be held January 31 – February 3 in Dallas, Texas. There is still time to register and if you’re wondering if you should attend here…
PV360X is a new SOLIDWORKS plug-in that will enhance your PhotoView 360 experience. If you use PhotoView 360 to create renderings and rendered animations the PV360X plug-in is designed for you. PV360X offers improved appearances, improved scenes, streamlined user interface and workflow, and new tools. PV360X has been under development for some time and will soon be…
The new year is upon us and for some that means SolidWorks World is right around the corner. This will be my 11th year attending SolidWorks World and you would think after this many years it’s grown to be routine. That is not the case however. In fact, this might be my busiest SolidWorks World…
Rendered exploded views and animations are some of my most requested projects. Depending on the complexity of the model, exploded views can be time consuming to set up. Exploded view creation enhancements found in SolidWorks 2015 can make exploded view setup easier and faster. The faster I can setup the exploded view the faster I…
SolidWorks 2015 has added new functionality named “selection sets”. Selection sets allow a user to group a collection of items (faces, edges, features, sketches, etc.) into one selection that can be recalled at any time. It’s a very nice tool for model creation and it also has some advantages in PhotoView 360. Watch the video…
SolidWorks 2015 was released on September, 9th. I don’t believe the DVD’s have shipped yet but customers on subscription can download SP 0.0 at the customer portal. I just installed SolidWorks 2015 SP0.0 myself a few days ago and thought I’d share some new functionality videos with you. This first video covers “render region” and…
I’ll be traveling to the Dassault offices in Waltham,MA on September 4th for the SOLIDWORKS 2015 press roll out. I have been using the 2015 beta release for a couple of months now so some of the things shown at the roll out I will have already seen and used and others will be completely…
The general session typically sets the daily buzz at SolidWorks World and that’s exactly what happened on Monday. We of course heard the typical information like the numbers of attendees (which is 5600), number of worldwide users (which is about 2.3 million) and DS’ future vision which they market as the “3D Experience Platform”. All…
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