Had a good turnout this month for our annual What’s REALLY New in SolidWorks 2013. Probably would have seen a lot more people but I guess having a Technical Summit, a SolidWorks User group and …
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Power Surfacing Plug-In for SolidWorks
Lot’s of buzz going around about a new surfacing plug-in for SolidWorks. The Power Surfacing for SolidWorks plug-in from nPower software merges the ability to do both Sub-D modeling and NURBS modeling .
Sub-D modeling is great at producing and modifying complex freeform / organic shapes with smooth surfaces. NURBS modeling is good at combining shapes via. Boolean and Feature operations as well as refining shapes with operations like filleting, blending and face editing.
Josh Mings over at SolidSmack has posted a review of the product as well as links to some videos showing the product in action.
December Meeting Update
Had a good turnout this month for our annual What’s REALLY New in SolidWorks 2013. Probably would have seen a lot more people but I guess having a Technical Summit, a SolidWorks User group and …
October Meeting Update
Misha Young gave us another outstanding presentation on surfacing.
Charles Mayou (HawkRidge Systems) gave us nice presentation on SolidWorks Electrical. Some great functionality but may be hard to justify the high pricing.
Bertrand Sicot also paid us a visit …
July Meeting Update
Misha Young gave us good presentation on introduction to surfacing. There is always A LOT more to show so plan on future surfacing ‘how-to” sessions.
Michael Mooney followed up with some great information on all the Xpress …
June Meeting Update
Brandon Loeb from Hawk Ridge Systems gave us a good overview of SolidWorks Plastics and how you can use it to optimize your plastic part designs.
Then we had a (long) presentation on PhotoView 360. We tried …
December Meeting Update
We did our annual “What’s REALLY new in SolidWorks”
Had some really good feedback and Q&A.
Prizes
We gave away a TON of prizes (right before the holidays!).
Prize included:
3dConnexion Space Pilot
Logitech Digital Camera
Logitech Computer Speakers
$50 Gift Certificate
USB Memory …
August Meeting Update
Tips & Tricks
We briefly showed how to customize the standard toolbars and the context sensitive quick access toolbars (S-key)
We also showed the new mouse gestures (Right Mouse Click)
And also the Move/Rotate/Scale sketch tool (Tools, Sketch Tools, …
April Meeting Update
Misha Young from Logic Designworks had a great presentation. Got lots of very positive feedback and questions. His presentation put a unique perspective on SolidWorks from the Industrial Design point of view.
Who knew you could …
February Meeting Update
I’m finally back from my travels to the Canary Islands and customer visits. I’m getting around to putting up a post from the last meeting.
SolidWorks World 2011 Recap
I spent some time reviewing the SolidWorks World …
September Meeting Update
Certification Program
Mike Puckett from SolidWorks presented an overview of the entire SolidWorks Certification lineup including CSWA, CSWP, and CSWE.
Please email me if you need to special code to get a FREE CSWP exam.
Advanced Mates
Mike also …
June Meeting Update
It’s been a busy summer. I FINALLY just got back from my Hawaii vacation and getting around to posting the files from the last meeting.
Demystifying Surfacing
Henry Minden from GoEngineer spent some time explaining the basics …
