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3DVia Has Billions? of Reasons to Excite You About Online Social Gaming SolidSmack
3DVia also has billions of reasons to make you excited about Mogaloos, how many you capture and how you feel about the color pink as the backdrop of the universe. This week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) in San Francisco, 3DVia is showing off 6 new games developed with 3DVia products. Among those is [...]
Name in lights (or ginormous LCD) SolidWorks Legion
As mentioned within a previous article, Jeff Ray quoted one of my comments about SolidWorks 2010.  He has been using this quote and others by other bloggers for a few months.  It was an honor to have my particular quote appear at SolidWorks World 2010 on the big screen. I was kinda bummed though.  I didn’t [...]
Name in lights (or ginormous LCD) SolidWorks Legion
As mentioned within a previous article, Jeff Ray quoted one of my comments about SolidWorks 2010.  He has been using this quote and others by other bloggers for a few months.  It was an honor to have my particular quote appear at SolidWorks World 2010 on the big screen. I was kinda bummed though.  I didn’t [...]
Shave Your Arms, Body. Your Largest Organ is A TouchPad SolidSmack
Stop. I’m telling you right now, you can quit using the excuse that you shave your body for swimming and bike riding adventures as a cover-up for your camouflage body painting hobby. Instead, you can now tell everyone that your body is being prepped as a touchpad of epic proportion. We’re stuffing every oversize pore with [...]
Determine the Volume of a Function Revolved Around the X Axis in SolidWorks Learn . Create . Succeed

 This SolidWorks video tutorial takes you through how to enter a funtion 2+xcosx and revolve it around the x axis to create a solid.  Tools, Mass Properties is used to calculate volume and surface area.  Marie
Video:Download Revolve of 2plusxcosx
eDrawing:Download Volume-Pyramid

 
Invitation gratuite au Salon Industrie Paris du 22 au 26 mars 2010 SolidWorks - Logiciel de CAO 3D
Cette année encore, Axemble sera présent sur le Salon Industrie qui se tiendra du 22 au 26 mars 2010 à Paris-Nord Villepinte. Pour rappel, le Salon Industrie Paris est le salon des Professionnels des Technologies de ...
Vidéos de SolidWorks Simulation pour tous SolidWorks - Logiciel de CAO 3D
Nous vous avons concocté une série de Vidéo sur SolidWorks Simulation, disponible pour tous. En fin de cet article, vous trouverez la vidéo qui vous explique comment appréhender la fatigue dans vos conceptions SolidWorks et ...
SolidWorks:Heard! - Episode 264 - SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Automation SolidWorks: Heard!

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Automation:

This podcast covers some of the automation options available to SolidWorks Enterprise PDM administrators to perform common tasks.  Topics covered:

- New Task options in Administration

- Understanding the Task layout

- Creating "Convert" tasks

- Creating "Print" tasks

- Application of tasks to send a released PDF to manufacturing

- Beyond Tasks - using Dispatch

- Dispatch layout

- Some common use cases for Dispatch scripts.

Many of you have heard me talk about the SolidWorks Task Scheduler, boasting some of the powerful tasks that it can do for data within Workgroup PDM.  EPDM 2010 finally got some of these tools but with a more powerful tool-set and option setup, the automation choices are deeper.

EPDM Tasks can be launched as part of a right click menu but more importantly can be launched as part of a transition action from one state in the workflow to another.  These tasks can convert data (automation of a Save As from SolidWorks) or print data based on conditions set by the administrator.  These tasks can operate based on user action, input or completely transparent to the user all together, allowing tedious tasks to be performed without delay.

I also talk briefly on EPDM Dispatch, a scripting tool that allows anyone (including non-programmer types) to build more complex sets of condition-based instructions to be executed.  This is why I typically advise customers against the custom programming route unless it is the only option.  Tasks and Dispatch allows EPDM to be expanded on without worrying about the possible "version tie-down" most home grown tools tend to add to systems like PDM. ~Lou

Remember to check out the SolidWorks: Heard! Blog and to follow me on Twitter, Facebook and THE HEaRD!

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Mama always said "Feed Your Guests." Thanks Michelle, I will. SolidWorks Community

When I was first considering starting a SolidWorks User Group in Central Texas, I turned to Michelle Pillers of the Seattle Area SolidWorks Power Users Group (SASPUG) for advice.  Michelle was kind enough to send me a wonderfull email full of great ideas.  One piece of wisdom stood out, and has always stuck with me - "Feed Your Guests".
I know it seems trivial on the surface, but think about it for a moment.  While SolidWorks User Group are thought of as primarily training events, a close second is the networking opportunities available.  "Breaking Bread" with fellow SolidWorks users adds a tremendous social significance to any meeting.
Plus...people will be coming to the meeting straight from work, and they'll be hungry.
Michelle's contribution to the SolidWorks User Group Network goes far beyond advice to local user group leaders.  Michelle created the first SNUG website, and included a discussion area, resources for local chapters, and links to various engineering and community places (remember..this was before Google).  The SNUG website was the first public look at the new SolidWorks User Group Network back in 2000.
Michelle's legacy lives on in SASPUG, swugn.org, and the entire SolidWorks User Group Network.  If not for her sound advice and willingness to help, my own user group might never had happened.  I'm forever grateful, and certainly far better off for having contacted her that day.
Michelle's name graces the SWUGN Lifetime Achievement Award plaque.  In fact, she's the first SWUGN rep to have earned the award.  If you ask me, the award should be renamed in her honor.
Thanks for everything Michelle!! 
The SolidWorks User Group Network Turns 10 SolidWorks Community

In the fall of 1999, several SolidWorks user group leaders were contacted by Carol Faiola, a Marketing representative at SolidWorks Corporation.  I was one of the lucky ones along with Mark Peters, Michelle Pillers, and Scott Bemis that were asked to travel to Concord for a discussion about SolidWorks User Groups. 
Over the course of the day-long meeting, we kicked around a lot of ideas and put a plan in place to create a national body that would help broaden the reach of SolidWorks User Groups.
The SolidWorks National User Group (SNUG) was born that day and became an official body on March 7th, 2000.  10 years later SNUG is now known asSWUGN (SolidWorks User Group Network), but the mission remains the same - bringing SolidWorks users together to learn from each other.
Over the course of our week long celebration, we'll look back over the last ten years of the SWUGN Committee and the SolidWorks User Group Network.  Some pretty amazing things have happened since that day in 1999, and I am extremely happy to have been a part of it.

Determining Volume of a Pyramid in SolidWorks Learn . Create . Succeed
The SWUGN Technical Summits Are Back! SolidWorks Blog
SolidWorks World 2010 Presentations are now available online SolidWorks Legion
SolidWorks World 2010 Presentations are now available online SolidWorks Legion
No Experience Required Geek Treasure Hunt Results SolidWorks Geek
Etudes de conception dans SolidWorks, video et nouveau cours SolidWorks - Logiciel de CAO 3D
SolidWorks World 2010 ? Wednesday General Session Brian, CAD Fanatic
Working on a model? Matt Writes
Cardboard in the Classroom Learn . Create . Succeed
Cocktail, petit tour du web 2 SolidWorks - Logiciel de CAO 3D
Friday Smackdown: Paper Blades SolidSmack
March is SolidWorks Time-Savers Month SolidWorks Blog
Five Questions Friday with Rick Woodbury of Commuter Cars Corp. SolidWorks Blog
SolidWorks et duplication simple et rapide avec la touche Ctrl SolidWorks - Logiciel de CAO 3D
10 Steps to Create Multi-Version Product Design Concepts in SolidWorks SolidSmack
Votre invitation gratuite pour le Salon de l?Industrie à Nantes du 16 au 18 mars 2010 SolidWorks - Logiciel de CAO 3D
FIRST robotics competition SolidWorks Legion
FIRST robotics competition SolidWorks Legion
Axemble lance Cetim Teamworks, le logiciel de gestion collaborative de projets dédié aux PME/PMI SolidWorks - Logiciel de CAO 3D
Shake Your Money Makin? Graphic Hands. The New Wacom Cintiq 21UX is Here. SolidSmack
dassault systemes on the iphone RockSolid Perspective
Final-final cloud post and poll Matt Writes
What 3D CAD Could Learn from? Kill me slowly? Microsoft Excel. SolidSmack
Configurations stations de travail pour SolidWorks 2010 SolidWorks - Logiciel de CAO 3D
solidworks mac / cloud update RockSolid Perspective
SolidWorks:Heard! - Episode 263 - SolidWorks V6? SolidWorks: Heard!
No Experience Required Geek Treasure Hunt ? One Prize Left SolidWorks Geek
Friday Smackdown: Recoiler Osteroth SolidSmack
DWGEditor being renamed: The Twitter Response SolidWorks Legion
DWGEditor being renamed: The Twitter Response SolidWorks Legion
Ask the Reader: How Do You Make Versions of Your 3D Assemblies? SolidSmack
The first prize has been claimed! SolidWorks Geek
No Experience Required Geek Treasure Hunt ? Clue #3 SolidWorks Geek
Last words on cloud. Matt Writes
?If you are thinking of designing a nuclear plant [in SW]- don?t? SolidWorks Legion
?If you are thinking of designing a nuclear plant [in SW]- don?t? SolidWorks Legion
Deleting a Row from General Table SolidWorks Legion
Deleting a Row from General Table SolidWorks Legion
The Human Car Devon Sowell's Blog
No Experience Required Geek Treasure Hunt ? Clue #2 SolidWorks Geek
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