Tweet I like this product. As is becoming a habit with me, I’ll pull a quote from Desktop EDA’s website: The SolidWorks/IDF 3D Modeler is a Bi-directional translator between SolidWorks and IDF. IDF is an industry standard that allows the exchange of PCB design data between ECAD and MCAD systems. You can create SolidWorks assemblies [...]
Tweet Rick Lando, from 3Dconnexion, emailed me the other day to let me know that they’ve improved their product line. Naturally, the first thing I though of was "can I get one to try out?" Rick assures me that I can. So, as soon as I get my greasy hands (ok, that was a lie. [...]
Tweet Ok, that was strange…I wrote my little teaser blog about Pinion Software and…it disappeared! Some type of ‘out of memory’ error occurred…strange. Maybe I should do a review of TypePad. Anyway, let’s re-write this thing! Richard Doyle, of SWUGN fame, sent the guys from Pinion Software my way. They have a software package that [...]
Tweet Ok, I know you’ve all been waiting for this. Forgive me if it runs a little long, I want to make sure I cover everything… I’ve been using the Astroid for just over a week and I do like it. Will it replace my SpacePilot? Not at work (I am going to use it [...]
Tweet Well, it seems that the blockage is gone. Brian Watson, the Managing Director of Desktop EDA, contacted me and asked me to review one of their products for SolidWorks, SolidWorks IDF modeler. Desktop EDA is a SolidWorks Gold Parner and I’m particularly interested in this product as we use PCB’s where I work and [...]
Tweet Ok, let’s get into it. My initial impression was that the ball was rather cheap looking. While it felt robust enough, I got the impression that if I squeezed too hard it might break. I didn’t care for the fact that it didn’t come with an installation CD. You have to go to spatial [...]
Tweet So I received a package from Australia yesterday and, in it, was an astroid 6000 from spacial freedom. What is an astroid? To quote from spatial freedom’s website: The has a ball that you lightly push, pull and twist with your fingertips in any 3D direction to move a 3D computer graphic object around [...]
Tweet …and I thought I was dragging Tuesday morning… After spending Tuesday night drag racing, being driven around the track at 90mph, playing video games and eating way too much food, I was pretty beat Wednesday morning. The people at SolidWorks were pretty pro-active; when we got to the general assembly, every seat had a [...]
Tweet Ah, Tuesday… I was dragging a little from being out late because of the CSWP event, but a couple of cups of coffee and a bowl of cereal and I’m…ok, I’m still dragging, but I’m not hungry. It’s a good thing that I was up and about though, as the hosts of "Better By [...]
Tweet Ok, I’m probably way over my head here. You’d probably be better off reading Rob or Richard’s recollections of SolidWorks Worlds past, but I’ll go ahead and muddy the waters a bit more… This is the first day that you’ll get a real good sense of how many people are actually here for SolidWorks [...]
While most of what I write will be about SolidWorks, or partner products, from time to time I've been known to go off on random rants about whatever crosses my mind.
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