Jeff's Tool Shed

This book is a must have for any intermediate user of SolidWorks. Matt Lombard, who I have mentioned many times here, is a man among men when it comes to SolidWorks. I’ve met Matt and he’s an incredibly intelligent individual, down to Earth and damn funny. (he does remind me of one of the cavemen [...]

Fear not my loyal readers, I have more stuff in the works. I’m still playing around with i.get.it, and I’m hoping to see my demo HP mobile workstation in the next week to 10 days. Also, I’m supposed to have a conferenct call with the powers-that-be at NextEngine tomorrow. The end result, I hope, will [...]

SolidMap announced today that SolidWorks has implemented SolidMap throughout its technical support organization. "We have found this tool to be very valuable in helping us to understand the existing dependecies inside of SolidWorks models much faster. I believe many in our user community will benefit from using SolidMap during design and redesign phases." Ian BaxterDirector [...]

Yes, I have reviewed igetit before, but now they’ve got a new look (see above!) and feel. Between Julianna, and the new interface (V5), you really should check out igetit. You can sign up for free, so it’s not gonna hurt. Plus, you get to download wallpaper featuring Julianna. Beyond that, you’ll have access to [...]

DriveWorksXpress, a SolidWorks Certified Gold Product Solution, was a pleasure to review, and play with. The software loaded up without a problem, the tutorial was easy to follow and the end result was just as described. With DriveWorksXpress, which is going to be included in SolidWorks 2008, you can easily capture and re-use data to [...]

Patience my loyal readers (can you believe I have multiple readers??)! I have more stuff in the works. There’s still more to come about Acrobat 3D. I’m also messing with i.get.it and DriveWorksExpress. I’ve also been talking to PC Mall (HP Vendor) and hope to have their equivelant of my M90 coming my way soon. [...]

When I listened to, and watched, Adobe’s briefing about Acrobat 3D, Rak Bhalla, Senior Marketing Manager, used Adobe Acrobat Connect to show me all of the cool things that Acrobat 3D could do. How cool was that? Here I was being shown all this cool technology via another cool technology that I didn’t, and still [...]

Ok, so I’ve started messing around with Acrobat 3D. Now, as is typical of me, I’m just "doing it". No help files, no online assistance, nada. All I did was open Acrobat 3D, then Windows Explorer. I navigated to my native SolidWorks file and dragged it into Acrobat. Below is the result (Note – you [...]