It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything with some substance…I have posted something with substance before, haven’t I?
Anyway, now that I’ve had some time to settle into my new job (which, by the way, I really love!), it’s time to get back to it. Have you messed around with SolidWorks 2008? Have you seen Instant 3-D? Have you seen how little you need to move your mouse around? Did you see the Yankees lose last night? Oops, my mind wandered.
How about the whole dissection tool? How sweet is it that you can grab a feature you previously created and drop it into the part you’re presently working on? How about double-clicking on a sketch to edit it? Click out in the field when you’re done editing and it closes the editor. Select a segment of the sketch and pull on that arrow and you have your extrusion. Hold down ‘M’ while doing it and you end up with a mid-plane extrude.
Didn’t make that extrusion wide enough? No worries, just select a face and drag the handle(s). Yes, you can snap to that scale and it is accurate! Doh! What do you mean that boss was supposed to be a cut? Fuhgeddaboudit! Just grab that face and drag it in the opposite direction and, viola, it’s a cut and yes, the fillet at the base will update (correctly) as well.
To top it all off, SP0.0 of ’08 seems as stable as SP0.0 ’07 was, and that’s pretty damn stable. I know, I know, the rule of thumb is to wait until SP1.0 but, I’m tellin’ ya, in my opinion you’d be just fine with SP0.0. Yes, I know my opinion isn’t worth squat, but I’m just sayin’…
