Tweet If your 2008 command manager looks like the one in the picture, here’s a fix I stumbled across:• Turn off the command manager (RMB in the toolbar area).• Drag any remaining toolbars into the graphics area.• Turn the command manager back on. I don’t know who, what or why, but this fix worked on [...]
Tweet I’m constantly (well maybe not constantly) trying to think of things to write about here. I always hope to be able to write a post that that will make the SolidWorks community, en masse, slap their collective foreheads and yell, "Doh!" Then it dawned on me that there are users out there who would [...]
Tweet For those of you who don’t read SolidSmack, a blog written by Josh Mings, you have to go check out his latest post. He has this video posted of a Japanese game show that is, essentially, Human Tetris. Need a good laugh? Head over to SolidSmack and check out the video! Josh is a [...]
Tweet The folks over at i.get.it.com are running a promotion to help all of you SolidWorks users get up to speed on SolidWorks 2008 for only $25. With over 250 enhancements, that comes out to less than $0.10 per enhancement. Seems like a great deal to me! Just click here to get all the details.
Tweet Man, I don’t know where to start. When you’re dealing with as powerful and versatile a tool as DriveWorks a SolidWorks gold partner), there’s obviously going to be a lot of information to learn, but damn! My mind is almost completely fried, and I still have more to learn today, plus taking the certification [...]
Tweet As I write this, I’m sitting in the first day of a 3-day training course for DriveWorks, a SolidWorks Gold Partner. I’ve written about DriveWorksXpress quite a few times in the past and have touched upon DriveWorks (the big brother). From what I’ve seen, and learned, today, this is one powerful tool. For any [...]
Tweet Let’s talk some more about SolidWorks 2008 improvements, shall we?SolidWorks has taken their "Autodimensioning" to a whole new level. No matter how you’ve actually dimensioned your model, you can automatically create geometric dimensions and tolerances according to ASME Y14.41-2003 3D specs. After applying said dims and tols, you can easily tell if the model [...]
