Last night I had the honor of presenting at the first meeting of the Yakima SolidWorks User Group. Jeff, John and George did a great job putting it together and they had a great turnout for their first meeting. 22 people showed up to be awed by my ‘Tips & Tricks’ presentation, followed by a [...]
Jan
30
Jan
22
Design for the Future
My good friend and Geek-in-Charge at The SolidWorks Geek, Alex Ruiz, is throwing his weight (notice I’m leaving out the obvious cheap-shot) behind Design For The Future, a charity drive for under-privledged kids at the Orangewood Children’s Home in Orange, California. Why is he doing this? Because Alex lived there as a teen and now [...]
Jan
21
SolidWorks Certification exams for free…ugh.
So SolidWorks has extended their "get certified for free" deal until, effectively, the end of 2009. Ugh. I don’t know why this bugs me, but it does. Maybe it’s because when I originally took the CSWP exam, it was ~$500 and an 8 hour exam. Granted, my VAR at the time gave me a discount [...]
Jan
14
SW 2009 – First Impressions
As I mentioned in a post last week, I finally have SolidWorks 2009 on my desktop. Unfortunately, the project I’ve been working on all these months just got shelved, so I was only able to mess around with the files a little before we archived. However, they’re firing up another project and, it would appear, [...]
Jan
12
Going Green with SolidWorks
Using SolidWorks, companies are helping out the environment. There’s the BigBelly® trash bin, a solar powered trash compactor. Trojan Technologies has come up with water disinfection system using UV-light. Greentec Systems has the Reee chair, made from recycled video games. Now enter, Island Sky® Corp. They’ve come up a way to transform water vapor from [...]
Jan
09
Finally, 2009 is loaded!
I’ve been waiting since it was released to get my hands on SolidWorks 2009. Yesterday, the waiting was over. I’d gone back to my apartment for the day when I got a call from the boss-man informing me that IT wanted to load it and could I come back in. 6 minutes later, I was [...]
Jan
07
Interested in Selling your Designs?
Shapeways now has an online store for you to make money on all those designs you’ve been saving. You have heard of Shapeways, right? The online store to bring your designs to life? Well, not only can you get 3D prints of your designs, you can now sell them! Do you have some cool stuff [...]