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Category Archive: Software Review
Nov 01
DimXpert – Automated GTOL
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 is …
Jun 25
Keeping up with DriveWorks
Just a quick note for those of you interested in DriveWorks…There are a couple of blogs specifically about DriveWorks written by the people that created, and work for, DriveWorks: http://blogs.driveworks.co.uk/maria/http://blogs.driveworks.co.uk/glen/http://blog.philipstears.net/http://blogs.driveworks.co.uk/ian/ They, along with SolidWorks, just won START-IT Magazine’s Power of Partnership Award. Congratulations to both!
Jun 18
SolidWorks 2008!!
SolidWorks announced the release of SolidWorks 2008 this morning (press release). As Matt mentions in his blog, the "Blog Squad" got some advanced access and info last week to what was coming. Since I alpha tested ’08 back in February at SWW ’07, I’ve been chomping at the bit for ’08 to come out. I …
May 31
DriveWorks – Some more stuff
One of the perks of writing this blog is being able to see things that aren’t released to the general public and then telling the general public about what I’ve seen. For example, I received an email yesterday, from my DriveWorks contact, with a link to a demo for their resellers. (For those of you …
May 30
Acrobat 3D Version 8 – Now Available
I’ve posted a few times about Acrobat 3D and how helpful I believe it can be. I received a press release earlier announcing that Acrobat 3D is now out of beta and available immediately. Some of the key features in Version 8 are: Display PMI directly on the geometry and from the assembly tree. Produce …
May 15
A Good Read – Novedge Interview of Matt Lombard
Most of you are probably already reading Matt Lombard’s blog and, therefor, have probably already read the interview that Franco Folini did with Matt on Novedge’s blog. However, if you haven’t read it, get your butt over there and do so now! Not that my opinion counts for much, but I thought it was a …
May 15
Acrobat 3D – Learn what it can do for you
Good morning my faithful readers. While I don’t have one of my deep, insightful reviews for you today, I do have a tidbit from Adobe. You’ve read what I’ve had to say about Acrobat 3D. Maybe you’ve even tried out the beta version. Well, now you can hear more about it from the creators themselves. …
May 07
Acrobat 3D – Getting Deeper
So I finally had the time to get deeper into Acrobat 3D. Having been a Technical Writer/Illustrator prior to my present position as a CAD Administrator, I checked out how Acrobat 3D could help out in that arena. With Acrobat 3D, the technical writer/illustrator can read the data from almost any 3D CAD file (SolidWorks, …
May 02
myigetit.com -
I’m going to start sounding like a broken record here, but I still like i.get.it. I do wish, however, that they’d fix the "remember me" thingy. I select it, but it never remembers me. Well, it’s just a minor inconvenience. On to the good stuff… With i.get.it Professional, you get access to a whole bunch …
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