Category Archive: Software Review

Nov 13

SolidWorks 2008 Training – For $25!

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.

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 …

Continue reading »

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 …

Continue reading »

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 …

Continue reading »

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 …

Continue reading »

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 …

Continue reading »

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. …

Continue reading »

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, …

Continue reading »

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 …

Continue reading »

Older posts «

» Newer posts

SEO Powered by Platinum SEO from Techblissonline