Tweet Last week, my.soldiworks.com exited beta testing and is now a full-fledged site. What is my.solidworks.com? I’m quite sure I touched upon it during world, but let’s go over it just in case, shall we? In a nutshell, it’s like an electronic funnel for just about all things SolidWorks. You can find answers to questions [...]
Tweet This interview has been a long time coming. I first reached out to Mark back in September, but I didn’t mark his response and it got buried. I apologized to Mark for my disorganization. He, graciously, accepted my apology. Without further ado, let’s learn about Mr. Mark Lyons. Mark grew up in Marlboro, Massachusetts as one [...]
Tweet You all know we have a SolidWorks user group in Seattle, right? The Seattle Area SolidWorks Power User Group (SASPUG) was founded in February 1996 and, as I’ve been told, is the olded user group in the nation. Today’s version has a website, a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Our next meeting will be [...]
Tweet Just to keep you all interested, here’s what’s coming up in the next few posts on Jeff’s Tool Shed: Boxx is sending me one of their computers so that I can kick the tires and test it out. The cool thing is that I had an Xi at work; had being the operative word [...]
Tweet Once again this year, SolidWorks held their Internet Correspondent contest and the winner was Chris Scott from Jacksonville, Florida. That, for this post, is neither here nor there. Chris fulfilled a need I had; to interview someone who had never been to SolidWorks World before. While I remember my first time (who doesn’t?), I [...]
Tweet I’m 35,000 feet above the U.S. in a plane fighting headwinds that are going to cause me to be 35 minutes late, which they didn’t tell us until after we were airborne. On the one hand I want to curse United for not having WiFi on board, but where I somehow ended up in economy plus (awesome [...]
Tweet Sometimes life gives you lemons, other times it gives you Bacardi and coke. Monday, at SolidWorks World 2013, it gave me the latter. I remember being bummed when I heard that there would no longer be a CSWP event at SolidWorks World. It had become too large, apparently. I’d have to say that it [...]
Tweet I’m quite sure that any number of bloggers and reporters will be talking about today’s general session and how SolidWorks has had a hand in designing Skynet and how our future robot overlords/killers have become aware. Where I feel like some sort of accomplice, I apologize. I also am not going to rehash the [...]
Tweet Where to start… As has become my custom, I was waiting in line for the general assembly early. I like to be up front for them, it’s just how I roll. Also, as usual, the energy was almost palpable. As the time grew near, and the crowd swelled, it started to get quite “cozy”. [...]
Tweet It’s Sunday at SolidWorks World 2013 and I’m well rested and not hung over. Considering the day I had yesterday, that actually started Friday, I’m doing well. It’s probably a blessing in disguise that a certain CAD journalist from England was unable to make the trip. Today is an easy day for most people. [...]
