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Wow! It seems like an eternity since the last time I updated this blog. Well, it hasn’t been an eternity, of course, but it feels that way because I used to post frequently. I have a few good reasons for my lack of activity, though.  Double whammy baseball season is the one you already know. I have less time to write than I used to, but there’s something else…  I’m currently digging deep into SolidWorks Simulation, what used to be known as COSMOSWorks Designer, plus Finite Element Analysis with no particular software association, just to understand the process behind the scenes.  I had been putting this off for quite a while, but given that I’ll be spending a long time seating on a bench, away from my computer (I wouldn’t take my precious laptop to a muddy, mucky baseball field), I thought it was perfect timing for burying myself in a good book or two.  I’m checking my progress by solving examples and problems from my old textbook on Mechanics of Materials. The reason is simple: the problems presented in the text book are simplified enough for a solution to be found “by hand” and this solution can then be compared to the one obtained by SW Simulation.  This allows me to see if I’m doing things correctly while setting up loads and constraints, connections, etc.   I’m preparing a post about it and I hope to be able to share some of the problems from the book that I’ve solved using SolidWorks Simulation. Hope you find it as interesting as I do.

This is all good, I know, but I was also thinking of something else as I was writing a post for my SolidWorks blog in Spanish… It’s OK to ask questions, you know. In fact, that post I wrote today for the Spanish blog was actually an answer for a question sent to me by one of the readers. Fact is that I like to help whenever I can. It feels ten times better to write something that will actually help someone solve a problem they may have, than to babble endlessly about stuff that perhaps nobody else may find useful. So… if you have a doubt and you think I can give you a hand, it’s OK to ask, even if it has nothing to do with any of the posts I’ve written previously or any of the things I’m currently doing. It’s OK to ask! If I know the answer, I’ll be glad to help. If I don’t know the answer but I can look it up somewhere, it will be my pleasure too.  And if somebody reads my answer to any question and he/she knows a different or better answer, that’s OK too, they are welcome to share with all of us, because I’m learning too.

In hopes of scaring spammers away, rather than displaying my email address as I used to in the past, I set up a contact form for anyone that wanted to reach me. Some people have used the form, but I’m not getting as much mail as I used to before. I wonder if the contact form seems a bit complicated or intimidating for some. I don’t want to seem unavailable, so I’ll go back to displaying the email link for anyone that wants to reach me.  You can use both, the email address or the form.

So now you know…