Hey there! I’m still around and with a few more chronicles from SolidWorks World 2010. I’m sorry for the interruption! I’ll be back writing soon; please, be patient, however, since there are a few important family and health concerns that I need to tend to first. In the meantime, would you please check out my humble gallery of models? You will notice there’s an extra page i...

Over the last few days, I’ve been following a thread on one of the LinkedIn SolidWorks groups I belong to with great interest. Some of you may be familiar with it. It’s about a new website, Cadooku.com, where SolidWorks users can upload and sell their models.  This is something new for me, you know? I had heard of similar places, but none that catered exclusively to SolidWorks users.  The si...

Well, I just got an email from Kenneth to let all members know the meeting that was scheduled to happen on September 9th has been cancelled due to lack of interest/response. That’s a real bummer for me because I was going to do a presentation on creating simple animations using SolidWorks Motion Manager.  Anyway, just to get it out of my system, I think I’ll make a couple of videos about it w...

That’s right! I’m giving away ten coupons for a free SolidWorks certification test. Five will be given to readers of this blog and the other five to readers of SolidWorks para Todos, my blog in Spanish.  Now the really neat thing is that once you win one of these coupons you can actually choose which of the five certification tests available you want to take: CSWP-Core Modeling Specialist: (...

Given that I’ve been buried in HTML code for the last few days, trying to get this new blog started, I’m a little late in making this announcement, but  not too late, because there’s still plenty of time for you to vote for your favorite enhancements for  future releases of SolidWorks, and/or submit your own ideas for enhancements. This is the very first time for me, so I really have no i...

OK, so I’m trying really hard to stay away from Twitter, but I must admit that every now and then you hear about good news or something interesting that you never even imagined.  In my case, I heard, or should I say read, Jeff Ray make a casual comment about him attending an event for MATCH, a charter school in Boston, MA, where volunteers are working hard with kids that have come from very...

Just yesterday, I had the pleasure of resuming a conversation with Mrs. Marie Planchard that had begun several weeks ago, in Barcelona.  As you may know, Mrs. Planchard is DS SolidWorks Director of Worldwide Education Markets; in other words, she’s the one responsible for bringing SolidWorks to thousands of students all around the world. She’s also very passionate about education and irra...

The SolidWorks World 2009 agenda is here!  And to help you make the most of this year’s event, they’re making it easier for you to search for the sessions you want to attend with a day-by-day calendar and the ability to search through the sessions by track, speaker or any other relevant keyword that comes to mind.  Oh, there’s also a printable version of the calendar, by the way!  So, if ...

People in Latin America love SolidWorks!  Even before starting the new blog in Spanish, I used to get lots of emails from students and people all over Central and South America, fascinated with the software, wanting to know more about SolidWorks. What I hadn’t realized until now is that for many of these countries there is no local authorized distributor where to buy SolidWorks from.  ...

Thursday was a long day of presentations. I took lots of pictures and all kinds of notes. Ten pages of notes, to be precise… I feel I have so much that I want to say about this day, but, alas, I’m tired and it’s late here in Barcelona. My whole internal clock is completely messed up. This afternoon, after the presentations were all finished, I came up to my room to take a long nap. I slept a...

OK, second part is here. This is the part that includes the discussion on lenght of release cycle, number of service packs and backwards compatibility, among other issues. I don’t know if I’ll be able to edit the rest of the material or if I’ll have to wait for a few days, until I come back from Barcelona to take care of that, but, at least, I’ll leave you with this. Enjoy!...

I finally got a first part video together. I’m still working on the rest. For some reason (probably something I did wrong) the audio doesn’t seem to be completely in sync with the video, and the image seems to stutter a bit from time to time. Oh, well, at least the sound is still clear, which is really the important part. I hope to have at least the rest of the developers round table e...

What a great meeting it was! I wish everyone could’ve had the opportunity to be there last night, at the third meeting of the Tri-Valley SWUG, in Dublin, CA.  It was one of the longest meetings we’ve had so far (from 6:30 to a little after 10:00 pm) and one of the best ones yet, mainly due to the presence of the members of SolidWorks R&D team, that came all the way to California with the ...

SolidWorks World is getting closer by the minute. If you are planning on attending for the first time (or at least hoping you will, like me), and even if you have been there before, you can always use a little advice on how to “survive” and make the best of the event.  If you read the SW forums, you may have noticed already that Mr. John Ferguson (aka Muggs) has put together a very han...

Due to the upcoming roundtable with SolidWorks Corp. R & D team  that will be  hosted during the meeting of the Tri-Valley SWUG  in September,  our leader, Kenneth Barrentine,  asked each one of us to rate four top topics from a long list of possible ones that we would like to discuss with the R& D  team during the meeting. The list included all sorts of thing...