Something I noticed right away was the great amount of 3D printers and prototyping technology and services that were displayed at the Partners Pavilion this year. I counted at least three different companies offering 3D printing solutions. Among them, Z Corporation distinguished itself for being the only one offering 3D printers that were able to print multiple colors simultaneously. Lucky for ...

It’s my understanding that DriveWorks World -which usually takes place right after SolidWorks World – is an event that has been traditionally reserved for resellers. This year, however, some journalists (bloggers among them) were invited to attend. Lucky for me, I was one of those bloggers that got an invitation! Thank you, Maria; I had a blast! For this year’s DriveWorks Worl...

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...

I had told you before, quite a few days ago, that I was anxiously waiting for the arrival of a demo unit of 3DConnexion’s new SpacePilot PRO. Well, it arrived a couple of days after I wrote that post, and I’ve been playing with it ever since, trying to find out if it’s all I was hoping it would be. Unfortunately for me, I ran into some trouble and so it was that this particular hardware revi...

OK, so this is one of those really cool things about being a blogger and attending an event such as SolidWorks World as “press”: you get to see all these awesome new gadgets before they’re made available to the public or even announced.  The hard part is that you have to keep it a secret, and you can’t tell a single soul (not even your aunt Gladys if you have one) about all the wonders yo...

While at the partner’s pavilion during SolidWorks World 2009, I watched a very nice demo of a 3D modeling product known as SolidThinking. I must say, with my very limited knowledge of surface modeling in SolidWorks,  I was very impressed by how easy it was to create and modify all sorts of capricious shapes starting from very simple geometry and/or dragging around, pushing and pulling the alrea...

Could it be? Is it possible that the day has finally come when Gabi Jack has nothing else to blog about? Is that why this blog has been so, well, empty ever since she came back from SolidWorks World? Has Gabi finally come to her senses and decided to renounce absolutely everything related to 3D modeling, design and engineering, and instead put her highly rated athletic skills and daring personalit...

This is really a post that began a few weeks ago, when I was kindly given the opportunity of trying out one of 3DConnexion’s new 3D mice for SolidWorks 2009, the SpacePilot. For those of you that haven’t heard of it or don’t know what the big deal of a 3D mouse is, this device allows you to manipulate 3D models and scenes using six degrees of freedom, which is practically impossible ...

This is a free plug-in for SolidWorks, offered by Print 3D Corporation. I learned about it just last night, and I wanted to share with you here because it does seem like a great tool that can save your sanity, as well as your time and money.  Print 3D allows SolidWorks users to get secure and offline quotes for plastic and metal prototypes directly from SolidWorks, without having to upload any ST...

By now, many of you have probably been playing with the new PhotoView  rendering application for a while, enjoying its ease of use, and creating all kinds of cool photo realistic images with it, haven’t you?  Well, how about sharing  what you think about it with SolidWorks?  By filling out a small survey, you can  let them know not only how you like it, but also what you...

If you remember, back in the month of June I wrote about the second Tri-Valley SWUG meeting, which was all about automating SolidWorks. During that meeting in particular, we were graced with a visit by Brian Titus, from Zeometric LLC, who shared with us several strategies and tools that could help us in achieving our goals for design automation,  whatever big or small those goals may be. From...