How I wish I could have gone to SolidWorks World this year! Anne Yust was ever so kind to show me a few pictures of last year’s event (thanks Anne!) and it looks like it was awesome. I can only imagine how much better this year will be! I must confess I’m a bit envious of other bloggers in the Blog Squad, but also grateful that most of them will be posting news daily, so that those of us who c...

Well, you’ll find them everywhere in the forums year after year: users that point out bugs and problems present in practically every version of SolidWorks. Users that have found that some of the new functionality offered doesn’t really work or doesn’t satisfy their needs. For the rest of us, it may seem hard to understand where they are coming from, until we stumble across one of the same bu...

I often marvel at how computers and the internet are making it so much easier than ever to learn, even when you really can’t find the time to do it the old-fashioned way, in a classroom setting, with a real life teacher and a fixed schedule.  However, even with all this flexibility for learning, one thing remains the same: you still need to find a consistent and sufficient amount of time to...

While browsing around SolidMentor, I came across a couple of links to some really affordable online engineering training resources that are worth checking out. One of them is  i.get.it, the world’s most comprehensive online engineering training resource, where, among other courses in the catalog, I found a SolidWorks Premium Training Bundle with 68 courses, plus assessments, selling for $39...

Sometimes, in my efforts to learn SolidWorks, I feel a bit like a child who is eager to play baseball for the very first time. The child doesn’t care much about spending time learning to run the bases, swing the bat or how to figure out whether the ball is inside the strike zone or not. The child only wants to skip to the fun part of the game, the part where he or she hits the ball out of the fi...

Deciding that you need or want to learn something new is the easy part. Next, you have to figure out a way to do it. If you are a college student, SolidWorks may be already offered to you as part of the curriculum.  But college is not the only place to learn SolidWorks, there are many resources available: books, tutorials, video and online classes, training centers and community colleges, on-...

First of all, I want to thank Richard Doyle for giving me this great opportunity to blog for SolidWorks, and Patrick Cook for helping me set up the  blog  and  get  started.  I’m really new to this blogging thing, so I feel a bit nervous and excited, all at the same time. OK, now to the part where I tell you what this blog is all about.  Until recently, SolidWork...