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Going to SolidWorks World 2009? Oh, you haven’t decided yet. We’ll maybe this will convince you to drag yourself and your vacation starved family down for a nice little jaunt across Mickey’s organically fertilized lawn.
This year’s conference is being held at Walt Disney® World Swan & Dolphin, February 8 - 11, 2009. If you register by October 10th, you can save $200 bucks on the conference which will do nicely to help on the first item below.
Reduced Price Tickets
Hello Florida! is providing reduced price tickets for you and the family if you decide you want to take a little vacation while you’re down there in sunny Orlando.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Word is, that the offiste event this year is being held at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Dinoland? Kali Rapids? That huge tree and a bunch of animals? plus Food and drinks? yeah. cool.
FireWorks
Who doesn’t love a good fireworks show. Some people there might just get a special one.
This little orange square is raising all sorts of mean looks and a hefty lawsuit from AutoDesk to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks along with a list of other alleged misdeed.
Ralph Grabowski brings up the lawsuit (pdf) filed on September 19th that slaps it’s own lovemark, so to speak, across the cheek of Dassault Systemes SolidWorks for use of DWG in domain names, programs and marketing material and using similar marketing graphics.
The users? who cares.
The CAD users are dumb and are swayed easily. apparently. That’s part of what I get out of this. If this were the other way around and SolidWorks were suing AutoDesk, I’d think it pretty lame because 1) that DWG name/extension, while common, is used all over, which is a good thing that doesn’t need to be tied to a brand. 2) It would be about time for a new and better marketing campaign, especially since the competition has already spent the money on theirs.
It seems to me that AutoDesk is going to loose more money pursuing this than anything it could gain. It’s lost the battle with the Open Design Alliance for rights to the .DWG name…. I’ve officially bored myself. On to cooler things.
Listen.
Is that the sound of a 65% speed increase and 250 eye-peeling enhancements coming at you with the ferocity of a one-eyed lemur?
It is, give or take a few percentage points. Suddenly, your ability to blink repeatedly is compromised by the idea that SolidWorks 2009 is speedier. And perhaps you are perplexed by the question that faces many… “Should I upgrade to SolidWorks 2009?”
Over the next month or so, the installation DVD will show up. However, you can rise against the mail delivery system and download it right now from the SolidWorks customer portal.
Then what? Do you upgrade the old version or run multiple versions? Roll it out to everyone or test it out with a few? Let’s knock it around a little bit and get you going.
Continue reading ‘The Somewhat Odd SolidWorks Installation Guide of Doom… and Stuff’
Today, the T-mobile G1 phone running the highly anticipated Google Android OS, that everyone is scraping the brick off of buildings to see, is being revealed. On top of that it’s cutting into position for iPhone/Blackberry replacement and plans to take over a large segment of smartphone users by the end of the year.
THe T-mobile G1 is a communications device. The Android Operating system is a free and open mobile platform. That means development, but will will communications and CAD ever collide?
Continue reading ‘The T-Mobile G1 Phone Doesn’t Run 3D CAD…Yet.’
Hot dang. Were you around last week? Did you get a SolidWorks 2009 taste in the back of your mouth that made your nose tickle and pupils dilate? Yeah? No? Kinda? Well, there were so many post about the SolidWorks Press event and goings on, that it may have happened if you consumed it all at once… which is what were gonna do about right now.
However, I’m just going to give you the top five favorites of mine for you to sink your thoughts into.
I left out SolidSmack’s Live coverage of the Press Event, cause I know ya’ll have already read that, right? But here’s the top 5 other post you should read.
Continue reading ‘Bloggers (Heart) SolidWorks Press Events’
