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Have you ever seen pictures that move? I hear they call it ‘Video‘ or something. I also hear that there are some snazzy ‘video’ demos of the new SolidWorks 2009 functionality at a place called ‘the YouTube’.
Sounds kind of personal to me, but I checked it all out and I think you’ll like what you see. In fact, I’ve been told I can ‘embed’ them into this post. Now that sounds dangerous, but I’ll dare to do it anyway, just so you can have a peek at what’s in ‘em.
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I’ll tell you right now, get ready to break into song if you are a SolidWorks user. In a few months, you are going to wake up, putter off to work and see that familiar splash screen pop up when you start SolidWorks. But this time it’s different, this time it says SolidWorks 2009.
Can you feel the excitement? No? Well, maybe you’ll shed your seasoned skepticism after you read this article. We are going to tear the covers of SolidWorks 09 before Beta even takes it’s last breath.
SolidWorks (hearts) users
You either love, hate or haven’t even used SolidWorks 2008, but the development team at SolidWorks has been busy on the next version that aims to please any one of those people. Their goal is simple, a big freakin’ focus on performance and scalability. What does that mean? They want all the feature to reach a level of usability that hasn’t been achieved before and they want the users to drive it. Let’s see if 2009 is living up to that.
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I know you all get excited when you have the chance to read about CAD news and the excitement happening around our tiny globe. This week has been chock full of interesting tid-bits of info.
There’s so much in fact, that I didn’t even get a chance to tell you about them earlier, so I’ve compiled a special post you can bookmark and comeback to this weekend to find out what’s been going on.
Here’s the rundown.
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One week from NOW, yes, one week from this day we know and love as ‘Monday’, will be another day called ‘Monday’… It also happens to be the same day the veil of SolidWorks 2009 will be lifted and the lone Beta testers will be free to reveal all the goodness that is to come.
Monday, August 4th is the date. Mark your calendars. If you haven’t been a beta tester and have not had a chance to see what is new to SolidWorks 2009, here’s your chance to ask about it.
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Ahhh, it’s the middle of the summer. Vacations are planned, mosquito are biting and there’s so much going on in the world of SolidWorks the coffee pot at SolidWorks HQ in Massachusetts is on 24/7.
Yes, things are heating up and it’s a perfect chance for you to get all your incredibly helpful designs, thoughts, tips and ideas on anything and everything about SolidWorks out in the open for everyone else to be utterly amazed at with low mumblings and quiet discussions. Here’s the rundown on all the craziness. Continue reading ‘SolidWorks News: Prizes Galore and You, Baby’
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I know what you’re going through. Every time you boot your computer the Windows ‘Bliss’ background, circa 2001, burns holes right through your retinas. You desire something with a little more snap. Maybe a cool looking product design. huh? yeah?
Then check out the SolidWorks World Wallpapers site. This isn’t new though. It was put up for the SolidWorks World 2008 iPod promo. But I figure it’s about time for a revisit and to give you a voice via the comments to let SolidWorks know what you think.
So, I bring it up for two reasons. One) to let you know about the site if you haven’t seen it and Two) to let the SolidWorks crew know that these backgrounds are pretty cool and they need to do some others. Forget software functionality. What the users really want is cool looking backgrounds for their desktop.
What product designs would you like see SolidWorks create some cool wallpapers of?
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As if our soon to be robot overlords are not scary enough, now there’s a Robot University for them to systematically learn how to take over the minds of small children and impressionable young college students.
I exaggerate a bit. This is actually a place where the academics and the automaton-interested can gather via an online campus to pursue the dream of eventual human destruction creating neat robotics solutions. Kids… get off the couch.
There are structured lessons, tutorials, event calendars, photos, videos, forums, blogs, chat, personal pages, and instruction for using SolidWorks® 3D CAD software for robot design.
You can get in if you request an invitation via SRURequest@solidworks.com and the robotic counterparts on the opposite side accept you into the collective. If you want to keep you’re distance and just play around with building robotic stuff in SolidWorks, check out all the parts at 3d Content Central that will give you everything necessary to build a bio-mechanical suit able to fend off any type of robot mutiny in the future.
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The SolidWorks 2009 Beta program that was rumored to launch Monday (yesterday) has just gone live at the customer portal. If you’re a subscriptions service customer, and signed up to be notified for beta launch, you can download it and enjoy the new version till your eyes shoot blood.
So, get on board, man the torpedoes and all that jazz.
Update:
12:50 CST - The week 1 survey is available.
12:55 CST - The download link is visible, but download not showing up yet. Give it a few minutes.
1:30 CST - Download link is up!! Go get it!!
1:40 CST - Downloading via Installation Manager
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Ok, all you crazy SolidWorks people that want to get your hands on the next version of software. Mark next Monday, June 9th, 2008 Noon EST. That programmer guy in the corner’s at SolidWorks Corp. has been unchained from his desk and the ink is drying on the launch e-mail.
Make sure you’ve checked the box in your Customer Portal to be sent notification. Here’s some important links you’ll need to access all the goodies.
Beta URL’s
Beta Homepage - Homepage where you can get all the beta details. Beta Forum - The forums are already active. What’s New 2009 - [update:this was not behind the login access-check the forums for the link] - check out what is new.
Are you participating? What are you looking forward to?
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It’s Leonardo Da Vinci’s self-propelled cart, taken from parchment to 3D with SolidWorks 2008. It’s a cool look at how the mechanism works and also a look at how you are lame if not designing 15th century mechanisms with the most powerful CAD application IN THE WORLD.
Four interesting aspects:
The mechanism is super cool
The phrase “you can easily push and pull“ is used about halfway through part 2
SolidWorks is finally using Youtube in their marketing campaigns
At the end of the video, the commentator stands looking at you expectantly… and taps his foot.
There’s a demo gallery *cough*link-to-more-marketing-material*cough* and a place to desecrate Leonardo’s face, by putting your own face on his likeness, that I would warn against, because I’m positive there’s a small race of people watching over Da Vinci’s legacy that look down on that and exact vengeance on the weak.
I love product marketing. I like the creativity that goes along with it. As SolidWorks user, some SolidWorks marketing comes over kinda thin. I’d like more detailed info, but then again they’re not marketing to me. This is actually a pretty thorough look at how SolidWorks handles some aspects of design. It’s gets into the 2D, the 3D and has a blurb on changes. There’s no real detailed aspect of the modeling, but then that wouldn’t be marketing material. I’ll give it a thumbs up, but I would have picked a different host. You can watch the three part video here or the first part below.
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Have you ever seen pictures that move? I hear they call it ‘Video‘ or something. I also hear that there are some snazzy ‘video’ demos of the new SolidWorks 2009 functionality at a place called ‘the YouTube’.
I’ll tell you right now, get ready to break into song if you are a SolidWorks user. In a few months, you are going to wake up, putter off to work and see that familiar splash screen pop up when you start SolidWorks. But this time it’s different, this time it says SolidWorks 2009.
I know you all get excited when you have the chance to read about CAD news and the excitement happening around our tiny globe. This week has been chock full of interesting tid-bits of info.
One week from NOW, yes, one week from this day we know and love as ‘Monday’, will be another day called ‘Monday’… It also happens to be the same day the veil of SolidWorks 2009 will be lifted and the lone Beta testers will be free to reveal all the goodness that is to come.
Ahhh, it’s the middle of the summer. Vacations are planned, mosquito are biting and there’s so much going on in the world of SolidWorks the coffee pot at SolidWorks HQ in Massachusetts is on 24/7.
As if our soon to be robot overlords are not scary enough, now there’s a Robot University for them to systematically learn how to take over the minds of small children and impressionable young college students.
The SolidWorks 2009 Beta program that was rumored to launch Monday (yesterday) has just gone live at the 
If you’re into mechanisms like 
