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You know what comes out on late at night after your tucked away in bed? A new look for the SolidWorks.com website and some beefy new content for your 3D CAD affliction.
Continue reading ‘SolidWorks Website Gets a Snazzy New Look: Less Orange, More Gray’
Just look at that nice couple. So overcome with comfort from a sofa designed in SolidWorks, they’re about to smash there poor faces right into each other. Not too uncommon, but furniture designed in SolidWorks, that’s something that’ll make you look forward to bloody noses.
Flexsteel has been making furniture for over 100 years. After being part of furniture customization over that period of time, it’s easy to see why moving to 3D could add a lot of value to the array of products they create.
Continue reading ‘Flexsteel: Soft and Coooshy Furniture Designed in SolidWorks’
Update: As of noon on Thursday August 28th, SolidWorks has rescinded the penalties that were soon to take affect. You can read the email that went out to the resellers and customer here. Good move on the PR side. SolidWorks is listening to the customers, plus the resellers don’t look like bad guys to the customers.
A bunch of us have been nibbling away like happy angry beavers about some new penalties that came out recently for not renewing you SolidWorks subscription support in a timely fashion.
You may not know, or even care, that there’s a $1295 cost, in addition to the $3995 price of the SolidWorks software, to receive support from your reseller, software updates, access to the Customer portal and more. The penalty is tacked on if you don’t pay the $1295 each year. So what?
Continue reading ‘Serving Up Hot and Spicy SolidWorks Subscription Service’
Well hello and good morning. Nice to see ya. How are the kids? Oh, that box graphic over to the left? That’s the fresh new look of SolidWorks 2009. A new version or something. A lot of hub bub going on about it these days.
I think if you click on it, yeah, right there, it goes to the “SolidWorks 2009 launch site” that is full of information and dangerous, highspeed driving while watching videos of what’s the newest in new for the next version of SolidWorks.
My favorite part is not all the information, but the exploding chopsaw in the Behind the scenes section. Check out the new features and even leave a comment telling what ya think. See ya.
Well surprise, surprise. You don’t have to wait till SolidWorks 2009 Pre-release 2 comes out to try PhotoView 360, the new rendering software announced by SolidWorks and Luxology is now available for anyone with SolidWorks 2009 to poke around in.
You’ll want to see the First Look Ricky Jordan has along with Gabi Jack rendering some models for her first time ever.
I’ll have some rendering up moments from now to show you some of the capabilities PhotoView 360 has. Until then try it for yourself. Download PhotoView 360
UPDATE:
Ok, I’ve had my chance to get into PV360 and run some rendering for you to see some of the different capabilities. Here’s some rendering just created:
Continue reading ‘PhotoView 360 Preview: Download Now Available’
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