Here’s some of the best and most memorable posts that spilled over the edge of the SolidSmack editorial desk, onto the webernet and into your eyeholes. Of cours, your comments, as always, make them even better.
January
5 Tricks To Tackle SolidWorks “Failed To Save Document” – “Whatever it is, it’s about as fun as your puppy dying, because inevitably you’ve lost countless hours of work. These are the 5 things I’ve found to get past it… sometimes…”
SolidWorks World Top Ramen Enhancement Requests. Which Implemented? – “the attendees of SolidWorks World submit enhancements, SolidWorks compiles them, they announce them at the final session…” – Interesting to read comments in light of how they are the Top 10 are being handled this year.
How to Bring SolidWorks Models Into Adobe Flash – “If you mix an interest in web design with an interest in SolidWorks you get a hideous amalgamation of 3D graphics, silly phrases and coffee stains…”
February
How to Fix Out of Context Parts in SolidWorks – “Suddenly, that pastry looses it’s sweetness as you come to grips that all your parts are… Out of Context?…”
How To Avoid Being a SolidWorks Ass…embly – “One day your helping old ladies take their meds, next day your making everyone change part colors and capitalize the ‘S’ and ‘W’ in SolidWorks…”
Becoming a SolidWorks Hitman: How to Reduce Serious Errors – “You could say there’s two laws to follow. One by reduction, one by creation. Kill….”
March
Who’s In Charge of The SolidWorks Real Logo? – “That crazy orange SolidWorks Real logo is at it again and I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep till I find some answers…”
My Top 10 SolidWorks Wish List – “Maybe it’s more of a, “what if?”, but it got me thinking about a lot of things. What do you think?…”
How To Use 3D Sketches To Reduce SolidWorks Features – “Here’s a slightly useful and not-at-all complicated tip on reducing features by using 3D sketches…”
April
How To Get Hired On the Spot Plus Have An Easy Interview – “This is going to show you what you can do right now without even setting up an interview, making a call or going out to buy a new outfit…”
SolidWorks Assemblies: Four Furious Ways To Split ‘em Up (and Why You Should) – “You can make really, grossly huge assemblies but there’s a point where people start whispering about you behind your back…”
Putting Names With the CAD Blog Faces – “check out the new NovEdge Pulse, you’ll be able to put some faces to the names and blogs…”
May
The Uno: Uni-Motorbike Designed in SolidWorks – “Hold on people, we’re about to tear the fabric of uncool unicycle transportation into a million tiny bits…”
MAc Addict Alert! How To Use SolidWorks on a Mac – SolidSmack has your back and we want to show you how easy it it is to get SolidWorks runnin’ on your Mac…”
The 7 Best SolidWorks Keyboard Tricks – “suddenly our finger shoots straight into our eye with a repeated jabbing motion and 2 hours of work are lost as you regain your sight…”
June
The 2 Step Trick to Kill Email and Take Back Your Day – “Dear You, if you don’t answer my email in 5 seconds, I will walk over there and slap your face…”
Stop the SolidWorks Rot: Simple Tips for Awesome Design Practices – “It’s inevitable. A hundred models of a screw and they’re all created a different way…”
Smack! The Complete Guide to SolidWorks Layout Sketches – “I’m going to suggest a way to improve assembly creation, so take a couple slow breaths, have a pot of coffee…”
July
Create Stylish SolidWorks Graphics without PhotoWorks – “You can do all your work in SolidWorks and get an product image good enough for any portfolio, website, magazine or brochure and there are just a few steps to make it happen…”
Run SolidWorks on a Mac: Soft-Mod Your GeForce into a Quadro – “a simple soft-mod to turn [a mac] into a beefy NVidia Quadro crankin’ beast…”
100+ SolidWorks and 3D CAD Users to Follow on Twitter *Updated* – “This is everyone I know of on Twitter involved with SolidWorks and 3D CAD…”
August
SolidWorks 2009 Unleashed. New Features, Killer Performance. – “I’ll tell you right now, get ready to break into song if you are a SolidWorks user…”
Salvador Dali Says Your 3D Product Design is INSANE – “It’s both parametrically intense and oddly invigorating to look at…”
Serving Up Hot and Spicy SolidWorks Subscription Service – “A bunch of us have been nibbling away like happy angry beavers about some new penalties…”
September
SolidWorks 2009 SP0.0 Ready For Ya to Snatch – “vailable for download at a customer portal near you. Are you going for it?…”
Apply Excitment of OpenGL vs Direct3D Directly to Forehead – “I’ve just read one of the most impressive documented responses from a development perspective on OpenGL vs. Direct3D I’ve ever seen…”
The Somewhat Odd SolidWorks Installation Guide of Doom… and Stuff – ”
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?…”
October
Flying Ninjas, No. 3D Future CAD Interface, Yes. – “suddenly, you’re moving junk around in 3D space with your hand. Check this out….”
How the Heck Is This Made? Creating SolidWorks Spirals, Sweeps and Helixes – “There is really an endless amount of interesting object you can make with SolidWorks and a lot of interesting and unusual way to get there…”
The Future 3D Multi-stroke Sketching System of Your Dreams *Updated* -“But it’s not just virtual 2D sketching. It’s the introduction of sketching nurb-based geometry in 3D….”
November
SolidWorks On Edge Relations: Avoid Them Like Teething Zombie Babies – “They’re a little bit easier to handle than the teething undead, but all the relations in a SolidWorks sketch…”
Three SolidWorks Short Week Tips To Jump Into Screaming – “A short week, with a limited fewer interruptions is the best time to dress-down, close out projects and learn a bit more about how some features work….”
The Top 3D Software for Industrial Design… and Engineering? – “here are hundreds of software apps that help Industrial Designers and Engineers, but what do you need to learn to get a top position in the Industrial Design field?…”
December
Adaptive 3D Sketching System of the Future: AutoDesk Gets it ON… On a Mac – “The video tells it all, but quickly, the sketch lines peel across the display like you’re actually using Explorative Sketching techniques…”
Sculpted in Rhino, Detailed in SolidWorks. It’s All About the Process. – “Mark used Rhino and SolidWorks to create this concept. That’s cool – you want to know why?…”
16 SolidWorks Tips to Make the ‘S’ Key Work For You – “The ‘S’ key. A single key on that clicky ol’ keyboard that can give you the POWER to HARNESS… tiny little icons…
If you have a favorite post I didn’t list, let us know what it is. And if there’s things you want to see more of next year, throw’em down in the comments!
