If you had one thing to change about how you discussed design iterations, what would it be? I can imagine a few ways, starting with destroying useless email conversations and firing that one guy who can’t seem to do anything on his own.

Unfortunately, there’s no program to make people more competent, but there is one that is on the way to reducing email congestion and refine the design process. Vuuch. And it’s about time we had a look at what it does.

3D alphabetHow many times do you look at somethign and say, “yeah, that would be MUCH COOLER in 3D.” Ya know, stuff like a book, a movie, or set of schematics for a miniature fusion reactor.

Yet, with all of the possibilities, there’s just something way to simple about the glyphs representing the English alphabet and Ji Lee is here to take care of that mess with a special conversion of the boring, old 2D alphabet into a spectacularly revolved 3D work of art.

Is the alphabet now more universal? or did 3D just get more confusing?

He’ll eat’em all and then just leave the crumbs… That’s when it happens. The crumbs turn into a giant ‘crumb monster’ and chase the cats and butter everything. Only way I can stop it is to distract them with this set of links! Mike Mitchell – Little skull people on hummings birds. Birds with jetpacks?…

Shhhh, in all actuality, this will not only show you how to add custom lengths to a Bill of material (BOM), but will allow you to harness the almighty power of custom properties in SolidWorks. It’s quick, it’s easy and it’s this week’s two-minute Tut.

Often, the shop or purchase department need a little extra info to manufacture or order the part. Looking through a bunch of drawing sheets to find it is grueling, but having it in the BOM makes it very clear.

Oh, and one added benefit? You may have a blast creating a bunch of drawing views to dimension one little length. This, however, can save you time, pages and dealing with large drawings by moving the info to the BOM. Let’s do this.

Or if you prefer, go to this gas station and drink the coffee to dance with an atypical gas station clerk and entertain grizzly truck drivers.

SolidWorks is after it to juice up your Standard edition of SolidWorks with a Premium upgrade, brought to you in this coffee-flavored, commercial form. It doesn’t make you wonder what the outside of a jerky stick taste like at all. Snap into this video for some good ol’ gas station humor. The reaction of the old guy and his friend are the best.

Update: You may want to head to the link shown at the end http://solidworks.com/upgrade/. More videos and more content. good stuff.