cool vista wallpaper backgroundWhat’s the last thing you’re thinking of when you wander into a den of wild asps? …What system is best for running SolidWorks on 64 bit Vista. That does absolutely nothing for your survivability quotient.

It’s a common misconception that SolidWorks doesn’t run very well on 64 bit Vista. If you look into installing Microsoft Vista the experience can be quite the opposite. Now, people are using laptops and desktops loaded with Vista that kick the pants off XP systems.

However, it may help to know exactly what systems works best. So I turn it over to you, the reader.

Have you upgraded? What system do you use? What did you look for when upgrading your hardware? What programs didn’t work? What did you pay? Tell us what your experience in the comments and I’ll repost the findings.

herman miller embody designIt’s not everyday you get to sit for hours on end, as your body slowly atrophies… ok, well, maybe it is everyday, but this new chair from Herman Miller may turn your hardening arteries into pliable conduits of efficient blood flow to get that oxygen back up to your brain case.

The Embody chair, with all of it’s flexors, knobs and adjustments, was designed by the late Bill Stumpf of Aeron Chair fame and taken through multiple iterations by his associate, Jeff Weber after Stumpf’s death in 2006.

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“That’s it. This is the last time a cartoon mocks my engineering processes and relegate me to the bottom rung of the unsuccessful company ladder just because I don’t use 3D CAD to design my products.” If you’re still using that 2D stuff and you’ve been thinking about using SolidWorks, now is a pretty good…

inspection Xpert for solidworksRight when you thought the product inspectors were coming after you with rude and ambiguous looks of disapproval, a company out of North Carolina rises from the ashes of poorly documented drawing sheets and reveals the most beneficial tool a tightly toleranced engineering company could ask for.

ExtensibleCAD brings you InspectionXpert, a program to automate the task of producing quality inspection documents and cut the time to get first-article, process and part approvals. Here’s the scoop…

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