Over the next few days SolidSmack is jumping over to Barcelona, Spain to cover the splendor and mystery that will reveal the new features of SolidWorks 2009 to the hungry CAD Industry Media. It’s the the SolidWorks 2009 Press Conference and it’s choke full of talkin’ and meetin’ and interactin’ with the SolidWorks team, some…
The similarities in commands and concept of each are obvious, but what’s even more incredible are the differences. Free is good, but 3DVia is doing it’s part to enhance the Social 3D sphere and remove the grasp Google has on it.
On the less antagonizing side, there’s you showing your office buddy how to avoid fits of unnecessary rage by offering two shiny macros for the low price of “sit down and shut up for a few minutes while I show you this friend.”
He smiles. One less lo-fi video of your crazy friend on the web.
The missing keyboard shortcuts
SolidWorks comes with the ability to assign almost every command to a keyboard shortcut. However, there’s no keyboard shortcuts for Mates. Here’s two macros for the most common mates and how to reduce the amount of that annoying mouse button clickin’ to speed up your assembly construction.
Their blog is no less and has been one of my favorite to read some time. A group of their latest latest articles not only give you insight into manufacturing, but really show the talent and breadth of the Ponoko blogging crew and what they write about.
Where? Look right there. do ya see that hole, and in that hole a badger, and in that badger a key? I was just wondering, cause I don’t see anything like that, but here’s some links. 50 Creative Photoshop Text Effects – Logos? Illustration? Great text effects and teach a lot of the techniques used…