I finally got a Nikon D40 today for my wife Maggie. The camera is sweet. What’s disconcerting is one of the user manual warnings. Apparently there’s some people with twitchy fingers poking themselves in the eye.
In a recent poll I held, some of you were waiting to upgrade to SolidWorks 2008 till SP1.0 came out. Psst, hey, it’s out. Whatcha waiting for?I just installed it with the Installation Manager and had no problems at all on my XP machine besides what Jason also came across with the full installation download.…
You may recall a post about the Koenigsegg CCX being the fastest street legal car designed in SolidWorks. Now they have the fastest biofuel car designed in SolidWorks, and it doesn’t look ridiculous and slow. It’s called the CCXR. “… the ethanol in biofuel has the positive side effect of cooling the combustion chambers, as…
There’s a new blog in town and it’s sporting a crop of writers. SolidWorks Legion has come on the scene and plans to give you the huzzah on SolidWorks. You may recognize the authors if you frequent the SolidWorks Yahoo group. FCSuper, and his two compatriots, are sporting a Wordpress Blog with a nice blue-gray…

Getting through a project in a multi-user environment is one of the greatest challenges an engineering company can face.
There’s this PDM and that PDM, this process and that process, and it quickly turns into a community of gopher-heads popping up to have each other check stuff in ‘real quick’ while schedules dwindle into the pasty thin atmosphere of successful ventures.
Shake off the sad face, there’s hope yet.
Fortunately, SolidWorks has some options that make collaboration much easier. But where do you start? How do you set up a multi-user environment? Here’s how to keep the peeps in their seats and the music bumpin’ for a fully collaborated machine of a team.
