Congrats to Steve Calvert for winning the 2GB SanDisk Crusier in lasts weeks dimensioning tip contest. He now has 2GB more room to carry stuff around with him. I have one and have even run an Apache web server off of it! enjoy Steve! Keep an eye out because there will definitely be more contest…
In response to the post about The Vital Key to an Organized SolidWorks Team, one of our readers, Kyle Mason, sent a response about his experience at college where Inventor is really pushed. I have [created a Reg file for Inventor users] to make SolidWorks a little more “Inventor friendly.” I am going to college…
Yep, he jumped off thar and his kneecaps done shot out his legs and clear through that window over thar. Said he was tryin’ to get to these here links. PicFindr – free stock photo search engine. Will an iPhone Blend? – The ultimate product stress test. guess what. it fails. A new breed of…

In the realm of somewhat useless but cool stuff you can do to customize SolidWorks, I recently did a post about making your own background.
This can in actuality be very useful for two things
- Making things on your screen easier to see
- Giving a custom feel to product presentations
So, in light of all of that, I’ve created 5 backgrounds for you to use or to get some inspiration for what you could do with your own. Here they are…

It has to do with standardizing SolidWorks settings in your group. At the very least this will give everyone a starting point. Or if you have a socialistic engineering agenda you can make everyone use the same settings all the time. Let’s dance…
