Spring cleaning.
Gotta get rid of some books. Add $6 to each book for shipping, shipping only within US.
SolidWorks 2013 – $20 each + shipping (8 4 available)
SolidWorks 2011 Assemblies – $10 each + shipping (17 6 available)
Below is an email I’ve received from Rick McWilliams which I’ve edited a bit on the topic of Conic Surfaces. I don’t have guest bloggers very frequently, but when I run into people with great content and willing to share, I take advantage of the situation.
Read more on Examining Conic Curves and Surfaces, with Rick McWilliams…
I’ve read several of the articles out there about this fool who printed a 3D gun, and now a bunch of other even bigger fools who work for the government who think its their duty to put a stop to it all. Last time I talked about guns on this blog stirred some opinions. I expect this article will too, but this time it actually crosses into the engineering side of things via the 3D printing, so it’s not as off topic as it was last time.
PowerSurfacing is another SolidWorks add-in to extend the surfacing capabilities within SolidWorks. It was brought to light after Autodesk snatched up the TSplines tool that had been getting a lot of traction in the SolidWorks universe. One of the most outstanding features of TSplines was the ability to work in mesh (subdivision modeling) and wind up in NURBS (real CAD data). This is also one of the outstanding features of PowerSurfacing.
I wanted to add some detail about one specific feature, the Blend. I started with this Boundary surface in Solid
Works, which is intentionally a little wobbly. This was created with 4 splines, all with a sharp bend in the middle. Then I trimmed out the corner with the intention of replacing it with a Blend.
I’m doing this review for a couple of reasons. First, I’ve got a little down time which I wanted to spend productively, and our very own Rick McWilliams is using this stuff, and says it makes using SolidWorks for precise surfacing tolerable. I was working for a SolidWorks reseller about 10 years ago and remember getting an early look at this same software back then. We declined to carry it at that point because it was a bit of a niche and we didn’t seem to have many customers interested in surfacing.
Read more on Review: GeometryWorks 3D – Surfacing Add-on for SolidWorks…
There is a ring of discussions going on. One blogger commented on another, and some left comments on LinkedIn, and now I’m adding to the loop.
The arguments all seem to be made by people who aren’t directly involved in the process. Not sure I want to go to the length to call them all desk jockeys (or more famously typewriter jockeys) again, but you get the idea. The arguments all seem to be too close to one point of view to be able to see the whole thing, or too far from getting dirt on their mouse to understand the details.
I have created a video course for basic SolidWorks 2013 that is being offered by Infinite Skills for $99. There is also an advanced course which is about 80% done, and should be ready in weeks (probably around $150). You can buy them separately or as a set (once the advanced course is finished).
The “Good Ole Days” with SolidWorks means the days when all we had to complain about was bugs in the software. Bugs were at least something you stood a chance against. Corporate insanity is a different beast, and while I enjoy mocking it, I’m not vain enough to think I can have any effect on it.
According to Tenlinks, Fielder Hiss, the VP of Product Marketing and Management is leaving SolidWorks after 14 years.
I knew Fielder first as a tech support guy. He rose through the ranks very quickly, but SolidWorks was a company with a lot of guys who started in tech support moving to other positions of more responsibility.
SolidWorks 2012 Basic and Advanced Courses
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