Tony Blair Visits Gasabo3D in Rwanda

KIGALI, Rwanda, November 14, 2008 - Driving to the Gasabo 3D office, CEO John Rugamba announces “Tony Blair is coming.” Great. Doesn’t everyone do Africa? Once it was to shoot animals with bullets, then with cameras, now to build huts or dig wells. The great white powers have given up on subjugating and exploiting, and are now are... [Read more]

Al Dean Says New RED SCARLET/EPIC Digital Cameras ROCKS. We Agree.

Don’t take it from us, just listen to Al Dean who confirms that he is 99% sure that the new RED Digital Cinema cameras Scarlet and EPIC are modeled in SolidWorks and likely rendered in the blistery goodness of HyperShot. The RED SCARLET and EPIC are the first of their kind build-it-from-scratch-with-endless-amounts-of-possibilities Digital Still... [Read more]

SolidWorks Launches 2009 SP1.0 Right Into Your Face

It’s not everyday, you get to download an upgrade to a new version of software you use almost everyday… actually, you could download this everyday if you wanted to. Maybe wrap it in a croissant, share it with some friends and talk about the good ol’ days when you had to install software off a floppy disk. You can get the tasty nugget... [Read more]

Friday Smackdown: Malfunction Eléctricos

Well it might as well be tied down and torn in two. How else do you expect me to reattach it when the legs just keep poppin’ off with an unbridled fury of these here links. youfikus portfolio - The name says it all. It’s yofik-errific 3D illustration with a bunch o’ color. Toshiba TimeSculpture - If you watched this on the wall in... [Read more]

Ensuring the Success of Solid Edge and Synchronous Technology, Part 1

Ask any CAD insider about Solid Edge, and they’ll tell you “great product.” And now, with Synchronous Technology, Siemens could be on sitting on gold. But can Siemens extract the gold?  In the race for market domination, Solid Edge is far behind front runners SolidWorks and Inventor. It’s no accident that those products are... [Read more]

SolidWorks & Vista…Give Me Those Icons Back!

About a month ago I made the switch to Windows Vista Ultimate from Windows XP. For the most part I am really happy about making the move but there was one thing that really, I mean really, bothered me with Vista. In Windows Explorer you were forced into having a thumbnail preview of each file as opposed to the SolidWorks icons for parts, assemblies... [Read more]

Richard Branson to be Keynote Speaker at SolidWorks World 2009

Hot off the presses today is the news that entrepreneur extraordinaire Richard Branson will be a Keynote Speaker at SolidWorks World 2009.  Richard is the man behind the Virgin Group which started as a record company but has since expanded to include airlines, mobile phones, broadband, and commercial space flight just to name a few. When “the... [Read more]

SolidWorks Video Tip: Surface Extraction with ScanTo3D

Today’s SolidWorks Video Tip shows an example of how you can use ScanTo3D to extract surface data from mesh files.  This example was inspired by a file I recently helped fellow Blogger Mike Puckett with.  ScanTo3D is part of SolidWorks Premium.  It allows users to open Point Cloud and Mesh data in various formats with a toolset that enables... [Read more]

SWUGN Summit - Chennai

I’m leaving Saturday morning for the first SWUGN Summit to be held outside of North America.  Chennai, India is the location, and Kiran Srinivasan is the local group leader tasked with pulling most of the event together.  We’re expecting between 50 - 70 users at the event, and the lineup of presentations looks very interesting. My... [Read more]

SW 2009 SP1.0

SolidWorks 2009 SP1.0 is now available to all subscription customers.  Visit the Customer portal to download your copy and review the resolved SPR’s. Go to Source  Read More →

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