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SolidWorks has started their effort to provide users with access to the SolidWorks online community via the SolidWorks website.  It is under the heading Communities.   This new area is apart of the revamping of the SolidWorks website in to a more organized set up.  When  [...]

I don’t know why I do this to myself. I’ve had Wester Digital drives fail in the past. So what do I do? I buy another. And sure enough, 6 months or so down the road, another one goes. Turns out this 1TB drive is really two 500s set as RAID 0. When one drive  [...]

Yay, it’s Friday! You know what that means…Beer! Oh, and of course another component of our stapler is about to be modeled. I hope you enjoy the modeling tutorials as much as I do. It gives me a chance to play with my favorite design tool SolidWorks (like  [...]

Its been a long time coming, but I finally have something to show you in the way of a SolidWorks World Survival guide.This all started this past January while having dinner with my friend Ben Eadie. After remarking that I sure have learned a lot between my first SWW  [...]

If you remember, back in the month of June I wrote about the second Tri-Valley SWUG meeting, which was all about automating SolidWorks. During that meeting in particular, we were graced with a visit by Brian Titus, from Zeometric LLC, [...]

Dassault Systèmes (DS), a French manufacturing software house, has confirmed German media reports that a rival Siemens subsidiary had obtained a confidential database containing details thousands of Dassault customers.

One of the things that is so incredible about the SolidWorks software is the sheer range of people that it has to accommodate. Everybody from crusty old tin-knockers, to overworked and underpaid machine designers, to unconstrained product designers to 9-12 year old  [...]

Last night's CTSUG meeting was officially scheduled to end at 8:45pm. When the first session ran a little long, it didn't leave Sal Lama a lot of extra time to do his presentation. At 9:00pm the room was still full, [...]

The Autodesk Blog family has expanded once again, with Harlan Brumm and The Revit Clinic. Here's what he has to say about it:About this blog, its name and purpose: Where do you go when you have a physical problem?, A [...]

No politics spoken here!Things are finally starting to calm down at the Cox household.  The last few weeks have been a blur of activity.  From refurbishing sixteen computers to trying to get the yard work done has been a struggle.  There was some mention by my wife  [...]

Dassault Systèmes, a provider of 3D and product lifecycle management software, has confirmed that its competitor Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software GmbH had violated trade secrets.

I'm giving a workshop: Write Your Book in 30 Days! The first one is scheduled for November 15, 2008, in Santa Clara, CA; check it out here. And while you're there, you can sign up for my free AuthorTips. [...]

This week has seen a few announcements regarding Solidworks 2009. For starters, the Pre-Release 2 version was posted for download in the download section of the customer portal. Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available. Typically Pre-Release 2 is [...]

I had the chance to talk with  [...] Selerant recently about their business and their focus on process PLM. Process industry PLM appears to be the sec [...]

I received the following survey notice recently from Markku Allison, AIA the resource architect for the American Institute of Architects. Feel free to post, retweet, rejaw, and plurk this along to...

When I posted this earlier I didn't really go into much detail about the application. One particularly nice feature that was added by David based upon inspiration from James Vandezande (SOM) was the notion of checking the build of Revit that the user is running compared  [...]

According the date on their blog I've been napping for month and missed this. Tim Hogan posted this "Starter Set Expanded and Improved" post on August 1, 2008.The post starts with:Based on your feedback from the models we released last month, we’ve made a round of  [...]

The Milwaukee Revit User Group Blog announced their September lunch meeting date.Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008Time: 11:30am - 1:00pmLocation: Milwaukee office of Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) ( map)Lunch provided by EUAContact Tony Isenhoff at EUA if you plan  [...]

AutoCAD 12 and higher versions Here we are with one of the most frequently used commands in AutoCAD. It is a very useful command. It also has a very wide range of usage. Due to the fact that our company has been working on kitchen works for a quite long time, I will  [...]

remember watching the YouTube videos of the Japanese game show for Human Tetris where contestants try to navigate moving shapes and it was hilarious and entertaining. Well not to let the skillet get cold a new show named Hole in the Wall is coming to the Fox network  [...]

No… wait… yeah, here they come! Get me my cane ya coot! These links are crawlin’ up on my face and making a durn mess of my astigmatism. We heart places - Do you absolutely love that one place you went? share it here, see others, plan some trips.  [...]

You have probably already seen that the new layer dialog box is mode-less just like the Properties palette and can be kept open at any time if you want to.Notice though that you might get performance problem if you keep it open, so if things goes slow try to just open  [...]

At the Revit Structure User Group (STRUG) meeting (Irvine, CA) last night Ed Tallmadge of Kelar suggested that I post a link to a recent post on an Autodesk Blog called Connected. They've provided a tutorial to allow users to report the tonnage of the steel they've  [...]

Scott Davis let me know earlier today about this one but I was out most of the day until tonight so I'm a bit late to the table.Harlan Brumm with Autodesk has started a blog called The Revit Clinic. Read THIS POST to find out all about why he started the blog.He writes:Welcome  [...]

Just about two weeks ago Leica posted a new download of Leica X-change that will install on both AutoCAD® Civil 3®D 2008 and AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009.Click on the title of this post to get to the download page.Be Better...Be more flexible!

Since posting three different options for Zooming to a Window or Entity inside AutoCAD, I've had a few discussions with a developer on how best to implement this cleanly. The requirement is to change the AutoCAD view via a smooth [...]

Hello All Sorry for the lapse in posts (again). But.. School is back in and I’ll be posting again regularly.  I’m looking for requests for tutorials and I will be posting new types of videos.  This semester I am co-teaching Architectural Drawing + Representation.   [...]

Our technology preview of the Command Complete Bonus Tool for AutoCAD has run its course. For those who wish to continue to download it, I have placed the bonus tool on the Autodesk Labs graduates page. Thanks to all those [...]

As of today, Trimble Link now installs on AutoCAD® Civil 2009, as well as AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009.Prior to this latest version it would only install on Civil 3D®, not Civil.My co-worker Jerry Bartles provided me this info.Be Better...be more accomodating! [...]

Chicago - NEC Display Solutions of America has launched its 22-inch MultiSyncEA221WM widescreen LCD monitor.

I'm working on next week's upFront.eZine (the first issue following our summer break) and just came across this one in my stack of emailed press releases. Bricsys of Belgium now has its Bricscad V9 software available for download in beta. Here's the interesting  [...]

Autodesk launches another Revit-BIM blog, The Revit Clinic Blog: Preventative and Rehabilitative BIM Care The Revit Clinic author, Harlan Brumm, is originally from Wisconsin with a Bachelor's Degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  [...]

If this is Thursday, then it must be time to add another blog to the Autodesk blogosphere: http://revitclinic.typepad.com/ Technical Lead of Product Support for Revit, Harlan Brumm, will cover preventative and rehabilitative care of Building Information Models.Wander  [...]

Meats Meier's holographic Animation Mother commissioned as the 'face' of SIGGRAPH 2008 By Linda Law