Novedge Pulse™ of Devon T. Sowell

Hello All-After six years and hundreds of blog posts, I've decided to stop blogging here.Cheers,Devon Sowellhttp://www.3-ddesignsolutions.comhttp://www.pdmsolution.comhttp://pdmsolutions.blogspot.com/ [more...]

Just like I helped my Dad build a Heath Kit Stereo System when I was a kid, our Daughter couldn't wait to help build her own computer on a Sunday afternoon.This is an AMD embedded Dual Core CPU ITX based system. It has onboard Radeon HDMI video and supports Windows  [more...]

Well, what started out as a post about the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform details has taken a turn to a new direction. Perhaps I should should instead describe how frustrating it is when I can't connect to the Cloud when I need to do my work.For now, I don't want  [more...]

Follow our friend Jordan Romero has he completes his journey to be the youngest to climb the 7 highest mountains in the world. He's a great down to earth kid.http://www.jordanromero.com/ [more...]

3 years later, DS SolidWorks still can’t provide meaningful information about them to me, I’m a SolidWorks Solution Partner! 3 years I’m still waiting for; ENOVIA V6 pricing, WHO can sell it to me, WHO can demo it to me, WHO is using it, WHO can train me and how much  [more...]

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Crowd Sourcing is a bad idea and a fad that will soon go away (I hope).By participating in crowd sourcing you;Turn your job into a non-paying hobby.Expose yourself to liability.Risk losing your liability insurance.Lower the value of work performed by engineers &  [more...]

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The United States of America is broke.My State, California, is broke.The city of San Diego, CA is broke.Just announced, 12.1% unemployment in California, 10% unemployment in San Diego, CA.My Doctor wants to buy a new office building and expand his business, no bank  [more...]

Here is a list of what I believe can help define a successful SolidWorks PDM system;Upper management sees real value in SolidWorks Design Reuse and Concurrent Product Design.A SolidWorks PDM Administrator is on site and available to all users.Test Vaults are used continuously.The  [more...]

Here is a list of what I believe can help define a successful SolidWorks PDM system;Upper management sees real value in SolidWorks Design Reuse and Concurrent Product Design.A SolidWorks PDM Administrator is on site and available to all users.Test Vaults are used continuously.The  [more...]

  Matt Lombard has an excellent post about SolidWorks V6.Matt's post mainly focuses on Direct Editing in CATIA V6. He does mention the general lack of information about V6, both CATIA and SolidWorks, and I fine this lack of information worrisome.I'll  [more...]

Here's a link to to an article in PC World,Ballmer: Windows 8 Is Coming in 2012The most interesting bit of information is this; "The OS is expected to have an updated user interface and will support low-power ARM chips"In my opinion, computers and tablets using  [more...]

An ARM processor is any of several 32-bit RISC (reduced instruction set computer) microprocessor s developed by Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd. The ARM architecture was originally conceived by Acorn Computers Ltd. in the 1980s. Since then, it has evolved into a family  [more...]

Will ARM 64Bit Low Power CPU Based Servers Revolutionize I.T. & On-Site Server Farms? Will the T.O.C. (Total Cost of Ownership) for on-site server farms drop dramatically, soon? IMHO Yes. Will the focus become on-site rather than Cloud Hosted, in regards to Server  [more...]

Last October 2010 I wrote about the enormous amount of homework assigned to our Daughter by the public shool she attended. Kids Have Too Much Homework She was spending the majority of her time away from school doing homework! At 8 years old! After a meeting with her  [more...]

Here in San Diego, CA we have no reliable 4G coverage and Internet speeds are still among the slowest worldwide.Scheduled replication of CAD files I can see working, but real time editing of existing CAD files via the WAN just won't work IMHO.Here's a recent  [more...]

Here's a method to relocate your data to insure it is protected and available.Cheers,Devon Sowellhttp://www.3-ddesignsolutions.comhttp://www.pdmsolution.com [more...]

Over 65 SolidWorks users enjoyed the SolidWorks User Group Network Summit, Phoenix, Arizona April 12, 2011. *Click On The Captions Button In The Slideshow*I'll see you at the Las Vegas, NV SWUGN Summit Nov. 22, 2011.Cheers,Devon Sowellhttp://www.pdmsolution.comhttp://www.3-ddesignsolutions.com [more...]

I'm looking forward to the 2011 Phoenix, AZ SWUGN Technical Summit. SWUGN (SolidWorks User Group Network) hosts these summits. These SolidWorks Summits are a "mini SolidWorks World". In one day and for only $40.00 you can meet up with scores of hard core SolidWorks  [more...]

I'm looking forward to the 2011 Phoenix, AZ SWUGN Technical Summit. SWUGN (SolidWorks User Group Network) hosts these summits. These SolidWorks Summits are a "mini SolidWorks World". In one day and for only $40.00 you can meet up with scores of hard core SolidWorks  [more...]

Thanks to everyone for visiting my YouTube channel.I believe my next video will be an updated SolidWorks Explorer Video. Any other requests?Cheers,Devon Sowellhttp://www.3-ddesignsolutions.comhttp://www.pdmsolution.com [more...]

Thanks to everyone for visiting my YouTube channel.I believe my next video will be an updated SolidWorks Explorer Video. Any other requests?Cheers,Devon Sowellhttp://www.3-ddesignsolutions.comhttp://www.pdmsolution.com  [more...]

Can Microsoft improve upon Windows 7? It appears Win8 pre-release beta is being tested now. Here are two sites with more information; http://windows8center.com/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/windows_8_builds/Cheers,Devon Sowellhttp://www.pdmsolution.com [more...]

Can Microsoft improve upon Windows 7? It appears Win8 pre-released beta is being tested now. Here are two sites with more information; http://windows8center.com/  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/windows_8_builds/ [more...]

Why would I consider a remote Cloud Server Farm when I could have this? A local system will always perform better than a remote WAN based system. Hosting applications for Clients or storing Data, this looks to be the next generation of Servers.The TCO (Total Cost of  [more...]

Why would I consider a remote Cloud Server Farm when I could have this? Hosting applications for Clients or storing Data, this looks to be the next generation of Servers.A local system will always perform better than a remote WAN based system. The TOC (Total Cost of  [more...]

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This question came up at a SolidWorks User Group Meeting last week. Here is the link;  http://www.solidworks.com/sww/proceedings/proceedings-presentations.htmEnjoy,Devon Sowell [more...]

Last night I was demonstrating 2011 Enterprise PDM. I used a SolidWorks sample file assembly that contained this part file called gear.sldprt. We noticed the "Origin" was not shown in the Feature Tree. So I RMB the Feature Tree, Hide/Show Hidden Items, but the Origin  [more...]