Last (Saturday) night, all of the SolidWorks bloggers and folks from the SolidWorks Twitter community who had already arrived in Orlando met up in the Dolphin bar area of the Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort.  It was awesome to meet with some new folks who I have never met or met only known online, and to also catch up with some old friends.
There were also many SolidWorks employees mingling around, and even Jon Hirschtick and Jeff Ray were making the rounds talking to the users.  That’s one of the …

One of the small, but neat things to me about attending conferences is all the swag you get.  And as always, the first swag that you get at SolidWorks World are the bags and T-shirts that SolidWorks gives attendees when they register.
This year, the bags that SolidWorks are giving out are heavy messenger bags.  While I personally prefer a backpack for carrying a laptop and other materials around (and I will probably just stick with the one I got last year), these bags are very sturdy and attractive, and …

I’m sitting in the Huntsville International Airport waiting to board my flight to Orlando, FL, to attend my fourth SolidWorks World (SWW) conference.  I hit the ground running as soon as I touch down this afternoon with a blogger roundtable meeting, and then a tweetup of all the bloggers and SW folks who frequent Twitter.
I’m looking forward to catching up with some old friends and meeting all the new folks I’ve met online since the last SWW conference!
Be sure to keep a watch on your RSS feeds for all the …

Alex over at The SolidWorks Geek blog has launched a charity drive campaign called Design For The Future. This fundraiser will benefit the Orangewood Children’s Foundation and the residents of the Orangewood Children’s Home in Orange County, California.
To read more about this charity and to contribute, please visit Design For The Future.

Ah, the pretty RGB colors! I usually use the triad in the bottom left corner of the SolidWorks model view as a reference to keep myself oriented in my model.  But did you know that in SolidWorks 2009 you can use it to change your view of the model?  Clicking each triad arrow will give you a view normal to the respective arrow, and another click on the same arrow flips the view normally.
I.e., click on the Z arrow, and you are instantly transported to the Front (X-Y) view.  Clicking …

The early bird registration for SolidWorks World 2009 ends this Friday, January 9, 2009!  This is your last chance to grab a $100 discount off of the full conference attendance fee.
So, sign up now to join us at SolidWorks World 2009 on February 8-11, 2009 at the Walt Disney World® Swan & Dolphin, Orlando, FL.  I hope to see you there!

Well, it’s that time of year again.  The time of year when you start seeing Top Ten lists popping up everywhere.
But this is a unique Top Ten list, as it is still in the process of being written!  SolidWorks has a new page up where users can submit and vote on their favorite enhancements.  The input gleaned from this page will be used to create the list of the 10 most-requested enhancements that will be announced at SolidWorks World 2009 in February.
The only caveat to be able to vote is …

If you are reading this from the site, you can tell that there have been some major changes around here!  Like several of the other SolidWorks bloggers, I have made the jump and moved my TypePad blog to a WordPress-hosted site.
I want to thank SolidWorks for graciously providing the platform to freely air my missives over the past two years or so and Richard Doyle for getting me involved.  I would also like to thank Patrick Cook and Matthew West for their help and expertise in setting things up and tweaking things here and …