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ioSafe External Hard Drive Review, Is It Disaster Proof?

You may remember a previous post here detailing the creation of an image for an external hard drive designed by ioSafe.  I created the image for SolidWorks who was developing a case study of one of their customers, ioSafe.  ioSafe uses SolidWorks to design, in their words, “disaster proof hardware”.  More specifically, ioSafe designs, manufactures [...]

Creating Animations With SolidWorks: A New Step By Step Guide

SolidWorks has released a new Step By Step Guide, “Creating Animations with SolidWorks“.  This guide is the replacement for the Motion Manager Step By Step Guide and has seen a lot of enhancements.  At 18 chapters and 516 pages it’s almost double the size of the old guide.  before we talk about the new guide [...]

DraftSight: New 2D Software From Dassault Systems

Dassault had the CAD world talking when it showed a cloud based version of SolidWorks at SolidWorks World 2010.  I sat in the audience during the conference and listen to Bernard Charles talk about the Dassault family of products and their mantra of “3d for all”.    That’s why I was surprised when I learned the newest software  [...]

ATI FirePro V5700

A while ago the SolidWorks bloggers were asked if they would be interested in testing some of the new ATI FirePro graphics cards.  I immediately jumped at the chance and as my good luck would have it I was somehow placed first on the list of testers.  My test machine arrived about 10 days ago and I [...]

Thoughts on Modo?

The partner pavilion at SolidWorks World is packed with SolidWorks partner products for a variety of uses.  This year the big draw for me was Luxology.  As you probably know the results of the Luxology and SolidWorks partnerhip appeared in the SolidWorks 2009 release as PhotoView 360.  This partnership is now also bringing Modo users [...]

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