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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 [...]

 
Often times when creating rendered images for marketing or promotion purposes you’ll need to use a variety of tools to reach an end result.  It would be great if you were able to simply set up something in PhotoView 360 or PhotoWorks, process the image and it would be complete but that is rarely the [...]

The next Northern Vermont SolidWorks User Group Meeting will be Thursday November ,19th from 6-9pm at the Waterbury Best Western in Waterbury, Vermont.  If you’re a SolidWorks user in the area feel free to stop in.
Here’s more information about the meeting.
This will be one of the best meetings we’ve ever held, here’s why.
 
If you’re a [...]

In a recent blog post Matt Lombard breaks the news about the retirement of PhotoWorks after the SolidWorks 2010 release.  This news probably doesn’t come as a surprise to most SolidWorks users since I think most expected PhotoView 360 to take over the SolidWorks rendering duties at some point.  The announcement really just gives us a [...]

On Wednesday June, 24th I’ll be traveling to Springfield, Massachusetts to present a Realview, PhotoWorks, PhotoView 360 session at the Western Massachusetts Solidworks User Group meeting.  I’ll be one of two presenters at the meeting which will be held at the Smith & Wesson Shooting Sports Academy.  If you’re a SolidWorks user in the Springfield area [...]

Clicking the “Gallery” icon in PhotoView 360 takes you to the SolidWorks gallery.com website.  Up until now this website has been just what it’s named, a gallery of images.  That changed today when a collection of PhotoView 360 video tutorials were made available.  There are 7 tutorials in all.  The 5 tutorials in the “general” [...]

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 [...]

About a month ago I announced I’d no longer be hosting the PhotoWorks Rendering Contest.  I received many e-mails and comments from people both thanking me for creating and hosting the contest as well as letting me know they were sad to see it end.  I even had a few of people inquire about continuing the [...]

If you’ve found yourself struggling to understand how colors and textures from previous SolidWorks versions are converted into appearances in SolidWorks 2008 & 2009 you’re not alone.  You might also be confused as to how the new appearances are shown in RealView and PhotoWorks as is the case with the posting at this Solidworks Discussion Forum [...]

 
The images for the February PhotoWorks Rendering Contest have been posted for voting.  We have 14 entries this month.  To keep voting as fair as possible we will follow the “3 vote” rule we’ve used in the past.  Instead of voting for your favorite image this month you’ll want to vote for your top 3 [...]