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Dan Gamsby
So your company has just made a great investment in one of the premier CAD design tools in the industry, SolidWorks. What is the next step? In many cases, giving a designer a new design tool is just not enough to increase their productivity. We find that engineering departments need help transitioning from their current CAD package to SolidWorks; whether it be installation and setup of the software, creating proper CAD standards, or integrating with existing business processes. Can your company’s existing hardware even run SolidWorks? It’s important to have proper hardware in place, to ensure great productivity from your design team. If they do not have the tools necessary to do their job effectively, they cannot be productive. A highly computer intensive application like…
Leaving the fridge door open while you decide what to graze on is not sustainable. Tips: Use your phone to take a photo inventory of the fridge contents so you can just grab what you know is in there easily, without wasting all the energy of your fridge trying to cool down your house while you decide what is available to eat. You can also post your fridge content photos to flicker: http://www.flickr.com/groups/inthefridge/.
It’s automatic baby! A real world example of SolidWorks automation for Calendar Club
By Dan Gamsby on January 30, 2011
One of our services team members, Paul, always tells me that “If the customer can do it manually with their current systems, we can automate it!”. By utilizing a combination of programming in the SolidWorks API, Microsoft Office, SQL data management and some elbow grease,…
With Draftsight you can edit DWG files from any version of AutoCAD!
By Dan Gamsby on October 6, 2010
Looking for a free DWG Editor? Unable to open your AutoCAD files? We might be able to help you with DraftSight… One of the common frustrations that SOLIDWORKS users have is being unable to open and edit legacy DWG files, either because the files are too old,…
Step it up a notch – Use the Resource Monitor in Windows 7
By Dan Gamsby on August 13, 2010
Typical computer power users, including us gaming geeks, CAD engineers/designers, and the like, need to know what is happening when our computer decides to punish us unexpectedly with a process hanging, or running out of RAM. To troubleshoot these issues, we instinctively open task manager,…