Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Sep 28, 2009, 7:30 am
SolidWorks 2010 has many improvements and new features that can help engineers and designers create and documents their designs more efficiently.  As is often the case in life, it’s the small thing...
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Aug 20, 2009, 4:46 pm
If you haven’t already heard, SolidWorks graciously hosted some of the bloggers at SolidWorks Headquarters in Concord a couple of weeks ago.  The main purpose of the event was to give us, as SolidW...
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Aug 20, 2009, 3:57 pm
If you are interested in participating in SolidWorks usability testing, check out the post on the SolidWorks Blog for details.
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Aug 18, 2009, 2:10 pm
If you haven’t noticed, people are different.  They have different tastes in clothing, food, and music.  You say tomato, I say ‘mater. So it follows that designers will have different modeling ...
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Aug 5, 2009, 3:31 pm
I received an email earlier today informing me that registration is now open for SolidWorks World 2010!
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Jun 24, 2009, 2:38 pm
After hearing of SolidWorks’ new sustainable product tool, code-named “Sage”, at this year’s SolidWorks World conference, I decided to learn a little more about it.  So I contacted Mr. Rich C...
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Jun 24, 2009, 11:41 am
The free Xpress version of the Sage add-in mentioned at the Wednesday General Session of SolidWorks World 2009 is now available at SolidWorks Labs. The add-in enables users to perform an environmenta...
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Jun 19, 2009, 8:02 am
Last November, I posted a tip on how to more easily mate components using an Alt-Drag technique.  A reader had a question about it, so I thought I would create a video demonstrating it.  I hope it h...
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Jun 4, 2009, 1:17 pm
Mike Puckett has posted that the upcoming SolidWorks 2010 Beta test will be starting up within the next two weeks.
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - Jun 4, 2009, 11:31 am
Now thru 5:00PM EST Friday, June 5, 2009, TechSmith is offering a free license of their screen capturing and image editing program SnagIt.
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Brian McElyea posted an article on CADFanatic - May 26, 2009, 7:30 am
How do you recreate an identical sketch on another face/plane? Convert edges is fine if you want to project a sketch to a parallel face or plane, but what if the face in question is not parallel? You ...
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