3D. Future. Interface. Oblong’s G-Speak User Environment

There is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well as Minority Report, Hulk and Aeon Flux. He is now the chief... [Read more]

SolidWorks On Edge Relations: Avoid Them Like Teething Zombie Babies

They’re a little bit easier to handle than the teething undead, but all the relations in a SolidWorks sketch can make modeling, and specifically concept modeling, a relation re-defining nightmare that is way less interesting than cleaning up after a zombie child. One of the biggest problems you’ll have with relations automatically added... [Read more]

3D. Future. Interface. Oblong’s G-Speak User Environment

There is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well as Minority Report, Hulk and Aeon Flux. He is now the chief... [Read more]

SolidWorks On Edge Relations: Avoid Them Like Teething Zombie Babies

They’re a little bit easier to handle than the teething undead, but all the relations in a SolidWorks sketch can make modeling, and specifically concept modeling, a relation re-defining nightmare that is way less interesting than cleaning up after a zombie child. One of the biggest problems you’ll have with relations automatically added... [Read more]

STOP Strumming. Start Rockin’. Blackbird Guitars Designed in SolidWorks

You can strum all day long and wear down the clearcoat on the wooden body of your regular old guitar, or you can be awesome and check out the humidity-proof, carbon fiber Blackbird Rider from Blackbird Guitars. Picking out tunes can be done in either Steel or Nylon String flavors and you’ll have the added cool factor that it was completely designed... [Read more]

STOP Strumming. Start Rockin’. Blackbird Guitars Designed in SolidWorks

You can strum all day long and wear down the clearcoat on the wooden body of your regular old guitar, or you can be awesome and check out the humidity-proof, carbon fiber Blackbird Rider from Blackbird Guitars. Picking out tunes can be done in either Steel or Nylon String flavors and you’ll have the added cool factor that it was completely designed... [Read more]

SWUGN Summit - Los Angeles

The final SWUGN Summit event of 2008 will be held at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Santa Monica on December 16th.  The lineup of presenters is impressive - Devon Sowell, Casey Gorman, Matt Lorono, Patrick Rainsberry, and Mike Puckett. At a little less than 4 million people, Los Angeles is the USA’s second largest city.  There’s no... [Read more]

SolidWorks 2009… A Great New UI Enhancement

I have read about all of the great new enhancements in SolidWorks 2009 but sometimes you don’t realize how nice they will be until you actually see them in action. As is the case with the above picture. This morning I was working on a component and had added a feature above the chamfers in my FeatureManager tree. Well it caused some errors... [Read more]

Only 3 Days Left to Submit Your Mach 4 Rendering!

There’s only 3 days remaining to submit your rendering of the Mach 4 Racer to Rob Rodriguez’s November PhotoWorks Rendering Contest. The contest closes Friday October 21, 2008 and voting will end the following Friday, October 28, 2008. I would love to see us break some records for the number of entries so fire up PhotoWorks or PhotoView... [Read more]

Madison Turns 10

November 13th, 2008 marks the ten year anniversary of the Madison Area SolidWorks User Group (MASWUG).  Originally formed by George Skupniewicz of Nicolet Instrument Corp, it’s one of the oldest SolidWorks user groups in existence.  The group maintains a great website, with meeting minutes dating all the way back to that eventful day. Congratulations... [Read more]

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