Tempted as I may be to spill the beans about planned SolidWorks 2014 enhancements based on what was shown at SolidWorks World 2013, I have to admit that Ricky Jordan’s article already covers them so well, I cannot really add anything more. Check out his very thorough coverage here:
SolidWorks World 2013 Top Ten Enhancement Request
There seems to be a nearly a whole new list of items in the SolidWorks World 2013 Top Ten list this year. A pure performance request made the top of the list this year. Plus, users are asking for more version interoperability. A couple of items are already on the list for SolidWorks 2014, according the the sneak peak. Here’s the list
- Make rebuild time faster
- Full backward compatibility
- Slot mate (announced in the SolidWorks 2014 sneak peek)
- Cylindrical mates lock rotation
- eDrawings mobile app on Android(announced during Nvidia’s presentation)
- Equal spacing on linear patterns
- Default concentric mate on axis to cylindrical surface
- External thread wizard for all thread types
- Draw a line segment starting from the midpoint
- Create auxiliary line for adding angle dimensions
SolidWorks World 2013: Day 3 photolog
SolidWorks World 2013: General Session Day 2
SolidWorks World 2013 General Session Day 2 had two great examples of technology that will be eventually be used to take over the world.
Professor Vijay Kumar of the University of Pennsylvania was a great speaker that talked extensively about synchronized quadcopters that could also be used in search and rescue operations (or proletariat suppression missions). I was rather hoping that he’d order an armada of quadcopters to fly over the crowd…but no, he just showed Youtube videos.
Festo stole the show. They talked about bio mimicry. And then did this.
SolidWorks World 2013: Some day 1 photos
SolidWorks World 2013: Monday, Day 1 (my presentation oops)
There were a lot of exciting announcements at day 1 of SolidWorks World 2013. Two product announcements included My.SolidWorks.com (now in Beta) and the impending Mechanical Conceptual. These are already be very well covered by many other sources, so I’m not going into detail about them yet. If you would like more detail about these, the general session is viewable on SolidWorks Blog right now.
The surprize guests were Art Thompson & Jon Wells, engineers that worked on the Red Bull Srtatos jump. Every time I see that video of Felix Baumgartner jumping out of the capsule, I cringe. Thompson talked about project planning was several years to prepare.
My breakout session, Create “Super” Drawing Templates, didn’t go as planned. The power went out twice at the podium, (once at the start, and once while I was presenting). It is really hard to perform a software demonstration without power to your computer, projectors and microphone. I quickly recovered by turning the format into a question and answer advice and information session while the technicians worked to fix the problem. Eventually, I did get power back and continued the presentation. I was happy to have several attendees tell me later I did a great job adjusting to the abrupt interruption of my presentation. Even though I didn’t get to finish my presentation, I hope everyone left with enough information to find some benefit in what was shown.