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Indiana SolidWorks User Group Meeting Annoucement

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Register now for the February Indiana SolidWorks User Group Meeting being held on Thursday, February 10.

Location: Ground Floor Conference Room, MJ Insurance Building at 9225 Priority Way West, Indianapolis, Indiana

The event will start at 4:30 with Registration and Networking, meeting begins promptly at 5pm.

Agenda:
General meeting – Introductions and SWW 2011 highlights followed by NEiNastran Presentation
Dinner – Sponsored by SWUG Corporate
Technical Presentation – Phil Whitaker, CATI
Tips & Tricks
Door Prizes

To register, email info@indianasolidworks.org

Carrie Cavanaugh

Carrie Patrick
Marketing Manager
3DVision Technologies

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3DVision Technologies is now an Office2PDM reseller

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

What is Office2PDM?

Office2PDM is an add-in for Microsoft Office that brings the document management functions of SolidWorks Enterprise PDM directly into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

With Office2PDM you no longer have to leave Word, Excel and PowerPoint to work with your files in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM.

Features*:
-Access Enterprise PDM directly through your Microsoft Office environment, providing you with the ability to manage your data on your terms through a familiar interface.

-Apply enterprise-level data management within your established work procedures.

-Enable enterprise document management by providing you with the capability to easily check-in, check-out and revise directly from the Ribbon UI or Task Pane.

For more information on Office2PDM, visit www.office3pdm or contact us at info@3dvision.com.

Office2PDM is a member product of Extensible CAD Technologies.

*Requires Microsoft Office 2003 or later.

Carrie Cavanaugh

Carrie Patrick
Marketing Manager
3DVision Technologies

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Every Day is Game Day!

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

For engineering teams, Every Day is Game Day, and you need your team performing at their best to stay ahead of the competition. To help with this, SolidProfessor is offering a free webinar series featuring SolidProfessor Enterprise.

SolidProfessor Enterprise is a new, web-based solution for companies who want to improve the proficiency and skill level of their SolidWorks design team in order to avoid:

-Poor quality designs
-Prolonged design times
-Missed project deadlines
-Problems with design edit-ability down the road
-Non-standard design practices and more . . .

SolidProfessor Enterprise provides a solution by allowing company administrators to provide a comprehensive SolidWorks education resource to individual users, while tracking usage and retention.

To register for one of the upcoming webinars, click here.

Carrie Cavanaugh

Carrie Patrick
Marketing Manager
3DVision Technologies

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Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Do you ever catch yourself grumbling while using SolidWorks?  Well, I know of a few from my recent Essentials classes that do!  Whenever you find yourself saying, “That’s stupid, it should work THIS way!”, do this:

  1. Freeze
  2. Grab a pen and a pad
  3. Write your thoughts down, so you don’t forget them
  4. Log into the customer portal and submit an Enhancement Request (located under ‘My Support’).

But for the next month or so, you’ll also be able to post your ideas with a chance to have them voted into the top 10 of the year!  Just click on this link (you’ll need to be logged into the forum, so if you don’t have an account create one)…

top_10_ideas

…and start submitting/voting for your favorite enhancements by clicking the ‘Create an idea’ link on the right.  The top 10 ideas will be presented in San Antonio during SolidWorks World and be at the top of the development team’s to-do list!  SolidWorks’ ability to listen to their enormous user base (1.4 million) is what keeps them ahead of the pack.

So get busy, or BE QUIET!  : )

By the way, I just littered the submission board with 15 ideas of my own.  Here are my favorites (again, make sure you’re logged in for links to work): Weldment Profiles to use Configurations, Auto Zoom ‘Normal To’ for Sketches Option

Jordan Tadic
Application Engineer, CSWE
3DVision Technologies
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What’s New in SolidWorks 2011 Video

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

As we’ve been doing for the last few years, we’ve posted a video presenting all of what’s new in SolidWorks 2011.  Whether you weren’t able to make it to one of the local live events or you’d like to pass it on to your colleagues so they’ll be able to review all the new details as well, it’s available by clicking the link below.

whats-new-2011

Jordan Tadic
Application Engineer, CSWE
3DVision Technologies
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3DVision Technologies Launches New Twitter Account

Monday, November 15th, 2010

I am pleased to announce 3DVision Technologies brand new Twitter Account.

Lets face it, we are all juggling time vs. knowledge and we understand that you don’t always have the time to read our blog entries (sorry Jeff) or those marketing & promotional emails we send out. So to help ‘ease the load’ we are going to be sending out regular “Tweets” to announce product updates, blog topics, partner products, sales, promotions and more.

As a 3DVision Technologies follower, we also encourage you to send us direct messages with things that are impacting your day to day business objectives. You are our business so we want to hear from you.

Our account is live and waiting for you, to follow go to Twitter.com and search for @3DVisionTech

We hope to see you soon!

Carrie Cavanaugh

Carrie Patrick
Marketing Manager
3DVision Technologies

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User groups are busy this time of year!

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

I love attending SolidWorks user group meetings. The meetings themselves are usually a great time to learn something from the presenter…even if the presentation is not on the types of things you normally do with SolidWorks. (It usually turns out that I learn the most from these.) After the presentation, if you are lucky, the host of the meeting will take you on a plant tour.

At the last Central Indiana SolidWorks user group meeting, the presenter was fabulous. However since I was the presenter, I didn’t learn as much as I usually do. (Great Aunt Eleanor always says if you want to learn something keep your mouth shut and your ears open. She also says druids get too many hit points in World of Warcraft.)

After the meeting we got to tour our host, Impact Forge’s plant. Freaking cool. I’ve been through die plants before. It is impressive to feel the floor and your heart shake as these multi-ton presses bang on their dies. However if the material they are hitting is nearly molten metal and this metal “splashes” off the dies at what must be over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit –your Engineering Data Specialist pretty much giggled with every impact.

Here are some thumbnail pics I took with my camera phone. I would have gotten closer, but frankly I was a bit intimated.

ScrapsSome scraps as the came off of the die, they were still glowing as they hit the floor.

WorkerHere a worker holds the piece as a 16 ton hammer makes an impact. You can see the glowing steel reflecting off of the graphite spray used to help the part release from the die. (Spray graphite…don’t wear your white pants here!)

SmallerHammerOne of the smaller hammers I saw. You can see the upper part of the die just over the further guy’s left shoulder.

What’s going on in a user group in your area?

Jeff Sweeney

Jeff Sweeney
Engineering Data Specialist
3DVision Technologies

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SolidWorks 2011…It’s Alive!

Monday, October 25th, 2010

[Insert non-copyrighted picture of Frankenstein's monster here] It’s alive!
Cool pic eh? Just in time for the season! Halloween and Engineering Data Specialist Month!

SolidWorks and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2011 are now available for download, ready for production use. Hopefully you have been doing some preliminary testing during the beta phase, so you can hit the ground running using the cool new features in 2011.

Jeff Sweeney

Jeff Sweeney
Engineering Data Specialist
3DVision Technologies

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What’s New in 2011 Rollouts Announced

Monday, September 27th, 2010

The two greatest days of the year are when they give us a sneak peek at what will be in the next release of SolidWorks at SolidWorks World, and when you finally get a chance to see it live at the What’s New Rollout.

Nine days from now the What’s New tour will begin in Louisville. -We’re getting close! Have you registered yet?

You can see there are also some web casts on that page as well. Though if you get a chance to see it live -I recommend it. It is a good time for networking, getting some face time with your local AE, or seeing the fancy new silk shirts Vik has picked out for the shows.

I’ll be showing SolidWorks Enterprise PDM, DriveWorks Solo, and DriveWorks Pro. There will be a special presentation that will only be shown for the live rollouts. I don’t want to say too much, but we should be able to finally put to rest the age old argument between who is better: Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth.

Jeff Sweeney

Jeff Sweeney
Engineering Data Specialist
3DVision Technologies

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SolidWorks user group meeting in Columbus

Monday, September 20th, 2010

A few weeks ago Peter Fischer emailed me and asked if I would like to present at an upcoming SolidWorks user group meeting in Columbus.

Kids, here is why it is important to pay attention in geography. Turns out there is more than one Columbus. I was thinking Columbus Ohio – a location I can get to in less than 45 minutes. Actually the meeting is in Columbus Indiana - a destination quite a bit further away.

No matter, I love going to user group meetings. This will be my first CISUG meeting and I am looking forward to meeting everyone there.

If you have not already done so, please register and bring a guest.

Date: Thursday September 23rd. 2010
Time: 4:30pm Registration and Networking. Meeting starts at 5:00pm

Meeting Agenda:

  • Location: Impact Forge Corporation. 2805 Norcross Drive, Columbus, IN 47201-4911
  • Guest Speaker: Matt Hendey, President, M.R. Hendey Consulting will talk about SoildWorks on alternative platforms.
  • Dinner: (Sponsored by SWUG Corporate)
  • Technical Presentation: Jeff Sweeney, 3D Vision will present Maximizing Enterprise PDM as a fully integrated management control system.
  • Tips & Tricks. Jeff Sweeney and all attendees. Bring your problems or solutions on a memory stick to share with others
  • Premium Door Prize Sponsored by: FBG Consulting
  • Door Prizes: 7:30pm “ish”.

I see Peter snuck the “Tips & Tricks” section in on me. I wasn’t expecting that! No matter, I’m good for a challenge. Most of these turn out to be a group effort anyway…and that is a big reason why I enjoy user group meetings.

Turns out there are twenty cities named Columbus in the United States. The guy takes a few rides in a boat that wasn’t even his and gets all of that?

Jeff Sweeney

Jeff Sweeney
Engineering Data Specialist
3DVision Technologies

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