I have been amazed at the response to the this treasure hunt contest. My clues must have been too easy because the first two prizes have already been claimed. When I was coming up with the clues, I was afraid that I made them too hard and that no one would be able to find [...]

I guess my clues were too easy because someone has found the golden ticket. Ausdell Hadaway from Canada was the first person to find the hidden link. See, it is possible. Don’t give up. There are still two more prizes to claim. The SolidWorks Geeks mug and the AMD shirt are still up for grabs. [...]

UPDATED WITH CLUE#3 With less then two weeks till SolidWorks 2010: No Experience Required goes on sale, I decided to give you a chance to receive a free signed copy.  The list price for the book is $39.99 and a signed copy has got to bring it up to $40.00 at least. Since the stakes are so [...]

UPDATED WITH CLUE#2 With less then two weeks till SolidWorks 2010: No Experience Required goes on sale, I decided to give you a chance to receive a free signed copy.  The list price for the book is $39.99 and a signed copy has got to bring it up to $40.00 at least. Since the stakes are so [...]

With less then two weeks till SolidWorks 2010: No Experience Required goes on sale, I decided to give you a chance to receive a free signed copy.  The list price for the book is $39.99 and a signed copy has got to bring it up to $40.00 at least. Since the stakes are so high this time [...]

Trimming and extending lines is one of the first skills that any CAD user must learn. The process is pretty straight forward; the Trim Entities tool is used to trim sketch entities to the nearest intersection and the Extend Entities is used to add length to a sketch entity until it meets another sketch entity. [...]

It has been quite a while since the last tutorial about the stapler. The last component of the stapler we created was the Staple Cradle.  Before moving on to another area of the stapler, we will need to build one more component to complete the Staple Cradle. Today we are going to build the front [...]

Just in time for the March 8th release of SolidWorks 2010: No Experience Required, the companion site is now live. Instead of including a CD with the book, we opted to do a companion site (www.swner.com). The advantage to doing a companion site instead of a CD is that readers will have a more interactive [...]

It is a very common practice to use the Mirror Entities tool to make a sketch symmetrical about a line after sketching one side. Did you know that you can make a sketch symmetrical while sketching? The Dynamic Mirror Entities tool is used to mirror the sketch about a line as you sketch. Note that [...]

Fremont, Calif. – Feb. 16, 2010 – 3Dconnexion today announced it has become an official sponsor of the North American Eagle™ Land Speed program. Project designers will be using the 3Dconnexion SpacePilot™ PRO 3D mouse in conjunction with Lenovo ThinkStations and ThinkPads, and Dassault Systèmes CATIA V5 and Geomagic Software to design parts and assemblies [...]