Over the past few years my career has evolved from 3D design to full-on CAD systems management. In fact a couple of months ago I started a brand new position as the Product Structure and CAD Systems Manager for a Southern California solar power company. Unfortunately this new position has required my full attention since I started and honestly [...]

You don’t need a CAD Manager to do the right thing. Miss Me? Things have been quite here lately and I have a very good reason for it. A little over a month ago I started a new job as the CAD Manager for a growing Solar Power company in Southern California. I was brought [...]

I actually started writing this post a few days ago while still at SolidWorks World 2010. It was a well crafted post with tons of big words. It sounded great and I was extremely proud of it…then the alcohol wore off. So this time I am letting the pictures tell the story. The following are [...]

Friday afternoon is upon us and as most people are getting their plans together for the upcoming weekend but I am working hard. I working hard on my book and a new article that I will be posting next week about SolidWorks Mates. I wanted to thank all of my readers for being so understanding [...]

 Yesterday, a blogger that writes about another CAD package decided to write a post directed towards me personally and my fellow SolidWorks Bloggers. In Jon Banquer’s post, he refers to the SolidWorks blogging community as “Lame, Fanboy bloggers” and makes some rather unfounded accusations. I must admit, my first instinct was to write a response [...]

Hey Geeks! I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. Let me start off by apologizing to all of my readers for my most recent absence. I have been knee deep in a project that will be extremely important to the future of the SolidWorks Geek. When the right time comes, I will tell you more [...]

Before I went to college I played bass in a hard rock band. When people would ask us what kind of music we played we would list our influences. That usually gave a person a good indication as to how we sounded. Our influences did not always influence our sound but taught us something that [...]