SWW2006 write-up

I have finally finished the long-awaited (at least by a couple people)
write-up from SWW2006. It's long, hopefully not too boring, and somewhat
beneficial to all. Go to www.kcswug.com and there is a link on that page. As
always with my stuff, comments/corrections/suggestions are always listened
to.

WT



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Thanks Wayne!
I'm sure that I speak for everyone that couldn't make it this year.

Muggs

 

Thanks Wayne - for all your commentaries


TTFN

Jonathan

 

Thank you for a great report!

Couldn't go to SWW06... broke my wrist and hurt shoulder in a fall the week
before :-(

Aron

 

& on to the Exhibit Floor,
.... from a prior post I made which I don't think many people saw:

For lack of time, I only saw the exhibit floor, but it was very
interesting to say the least:

1. Adobe Acrobat 3D is probably #1 on my list to buy. All my
advertising pdfs will move to having 3D images by mid-year. This is
terrific technology at its best for our salesmen and customers.

2. Desktop Scanner by NextEngine = Inexpensive scanning: The next
time I need to measure up a dozen small competitive products and make
3D models, I am going to buy this. I could easily save 1-2 weeks time
on that process. <https://www2.nextengine.com/indexSecure.htm>

3. Books or CDs: Solid Professor has a series of training disks for
SolidWorks. Seems good. <http://www.solidprofessor.com/> Update
Training Price is right @ $99.

4. New RP Machines & materials have expanded the offering range
markedly in the last couple years. The lowest cost machine (seen @
MDDI in Anaheim a week after SwWks World) was the Dimension with the
lowest cost mnodel @ $18k, sutting right next to ZCorp's desktop
printer. <www.tekprogroup.com> = a distributor in So. Cal.

5. Lots of PDM at the show & for me, I think I'll look at
SolidPartners makes Activault <www.activault.com>

6. So many FEA packages surprised me, & some outfits also do
consulting,

7. SolidWorks notes on their website that the DVD is coming to the
conference participants. My question is still whether or why
SolidWorks would not want to just sell DVDs to the other 400,000 users
who couldn't make it to the show.

8. SolidWorks official booth had some little items and I bought a
Thermos with SolidWorks colors, but unfortunately, the first time I
filled it with coffee, the outside of the bottle was hot in literally
30 seconds. QC failed. But it still has a remarkably clever one
button to open-close the valve for pouring and I am going to take it
apart and detail it, as I might want to use something like that some
day. It was like a ball-point pen Push On-Push Off, except it had a
ring which popped up indicating when the valve was open position.

9. Lots of neat products on the show floor which were designed with
SolidWorks.

10. New RP materials were in evidence including those which flex a lot
more like the Somos 9110, and some other elastomeric like materials.

Bo

 

Paul, you know that anyone who really knows can't say.

Recently did a project where this was the basis for simplifying the
model, a large model made in sections so you didn't get clobbered by the
whole thing when editing a small part of it. I just used planar or
extruded surfaces to share the sketch data. It's a pain in the ass, but
it works.

....

These were from a predetermined list which people voted for. You could
also write in things like "c2 available anywhere tangent is available",
but the things on the list obviously got the most votes. I don't know
how or who put the list together.

I didn't see the things on the list as anything anyone could get really
excited about, as you mention, some are in the software already.
Anyway, the deck was definitely stacked with the predefined list.