Reality TV Gets a Redesign—And You Could Win Big

SolidWorks is the exclusive CAD sponsor of Reality Redesigned, a new design competition with a reality show twist. In partnership with the SME Educational Foundation, the show host Jeremy Bout, said the goal of the competition is to let students and the general public see that “the invisible world of manufacturing” is populated by cool people with “skills that rival those of a doctor or surgeon.”

Win a Pimped-Out Mountain Bike
The first season is showcasing the close relationship between the mountain biking and manufacturing industries. Students and bike enthusiasts from Canada and the U.S. are encouraged to submit designs in one of three mountain bike categories—suspension, component, or frame.

After all the submissions are collected by the February 24 deadline, distinguished judges will choose the top three in each category. From March 12 through April 9, the general public will be able to vote for their favorite designs: The submission with the most “yes” votes will win a pimped out Intense bike. Read full article »

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Say Good-Bye to Paper Technician Manuals with Creo Illustrate

A lot of you are probably too young to remember the classic Xerox commercial with Brother Dominic, who had the copier make short work of documents that the Abbot thought the monk was writing by hand. Well, what the Xerox machine did for Brother Dominic, Creo Illustrate is doing for OEMs that need to produce product manuals for service technicians.

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Mobilizing Your AutoCAD Drawings

You’ve no doubt heard the hype and seen the cool products that offer the opportunity to mobilize work.  But, are you wondering how you can mobilize your 2D and 3D designs or collaborate with your peers outside the office?  AutoCAD WS makes it easy to mobilize your AutoCAD drawings and share them with your team.

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Design & Engineering Tech Insights Weekly Blog Round-Up

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2012: Integrated Search in Windows Explorer
Originally Posted by Kurt Lundstedt, SolidWorks Blog
A great new feature has been added to SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2012 that allows for searching inside of Windows Explorer. Not only does this eliminate the need for a separate Search window to be opened on the desktop, it also adds searching to any Windows Open dialog.
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AutoCAD WS for Facilities Management – Part 4: Managing Your Move to AutoCAD WS
Originally Posted by Shaun Bryant, CAD Speed
Welcome to the fourth part of the series of AutoCAD WS for Facilities Management (FM). In Part 1, 2 and 3, we talked about operational methods for easily managing our space in our building from the cloud, using a tablet device and AutoCAD WS. Let’s now look at AutoCAD WS from a management level, rather than an operational level.
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New Benchmark Brings Testing Standards to OpenCL
Originally Posted by Randall, GraphicSpeak
Rightware says Basemark CL will improve all applications using GPUs for general purpose computation. Last year the Khronos Group introduced OpenCL (Open Computing Language) an open, royalty-free standard for parallel programming of modern processors, aimed specifically at using the new generation of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) for general purpose computation.
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SolidWorks Weekly Round-Up

“Father of the iPod” to Keynote SolidWorks World 2012 #SWW12
Originally Posted by Matthew West, SolidWorks Blog
Just a few years ago, the iPod revolutionized personal electronics worldwide. Tony Fadell, the designer who spearheaded the team that brought the iPod to market, will keynote SolidWorks World 2012.
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CAD: January 24, 2012 SolidWorks Week in Review
Originally Posted by Kung Fu Drafter
Since our experiment aggregating the week’s Autodesk news has gone so well, we’ve decided to expand. So today we will begin collecting and presenting our readers with SolidWorks for the week. We have to admit, this is unknown territory for us, so if you know of good SolidWorks news sources be sure to leave us a comment below and we’ll check it out!
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SolidWorks:HEARD! Episode 371 – January Tech News
Originally Posted by SolidWorks:HEARD!
This podcast covers the SolidWorks and CAD-related tech news that broke since mid-November covering the SolidWorks Blog, various tech alerts and other industry news.
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