The HRS Blog – SolidWorks and CAMWorks

You’ve probably heard that SolidWorks 2012 is now available for download and it may have even landed on your desk by the time you read this. What’s that? You don’t exactly have the free time to go over all 179 pages of the What’s New document to find out which features are going to make your life easier? Well, allow us to break it down for you with a quick “Greatest Hits” version.

You’ve probably heard that SolidWorks 2012 is now available for download and it may have even landed on your desk by the time you read this. What’s that? You don’t exactly have the free time to go over all 179 pages of the What’s New document to find out which features are going to make your life easier? Well, allow us to break it down for you with a quick “Greatest Hits” version.

If you spend a lot of time on detailing your designs in drawings, you MUST check out the Dimension Palette inSolidWorks 2011. Never heard of it? It was introduced in 2010 and made vastly better this year.

If you’re a CAD nerd like most of us here, you’ve probably heard about a new project from Dassault Systemes called DraftSight. If you have a life, let me break it down for you.

There are literally billions of 2D files out there and DraftSight was developed in response to comprehensive customer interviews that showed an overwhelming need for the ability to share DWG files.