Jeff's Tool Shed

My.SolidWorks.com – Growing Up

Jeff Mirisola — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:55:02 +0000

Last week, my.soldiworks.com exited beta testing and is now a full-fledged site. What is my.solidworks.com? I’m quite sure I touched upon it during world, but let’s go over it just in case, shall we? In a nutshell, it’s like an electronic funnel for just about all things SolidWorks. You can find answers to questions or [...]

Xi versus HP versus Boxx versus Dell

Jeff Mirisola — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:24:58 +0000

Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to play with a few different computer systems; Xi, Boxx, HP and Dell. While the first three were desktops, and pretty much equal, the Dell is my M4600 and a bit lesser than the others. Unlike other hardware reviews, I’m not going to list the system [...]

Mark Lyons – Draftsight’s Training Guru

Jeff Mirisola — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:46:58 +0000

This interview has been a long time coming. I first reached out to Mark back in September, but I didn’t mark his response and it got buried. I apologized to Mark for my disorganization. He, graciously, accepted my apology. Without further ado, let’s learn about Mr. Mark Lyons. Mark grew up in Marlboro, Massachusetts as one of [...]

For My Seattle Readers

Jeff Mirisola — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:17:55 +0000

You all know we have a SolidWorks user group in Seattle, right? The Seattle Area SolidWorks Power User Group (SASPUG) was founded in February 1996 and, as I’ve been told, is the olded user group in the nation. Today’s version has a website, a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Our next meeting will be March [...]

Upcoming

Jeff Mirisola — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:21:19 +0000

Just to keep you all interested, here’s what’s coming up in the next few posts on Jeff’s Tool Shed: Boxx is sending me one of their computers so that I can kick the tires and test it out. The cool thing is that I had an Xi at work; had being the operative word there, [...]

Mcor Technologies – Printing with paper, not just on it.

Jeff Mirisola — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:39:49 +0000

One of the things I enjoy about SolidWorks World is seeing all the technology out there that one can use with SolidWorks, be it hardware or software. Leading up to the show, I was contacted by Julie Reece, the Director of Marketing for Mcor Technologies. Unlike most marketing people who ask me if I’d be [...]

Chris Scott – From SWW Virgin to Addict

Jeff Mirisola — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:00:20 +0000

Once again this year, SolidWorks held their Internet Correspondent contest and the winner was Chris Scott from Jacksonville, Florida. That, for this post, is neither here nor there. Chris fulfilled a need I had; to interview someone who had never been to SolidWorks World before. While I remember my first time (who doesn’t?), I wanted [...]

SolidWorks World 2013 Wrapup

Jeff Mirisola — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:30:05 +0000

I’m 35,000 feet above the U.S. in a plane fighting headwinds that are going to cause me to be 35 minutes late, which they didn’t tell us until after we were airborne. On the one hand I want to curse United for not having WiFi on board, but where I somehow ended up in economy plus (awesome amount [...]

A CSWP at the CSWE Party

Jeff Mirisola — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:26:16 +0000

Sometimes life gives you lemons, other times it gives you Bacardi and coke. Monday, at SolidWorks World 2013, it gave me the latter. I remember being bummed when I heard that there would no longer be a CSWP event at SolidWorks World. It had become too large, apparently. I’d have to say that it was [...]

SolidWorks World – Tuesday

Jeff Mirisola — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:28:18 +0000

I’m quite sure that any number of bloggers and reporters will be talking about today’s general session and how SolidWorks has had a hand in designing Skynet and how our future robot overlords/killers have become aware. Where I feel like some sort of accomplice, I apologize. I also am not going to rehash the coolness [...]