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Next Meeting – 30th May 2012
May 7th
UPCOMING – VICTORIAN USER GROUP MEETING
WHEN: 6.30pm – Wednesday 30th May 2012
WHERE: South Oakleigh Club
1 Victor Rd, East Bentleigh, Melbourne
Details to come
Solidworks World 2012 Presentations
Mar 21st
If you we’re not as fortunate as the many who attended Solidworks World 2012… never fear… all the presentations and other swag can not be viewed here!
Running Solidworks on a Mac
Mar 8th
It seems when ever I’m around other Solidworks users and I have my Mac with me, a lot of people ask me if Solidworks runs on a Mac. I figured enough people had asked me to warrant putting up a short article on topic. In short, yes you can run Solidworks on a Mac and yes it runs fine. Now when I say run it on a Mac I am talking about the Mac hardware only, Solidworks is not support by the Mac OS and will not run natively under the Mac OS. Ever since Apple switched to Intel chips as standard on all their machines you have been able to install and run Windows on a Mac which in turn allows you to run Solidworks.
You have two options for running Solidworks on Mac. 1) Bootcamp, which requires you to reboot into Windows to access Solidworks, or 2) to run a Virtual Machine (Parallels or VMware Fusion) which allows you to run a VM copy of Windows from within the Mac OS. More >
Meeting #49 – 7th March 2012
Mar 1st
Get excitied. We are proud to present Travis Hardy from 3D Systems (Formerly Known as Formero) who will be talking about their recent aqusition by the US Giant 3D Systems. He’ll also be running through some new services and products that they had added to their line up. We also have Alby talking about his experience at Solidworks World 2012 and what the future of CAD holds and Chris Peters is going to give us some insight into how the Internet and Crowd Funding is giving inventors a chance at getting their ideas off the ground using other peoples money!!!
November meeting
Nov 22nd
23rd November 2011 @ South Oakleigh Club VIC
Presentations:
- Alex | Interacd | Solidworks 2012
August Meeting
Jul 30th
24th August 2011 @ South Oakleigh Club VIC
Presentations:
- Kevin Wawick | Scan Xpress | 3D scanning products and services
- Ben Mott | Mechanical Engineer & Patent Attorney | WADESON | Patent & Trade Marks Attorneys
Design Validation Seminar – Wednesday 13th April 2011
Mar 2nd
What a great turn out we have at out special Design Validation meeting. Solidworks were kind enough to cover the cost of the event and put on a great show of Design Validation using Solidworks Simulation. A big thankyou goes out to Chris and Varda from Solidworks. It was great to a see a lot of new faces attending and we hope to see you all at the next meeting.
VIC – Next Meeting – 24th November 2010
Nov 10th
Next Victorian Solidworks User Group Meeting
Wednesday 24th November 2010 @ 6.30pm
South Oakleigh Club
1 Victor Rd,
Bentleigh East , Melbourne
Agenda details at the link below.
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/c5a3f8b47f4f76aa9ae3e0bf9/files/agenda_issue_44.1.pdf
Sorry for the late notice but we hope you can make it and look forward to seeing you there for our final meeting of the year.
Solidworks 2011 launched
Oct 27th
Yes its that time of year again, and in case you haven’t heard Solidworks 2011 is offically out in the wild. The Australian resellers SolidTec and Intercad have been busy touring the country showing off the new features at various locations in all major cities. If your keen to see the new features I’d suggest contacting your local sales rep or come along to our next meeting!
Meeting #43 – Heavy Metal & Great Mates
Sep 2nd
Once again we had a great turn out for the Solidfacts usergroup meeting on the 1st day of Spring (although it was that bloody cold outside you would have sworn it was the first day of winter!). It was also good to see some new faces mixed in with the regular attendees.
First up we had Stalin from NC Computer systems give a great presentation on Metaworks for Solidworks. Metaworks is a highly advanced integrated sheet metal programming solution that ties the core engine of MetaCAM seamlessly into the SolidWorks design environment.
Manuel from Solidtec was next up to teach some of the old dogs new tricks with his advanced assembly techniques. No matter how long you’ve been using Solidworks or how well you think you know the software, it amazing how many of the little things that exist that you never knew were there. Manuels presentation was a classic example of this and it was entertaining to see the response from a lot of the on lookers as they discovered you could do things that they didn’t think was possible.
The Oakleigh club put on their usual spread of seafood and caviar and everyone caught up on the Solidworks Gossip.
A big birthday shoot out to Kate from PeterNormalPersonal – Kate kindly dropped in to the meeting before heading off to the town for a big 21st celebration!
The next meeting will be held late November. We are looking for people interested in presenting so if you’re interested let us know info@solidfacts.org.au
Solidworks 2011 due to be released in a few weeks. We’re hoping for a heap of new cool features, more stability and integrated Photoview 360… Fingers crossed!
