With over 2 million users of SolidWorks worldwide, there is an exponentially growing user community sharing a wealth of SolidWorks knowledge. You can find information from SolidWorks Forums, blog posts, videos, and unlimited social media sources.
While this is good to have this availability, it almost becomes sensory overload!!! Wouldn't it be nice to have a customized portal tailored to your interests??? Maybe you ONLY work in sheet metal and don't care about ANYTHING else! Maybe you just want to create and work in your own SolidWorks Sheet Metal cavern. You can do this! You can search by the words sheet metal and pull up any whisper of an article, blog post, video related to sheet metal. Secondly, you can filter items out....so that you can ONLY pull up YouTube videos in your search...which is great if you find that reading actual text is very taxing.
Check out Jeremy's video introducing My.SolidWorks
A Community for SolidWorks Technical Support
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Friday, December 28, 2012
SolidProfessor vs. SolidWorks Training Classes
Well, we made it past the end of the world, so that's good news. The bad news is that your work didn't go away. In fact, it probably piled up. Considering your workload, plus that phantom concept of "work-life balance", who has time to get training or brush up on skills?
You know you have to "MAKE" time, so start the New Year right by improving your SolidWorks skills. There are a couple of great solutions and at least one of these should suit your needs!
Option One:
You're company might be starting with a new "bank" of training dollars, so if that's the case, consider signing up for one of our awesome Training Classes in Houston, Dallas, or Austin. Don't worry - we aren't boring.. Our instructors are full of personality and energy, while ingesting coffee and candy to fuel terrible nerd jokes. You'll walk away with immediate increase in productivity, a better skill set, a spiralbound, color manual with all of the exercises, files (downloads), and lectures available to you at anytime thereafter. If you don't see a class listed, email us!
Option Two:
No permission or time to get formal training? Are the training locations too far from you? You might consider having your company buy a license for SolidProfessor. SolidProfessor is a SolidWorks Solution Partner delivering the largest library of SolidWorks video training and tutorial courses on the market. While the tutorials in the help menu are a nice introduction to each topic, they don't even compare to the advantage of the video/audio combo of tutorials you get with SolidProfessor. (Right now there's a great promotion going on - 25% off!)
See this chart below to help you base your decision. Email us with questions at support@progressiontech.com:
You know you have to "MAKE" time, so start the New Year right by improving your SolidWorks skills. There are a couple of great solutions and at least one of these should suit your needs!
Option One:
You're company might be starting with a new "bank" of training dollars, so if that's the case, consider signing up for one of our awesome Training Classes in Houston, Dallas, or Austin. Don't worry - we aren't boring.. Our instructors are full of personality and energy, while ingesting coffee and candy to fuel terrible nerd jokes. You'll walk away with immediate increase in productivity, a better skill set, a spiralbound, color manual with all of the exercises, files (downloads), and lectures available to you at anytime thereafter. If you don't see a class listed, email us!
Option Two:
No permission or time to get formal training? Are the training locations too far from you? You might consider having your company buy a license for SolidProfessor. SolidProfessor is a SolidWorks Solution Partner delivering the largest library of SolidWorks video training and tutorial courses on the market. While the tutorials in the help menu are a nice introduction to each topic, they don't even compare to the advantage of the video/audio combo of tutorials you get with SolidProfessor. (Right now there's a great promotion going on - 25% off!)
See this chart below to help you base your decision. Email us with questions at support@progressiontech.com:
| SolidProfessor | Progression Training Classes | |
| Intensity | Lower intensity | Higher Intensity |
| Pace | Self-Paced by User | Administered Pace by Instructor |
| Topics | Learn on an as-needed basis | Learn a lot about a designated topic/module |
| Result | Continuous skill development in the areas of the user's interest | Immediate Increase in Productivity and Proficency in the desired topic/module |
| Duration | 3-5
minute videos of finely segmented topics, with both audio & video |
2 to 4 days; 7-hr days |
| Learning Style | Short Videos (Watch and Learn) | Lecture, Case Studies (group exercises), and Independent Exercises |
| Interaction | No instructor interaction, but you can submit questions to solidprofessor.com for potential topics | Q&A
tailored to your application/interests with instructor Learn experiences from instructor plus shortcuts, hotkeys, and practical application |
| Location | At
work or home, where internet access is available |
Progression Office On-Site (Houston, Dallas, or Austin) |
| Availability | Available
24hrs a day 7 days a week |
Classes
are typically Mon- Thurs 9am - 4:30pm |
| Cost | Annual recurring cost | One-time cost |
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Winner of the Giveaway is....
Jennifer! (There was only one Jennifer who entered, so you know who you are!) ;-)
Congratulations! These are the answers to the riddle in our previous post:
To all of our recent subscribers and followers of the Progression Blog, we wish you a
Congratulations! These are the answers to the riddle in our previous post:
1. Sin City
2. The Matrix
3. Signs
4. Mean Girls
5. Sum of All Fears
6. Snakes on a Plane
7. Looper (or possibly) In the Loop
8. Alpha and Omega
9. Exorcist
10. Iron Cross
11. Social Network
12. Vertical Limit
13. XXX (Vin Diesel)
14. Wall-E
15. Speed
16. 127 Hours
We have a lot of great (work appropriate) Videos and Tech Tips coming up on the Blog so stay tuned and make sure you have your colleagues sign up for updates too!2. The Matrix
3. Signs
4. Mean Girls
5. Sum of All Fears
6. Snakes on a Plane
7. Looper (or possibly) In the Loop
8. Alpha and Omega
9. Exorcist
10. Iron Cross
11. Social Network
12. Vertical Limit
13. XXX (Vin Diesel)
14. Wall-E
15. Speed
16. 127 Hours
To all of our recent subscribers and followers of the Progression Blog, we wish you a
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Nerd Movies and a Giveaway!
You think you're nerdy, but HOW nerdy are you, REALLY??
Progression Giveaway: See Rules Below!
Rules:
- Each of the illustrations above describe a Movie. Answer all 16 Riddles illustrated above, numbered 1 to 16 in an email to support@progressiontech.com
- Subject Title: Blog Giveaway
- Contestant must be a subscriber to our Blog (do it now --> over there!)
- Contestant must be with a company having an Active Technical Support Subscription
- All entries will be compiled and a winner will be chosen at random.
- Progression employees not eligible
- Contest Ends December 14th.
- The giveaway: [insert drumroll] ......................
Don't miss it!!
Some answer are better than zero answers!
Friday, November 2, 2012
A little love for an old friend!
For years now SolidWorks releases the new versions with
over 200 great enhancements. Some enhancements are major and can have a
big impact on how we work in SolidWorks day-to-day. Others enhancements
may seem small and almost un-noticed, and they seem to touch a wide range of
functions. With the release of SolidWorks 2013, there have again been
some great enhancements that I know we will adopt into our normal design
activities. But there is a function I have been using since ’97 that has
just gotten a face lift and some added functionality. It may be a
function you use every day, or maybe every single file you work with. It
is the Orientation dialog.
For years this function has allowed us to change to the
standard views (Front, Top, Right, etc.), as well as add named views to be
created. Any orientation can be saved as a named view and available for
working in the model, or for a view on the drawings. The Orientation
dialog has always been there with a tap of the Space bar, and has been like a
trusted friend over the years.
And now, in SolidWorks 2013, it has finally gotten some
attention. The have redesigned it to an icon interface, with previews no
less. If you hover over the from view icon, you will see a preview of the
front view. Also included are the selections to split the design window
into multiple panes. But some of the more dramatic changes include the
ability to not only create saved/named views, but to allow them to be
persistent to other files. Yes, you can save a named view, and with a
click of a check box, allow it to be available in other models as well.
Another big change is
the introduction of the View Cube. This “widget” will allow you to pick a
quadrant for viewing. It is available on the Orientation dialog in the
top right corner.
If it is enabled, pushed in, it will be presented each
time you open the Orientation dialog. Or, if you would just like to work
with the View Cube alone, you can press Ctrl-Space Bar to have it presented.
So while there are always some AWESOME new enhancements
and functions added with each release of SolidWorks. I was inspired when
I saw an old friend get a bit of a makeover.
Author: Top Dog of the Progression AE Team, Jeremy Colvin
Thursday, September 27, 2012
What's New?
Our Blog is What's New, for one!!! We want to capitalize on our right to claim some cyberspace real estate. You know, because...there aren't enough blogs out there.
The first thing you need to do is SUBSCRIBE!
Allow us to seduce you with our tech tips and work-appropriate videos.
You know you want to. Over there →
The second thing you need to do...sign up for a free meal. I mean a REAL meal. On a real ceramic plate. With silverware. And a napkin folded like origami or whatever. And you get to sit on a chair covered with a big girly satin bow tied around it. And, and, and...you don't even have to bring a wedding gift!!
That's right! We are treating you to a free meal so that we can share What's New for SolidWorks 2013!
What's in it for you?
The first thing you need to do is SUBSCRIBE!
Allow us to seduce you with our tech tips and work-appropriate videos.
You know you want to. Over there →
The second thing you need to do...sign up for a free meal. I mean a REAL meal. On a real ceramic plate. With silverware. And a napkin folded like origami or whatever. And you get to sit on a chair covered with a big girly satin bow tied around it. And, and, and...you don't even have to bring a wedding gift!!
That's right! We are treating you to a free meal so that we can share What's New for SolidWorks 2013!
What's in it for you?
- A Free real 'hungry man' meal
- A headstart exposure to all of the productivity tools that SolidWorks 2013 has to offer
- Powerful Design Tools
- Faster Model Creation
- Improved Performance
- Enhanced Collaboration, including the #1 most requested enhancement, implemented!
- An AWESOME giveaway for every attendee. Don't miss this. We nerds drool for this stuff.
- An opportunity to listen to Steve Darcey's ArKANsas-speak
- A break from the usual office monotony
- Distance from your boss
- A chance to not answer your cell phone. You can be free!!
- A chance to be your company's appointed SolidWorks bada$$ (i can't really spell it out...I'm at work! Gotta keep it clean.)
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