Hi everyone – we have a very popular lunch and learn webinar archived for our active subscription service customers regarding the very latest in hardware and a peek at what’s coming soon. Registration and acknowledgment of subscription service is required.
Here are the URL’s that are used in the webinar. Enjoy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99mD_A1uug
http://www.hardcorecomputer.com/ProductConfigurator_productReactorX.aspx
When I was a designer (a LONG time ago!) I always tried to push the software a little farther. Knowing some extra tricks usually paid off, and that’s why this post is worth checking out. Enjoy.
Wow!! This year’s SolidWorks World was packed with sessions, events, meetings and great fun! Our team had a great time with customers and partners and we learned a lot as always. If you couldn’t make it this year, please try and get to SolidWorks World 2012 in San Diego! You won’t be sorry.
The buzz is still loud in the blogosphere regarding the conference. You can get started at the SolidWorks blog. A few new products were announced: SolidWorks n!Fuze, Post3D, and SolidWorks Live Buildings for the AEC market. We were reacquainted with New SolidWorks CEO Bertrand Sicot. Bertrand has been with the company 15 years in various roles and we’ve enjoyed working with him on many occassions.
We especially want to thank our customers for their business in 2010. Symmetry Solutions received the “Elite 190 Club” award for the fourth year in a row. The award recognizes the top subscription service resellers worldwide. We were one of only four VAR’s in North America to receive the award.
SolidWorks 2011 has included a new utility to help with download problems: the SolidWorks Background Downloader. The Background Downloader uses processes behind the scenes to download the installation package for service packs. In previous versions, it was required that SolidWorks be closed before downloading files. Starting in 2011, this utility will allow the user to continue to use SolidWorks while it downloads the files. After the download is complete, the user will be prompted as to what they want to do with the download. The options are: “Install Now”, “Delay the Installation”, or “Delete the Download”. You can disable the Background Downloader and still run “Check for Updates” as in previous versions.
There are two ways to turn this function off. The first is during the install on the Download Options page. You can unselect the Background Downloader options (there are two of them). The other is if you installed SolidWorks and this is on, you can disable it from the icon in the taskbar. I have included a screen shot of the message from the taskbar above.
Even though the Background Downloader is selected to install by default for individual installs, it is not installed when using the SolidWorks administrative image.
Below is a link to Lou Gallo’s post about the SolidWorks Background Downloader and his take on the utility:
http://solidworksheard.com/blog/2010/12/24/solidworks-background-disabler.html