Kendra's Virtual SOLIDWORKS User Group - 12/11/2018

Fantastic! Consider the word spread out here in the Pacific NW!

BTW, I got feedback from a couple of my locals who tuned into our latest Virtual Swug (aka VLOGME ) and they really enjoyed the format itself as well as the 3 presentations. These things are just going to keep snowballing! YAY!

Registered.

You need to do something about those "I am not a robot" things. I had to put my glasses on and get about 6" from the screen to see where the bikes were.

Signed up and I let my group know during the SLUGME event!

JM

That was cool. My first time using Zoom and started it on my phone while driving home, pulled over of course to start but listened the rest of the way home then switched to my iPad. Sorry for the feedback while switching, yes that was me.

Great job Kendra Wardlow & Toby Schnaars.

I will miss you at SWW2019, I will be on a family vacation that same week.

Thanks for setting this up.

Denny

I was looking forward to it but wound up making a trip to the doctor's office instead. I hope to make the next time.

Here's a follow up to Kendra's Virtual SWUG meeting. I thought it was fantastic. I think I've managed to attend all of these Virtual SWUG meetings and I'm sold on them as another tool to build our communities even larger.

Toby Schnaars gave a wonderful presentation and I picked up a few great tips. Further, I'm happy to report that I noticed at least 5 of the attendees were SASPUG members.

During Toby's presentation on the Surface Flatten feature, I made reference to a tip that Phil Sluder shared at SWW18 about using a seed file to access this feature if you don't have SW Premium. Here's a link to the forum thread where I passed along this tip, as well as a SW2017 part file that you can use as the seed file for your own parts that need flattening. https://forum.solidworks.com/message/770070#899670

Lastly, Kendra Wardlow asked about a recent imported part model that had a lot of leaky gaps/open edges.  Here's a macro, created by Alin Vargatu, that I tracked down on a Javelin Technologies blog page. It will select every open edge on a surface model, making them far more visible than just looking for the different colors on screen. I then usually save the resultant selection set and then open a 3D sketch to convert the open edges to sketch geometry that I can keep track of visually at a glance.

Anyhow, thanks again to Richard Doyle and Kendra for hosting this particular meeting. I'm looking forward to more of them in the future.

Cheers,

Eric A. Beatty