Tuesday’s General Session opened with Fielder Hiss, VP of Product Management taking the stage.  Hiss talked about how SolidWorks had been working with Intel on creating better experiences for users.  Frank Soqui, Workstation General Manager from Intel was then brought up on stage to give a short talk.
BETA AWARDS
Time to talk Beta – there were 4000 activations for the SolidWorks 2013 Beta program.  Hiss then announced the winners of the SolidWorks Beta 2013 Awards.
Reseller awards were announced first.  Here are the results:

Customer awards were announced next.  This year was a …

SolidWorks World 2013 kicked off today with CEO Bertrand Sicot taking the stage.  He seemed a little more comfortable this year than last.
Sicot announced that there were over 4500 attendees at the conference this year.  Four years ago, Jeff Ray announced that SolidWorks sold their 1 millionth license; Sicot said that they had hit the 2 million mark this past December.  Sicot also said that SolidWorks was in 25,000 schools worldwide, with 2.5 million students having access to the software.

NEW PORTAL
Sicot then talked about my.solidworks.com, a new portal into the …

In my line of work involving R&D and prototype work, I don’t make much use of the manufacturability tools available from SolidWorks.  They are geared more towards shops who do production runs of their own designs and those of customers.  These tools can help give engineers and designers a better idea up front on both the costs of their products and their environmental impact.  They can also help with quoting products from outside customers.
There have been several improvements in the Costing and Sustainability tools in SolidWorks. SolidWorks’ Costing tool (included …