- Ricky Jordan seemed to be the first to notice the availability of 2007PR1, and has very nice things to say about 07’s CC capabilities.
- He also found this enticing summary of new features available in PhotoWorks.
- COSMOWorks now supports beam analysis.
- Part 1 of MCAD Online’s Comprehensive Review
- The (Official) SolidWorks Blog is touting new features at regular intervals.
- SolidWorks has put together a nice set of video demos of the new features in 2007. I continue to be skeptical of the ‘XPerts’. The demos are impressive, but reliance on a wizard to solve problems by inserting feature steps elsewhere in the design tree seems a good way to create headaches down the road and a poor substitute for learning proper modeling practices. It does make for an impressive demo, though.
- It appears SolidWorks explorer received a much-needed overhaul.