Michael Lord
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Michael Lord is a Design/ Engineer responsible for the Design & Development of Motorhomes & Special Purpose Vehicles. He is SOLIDWORKS – CSWP and the Group Leader of the Sydney SOLIDWORKS User Group. Follow this blog where he shares his experience and use of SOLIDWORKS.
Michael Lord
3w ago
It’s been a busy couple of months! First with 3DEXPERIENCE World 2024, where I presented my “How I Customised My SOLIDWORKS User Interface & Why you should do so.” That presentation, along with all the other presentations were recorded & are now available in the World Community section of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. You can log ..read more
Michael Lord
3M ago
When it comes to the question of rendering, can you ever have enough appearances? I’m not sure that is really a question, because the answer, would always be, no! Simply because with all rendering it relies on the abilities of the material, appearances, and the environments to produce realistic images, & with that, you never know what ..read more
Michael Lord
4M ago
When I sat down to write a (this) post it wasn’t what I was planned. I was going to write about the enhancement to the Hole wizard in SOLIDWORKS 2024, but I got a little (maybe more than a little) side tracked with SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2024. That come about because the new install of SOLIDWORKS ..read more
Michael Lord
5M ago
Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS has quietly released SOLIDWORKS 2024 SP0.1 in the past week or so. They have a series of videos, highlighting many of the new features, which you can view on their What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2024 channel. I’ve been running SOLIDWORKS 2024 since the Beta release. I’m going to come straight out and ..read more
Michael Lord
5M ago
I was fortunate a few month ago to be able to head to Waltham, MA to the Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS Campus to see, test and provide some feedback, on what will be the SOLIDWORKS 2024 release. So this is me and a few friends from the SOLIDWORKS Community sharing our thoughts on SOLIDWORKS 2024 ..read more
Michael Lord
5M ago
It’s a busy time of year in the SOLIDWORKS Community. A new release – SOLIDWORKS 2024 SP0 is imminent and we have seen SOLIDWORKS Live host the “What’s New in SOLIDWORKS 2024” With that out of the way, it’s time to start getting organised for 3DEXPERIENCE WORLD 2024 – February 11-24, 2024 – Dallas, TX ..read more
Michael Lord
7M ago
My association with 2D CAD goes back to AutoCAD 12, so it’s been a while! We moved to DraftSight back in 2010-2011, around the time SOLIDWORKS dropped it’s DWG Editor/ 2D Editor program, shortly after the settlement in the Autodesk – SolidWorks “DWG” Lawsuit We only use DraftSight, these days, as the intermediary between SOLIDWORKS ..read more
Michael Lord
1y ago
I’ll be presenting on 3D CAD and how we use SOLIDWORKS at TRAKKA, at the Caravan Industry of Australia National conference , in the next couple of days. I actually have a couple of presentation, along with my own, we are assisting with Markforged Masterclass on 3D scanning, CAD and 3D printing. This did raise ..read more
Michael Lord
1y ago
With just a few day to go, before the start of 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023, things are starting to come together. I’m getting notifications from the airline approving my documentations, and the hotel is certainly looking forward, to having me stay with them, if the number of emails telling me so, are any indication. The event ..read more
Michael Lord
1y ago
We are less than a month out from 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023 – Nashville TX There is a bit happening and some announcements have been made. So lets catch up with the latest. If you are looking to be in Nashville for the Saturday night (11th February 2023) before the event, then you will most likely ..read more