The blog has moved!

Update you links the blog is now located at: www.wnc-swug.weebly.com . This link is also to the website of the WNC/ Asheville SWUG. This will be the last post at this site.

Things are changing

I thought I'd mention a couple of changes to the blog page. I added a Google Calendar widget but I can't get it to link to the newly created WNC-SWUG Calendar....So if you look down in the "Things to Click" widget you will see a link to the calendar. I'm still researching the calendar widget, there must be a way for it to show the WNC-SWUG Calendar. Does anyone have any experience with this?

To make the "Things to Click" more relevant to our group I'm asking you the reader for your favorite CAD, SolidWorks or engineering links. In the mean time I'm looking over the available widgets to see if there is anything else that might be useful or even fun.

Here's a SolidWorks question: Is anyone else experiencing weird things happening with the 'CapsLock' in SolidWorks? This started in SW 2009 and with the use of the Property Tab. When I start typing in information for the various custom properties I always have to look to see what case I'm typing in. Even though the 'CapsLock' light is lit on the keyboard I might be typing in lowercase. I toggle the CapsLock, the keyboard light goes out but now I'm typing in UPPERCASE. I proceed to finish this part, save it and start another and the process has to be reversed. Are you humming the Twilight Zone theme now?

I'm back and this is why I've been away.

I know it doesn't look like much but it is the 3rd one I've done since the last post. I can't tell you much about it other than say it is a glove box to handle some rather 'hot' materials. I've been doing 11.5 hour days 6 days a week for the last two weeks. I'm starting to dream in the SolidWorks interface.

Update to all SWUG members: I have to get Wes' okay on this before it will be official but I'm thinking of letting the WNC-SWUG.org website go dead and move as much of its content to this blog as I can. The bill for the domain registration and hosting will be due soon and I just don't think the traffic that the site gets justifies it's cost. Even though it's not much and I've been footing the bill since it's inception times are starting to get hard and we all need to find ways to cut back. This will also make it easier for me to update the news on the site. I know that SolidWorks requires that the usergroup have a website, is a blog good enough? Wes will need to answer that question? Are you listening Wes?

What do you think? Is the 'blog' format sufficient to get out the news concerning the usergroup? Let me know your thoughts as they will ultimately influence my decision...