I have made a decision. I will be finishing off a couple of contract jobs I have and then I am going to try and see if I can make a go at making my living helping other SolidWorks users out there.
I will be creating a SolidWorks ‘Design Support’ subscription site where you will get bi weekly video tutorials as well as guest posts from some of the best in the business, web-conferences (I am looking at doing one once a month with a 2 month holiday during the summer) and some one on one time with yours truly on a first come first serve basis. Those that have supported me in the past via PayPal will get a free membership in appreciation of past donations as your support has been paramount in keeping me going on this site and SolidMentor.
So I have a couple of questions for you:
1. With a subscription site what would you pay per month, per 6 months or per year for some of the best video tutorials online for SolidWorks modeling?
2. What would you expect to see in a ‘Design Support’ site
3. What would it take to get you to buy a membership and tell some friends about it?
ivanl 2:35 pm on July 5, 2010 Permalink
Animations and renderings never fail to interest me.
guido 4:38 pm on July 5, 2010 Permalink
Ben,
If you were to create a tutorial on modeling the front fender of a car, for example, the mere nature of the exercise would encompass quite a few surfacing principles I think. Use of the spline tool, lining up the edges of the planes, tangency of the ends of the curves, sizing, lofting selection sequence, and probably more than my level of skill can think of.
Chad 9:28 am on July 6, 2010 Permalink
Guido,
Have you looked at the Surfacing and Complex Shape Modeling book by Matt Lombard… that is a great resource on the topics you’re asking for… This may be a great place to gain some knowledge on what you are looking for…beside it’s great sometimes to have a book on hand to always have for reference…plus there are some tutorials that would help get your feet wet with surface modeling..once you get the workflow down…doing a cars fender is no different… I would highly recommend this book..it has a lot of good info…
gupta9665 9:34 pm on July 6, 2010 Permalink
Renderings, Routing, FEA…