As this was the second year being invited by Missler Software to attend the TopSolid seminar, i had some idea of what to expect. I had a great time last year and this year was no different.
I arrived at the legendary Carlton Hotel wednesday afternoon and metup with American TopSolid superstar and friend Bill Genc.
Traveling from a cold and snowy Scandinavia i sure enjoyed the sunny weather in Cannes and what would be better than going out for a beer to catchup with some old friends?
Even though there is a welcome dinner on wednesday evening the the one event to kick-off the seminar is the global meeting where Missler Software summarizes the past year and presents news about the coming year. One being a new strategic union with French Comapany Alma, experts in Sheet-Metal. Exciting news for anyone working with Sheet Metal.
There was also some success stories, and presentations of some resellers around the globe from Brazil to Thailand. The latter being 4D Corporation in Thailand who has posted a bunch of cool videos on YouTube.
The next couple of days was filled with interesting workshops about TopSolid product lineup aswell as other useful topics much appreciated by everyone.
There was one meeting this year that was very special for me, i finally got to meet with Saad Gasmi, an AE at Missler Software who is considered to be one of the very best and has some many, many years of TopSolid experience. Saad has been helping out alot since i started the blog, and infact he is behind alot of the material presented on TopSolidBlog. Thank you Saad!
On saturday afternoon there was some other activites, sailing, bus rides or…. driving 2 CV around Cannes which was alot of fun! Check out the video below this post!
Saturday ended with a gala award ceremony where the most successful French and international Sales Teams were rewarded.
One might think that spending almost four days at the seminar you would have plenty of time for meetings or just hanging out. But suddenly i find myself on a plane heading for home and i wonder what happened? Lot´s of people i did not have a chance to talk to or only got the chance to meet briefly.
I would like thank Missler Software and especially the marketing team for letting me be apart of the 2012 TopSolid Seminar! _
Missler Software just published a Code of conduct for TopSolid social media. While i have published it here it´s also available at the official TopSolid website.
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Code of conduct for TopSolid social media
This is the code of conduct for posting comments on any TopSolid blogs, social media (twitter, facebook, etc.) forums, etc. The simple rules of thumb are to keep on-topic and be respectful of others. Our websites and social media are designed to help people learn more about our products and who we are. Anything that supports this aim is encouraged, provided it does not violate the below terms of use that we’ve put together. We are open to criticism of our products but will not accept the following:
Personal attacks (on anyone inside or outside the TopSolid community)
Material that contains vulgar, obscene or indecent language or images.
Unauthorized posting of personal information (names, address, phone number, email etc.) of other users.
Material which defames, abuses or threatens others.
Statements which are bigoted, hateful or racially offensive.
Material that advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them.
Account suspensions are at the sole discretion of Missler Software.
Any person actively using these sites is implicitly agreeing to these rules regardless of whether they have been read or not.
Those of you who run betas of TopSolid might have noticed the leap from 2.6 to 3.0 in the early stages of 7.6. The current version inside TopSolid 7.6 is 3.0.1.2.
Even though the version 3.0 doesn´t bring alot of obvious changes in terms of new features in TopSolid there are lot´s going on “behind the scenes”:
Finally, a long, long wait is now over. TopSolid 7.6 including TopSolid’CAM 7.6 has been officially launched.
Of course there are numerous improvements and new features but i guess the big thing in this release is TopSolid’CAM 7.6.
To learn more about TopSolid’CAM 7.6 check out this link.
And TopSolid 2012 also now available and has also got it´s fair share of improvements and new features along the product line. Read more here!
You can read more about this and more in the latest TopSolid’Newsletter which you will find here.
Ok, so there is CAD and there is CAM. Those of you who have read Jon Banquers blog have already been hammered with the term “Integrated CadCam” and the benefits. And why is Jon going on and on about this stuff? Well, because it kicks ass!
If your like me you send DXF files back and forth between your softwares all day long and when there is a change of design… well, let´s do it all over again.
If your in France then your in luck because then you can benefit from the awesomeness that TopSolid’SheetMetal 2012 offers. And if your outside of France… bad luck, because it´s not available outside of France.
If you want a glimpse of what truly inegrated CadCam for Sheet Metal can be like check out this video:
While the release date for Windows 8 is set to be sometime mid 2012 there´s no stopping developers to make sure their products will run properly on Microsofts next version of Windows.
Missler Software is one of those companies and here´s a video of TopSolid’Viewer 7.7 running on Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
Notice that the demo is performed on a virtualized environment with Microsoft Hyper V Server 2008 R2. The 3D rendering is pretty limited in a virtual OS, the graphic card is not supported, but this is not the key point in this demo:
Missler Software has validated TopSolid 7.7 on Windows 8 and Windows Server 8.
Check out this video to see how to add kinematic configuration in your draft (available in 7.5 ) and manage exceptions in views (added in 7.6).
For exceptions you can select a part or an assembly directly in the graphic’s area or in the list.
It´s also possible to define ( create) your own style.
Note that in 7.7 it will be possible to use transparency to see thru the parts!
TopSolid 7.6 release is just around the corner and while we wait let´s take a look at an early Alpha version of TopSolid 7.7 and a new feature called Tracking Mode.
In TopSolid 7.7 “Tracking Mode” basically means that when enabled, all you have to do is click on a part, operation or entity and it will be highlighted in one of the corresponding “trees”, pretty cool!
Sometimes while in the middle of something you realise that what you are really creating is an Assembly and not a single Part, which is what you set out to do in the very beginning.
Well, don´t sweat it, let´s just make an assembly out of the Part document. To do this we will use something called “Derived Parts”, check out these videos:
As with chamfers and fillets in previous versions, FreeShape in TopSolid 7.6 can now also extract drilling, either by group or one by one.
And that´s not all, there´s a new command called “Grab Operation” which makes it possible to insert and constrain an opertion that has been done after the FreeShape operation itself.
Watch this short video to learn more. (I apologize for the poor audio quality but i figured it´s better than nothing)
As this was the second year being invited by Missler Software to attend the TopSolid seminar, i had some idea of what to expect. I had a great time last year and this year was no different.
Even though there is a welcome dinner on wednesday evening the the one event to kick-off the seminar is the global meeting where Missler Software summarizes the past year and presents news about the coming year. One being a new strategic union with French Comapany Alma, experts in Sheet-Metal. Exciting news for anyone working with Sheet Metal.
There was one meeting this year that was very special for me, i finally got to meet with Saad Gasmi, an AE at Missler Software who is considered to be one of the very best and has some many, many years of TopSolid experience. Saad has been helping out alot since i started the blog, and infact he is behind alot of the material presented on TopSolidBlog. Thank you Saad!
One might think that spending almost four days at the seminar you would have plenty of time for meetings or just hanging out. But suddenly i find myself on a plane heading for home and i wonder what happened? Lot´s of people i did not have a chance to talk to or only got the chance to meet briefly.
