An interesting paper from researchers at the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley discusses techniques for testing the castability of parts using GPUs.

http://www.me.berkeley.edu/~mcmains/pubs/spm05preprint.pdf

Well not really, but check out AutoShred Lite an application which provides DRM features to SolidWorks eDrawings including the deletion of files at a specified shred (delete) date.

http://www.pinionsoftware.com/MfgQuoteAutoShredLite

CADFind the Graphical 2D + 3D Design Retrieval system is now available for SolidWorks.

More details at

http://www.sketchandsearch.com/

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

If you weren’t already aware, there are various Podcasts available on SolidWorks …

Open iTunes
Select the Music Store
Select Podcasts inside the Music Store
Search for SolidWorks

Listen to various items related to SW

Visit the MSN Sandbox to play with new MSN technologies, look at prototypes and see some of their ideas.

http://sandbox.msn.com/

I quite like start.com which is MSNs preview of the next generation home page

http://www.start.com/

built using AJAX

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX