I rarely come on usenet anymore to look at comp.cad.solidworks because of several clowns that have more or less wrecked this group.
Why don't we just all move to Ben Eadie's website? Although it requires login It's moderated.
And before anyone goes on the attack I don't get anything by plugging Ben's site, I just think it's a good idea. Ben doesn't make any money for putting up his site and there are no ads. Just more reasources than you get here.
Anyways, the website is
Well, there are several moderated forums that are available. This is the only one I know of that works with a news reader, and so it is the only one on which it is possible to track what has been read and what has not. The forum hosted by SW is supposed to be able to track this, but it doesn't work.
The solidmentor site requires registration to even see what is there. I suspect this can affect how many people bother to register. I didn't go through the process.
Another site with an active soildworks discussion is
I've tried to get onto the official solidworks site, but there is a problem with my web browser that won't let it post messages. (probably some sort of explorer setting)
Joe Dunfee
With all respect. Why would anyone object to registering? I would think that it would be part of being a moderated Forum, which a few complete morons here have shown that no moderation and more importantly a total absence of consequence does not lend itself to developing into an information warehouse, which this Forum once was. The people that kept the "warehouse" stocked with all this knowledge slowly but surely drifted away, saying "I don't need this bull****". And quite frankly, I don't blame them. Alim Kazeem
I recommend Eng-tips.com. I will be checking out SolidMentor, though.
Thanks Devlin! I have had a boost in membership today! I truly appreciate it.
Ben
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