SolidWorks World 2013: General Session Day 2

SolidWorks World 2013 General Session Day 2 had two great examples of technology that will be eventually be used to take over the world.

Professor Vijay Kumar of the University of Pennsylvania was a great speaker that talked extensively about synchronized quadcopters that could also be used in search and rescue operations (or proletariat suppression missions). I was rather hoping that he’d order an armada of quadcopters to fly over the crowd…but no, he just showed Youtube videos.

Festo stole the show. They talked about bio mimicry.  And then did this.

2013 Sneak Peek from SolidWorks Blog: Center of Mass

From the SolidWorks Blog,

SolidWorks 2013 won’t be officially unveiled until September 10, but over the next few weeks, we’ll be giving you sneak peeks at a few of the new features we’ll be shipping this fall. And here’s the first.

In SolidWorks 2013, center of mass is a selectable entity in drawings, and you can reference it to create dimensions. In a drawing, you can create reference dimensions between center of mass points and geometric entities, such as points and edges.