My Solidworks Career

I have been using Solidworks (SW) since late 1995, early 1996. I acquired my CSWP at the 2001 SWWC in Orlando Florida. I have had Level 3 Excel Training to help in the making of interesting and unique Design Tables and Automation tools during the period of 2000 to 2002. Since that time I now have my CSWST certification and working this year for my PDMWorks Certification.

Today I am working for Evana Automation Specialist as a Mechincal Designer. The opportunites here are great, and I hope to stay here for many years to come. As of this year I am also the Vice President of the Southern Indiana Solidworks User group. We had our first meeting December 21st and for our first meeting I would say it was a success since we had 16 people show up. If you are an Southern Indiana resident and you use Solidworks or if you want to be a part of our group please email either myself or Twaka Tyus (President).

Previously I worked for Fisher Unitech one of the biggest and one of fastest growing VAR's. The area included Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinios, Missouri, and Kansas. I enjoyed the working form home, but needed to get back out in the real world of designing.

Prior to working for Fisher Unitech I worked for another VAR 3DVision and they covered the Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana area. I have learned a lot about Solidworks and all the add-ins. PDMworks is amoung the list, along with Routing and Electrical. Working for a VAR is a great job and by having such a job you learn and respect those that do this everyday. Customer service is not easy to do and it takes skill and patience along with a good attitude to help calm down those customers that are just down right rude. But I got my foundation at 3DVision and I have to give them a big "Thank You" for all their support and help that they gave me over the years of service there. So if you are reading this Todd Majeski, THANK YOU!

Before I came on board with 3DVision 5 years ago (2002). I worked at George Koch Sons, LLC. My job at George Koch Sons, LLC was to find the best way to make Solidworks work in a strickly AutoCAD enviroment. At the time they wanted to move CAD systems over to Solidworks. I did plenty of large assembly jobs that in the end turned out to be some of the best learning experiences and time reducers I had ever done. The Large assemblies were completely in-contexted (Top-Down Design) and the use some Intermediate to Advanced Excel coding of a Design table. One job that I was very impressed with cut the design time down by 75% from the time of Concept to finished drawings. The assemblies were fully automated and just needed a series of choices to be selected and the assembly updated and the drawings were completed. Outside of some Cosmetic changes the drawings were complete.

I started at Hansen Corporation 6 months after I graduated from College in Spring of 1995. While I was there I built and learned how to design small electric motors in Solidworks. My primary job there was to make changes required by Engineering Change Orders. I managed to get over come over 2500 drawings done in just over 4.5 years and total at the time that was around 5000 on file. None of the drawings were in Solidworks and even some that were in the books were even in a CAD package. When the ECO was released to me I added the Parts\Assemblies that had to be created and then the drawings were completed. Solidworks was released about 3 months prior to me taking this job and we started it using approximately 4-6 months after I started with the company.

Solidworks is a GREAT program and has given me a lot of opportunies and happiness. Solidworks has provided me a skill and love for design that I never thought I would ever have before. My desire to use the system and design on it has been absoluetly great and I would not change any of it.

Thank you,

Scott Baugh, CSWP, CSWST
Evansville, IN
credence@scottjbaugh.com

Below image: The Bionicle image was a completely Reverse Engineered and modeled in SW and Photorendered in Photoworks by yours truly. You can see the original Photoworks image on the Images page of my site.