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Did you know that the State of Washington and Puget Sound have
the largest fleet of car ferries in the country? Did you know that
some of America's greatest icons like
Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Bauer, Heart,
Diane Schuur,
Kenny G,
Bill Nye the Science Guy,
Nordstrom,
Cascade Designs,
K2 Sports,
Starbucks,
O'Brien waterskis,
REI,
Costco,
Boeing,
AT&T Wireless, and of course,
Microsoft all call the Seattle Area home?
I didn't when I moved here.
Actually, you've simply reached the
homepage of
Michelle
Pillers
Licensed mechanical engineer, commercial products development consultant,
published author, recognized
CAD expert,
SolidWorks convert,
volleyball fanatic, adventurer,
SCUBA diver, lunchtime
rollerblader,
avid dancer,
musician, amateur
astronomer, and all around nice gal.
I am also a
cyberspace
musician (as Micki Underwood), and a
real life musician,
Click here for My Live Music
Performance
Calendar.
Shortcuts! - CAD|
search |news | financial |
fun | social |
multimedia | web stuff
(
Can you identify with this? ..yeah, me too.)
Click here to see Michelle's professional bio
Here are a few Web sites I'm particularly fond of:
Work related links
Professional Organizations
Evolution
Design Engineering, LLC- Providing Professional Engineering and
Product Design Services (EE, ME, ID, and Research) to progressive
design firms, manufacturers, and start-ups on the West Coast. (It's my job!)
Check 'em out.- SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- ASME - American Society of Mechanical
Engineers International
- IDSA - The Industrial Design Society of
America
- Design Management Institute -
Pushing and educating design interests towards excellence since 1975.
- NAFE - National Association of Female
Executives (an excellent resource for women in business).
- PATCA - The Professional and Technical
Consultants Association
- Webgrrls - An international
networking organization for Girls on the Web. Check out the
Seattle Chapter.
Engineering Information Links
CAD and Technology Links
- SolidWorks - $3995 CAD
software that is giving AutoCAD and ProEngineer a lot of grief. Hey, I bought
it! Know why? Because it's the most powerful and accessible production CAD
software on the face of the earth, bar none! Here's a sample of some
work I did in only
3 hours using SW97. Get a copy now, and become a more productive design
engineer.
- SolidWorks Newsgroup or
DejaNews on
SolidWorks
- SASPUG - The Seattle Area
Solidworks Power Users Group (A great place to look for jobs, too!)
- EMT Software, Inc -
Bellingham based developers of inexpensive but powerful add-ons for SolidWorks
and AutoCAD.
-
Hi Tech Jobs - Job searches for computer programming and highly technical
employment opportunities in contract, full-time, and permanent positions for
professionals in Software Engineering or Data Processing.
- Solidworks Job Network.
- www.north.com - Great site for getting
FREE add-ons and macros for SolidWorks.
- Cosmos/Works - FEA
application that works seamlessly within SolidWorks.
- WorkingModel 3D - a great
Interactive Prototyping Simulation (IPS) software package from Knowledge
Revolution that works within SolidWorks.
- SolidSolutions Magazine - The trade
rag for SolidWorks users
- Rhino 3D - Rhino 3D is a FREE
(while in Beta) fully functional, robust 3D surfacing and solid modeling
package that is going to be really big when it is released. It works with all
mainstream CAD, animation, and rendering packages (via IGES). Watch out Alias/Wavefront
- here's something for everyone else!
- Trispectives Technical - 3D Eye's hot new
3D ACIS solids modeling. Designed for Win/95 and NT, there is a lot of secret,
untapped, power underneath the hood of this $1000 application.
- AutoCAD - Autodesk's Homepage
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The Internet's Premier Search
Engines
Other Internet Search Engines
- The Search Wizard - the
Yahoo/Compuserve engine
- Yahoo - direct to the grandaddy!
- Excite - a very cool engine and
website
- Webcrawler - Crawling the Web
looking for you
- DejaNews (Great Usenet Article
Search Engine)
- 411 - The Internet White Pages.
- HotBot - Yet another great search
engine
- Ahoy! - Find anyone's
homepage using this University of Washington search engine.
- MetaCrawler - Here's another good
search engine (Thanks for the tip, Joan Jaeger!)
Parcel Shipping Companies
- FedEx - Wondering where that Federal
Express package is that you just sent?
- UPS - Wondering where that United Parcel
package is?
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Homepage!
The News!
News via Real Audio
- ABC RadioNet - ABC News,
BusinessWeek, MoneyTalk, Sports, and Weather all in audio format!
- Audio NPR - NPR
daily radio newscasts on demand!
General News
Online Magazines
- Mungo Park - Online adventure
magazine - Follow along on a real live underwater shark adventure with
Jean-Michel Cousteau, complete with undersea video chat.
- Slate - excellent online magazine,
similar to The New Yorker
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Homepage!
Financial Information
- Bank of America - Online
banking!
- Wells Fargo - Online banking (now
interstate banking too!)
- E-trade - Online discount stock
purchase and account management
- Charles Schwab - Online discount
broker
- Intuit - Online banking, stock
reports, financial palnning. Great site.
- QFN - Quicken Financial Network, a
great place to get the latest info on Mutual Funds.
- StockMaster - online stock
quotes.
- Big Charts - 22,700 current,
up-to-the-minute stock, mutual fund, and index charts.
Business Information
- MIT Enterprise Forum -
Promotes the formation and growth of innovative and technologically-oriented
companies
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Homepage!
Fun places to go!
Art
Electronic Postcards
Television
Shameless Web Clad Women
Fun Science
Astronomy
Medical
Miscellaneous
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Homepage!
Social Clubs and Websites
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Homepage!
Audio/Video/Multimedia Resources
Online Audio
- RealAudio - They've got FREE
software to let you listen to the "radio" (live programming) over the
Internet!
- AudioNetDotCom - LIVE radio
and ON-DEMAND audio broadcasts! Note: requires
RealAudio client software.
- Timecast - by RealAudio!
- Audio NPR - NPR
daily radio newscasts on demand!
- ABC News Radio - ABC News,
Sports, and Weather, updated on the hour, all in audio format!
Online Video and CAM shots
Online Video, Audio, and Whiteboard Conferencing
- Download the InternetPhone (free) -
Online telephone, you must have a soundcard and microphone, and the
InternetPhone must be loaded to call me via the Internet.
- WebPhone - Point to point (email
address to email address) online phone using the Internet. The $49.95
solution.
- CU-SeeMe - Live, online video
conferencing software from Cornell University.
- Enhanced CU-SeeMe - Commercial
version of the above. FREE 30 day trial!
- VDO Phone - Video conferencing software
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Homepage!
Web Research Items of Interest:
- The Win95 Page! - A great link to
FTP programs, Telnet routines, Web browsers, and so on, that work with Win95.
- Animated GIF files -
www.bellsnwhistles.com - The only 4 Star rated animated GIF file site on
the Web!
-
Netscape's Gold Rush Tool Chest - Lots of great backgrounds, GIF's,
bullets, & bars.
- Index of Perl/HTML
archives - The mother index of all perl archives.
-
How to do forms - Very clear and consistent.
- Learn to
Write CGI- Forms - Step by step - Ugly, but great detail.
- Earl Hood's (OAC) Home
Page - Gobs of perl, html, development tools.
- UF/NA Perl Archive
- Forms in Perl -
The best forms resource I've seen yet.
- The Perl
Programming Language
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Homepage!
Michelle Pillers,
mpillers@edeinc.com
Originally created on August 10, 1995
This
SolidWorks
WebRing site owned by Michelle Pillers,
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