Our latest widget, the Gallery Widget, enables you to show off all of your favorite designs... right on your desktop. This widget, just like our WatchIt Widget, requires the Yahoo Widget Engine to be installed on your system. If you have not yet installed Yahoo Widgets, you can do so by following this link. By default Yahoo will install about dozen or so widgets that they think most people will want. After the installation you can simply right-click on any widget that you do not want, and select" Close Widget". It will not open again, but it will still be in your widgets folder, usually located in "My Documents/My Widgets/".
After you have installed Yahoo Widgets, go to labs.solidworks.com and download the Gallery Widget to your widgets folder. Once the download has completed, just double-click on the file named Gallery.widget to launch it. By default Gallery will display the 2006 design contest winning models. If you place your mouse pointer over the image being displayed you will see info about that design. To start showcasing your own designs, simply drag and drop a folder containing your SolidWorks models on top of the Gallery widget. By default, Gallery will display models in subfolders as well.