Arthur is one of those users’ names that you’ve seen around the CAD world for a long time. He’s an industrial designer, so our paths have been parallel-ish in many…
Category: alternative CAD
IronCAD is a product that’s little off the beaten path. It had its beginning in a popular but short-lived industrial design product called Trispectives in 1995. Walking through the software…
I keep mourning the passing of CAD as a topic interesting enough on its own to keep producing interesting articles. It used to be that you didn’t have to look…
There’s a lot of cool stuff in Solid Edge 2022. I have a decided preference for 3D modeling type enhancements, and tend to de-emphasize simulation and some other peripheral functions.…
I’ve been writing a little series of articles on various types of non-NURBS CAD data over on Engineering.com and EngineersRule.com. As CAD users we have been conditioned to recoil in…
Rhino 3D has been around a long time. Many of us got early surfacing experience on free versions of Rhino that have been available for a lot of years. I’ve…
Most of my career I’ve been dedicated to a single CAD tool. I specialized in that, and got to know the software really well. There’s something to be said about…
For a while I had this brilliant idea of creating a CAD Olympics. Let me tell you, if you think you have too many friends and need to leave some…
Just to clarify, the concept of the benefits of CAD in the Cloud is very appealing. Unfortunately, the details of getting there and being there are somewhat less attractive right…
It’s no secret that I’m not an Autodesk fan. I used AutoCAD 10-14 in my early years after engineering school for 2D and 3D wireframe. It couldn’t have helped that…