The popular surge of parametric history-based starting in the 1990s lulled a lot of engineers into a sense that a pinnacle had been achieved the end of the line in…
Category: cad philosophy
This What’s New is going to have to be treated as a multi-part post. There’s just too much to cover all at once. The biggest news of what’s new in…
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…
3D CAD models can have several purposes, and each purpose requires a different approach to how you create the model. “Design Intent” is a concept that I believe is largely…
Anyone who used CAD in the period from 1995 up to about 2010 was very lucky. You got to see an explosion of new tools to create and control CAD…
I’m writing this because I think the CAD community at large, including users, media, and vendors, have sold Synchronous Technology short. I’m just taking this on as a personal project,…
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…
Life these days is becoming less and less flexible. So often we hear things like “no compromise”, “don’t settle”, “zero tolerance”, “never stop” and other slogans that I know are…
I see a lot of people who get wrapped around the axle on philosophical issues with their CAD, PDM, or general engineering and documentation processes. They’ve got a problem that…
I’ve spend the better part of my career to this point trying to figure out how to do stuff with a tool that wasn’t meant to do that stuff. Most…