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: design
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…
The distinction of design vs modeling is something I run into all the time. I try to be careful in the stuff I write to be clear that I don’t…
In product design, speed is often what it’s all about. We don’t always have the luxury of making models with perfect design intent. You can’t always make sure you’ve dotted…
Sometimes the modeling difficulty is the draft. I had forgotten about this project. It was a quickie stuck in between a couple of other larger projects about 8 years ago.…
Tolerancing is one of those practices that is applied very unevenly across the field of engineered parts. Some people are meticulous about applying tolerances, and figure stackups, reject rates, possibly…
Is AI in design just a myth? Will artificial intelligence ever be able to do or contribute to design? Right now the public face of AI is a bunch of…
Let’s say for example that someone you know was thinking of writing a new … thing. Something with some text, images, live 3D models, videos, all mixed up in the…
Here’s another part with some interesting features. On the brake shoe, we used a revolve and a pattern to create ridges on the brake to create friction. On this part,…
Sometimes the gears turn slowly. I started a build of a stingray bike (what kids used to ride before BMX bikes). I’m just now getting around to writing about it.…