One of the predecessors of mid-range CAD was a mid-90s Autodesk product called Mechanical Desktop. Mechanical Desktop started out as an extension to AutoCAD R13. Not 2013, but version 13.…
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…
Here are some new Solid Edge videos to cover basic topics that people switching software might have questions about. I made 16 short videos that I hope you will find…
I wrote two articles last week. One was mostly ignored and the other broke the internet. So of course I’m most interested in updating the one that got ignored. I’ve…
I’ve been writing a couple of articles lately on CAD Admin and related topics. I’m trying to put together a series of topics. These are being published at EngineersRule.com. https://www.engineersrule.com/the-cad-admin-basic-to-do-list/…
I’ve been quoted as saying “nostalgia has no place in engineering technology”. And I stand by that statement. You might think from the title that I’m headed for a self-indulgent…
Great ideas unfortunately sometimes get politicized. Once the perception of an idea becomes slanted one way or the other, half the population will reflexively reject it, regardless of the merits…
Solid Edge has a maker edition, which I guess is the same as the Community Edition. It won’t install if you also have a commercial edition installed. I believe the…
How do you edit a sketch? It’s easy, right? Make sure it’s locked down somewhere, has the relations and dimensions it needs to change the way you want it to,…
I think all of the demos you’ve seen of Synchronous start in the middle. They assume you know a lot of stuff already. But I know you have a lot…