In the mid-’90s, I lived in California, around the Redwood City/Los Gatos area. My first job after graduating from college was at a company called Avocet, which the bicycle riding…
Author: matt
I’ve worked on a couple of things recently which put me on opposing sides of the same issue. One project, let’s call it the Knurl project, has some aspects that…
Immediately after graduating with my Mechanical Engineering degree, I took the EIT exam (Engineer in Training). This is the first step to getting your Professional Engineer license. I passed the…
After about a decade of faithful daily all-day service, one of the switches in my trusty trackball Kensington Slimblade has started sticking, so it was dragging more than it was…
I grew up in the Adirondack Mountains where the winters were brutally cold and long. One of the most common features of Adirondack life is isolation. If you look at…
I was approached a while back to do an interview with the new incarnation of the old PLMWorld organization. Some of you have just spit your coffee all over your…
I was never invited to speak at a graduation ceremony, but if I were, this is what I’d have to say. I don’t think I’d be remembered as a very…
It seems like there are still some people out there buying the original 2008 SolidWorks Surfacing and Complex Shape Modeling Bible. It’s still a great book, but it’s now only…
This is a topic I spent a lot of time contemplating when I wrote my SolidWorks Administration Bible. Every company should go through the process of writing this type of…
This is a post I could have written 10 years ago, or even 20 years ago, to be honest. This complaint becomes smaller and smaller, but the fact that it…