My wife, Kim, is an architect, as some of you know. She has been working in sustainability for the last several years, helping to assure from the design phase through…
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I’m getting a little excited about the release of the new surfacing site. It will be opened up for use in the month of October. While I’m ironing out some…
Many people have asked me when I was going to publish an update for the 2008 Surfacing Bible. That book was my favorite of all the books I’ve written, but…
Digitization is the process of moving your data, workflow and processes into the modern age. You’re doing more with digital simulation, replacing some physical prototypes. Your manufacturing uses CNC machines,…
Sometimes you’ve got to model things in CAD that CAD was never really meant to model. After all, manufacturing covers a lot of ground, and you need to be in…
There are a lot of cool things you can do with bottle modeling. Some of these are just tricks of the shell command. These don’t just apply to bottles, but…
I can say from having written a fair amount about at least two CAD packages, that in order to say something definitive, you really have to put a lot of…
The word degenerate conjures a lot of different images for different people. For me, it was mostly Bevis and Butthead and that sniggling little laugh. Even in the grunge 1990s…
I have long called the Fill surface the “magic wand” in SolidWorks. It enables you to create a great range of stuff and does things it shouldn’t. This aircraft model,…
One time I heard someone disparagingly complain about SolidWorks fillets. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not above griping now and then (ahem), but generally not about the fillets. Fillets have…