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…
Author: matt
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.…
My storage of customer files has 280 folders. Generally that’s one or more projects per customer, and some have a lot of projects in each folder, and most projects are…
I once sat at a table and listened to someone mock engineers, explaining why we have such a lack of creativity. I blew my top, because I had heard it…
One of my early memories from getting started in engineering and CAD was those super-cool gizmos on the desks of the old Unigraphics workstations. The very first Spaceballs I remember…
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…
Let’s imagine that you could start your own CAD company. This CAD company has to deliver functionality for the next 20 years. What are you going to do? What will…
I always applaud a CAD company, or any company, really, trying to really understand what their customers want. Forums are a great way to do that indirectly. You set up…
Alin Vargatu pointed out that I left out some options on my initial review of Section Views in SolidWorks. Graphics Only Section is an option I can’t test or demo…
Sometimes I get people who email me SolidWorks technical questions. You know, like I’m tech support and get paid for this. Worse yet, they send me complaints. Like I can…