I went to engineering school at Rochester Institute of Technology. The school is named the Kate Gleason college of engineering – yes, named after a woman. In my year of…
Author: matt
Everything grows. Even when you don’t want or need it to. CAD has grown into CAE and CAE into PLM, PLM into digital factory, Industrial Revolution 4.0, and what ever.…
I worked for a while as a CAD Administrator, and it was one of the most rewarding jobs I ever had. I really enjoyed working with people and the software,…
The section of Chapter 7 in my new book that covers fillets is 27 pages long. I’ll try to summarize it here in a blog post short enough for you…
Writing headlines is a science all its own. If you read headlines in a news aggregator, you probably notice that many of them are difficult to understand, or mean something…
Sometimes I browse through the SolidWorks forums trying to find some sort of common theme to write a blog post about. This blog is about 11 years old, and sometimes…
In big parts and assemblies, you need to keep easy access to stuff in the list on the left. Whether it shows features or parts, you need to be able…
I’ve had this idea recently about rethinking the Industrial Revolution – what would we as engineers do if we could go back 250 years only retaining the knowledge of the…
I don’t want to get involved publicly in political issues, but this is one issue where the content of this blog crosses a currently trendy political issue, so while I…
Matt Perez is a guy I think most SolidWorks users first met when he created that Camaro PDF tutorial maybe 7 or 8 years ago. It turned out that he…