If you’re really concerned about interoperability between CAD packages, this is an article you should probably read all the way through. I don’t say that too frequently, although I do…
Author: matt
I’m an engineer. Graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1993. 10 year plan, having taken a shortcut through 2 years of music school…
Automation in technology is old news, and automation in design is limited to a few areas. In an earlier post, we talked about the automation you can achieve with Rules…
I was fond of saying, with regard to Rules Based Engineering (RBE) for a while, “If you’re not on the bus, you’re going to be under the bus”. By that…
If you have been to the SolidWorks forum, you have probably learned something from Alin Vargatu. The depth and breadth of his knowledge of the software has impressed me since…
The risk of using a lot of buzzwords is that eventually the words begin to have no meaning at all. One of the words that gets thrown around a lot…
Devon is an old SolidWorks friend, who I think was one of the first SW users to be an official blogger in 2006. I interviewed Devon 9 years ago for…
I recently had a conversation with Alin Vargatu about external and circular references in SolidWorks. This discussion came up because we were talking about the order of calculations in assemblies.…
I spent some time as the CAD Administrator for a photonics company. I really enjoyed that position. I got to do tech support, work with the IT guys, work on…