I get contacted every now and then by people or companies doing research before buying a new CAD package.They are interested in the story of a prominent user changing camps.…
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Kim was reading the Facebook page for one of our local tv stations, and they were reporting a local story where some junior and high schools were getting 3D printers…
SolidWorks is a parametric feature-based, history-based solid modeler. Whatever that means. In SolidWorks, and other similar software, a model is usually edited by going back to the original feature used…
Let’s play a little word association. If I say “China” to a person who is involved in manufacturing or design in the US, the reaction generally isn’t positive. It’s not…
This is a follow up report from the web event led by Design World which I announced in an earlier blog post. There must have been some last minute changes…
Once in a while I like to put up these case study things just to show what actual customers are doing. Today we have Melling Tool, who make automotive oil…
On February 20th, there will be a debate hosted by Design World and led by Chad Jackson between Dan Staples of Siemens PLM, and personnel from PTC and Autodesk. The…
Here’s something that I really could have related to about 30 years ago. Browsing Wired news as I do sometimes, I came across an article about a fellow named Rafael…
One of the reasons I joined the Solid Edge team is so that I could stop writing about “the cloud”. When I started writing about CAD in the cloud, we…
One of the biggest taxes on businesses who are still using history-only CAD is interoperability. If you save a model in version X, you can no longer open it in…