I spent some time this weekend working with the Frames functionality in Solid Edge. I’m not an expert in this kind of work, but I’ve done some similar sort of…
Author: matt
According to Dictionary.com, engineering is defined in part as: “to arrange, manage, or carry through by skillful or artful contrivance”. John Devitry is a former member of the Australian rock…
Recently looking through some mobile viewers I came across a CADENAS Gmbh Android app for getting standard CAD models for a number of standard machinery parts. The SolidWorks part of…
Alright, don’t start in on me. I’ve got a lot of misgivings about this software, just based on its name. First, Autodesk (or AutoCAD) to me means low-rent, underpowered software…
With the SolidWorks 2013 bible getting closer to production every day (all the edits are finally done), it is time to turn my attention to other things. I’ve got a…
I’ve got this hunch which I can’t totally substantiate that using Sync Tech along with Ordered features is really the way to go in a lot of cases. One solid…
Today I decided to do the Solid Edge tutorial on tubing and piping, using XpresRoute. Picking this up was easy. For simple here-to-there routes, Solid Edge runs the routing lines…
In the year since I last checked, there seem to have been a lot of new CAD apps showing up on the Google Market. The biggest of them is still…
The Engineering Reference library is a nice design/modeling assistant for standard engineered components like shafts, cams, spur gears, bevel gears, worm gears, rack and pinion sets, sprockets, springs, pulleys, and…
My quest for the perfect CAD input device has taken me through many strange and foreign lands. Although there are a lot of fun-looking gaming mice out there, I don’t…