I can’t count how many times I’ve been to the Smithsonian Air Space museum in DC. As an engineer, that stuff is addictive and inspiring. I lived a summer in…
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Solid Edge 2023 has a lot of new features which will make it easier for you to do more advanced CAD work. Some of it is brilliant, and other parts…
This What’s New is going to have to be treated as a multi-part post. There’s just too much to cover all at once. The biggest news of what’s new in…
If you’re making technical videos on any platform, I’ve got a couple of suggestions for you: Turn down the musicBecause of you, I keep the sound off on my computer.…
Engineering technology is moving forward today, but its finding users are a hard sell for some of the big concepts. PTC used to avoid small minded people by simply going…
Arthur is one of those users’ names that you’ve seen around the CAD world for a long time. He’s an industrial designer, so our paths have been parallel-ish in many…
Ralph Grabowski has been around the CAD world for a long time, mostly on the CAD journalist side of things. He is known primarily for his writing about AutoCAD and…
3D CAD models can have several purposes, and each purpose requires a different approach to how you create the model. “Design Intent” is a concept that I believe is largely…
Anyone who used CAD in the period from 1995 up to about 2010 was very lucky. You got to see an explosion of new tools to create and control CAD…
I’ve been reminded recently about some of the advances in cheap or free 3D scan methods. The upshot was that using a cell phone camera and a list of free…