Altair has been one of those design and analysis software developers that isn’t always the most visible option. Altair products that I have written about previously have included solidThinking, Hyperworks,…
Category: alternative CAD
For so long in my career I considered proficiency on a single CAD tool to be kind of a goal. My very first CAD experience was on CAD Key because…
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…
IronCAD is a product that’s little off the beaten path. It had its beginning in a popular but short-lived industrial design product called Trispectives in 1995. Walking through the software…
I keep mourning the passing of CAD as a topic interesting enough on its own to keep producing interesting articles. It used to be that you didn’t have to look…
There’s a lot of cool stuff in Solid Edge 2022. I have a decided preference for 3D modeling type enhancements, and tend to de-emphasize simulation and some other peripheral functions.…
I’ve been writing a little series of articles on various types of non-NURBS CAD data over on Engineering.com and EngineersRule.com. As CAD users we have been conditioned to recoil in…
Rhino 3D has been around a long time. Many of us got early surfacing experience on free versions of Rhino that have been available for a lot of years. I’ve…
Most of my career I’ve been dedicated to a single CAD tool. I specialized in that, and got to know the software really well. There’s something to be said about…
For a while I had this brilliant idea of creating a CAD Olympics. Let me tell you, if you think you have too many friends and need to leave some…