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: cad biz
Before I became an engineer, one of the most fascinating parts of television was those big block letters and shapes flying around the screen before the news. Wow, I want…
Siemens just released a new product called Zel X on June 20, 2024. This doesn’t fit neatly into an existing category. In a nutshell, Zel X is a cloud-based, small…
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…
One of the predecessors of mid-range CAD was a mid-90s Autodesk product called Mechanical Desktop. Mechanical Desktop started out as an extension to AutoCAD R13. Not 2013, but version 13.…
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…
I’ve spend the better part of my career to this point trying to figure out how to do stuff with a tool that wasn’t meant to do that stuff. Most…
Each time CAD evolves onto a new delivery, we see an increase in the volume of CAD tools available and an increase in those using them. When CAD moved from…
Manufacturers and design companies are widely spread out along the digitization spectrum. Some have just begun, and others have digitized every area of the business they can reach. Digitization is…
You really have to hand it to Jon Hirschtick and his team. They really know how to make money in the CAD space. This release from PTC announces that they…