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…
Category: cad philosophy
Sometimes we get lucky, and we get a boss who already knows at least a little bit about CAD and engineering technology in general. And sometimes we don’t. Maybe you…
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…
The popular surge of parametric history-based starting in the 1990s lulled a lot of engineers into a sense that a pinnacle had been achieved the end of the line in…
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…
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…
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’m writing this because I think the CAD community at large, including users, media, and vendors, have sold Synchronous Technology short. I’m just taking this on as a personal project,…
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…