Life these days is becoming less and less flexible. So often we hear things like “no compromise”, “don’t settle”, “zero tolerance”, “never stop” and other slogans that I know are…
Category: cad philosophy
I see a lot of people who get wrapped around the axle on philosophical issues with their CAD, PDM, or general engineering and documentation processes. They’ve got a problem that…
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…
Is CAD a commodity? (Don’t bother googling that question, you’ll get an earful about the CAnadian Dollar and the price of wheat). Well, what is a commodity? Dictionary.com defines it…
With SolidWorks announcement that they are pushing their Forum to the 3D Experience site, I thought this might be a good time to create an independently run forum managed by…
I’ve worked on a couple of things recently which put me on opposing sides of the same issue. One project, let’s call it the Knurl project, has some aspects that…
This is a topic I spent a lot of time contemplating when I wrote my SolidWorks Administration Bible. Every company should go through the process of writing this type of…
A few days ago there was a discussion on the SolidWorks forum about some very old videos showing some simple functionality of Synchronous Technology in Solid Edge. It looked like…
Digitization is the process of moving your data, workflow and processes into the modern age. You’re doing more with digital simulation, replacing some physical prototypes. Your manufacturing uses CNC machines,…
I can say from having written a fair amount about at least two CAD packages, that in order to say something definitive, you really have to put a lot of…