I once sat at a table and listened to someone mock engineers, explaining why we have such a lack of creativity. I blew my top, because I had heard it…
Category: cad philosophy
Let’s imagine that you could start your own CAD company. This CAD company has to deliver functionality for the next 20 years. What are you going to do? What will…
This is one I’m surprised to hear about from time to time, but I’m always surprised every time I hear about it. Devon (Sowell) recently reminded me in the comments…
Everything grows. Even when you don’t want or need it to. CAD has grown into CAE and CAE into PLM, PLM into digital factory, Industrial Revolution 4.0, and what ever.…
I worked for a while as a CAD Administrator, and it was one of the most rewarding jobs I ever had. I really enjoyed working with people and the software,…
Writing headlines is a science all its own. If you read headlines in a news aggregator, you probably notice that many of them are difficult to understand, or mean something…
Sometimes I browse through the SolidWorks forums trying to find some sort of common theme to write a blog post about. This blog is about 11 years old, and sometimes…
You might have seen a thread on the SolidWorks Forum yesterday. Someone had the situation shown below. A hole partially covered up by a fillet. This kind of set me…
The history of history-based modeling is not that long, really. We can talk about all sorts of variations, but it boils down to two things: Pro/Engineer, and then SolidWorks and…
I’ve done a fair bit of consulting, and generally visiting CAD users from beginners to advanced. Between my time working for resellers and working for myself, I’ve been invited to…