Ok, let’s take a break from talking about the cloud and business aspects of CAD. You’d never guess it, but I really hate that topic. From the frying pan into…
Category: cad philosophy
The more I know about the CAD business, the less I understand it. The high-end vs mid-range comparison is something in particular that leaves me scratching my head. In the…
Roopinder Tara has mentioned an interest in an event he calls CAD Olympics before, but I guess I never took him seriously. His latest mention came in a CAD Insider…
In the recent multi-body thread on the SolidWorks forum, there was a side discussion about zero thickness geometry. It later spilled over into twitter and other places. This topic comes up every now and…
Instead of files. The title of this post is a question for a reason. I don’t know much about databases, even though my blog and my email are both run…
There is a sub-story in the Solid Edge ST3 saga that I think I can share, and it has to do with change. To some people “change is good”. I…
I think I remember PTC CEO Dick Harrison saying at one point that geometry creation is a solved problem. Or something to that effect. This was of course when he…
I come from a family of musicians and performers, so I’m the kind of person who cannot stand to listen to bad singing. Or people making fools of themselves on…
I was listening to Mark Biasotti’s SWW10 presentation on Surfacing 301. Honestly, I have never heard more useful information given out to users anywhere. If you do surfacing, everything he said…
Now that the furor over direct edit has passed most users by unaffected, and it looks like SolidWorks is the only company that doesn’t have their hair on fire over…