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…
Category: cad philosophy
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…
I’m kind of lazy when it comes to tying my shoes. I usually buy shoes that I don’t have to tie at all. But I was coming to Boston…
In a comment to my recent Awkward Modeling Situations post, Roberto Ciarloni (CTO of Think3) said: I think that , aside from bugs , there is an important issue emerging from this…
SolidWorks software keeps on growing. That’s a good thing for users. The breadth of its capabilities is truly amazing. In addition to just the general geometric modeling, SW can do…
Another “on the road again” blog entry. Heading into an industrial design house tomorrow for a free-for-all session. I really enjoy this kind of work, where you don’t really know…
New CAD tools lately have been SpaceClaim, Moment of Inspiration, and even CosmicBlobs Pro, along with tools like T-splines, Free Dimension, modo, maybe some others. What do all of these…
SolidWorks is a parametric feature-based, history-based solid modeler. Whatever that means.In SolidWorks, and other similar software, a model is usually edited by going back to the original feature used to create…
In the past I’ve written about a few topics that I’d like now to pull together with a common thread. One topic is the difference between modeling and design. Another…