One of the more popular old posts from this blog is my article on Design vs Modeling. My take was essentially that design can happen in your head, but modeling…
Category: concepting
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…
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…
In product design, speed is often what it’s all about. We don’t always have the luxury of making models with perfect design intent. You can’t always make sure you’ve dotted…
Sometimes the modeling difficulty is the draft. I had forgotten about this project. It was a quickie stuck in between a couple of other larger projects about 8 years ago.…
I’m as surprised as anyone that SolidWorks seemed to have corrected their position on whatever this unnamed Catia V6 based product that we’ve been hearing about for almost 4 years…
Most of us design stuff that will be manufactured in bulk. Some folks design stuff that will only be made once. I’m always interested in different design processes, and tools.…
Catia has a product called Imagine and Shape that sounds like a product I would like to work with. Maybe some of you have some functional experience with this and…
Here’s another shape concepting tool. Like Cosmic blobs except possibly cooler. It’s calledShapeShop, and it’s severely cool. As you’d expect, it’s a mesh modeler, capable of exporting *.obj files. Great…
This topic is reaching a fever pitch, I’m just fanning the flames. The wall that has existed between mesh modelers and NURBS modelers is eroding quickly. If you’re not too…