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…
Category: concepting
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…
+ ? Well, I’ve checked around, and it looks like Mr. Grabowski is the only one reporting Autodesk integrating Alias and Inventor. The first mention was actually a year ago. The second mention just this week, was…
I have to hand it to Deelip Menezes. Again he has beat me to the punch and introduced me to a new CAD tool which is worth mentioning. Deelip sees things…