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: design
Before I became an engineer, one of the most fascinating parts of television was those big block letters and shapes flying around the screen before the news. Wow, I want…
The Mounting Boss feature in Solidworks is a great time saver and a great space saver in the FeatureManager. It creates the boss, a hole and a pattern of ribs…
AI is actually in use in a lot of places. In writing it is regrettably used frequently. I’ve tried it out, and it has an easily identifiable tone. The content…
The popular surge of parametric history-based starting in the 1990s lulled a lot of engineers into a sense that a pinnacle had been achieved the end of the line in…
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…
The distinction of design vs modeling is something I run into all the time. I try to be careful in the stuff I write to be clear that I don’t…
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.…
Tolerancing is one of those practices that is applied very unevenly across the field of engineered parts. Some people are meticulous about applying tolerances, and figure stackups, reject rates, possibly…