My last post here talked about Top-Down Design – a big selling point for some CAD software – actually turning out to be a best-practice nightmare. And it is. Besides…
Category: design intent
During the years that I’ve worked with CAD, there was one thing that I found that just terrified a lot of users and even CAD managers: In-context design. It’s…
[editor]: This was a post written five years ago about the possibility of using familiar parametric design ideas with history-free models. Here I’m trying to get my head around the…
Part 2 is all about the role that the technology played in my switch. Going from a skeptic to a supporter seems like a big jump, but if I explain…
One of the biggest taxes on businesses who are still using history-only CAD is interoperability. If you save a model in version X, you can no longer open it in…
Sometimes I think the Synchronous message gets a little bit garbled. We get so caught up in stressing the strengths of Synchronous Technology and dinging history-based modeling that we tend…
Design intent can be a tricky topic. I’ve heard some people argue that there is no such thing. I myself have tried to rename it “Design For Change”, because I…
I think when you understand this kind of flexibility, you will not look back to a history based system, particularly for prismatic parts. It’s not just direct edit, it’s the…
For this blog post I put together a video showing some of the differences between how you handle changes to the design intent in both SW and SE. It turns…
I’ve got a post in the works on comparing the sketch functions between SE and SW, but I’m waiting on some clarification for a couple of points. So I thought…