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…
Category: design process
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…
I’ve been reminded recently about some of the advances in cheap or free 3D scan methods. The upshot was that using a cell phone camera and a list of free…
I see a lot of people who get wrapped around the axle on philosophical issues with their CAD, PDM, or general engineering and documentation processes. They’ve got a problem that…
I’ve spend the better part of my career to this point trying to figure out how to do stuff with a tool that wasn’t meant to do that stuff. Most…
I’ve worked on a couple of things recently which put me on opposing sides of the same issue. One project, let’s call it the Knurl project, has some aspects that…