Tony Affuso is the leader of UGS – Siemens PLM. Very much a fixture and figure in the industry. So when he had something to say about SolidWorks’ foray into…
Category: direct edit
Solid Edge ST3 combines direct modeling and history functionality into the same part. In the past, you had either a synchronous part or a “traditional” part (they are dropping the word “traditional”…
You might remember some time ago that SolidEdge made a huge splash with what it called Synchronous Technology. At the time, I got to use the software, and even got a day…
The Fading Buzz Well, the buzz has died down. The party has passed. Now we will see if Synchronous Technology is really going to turn the history-based CAD world on…
In one of Dan Staples recent comments, he reacts against the term “dumb brep”. First, I need to explain brep. B-rep is “boundary representation”, which means basically the set of…
There is a good discussion going on about Direct Editing technology between Paul Hamilton, Deelip,Ken Wong, Ralph Grabowski, and CEOs of Think3, Alibre, a founder of Spaceclaim, and a lot of other folks…
On Shaan Hurley’s Between The Lines AutoCAD blog you can read about Inventor Fusion, shown at Autodesk University. Am I going to review this one too? Probably not unless it gets some positive…
Commenters have asked some great questions about Synch Tech. I’ll try to answer them as best I can. Kevin Quigley …parametrics with no history is more of a 2D…
If you’re the kind of person who needs to have things perfectly nailed down and defined, you might possibly be better served by some other blog. I sometimes get involved…
As a prelude to comparing history-based systems to other types of modeling systems, I want to try to spend some time thinking about history-based systems on their own. Specifically, I want…