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: engineering
For so long in my career I considered proficiency on a single CAD tool to be kind of a goal. My very first CAD experience was on CAD Key because…
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…
I wrote two articles last week. One was mostly ignored and the other broke the internet. So of course I’m most interested in updating the one that got ignored. I’ve…
In a time when other engineering technology developers have seemingly lost interest in CAD, Solid Edge is still developing stuff for people like us. There are some really significant developments…
Life these days is becoming less and less flexible. So often we hear things like “no compromise”, “don’t settle”, “zero tolerance”, “never stop” and other slogans that I know are…
In the mid-’90s, I lived in California, around the Redwood City/Los Gatos area. My first job after graduating from college was at a company called Avocet, which the bicycle riding…
Immediately after graduating with my Mechanical Engineering degree, I took the EIT exam (Engineer in Training). This is the first step to getting your Professional Engineer license. I passed the…
Sustainability is not just a hippie idea, or a leftist communist plot. It’s actually something we as engineers must embrace. If we are going to live in space or populate…
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…