When CAD went retail in the mid 1990’s there was suddenly a new breed of user out there. These new users had a different level of training and a different…
Category: history
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…
3D CAD models can have several purposes, and each purpose requires a different approach to how you create the model. “Design Intent” is a concept that I believe is largely…
Like most other tools or techniques, subd is good at some types of work and not so good at other types. For example, you might do well to make sheet…
A few days ago there was a discussion on the SolidWorks forum about some very old videos showing some simple functionality of Synchronous Technology in Solid Edge. It looked like…
Let’s imagine that you could start your own CAD company. This CAD company has to deliver functionality for the next 20 years. What are you going to do? What will…
I always applaud a CAD company, or any company, really, trying to really understand what their customers want. Forums are a great way to do that indirectly. You set up…
I spent four years working for Solid Edge because I thought that the Synchronous Technology that they employ has a good chance of being able to replace history-based schemes. Sync…
For a while I had this brilliant idea of creating a CAD Olympics. Let me tell you, if you think you have too many friends and need to leave some…
If you’re really concerned about interoperability between CAD packages, this is an article you should probably read all the way through. I don’t say that too frequently, although I do…