The history of history-based modeling is not that long, really. We can talk about all sorts of variations, but it boils down to two things: Pro/Engineer, and then SolidWorks and…
Category: history
The truth is that most people don’t make models that get much benefit from the History-based modeling scheme. For most parts, no one really cares if the computer remembers that…
I was setting up to do an interview with John McEleney on Onshape, but I realized the conversation won’t mean much if we don’t know much about the software. So…
[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…
[editor]: It’s interesting to go back and view points along the evolution of my conversion from history-based mogul to history-free supporter. When you read this, it’s important to remember that…
I get contacted every now and then by people or companies doing research before buying a new CAD package.They are interested in the story of a prominent user changing camps.…
SolidWorks is a parametric feature-based, history-based solid modeler. Whatever that means. In SolidWorks, and other similar software, a model is usually edited by going back to the original feature used…
Evan Yares is a guy I have often quoted over the last several years. He’s now the General Manager of Nanosoft America, but he found time to finish up a…
I’ve got this hunch which I can’t totally substantiate that using Sync Tech along with Ordered features is really the way to go in a lot of cases. One solid…
I started out this blog post trying to recreate the magic Ilya Nazarenko showed as he demo’ed the basics of Synchronous Technology. The main thing I proved by that was…