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…
Category: history
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…
It sounds like some of you are still confused. Some people are asking me to compare SolidWorks Move Face to the Solid Edge Synchronous Technology method for making edits. I…