I’ve had a number of projects going on, mostly writing, but I’ve added a section to the Episodes subscription site on modeling this hand held device from ID sketches. The…
Category: master model
There have been a couple of chapters in my in-progress subscription site that have just kind of stood out. The Splines chapter has been one of them, and the Body…
Let’s say for example that someone you know was thinking of writing a new … thing. Something with some text, images, live 3D models, videos, all mixed up in the…
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…
Before embarking on this design project, I want to make sure I understand the Master Model techniques available in Solid Edge. Regardless of the specifics of the project, this is…
Multibodies is an area of the software that has had a lot of consistent development over the last decade. It was added in 2001. I have to say that I…
Delphi, the former GM division, developed a modeling method called Horizontal Modeling.Browse this PDF on the topic. It essentially says that features of a model should not have relations between…
When I worked with AutoCAD 15 years ago, working in 3D was tough. You always had to keep the UCS or WCS (user or world coordinate system) in your head. When…
Ok, let’s get back to the master model discussion. Blocks sound very Autocaddish, but trust me, they are part of my new workflow with master model when using a sketch…