Sometimes we get lucky, and we get a boss who already knows at least a little bit about CAD and engineering technology in general. And sometimes we don’t. Maybe you…
Category: pdm
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…
I see a lot of people who get wrapped around the axle on philosophical issues with their CAD, PDM, or general engineering and documentation processes. They’ve got a problem that…
File Management has always been a problem. The earliest version of it was how to actually store paper drawings in file cabinets. You’ve got to assign a part number, and…
One person who commented on my “You Need a PDM Tool” post asked if I would go through manual file management recommendations for people who really don’t have any choice.…
CAD is a tool. It’s a single tool. Especially when you start looking at product development, and the larger picture of design, development, manufacturing and marketing, CAD is just one…
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…