Sometimes the modeling difficulty is the draft. I had forgotten about this project. It was a quickie stuck in between a couple of other larger projects about 8 years ago.…
Category: plastic
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…
We’ve seen some increased activity in the past couple of months around the SolidWorks Mold Tools. More than a decade ago I wrote the original training book on the Mold…
I’ve had this idea recently about rethinking the Industrial Revolution – what would we as engineers do if we could go back 250 years only retaining the knowledge of the…
Here’s another part with some interesting features. On the brake shoe, we used a revolve and a pattern to create ridges on the brake to create friction. On this part,…
I’ve read several of the articles out there about this fool who printed a 3D gun, and now a bunch of other even bigger fools who work for the government…
With the SolidWorks 2013 bible getting closer to production every day (all the edits are finally done), it is time to turn my attention to other things. I’ve got a…
This is part of my series on converting old power point presentations given at user group meetings into blog posts. I’ve learned a couple of things in the couple of…
Oh Boy, Oh Boy, something finally for me! I’m a plastics designer, and SolidWorks is announcing this SolidWorks Plastics software, and it must be finally my lucky SolidWorks day! Right?…