One of the more popular old posts from this blog is my article on Design vs Modeling. My take was essentially that design can happen in your head, but modeling…
Category: product design
The Mounting Boss feature in Solidworks is a great time saver and a great space saver in the FeatureManager. It creates the boss, a hole and a pattern of ribs…
Arthur is one of those users’ names that you’ve seen around the CAD world for a long time. He’s an industrial designer, so our paths have been parallel-ish in many…
I’ve been reminded recently about some of the advances in cheap or free 3D scan methods. The upshot was that using a cell phone camera and a list of free…
There’s a lot of cool stuff in Solid Edge 2022. I have a decided preference for 3D modeling type enhancements, and tend to de-emphasize simulation and some other peripheral functions.…
In the mid-’90s, I lived in California, around the Redwood City/Los Gatos area. My first job after graduating from college was at a company called Avocet, which the bicycle riding…
I’ve worked on a couple of things recently which put me on opposing sides of the same issue. One project, let’s call it the Knurl project, has some aspects that…
I was approached a while back to do an interview with the new incarnation of the old PLMWorld organization. Some of you have just spit your coffee all over your…
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.…
One of my early memories from getting started in engineering and CAD was those super-cool gizmos on the desks of the old Unigraphics workstations. The very first Spaceballs I remember…