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 development
The popular surge of parametric history-based starting in the 1990s lulled a lot of engineers into a sense that a pinnacle had been achieved the end of the line in…
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…
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.…
There is a ring of discussions going on. One blogger commented on another, and some left comments on LinkedIn, and now I’m adding to the loop. The arguments all seem…
Through a comedy of errors in 2008, SW PR offered to let me interview Paul Chastell, at that time the director of SolidWorks software development. I wanted to talk to…