Life these days is becoming less and less flexible. So often we hear things like “no compromise”, “don’t settle”, “zero tolerance”, “never stop” and other slogans that I know are…
Category: rant
This is a post I could have written 10 years ago, or even 20 years ago, to be honest. This complaint becomes smaller and smaller, but the fact that it…
Sustainability to me is just an offshoot of good engineering practice – efficiency. Perfect efficiency means that the output equals the input. If you run into a situation where you…
I get dinged every now and then for being “one sided” or other things to the same effect. It all rolls off by now. First of all, I don’t believe…
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…
Let’s say you want to start a business. The easiest way to start a business is to get other people to do the work for you. And even easier than…
I don’t usually comment on general news items on this blog, but the Stop Online Piracy Act is relevant to anyone who creates or owns patents or copyrighted data, which…
SolidWorks recent development resources are reportedly being used to develop IT answers to questions you may not have asked. People buy CAD software for several reasons, but I would guess…
I’ve put off talking about this topic for a while because it’s another one I don’t like, but it has been making more noise in various places, and it’s really…
SolidWorks first foray into the cloud has been n!Fuze, an online sharing and markup app. It is widely seen as a flop as a product. Problems with the implementation and…