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…
Category: sketching
There were entries for the ID sketch contest announced earlier, and the winners are Rodrigo Lima of Lime Design and Jeff Mowry of Industrial Designhaus. Rodrigo and Jeff will receive…
I used to have a friend who was an industrial designer. But he retired and walked away from it all. So now all I have is you – a bunch…
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.…
I’m on a campaign against bad relationships. Bad CAD relationships, I mean. History CAD is tough to manage correctly in a way that doesn’t result in a lot of errors…
[editor] With this article I reach back to consider some of the contradictions of sketching in a history-based system. If history isn’t necessary for sketches, why should it be needed…
Today I decided to do the Solid Edge tutorial on tubing and piping, using XpresRoute. Picking this up was easy. For simple here-to-there routes, Solid Edge runs the routing lines…
I’m jumping in right now to play around with synchronous sketching, and I’m finding something I’m not too impressed with. Is this Matt-the-Noob ready to learn something new? or is…
This is a topic that some may initially find a little esoteric, maybe even dull to some. But I assure you, it has big implications. If your favorite history-based software…
The hard part of being a noob is that sometimes you don’t really recognize what’s important and what’s not right away. In comparing Solid Edge to SW, you have to…