For a while I had this brilliant idea of creating a CAD Olympics. Let me tell you, if you think you have too many friends and need to leave some…
Category: Solid Edge
This is one I’m surprised to hear about from time to time, but I’m always surprised every time I hear about it. Devon (Sowell) recently reminded me in the comments…
The truth is that most people don’t make models that get much benefit from the History-based modeling scheme. For most parts, no one really cares if the computer remembers that…
Does SolidWorks do direct editing? If you ask their marketing department, they do, but I think people who use the software might define things a little differently. To me, “direct…
Old stodgy CAD conferences got you down? Can’t remember the difference between this year’s conference and last year’s? Moving around make you feel like part of a cattle stampede? Curious…
The Solid Edge version of SolidWorks World is now being called Solid Edge University, although Dave Ault is holding out for last year’s name, the Solid Edge Summit. Whatever you…
This is creating a bit of noise. So far I’ve seen comments from Anna Wood and Devon Sowell, two of the more stable and conservative of the defunct SolidWorks…
There was another press release about another SolidWorks customer switching to Solid Edge. I get the feeling we’re going to be seeing more and more of these things, as Solid…
The guys over at Solid Edge are continuing a push to introduce their product to a CAD industry in turmoil. While other vendors are solving problems that don’t exist, Solid…
If the cost of switching to a new CAD platform that seems to be headed in the right direction has got you down, maybe a little buy-one-get-one action will perk…