Sometimes you’ve got to model things in CAD that CAD was never really meant to model. After all, manufacturing covers a lot of ground, and you need to be in…
Category: surfacing
There are a lot of cool things you can do with bottle modeling. Some of these are just tricks of the shell command. These don’t just apply to bottles, but…
The word degenerate conjures a lot of different images for different people. For me, it was mostly Bevis and Butthead and that sniggling little laugh. Even in the grunge 1990s…
I have long called the Fill surface the “magic wand” in SolidWorks. It enables you to create a great range of stuff and does things it shouldn’t. This aircraft model,…
There are some features in SolidWorks that don’t get much love. Some of these things are really amazing time savers, or help in getting you where you’re going more quickly…
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.…
My storage of customer files has 280 folders. Generally that’s one or more projects per customer, and some have a lot of projects in each folder, and most projects are…
I once sat at a table and listened to someone mock engineers, explaining why we have such a lack of creativity. I blew my top, because I had heard it…
Let’s say for example that someone you know was thinking of writing a new … thing. Something with some text, images, live 3D models, videos, all mixed up in the…
Matt Perez is a guy I think most SolidWorks users first met when he created that Camaro PDF tutorial maybe 7 or 8 years ago. It turned out that he…