I’ve been wanting to do an antique car for a while. A visit to a friend with a Model A street rod kind of inspired me. It took a…
Category: surfacing
I’ve had a few requests for the url of the downloads for the files that go along with the Surfacing Bible. It looks like the link was not included in…
This is a tutorial for a part I modeled a few years ago and never did much with. It is a chess piece. This is not a full step-by-step tutorial,…
The recent flurry in swearing at the software was surely brought on by all of the modeling for the surfacing book. Spending too much time out in those yellow and…
…hypothetically speaking, if you were to want a book covering surfacing, what would it include? Even if you are only marginally interested in surfacing as a way to expand your…
This is a question that came up in comp.cad.solidworks, and I thought I’d pass it along. A fillet can only be made between separate surface bodies when the Face Fillet…
This is potentially big news for SolidWorks surfacing types: Dassault announced it is acquiring ICEM. ICEM is the holy grail of “class A” surfacing tools. It is what many of the…
I haven’t done much technical how-to yet on this blog, so I guess it’s time for a surfacing tutorial. Folks ask for this sort of stuff, and there is precious…
It seems a little surreal, but the day has finally come. The picture is proof that a copy of this has finally landed on my very messy desk. The SolidWorks…