I’ve worked on a couple of things recently which put me on opposing sides of the same issue. One project, let’s call it the Knurl project, has some aspects that…
Category: Synchronous Technology
Like most other tools or techniques, subd is good at some types of work and not so good at other types. For example, you might do well to make sheet…
Solid Edge 2021 was presented in a What’s New show yesterday. There was of course a lot of new stuff across a wide range of topics. Even their hour long…
I spent four years working for Solid Edge because I thought that the Synchronous Technology that they employ has a good chance of being able to replace history-based schemes. Sync…
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…
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…
In big parts and assemblies, you need to keep easy access to stuff in the list on the left. Whether it shows features or parts, you need to be able…
The risk of using a lot of buzzwords is that eventually the words begin to have no meaning at all. One of the words that gets thrown around a lot…
The history of history-based modeling is not that long, really. We can talk about all sorts of variations, but it boils down to two things: Pro/Engineer, and then SolidWorks and…
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…