The “Good Ole Days” with SolidWorks means the days when all we had to complain about was bugs in the software. Bugs were at least something you stood a chance…
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One of the mantras I’ve adopted in my time with the SolidWorks product is “be careful of what you ask for”. Sometimes the answer is to simply remove the functionality…
In the sports car world, new versions of classic autos always stir up emotions good and bad. The new Corvette to me looks like a new Chevy Camaro tail ended…
In the year since I last checked, there seem to have been a lot of new CAD apps showing up on the Google Market. The biggest of them is still…
It used to be that SolidWorks strength was attributed at least in part to the strength of their partner program. In all fairness, I’m a part of the partner program.…
One of the reasons I allow “pingbacks” (links to blogs that link to Dezignstuff which show up in the comments) on this site is so I can see when other…
<Sigh> eDrawings on the iPad. In all the threads on the SolidWorks forums that I read today, the single most frequent reaction was to the effect of Yay, one step…
There is a way of looking at a complex system where you examine all the aspects of it, determine what percentage of the whole an individual component is, and then…
Going through and testing 3D formats is kind of a wild ride. 3D pdf works, except in Chrome because Chrome uses the Foxit viewer (which I also had installed separately),…
I know I’ve posted 3D-enabled blog posts here before – one using 3Dxml from DS and one using a tool from Autodesk. They were both pretty slow. With everybody messing…