Engineering technology is moving forward today, but its finding users are a hard sell for some of the big concepts. PTC used to avoid small minded people by simply going…
Arthur is one of those users’ names that you’ve seen around the CAD world for a long time. He’s an industrial designer, so our paths have been parallel-ish in many…
Ralph Grabowski has been around the CAD world for a long time, mostly on the CAD journalist side of things. He is known primarily for his writing about AutoCAD and…
3D CAD models can have several purposes, and each purpose requires a different approach to how you create the model. “Design Intent” is a concept that I believe is largely…
Anyone who used CAD in the period from 1995 up to about 2010 was very lucky. You got to see an explosion of new tools to create and control CAD…
I’ve been reminded recently about some of the advances in cheap or free 3D scan methods. The upshot was that using a cell phone camera and a list of free…
Cloud applications have been around a long time. This blog is a great example of one. There are a lot of types of applications and data that are served up…
I’ve posted a list of new SolidWorks videos to my YouTube channel, on the SolidWorks play list. When you go there, scroll to the bottom for the new stuff, or…
At Realize Live 2022 in Vegas this past May I presented a talk on how to use Solid Edge subdivision modeling in a real project. The presentation was ok, short…
Failure is a difficult topic. No one wants to write about it or be caught reading about it, but its something we all have to deal with at one point…