All of the “Xpert” features in SolidWorks are really pieces of functionality that are written to help automate tasks for non-experts. Other Xperts are the DimXpert, TolXpert, DraftXpert, and a…
Being a presenter at SolidWorks World is not that big a deal if you have some experience with public speaking. If you are a bit shaky or you just like to…
2008 was a tumultuous year on Dezignstuff (or Matt Writes, whatever you want to call it). Here’s a list of the top 10 articles or topics by reader views, comments…
A few weeks ago I came across an article on the web somewhere that suggested Albert Einstein would be unsuccessful in today’s culture, and conversely that today’s corporate culture cannot…
The purple surface and the blue surface clearly intersect, and intersect fully enough to do a mutual trim. But it simply won’t work. Cases like this normally are caused by…
Just so you know, I’m writing this blog post at 5:15 AM. I’m not a morning person, so something has kept me up 3 hours past my bedtime. What…
Ok, this looks minor. But it’s not. It’s potentially huge and costs me or my customers vast amounts of rework time for nothing. I was working on a complex surfaced…
On Shaan Hurley’s Between The Lines AutoCAD blog you can read about Inventor Fusion, shown at Autodesk University. Am I going to review this one too? Probably not unless it gets some positive…
Ok, you guys got me started on this. Now I can’t stop. I’ve been reading a book about Rhino 4.0. After writing my own book, suddenly the flaws in other…