A recent article in the Catia Community newsletter (requires free login), written by Kathleen Maher of Jon Peddie Research discusses the SolidThinking software. She uses stock screen shots from the SolidThinking website, and talks…
Service pack 2.0 is out, and that brings some curious but timid users out of the shadows to see if this is the time to upgrade. It’s like Ground Hog…
In the past I’ve been a vocal critic of the new CSWP and CSWA certification tests. I have to be careful, because I wrote part of theSolidProfessor classes for them. The tests…
Catia has a product called Imagine and Shape that sounds like a product I would like to work with. Maybe some of you have some functional experience with this and…
The winning blog post suggestion from the recent contest came from SolidWorm, and he suggested a monthly surfacing challenge. You all voted for him and agreed, so here we go.…
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…