If you’re the kind of person who needs to have things perfectly nailed down and defined, you might possibly be better served by some other blog. I sometimes get involved…
Thanks to the comment from Dale Dunn from the previous post for pointing out that the main problems with history modeling are really with the implementation. It is possible that other…
As a prelude to comparing history-based systems to other types of modeling systems, I want to try to spend some time thinking about history-based systems on their own. Specifically, I want…
In a comment to my recent Awkward Modeling Situations post, Roberto Ciarloni (CTO of Think3) said: I think that , aside from bugs , there is an important issue emerging from this…
For the past couple of weeks you may have been reading along with me all of the blog posts about Autodesk suing SolidWorks over the use of a combination of letters.…
I was hanging out with some SW friends the other day on Twitter when I realized that I also had other friends who are not on Twitter, but that I…
Devon Sowell took a gutsy move and interviewed Rich Welch, the controversial VP of Customer Service at SW. Rich’s responses to Devon’s questions are of the typical flag waving variety you…
If people kept track of all the awkward modeling situations they came across, I think it would be very instructive for software developers. I usually just shrug my shoulders and…
Earlier this year I had contacted Siemens PLM about getting an evaluation copy of Solid Edge with the goal of exploring the possibility of writing a book on it. I checked…
Do these bugs effect everyone? No. Do they effect me? Yes. You might have run into bugs that don’t effect me. At the best, these inconsistencies are the things that…