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…
Thanks to Mark Biasotti of SolidWorks, we have some answers for some of the questions in my last post: Radius or Diameter? This is what Mark has to say: A…
Well, SolidWorks has shipped it, so they must be feeling pretty good about it. They branded it sp0 and out it goes. I spent a fair amount of time using…