Going through and testing 3D formats is kind of a wild ride. 3D pdf works, except in Chrome because Chrome uses the Foxit viewer (which I also had installed separately),…
Tag: 3D
I know I’ve posted 3D-enabled blog posts here before – one using 3Dxml from DS and one using a tool from Autodesk. They were both pretty slow. With everybody messing…
We tried this once before, and the results were kind of disappointing. Let’s give it another try, since the time seems to be ripe for building a new CAD system.…
(Image from ASME Y14.41-2003 publication) Does anyone use the 3D standards as laid out in ASME Y14.41-2003? Have you used them as a reference for your own company standard?…
Sometimes you just need a different tool. No judgment calls about why, you just might for whatever reason need a different tool. I’ve looked at a few CAD tools, and…
I have to hand it to Deelip Menezes. Again he has beat me to the punch and introduced me to a new CAD tool which is worth mentioning. Deelip sees things…
I haven’t done much technical how-to yet on this blog, so I guess it’s time for a surfacing tutorial. Folks ask for this sort of stuff, and there is precious…
In the past I’ve written about a few topics that I’d like now to pull together with a common thread. One topic is the difference between modeling and design. Another…
The word “should” is a point of view word. When someone uses the word “should”, they are often speaking from their own point of view and are often forgetting that…
Here’s another one. If you have a Move/Copy bodies feature and the number of bodies changes, you can’t repair the feature. You have to delete it and recreate. Second time…