Few people understand or appreciate the fact that everything you see, touch, and hold (and even most things you don’t) originally began in a CAD system. A real living, breathing human designed them a…
Note: This post is intended for a mature audience. No, not that kind of mature… Mature meaning you can remember when companies had two different design departments: people on “the board” …
Ah, the New Year. That time of year when we tell ourselves we will finally get (and use) that new gym membership, or quit smoking once and for all or… well, you get the idea. While it’s easy to fall …
This may seem an odd statement coming from a product manager for a CAD product, so let me explain what I mean by it.
In the old days, we learnt to work on drawing boards; thankfully the …
A while back, I experienced every traveler’s nightmare. I was on a flight home that got canceled. I immediately got on my cell phone to call our travel agency to see what my options were. It ended up…
Think back to 25 years ago If you’re like most people I’ve talked to, you were probably just starting out in your career.CAD software would barely even be recognizable to someone new to the in…
This month we congratulate Lumantek. Their 3D rendered CAD design of a DTV signal generator is this month’s featured image in the 2015 global image gallery.
DTV stands for Digital TV, so t…
Formula E racing probably won’t replace Formula 1 any time soon, but it paves the way to an oil free world. Think about electric cars for a moment. What comes to mind? You probably think of fuel econ…
CAD expert Al Dean of DEVELOP3D recently reviewed NX 10 for Design, and he finds a lot of improvements designed to make your CAD experience better. He notes that despite the decades-long heritage of …