You've heard the common 3D printing wisdom often enough: set a mesh tolerance fine enough so your printed part doesn't end up looking like bantha poodoo, but coarse enough that... read more →
What if you had a dollar for every time someone grumbled about a young engineering grad creating impossible to manufacture designs due to lack of practical experience? And what if... read more →
You better unplug your keyboard and turn off your workstation. You shouldn't be designing, modeling, analyzing or coding anything because more than likely you're not an engineer. Go home, you're... read more →
The age of hard drives has come and gone; the time of solid-state drives (SSD) is upon us. We made this point with our kick-ass workstation recommendations a few months... read more →
Additive manufacturing has been deservedly billed as one of the cornerstones of the next industrial revolution. Yet more traditional core subtractive manufacturing processes are largely responsible for, oh, say the... read more →
So perhaps you've mastered the often challenging and sometimes humbling task of presenting your engineering design to others, whether they be your peers, your metric-obsessed, but overall supportive manager, or... read more →
It's been about a year since we boldly declared drawings dead, and despite citing some major caveats about the accessibility of enabling tools, the conversation nonetheless sparked a wee bit... read more →
So perhaps you've recently completed your engineering masterpiece, slaved over its elegant design for weeks or months, transformed an idea into a robust 3D model using the best of what... read more →
With all the attention on the gig economy these days, you might think the whole world has gone freelance in a collective uprising against evil corporate overlords who ruined everything.... read more →
